Bronze Moves

 My lesson with Danette on the Chandler adult FS.  Pretty good ice, although, while it had been freshly zammed it was still kinda bumpy.  I had the first lesson.

I ran the whole test with no warmup but otherwise mostly like it was a test.  It actually went okay, and I did make it around on the circle-8.  After the runthrough we worked a bit more on the circle-8 and also the 5-step.  Also, Danette suggested that I move my power-3 start down the axis a bit; as it is, I do 4 and then I'm only at the far blue line; if I move the start down it's more centered and looks like I'm using more of the ice.  So we practiced that.

After my lesson, I stayed 'til the end of the session and worked more on the circle-8.  I tried running it in a not-so great part of the ice and I didn't make it around.  Ugh.  I also ran the 5-step some more; I am really on my toe on the BO edge.  Yuck.

After I got off and was drying my blades, I noticed that the back of the right blade is loose!  Just a bit.  Is this the cause of my issues?  Maybe, or maybe not.  I'm going to fix it, obviously, and hope that it is/was part of the problem, if not the whole cause.  We'll see.

Taking tomorrow off from skating as I've skated 4 days in a row and I feel like I need a break.

Testing Saturday early!