Moves, Spins, Jumps

 My lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate.  Good ice, about 10 skaters.

I warmed up with stroking, perimeter XOs and started the circle-8 but had to abort due to another skater.

Today's lesson:

• power-3s -- these were actually really good!  I did a much better job on the RFO3s of not putting my foot down before the turn.  Still pretty flat after the BXO though.  Still, progress.
• 5-step mohawk -- also not bad.  A bit scratchy in places but generally pretty good.
• BXOs to BO edges -- pretty good.  I'm getting good flow on these and being better about curving that lobe, especially on the R foot.  I need to be more consistent on coming into the boards though so the lobes are the same.
• spins -- not too bad, I got a couple that were pretty good.  I need to be more consistent about getting my free foot in though.
• waltz jump -- good.  I was jumping more 'forward' than 'up' though.  Need to work on that.
• salchow -- actually really nice.
• toe loop -- we worked on these a bit.  I'm still struggling to let the R foot come all the way around before I jump.  Holly pointed out to me that on the best one I did the RBO edge was much, much longer than the others.  So part of the fix (what a shock) would be to not rush that entrance so much.  I still need to practice that back pivot as well.  Ugh.  

All in all a great lesson!  

 Looks like I will try to test these again in June.  Eeep.  Looking forward to getting back in the gym once I'm vaccinated so that I can some of my core strength back.