F8s, Posture

 My figures lesson with Danette on the Chandler adult skate.  Nice ice, 7 skaters.  I scribed circle and warmed up with forward edges.

Today's lesson:

• FO8 -- we started by just working a long FO edge without worrying about the push, to try to work on posture.  Just some pushes followed by a long glide on the circle.  LFO was okay, but trying to stand fully straight up without bending forward on the RFO was tough.  Also I was tending to lean out of the circle, which made me go flat and skid.  Yuck.  Then we worked just the regular FO8 and it was a bit better.
• B edges -- from there we went back to the line and did BO and BI edges.  They were not bad, actually.

B8s

 My figures lesson with Danette on the Chandler adult skate.  I scribed circles and warmed up with edges.

Today's lesson:

• BO8 -- eep.  We worked a bit on posture (of course) and also trying to keep the free foot close and not just be in 'landing position'.  It's not clear to me which is cause and which is effect --- am I leaning forward because my free foot is out, or is my free foot out because I'm leaning forward?  I tend to think it's the latter.
• BI8 -- again, posture issues.  Danette pushed me around a bit (my backwards scooter-push is awkward) and when she's holding my hand I can stand up nicely.  Geez.