F8s

 My figures lesson with Danette on the Chandler adult skate.  Nice ice,  8 skaters.  I scribed circles and warmed up with forward edges.

Today's lesson:

• Back edges -- BO were okay.  I once again spent a little time working the BI push on the wall before trying them.  It did help a bit.  Danette had me do a little exercise for this -- BI lobe, BI lobe, BI circle.  Lather, rinse, repeat. Urph.   It was not horrible though.
• FO8 -- I feel like these were actually better.  I'm making fixes but I'm not consistent with them, which is frustrating.
• FI8 -- not too bad.
• BO8 -- just a minute (literally) on this. Eeep.

FO8, FI8, 3s

My figures lesson with Danette on the Chandler adult skate.  Nice ice, 10 skaters.  I scribed circles and warmed up with forward edges.

Today's lesson:

• back edges -- BO were slightly wonky but okay.  We spent a little extra time on the BI initial push to decrease the wide-step and set a better edge.  They were okay.
• FO8 -- still not making it around the circle, but a little better than last week.
• FI8 -- just a few minutes on these.  Not bad, actually.
• 3s -- just a couple on each side.  Actually not that bad, in that at least I was able to turn them after holding the edge.  Other than that they were kinda rough though.

FO8, FI8

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

Today's lesson:

• FO8 -- most of our lesson.  We worked (as always) on posture and getting a better, more controlled initial edge.
• FI8 -- just a few minutes on these.  They were okay.

Freestyle!

 Coach Danette is out, so I skated the adult session today to get re-acquainted with my freestyle skates. Whee! Nice ice, 5 skaters. 

As usual, the first 15 min were... interesting. I worked on stroking and edges. Mostly okay, eventually, but could not do BO edges for the life of me. Uck.

Just 30 minutes today due to a late start (work), but good to get on the ice.

F8s

 My figures lesson with Danette on the Chandler adult skate.  Nice ice, about 9 skaters.  I warmed up with edges.  I didn't scribe circles today.

Today's lesson:

• FO8 -- most of our time on this.  We worked a bit on getting a better push, and sitting back on the blade more *from the beginning*.  I'm surprised that despite the fact I've been working on this stuff forever, I still often fail to hold back that free shoulder/side and then I have a crappy position.  Like, it should be automatic by now.... oh well.
• FI8 -- just a couple minutes on these. As usual, much nicer than the FO.

Edges

 My figures lesson with Danette.  Nice ice, about 11 (!) skaters.  I was running late and didn't get a warmup.

Today's lesson:

• edges -- most of our time on these.  We ran the FO twice to work on posture.  FI were okay.  After the BO, we did them again on 2 feet, working on getting me to actual turn my head and rotate arms at the top of the lobe.  Then we ran them again and they were better.  Then a couple times through the BI edges.
• 3s - just like 2 minutes at the end, on the side crease.  As usual I had trouble making myself actually turn.  Ugh.

F8s

 Back from my travels and I had my lesson with Danette on the Chandler adult skate.  Nice ice but quite crowded, presumably due to the MLK holiday.  I warmed up with edges but didn't scribe any circles since it was so crowded.

Today's lesson:

• FO8 -- most of our time.  Considering how long I have been off the ice, not too bad. At one point we worked just on getting a better push; pushing on a flat from the red line. Improvement required, for sure.
• FI8 -- just a few minutes on these. Still not quite getting around the circle.  Argh.
• 3s -- just a couple minutes on these.  Yuck.