Skating class the fourth
Jun. 8th, 2013 12:11 pmWe learned how to spin!
This is pretty much the coolest thing ever. (Hahaha, if I'm this excited about a really basic spin, jumping is going to blow my mind, I'm sure.*) We learned something called a two foot spin, although ours was more from a standstill than the one in the linked video. Also, mine looks a lot more like this than that kid's. Nevertheless, I can manage about 2.5 revolutions, and at one point I...accidentally a one foot spin? It's actually kind of hard to keep both feet on the ice, so one footing it is in some ways easier and faster, but then it becomes easier to topple over. Which I did, at one point, marking the first time I've fallen since starting this class. It wasn't as bad as I feared, hardly hurt at all at the time, although the knee I landed on is starting to protest a bit now. Maybe now I'll be more willing to not bail on things when they get a bit wobbly.
We had two substitutes this time (I think one was a trainee), and I guess they didn't really know what level(s) we were at, so they were just kind of throwing things at us to see what stuck. We learned something called "airplane curves," which turns up nothing on Google so I assume it's local parlance for something that has some other official name. Basically, it's the way I usually get around corners, just prettified: lean to the left (or right), stick your right (or left) leg out, and make a circle by virtue of being on the correct edges. They taught us the correct arm placement, which was helpful. And then they taught us how to add a spin to the end of it, which I eventually got to work, although my arms are still a bit of a mess. Bizarrely, although I turned out to be a counterclockwise spinner, adding the spin to the clockwise airplane curve works better for me. I can't seem to get up enough speed to do it on the counterclockwise one.
You can also do all these things backwards. I haven't tried adding the spin to the backwards one yet, but at least by the end of the practice session today I was able to do them fairly well up to that point.
...And then on the way home I stopped at Kroger and picked up a 500-count bottle of generic Aleve. I feel like aside from skates (which I'm going to bite the bullet and purchase before the next round of classes starts in early July) this is probably the best investment I could make in my skating right now. ;)
* I'm feeling more okay about the idea of jumping now that spinning turned out to be much easier than I thought it was going to be. Maybe jumps will be the same? Maybe not...
This is pretty much the coolest thing ever. (Hahaha, if I'm this excited about a really basic spin, jumping is going to blow my mind, I'm sure.*) We learned something called a two foot spin, although ours was more from a standstill than the one in the linked video. Also, mine looks a lot more like this than that kid's. Nevertheless, I can manage about 2.5 revolutions, and at one point I...accidentally a one foot spin? It's actually kind of hard to keep both feet on the ice, so one footing it is in some ways easier and faster, but then it becomes easier to topple over. Which I did, at one point, marking the first time I've fallen since starting this class. It wasn't as bad as I feared, hardly hurt at all at the time, although the knee I landed on is starting to protest a bit now. Maybe now I'll be more willing to not bail on things when they get a bit wobbly.
We had two substitutes this time (I think one was a trainee), and I guess they didn't really know what level(s) we were at, so they were just kind of throwing things at us to see what stuck. We learned something called "airplane curves," which turns up nothing on Google so I assume it's local parlance for something that has some other official name. Basically, it's the way I usually get around corners, just prettified: lean to the left (or right), stick your right (or left) leg out, and make a circle by virtue of being on the correct edges. They taught us the correct arm placement, which was helpful. And then they taught us how to add a spin to the end of it, which I eventually got to work, although my arms are still a bit of a mess. Bizarrely, although I turned out to be a counterclockwise spinner, adding the spin to the clockwise airplane curve works better for me. I can't seem to get up enough speed to do it on the counterclockwise one.
You can also do all these things backwards. I haven't tried adding the spin to the backwards one yet, but at least by the end of the practice session today I was able to do them fairly well up to that point.
...And then on the way home I stopped at Kroger and picked up a 500-count bottle of generic Aleve. I feel like aside from skates (which I'm going to bite the bullet and purchase before the next round of classes starts in early July) this is probably the best investment I could make in my skating right now. ;)
* I'm feeling more okay about the idea of jumping now that spinning turned out to be much easier than I thought it was going to be. Maybe jumps will be the same? Maybe not...
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