Moves, Brackets, Salchows

 My lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate.  Good ice, about 10 skaters initially but I think more like 12 by the end of the session.

I warmed up with stroking, perimeter XOs and power-3s.

Today's lesson:

• power-3s -- we ran these a couple of times.  I'm actually relatively pleased with them, except now the biggest issue for me is that I'm not really doing a crossover, i.e. I bring my feet together but it's not really a BXO.  Urph.  Still, I've made some progress and I still have some time, so we'll see.
• BXOs to BO edges -- actually, pretty good.
• circle-8 -- I actually made it around!  Barely, but still!  We'll see if this holds.
• 5-step mohawk -- a little rough, in places, but mostly okay.
• brackets -- Holly is still holding my hand, but just one hand, now, not two.  These are slowly coming along but I need to make them a bit smaller; I'm going too far out of the circle on the turn.
• waltz jump -- just one... but it was really nice!  Etsuko said it was the biggest she's ever seen me do.  Nice straight takeoff too.
• salchow -- mmph.  I had a really nice one yesterday but wasn't really happening today. Yuck.