Bronze Moves

 My lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate.  I was running a bit late but we did get a full lesson in.  I warmed up with stroking.

Today's lesson:

• perimeter XOs -- pretty good.
• power-3s -- the actual BXO definitely needs work.  In general I think these are okay except that they need to be 'lobier' and not so straight-line as they are now.
• BXOs to BO edges -- I think these are pretty good.
• circle-8 -- we ran these in the run through and then came back to do them again 3 more times. We practiced finding a clean spot of ice.  The first time was not so good but they got better.  I still need to push harder on the RFO and RBI; and we worked a lot on sitting back on the blade more.
• 5-step mohawk -- okay.  I still feel a bit uncontrolled but not too bad.
• FI brackets --  just a couple of minutes on these.  I actually keep going from FI to BI which I guess would make it a counter?  Anyway we worked both sides.  The FI definitely seems easier than the FO.

A good lesson.  Test is 4 weeks from tomorrow.