Slogging Through

 My figures lesson with Danette on the Chandler 12:45 FS. Ugh.  Like 10 skaters and pretty chewed-up ice.  I had to start w/no warmup as Danette was overbooked.  Ugh.

Today's lesson:

• forward edges -- bleah.  We just did forward to focus on that.  The no warmup really showed as my first LFO was particularly crappy.
• push -- we spent a couple of minutes just working on my push, as I tend to break at the waist while pushing.  So we worked on bending the knees more and transferring the weight both more smoothly and quickly.  Maybe some progress.
• F8s -- bleah, again.  I'm not getting around on either FO8 or FI8.  Yes, the ice was crappy, but also it shouldn't be so on the edge as to matter.   I know I've had almost no real practice but still, it's very discouraging.

Entries for Sherwood just opened.  They are doing the figures competition differently than in the past; they've divided up the various figures into groups and you can do one figure from a particular group, and no more than 2 overall.  Unfortunately (?) the figures I can do are all in the same group, so, I need to decide which figure to do from the ones I have.  It will probably be FI8, but maybe BO8.  Right now it should be nothing! Geez.