Adult skating class
Jan. 10th, 2014 07:07 pmAdult class was fun! It's figures, moves in the field (turns, edge moves, basically everything but the jumps and spins), and presentation skills. This last one presumes an extant level of skill upon which one can make presentation improvements, which...is not necessarily the case for me, but nonetheless I think I'll learn things.
(Heh, we were doing this thing where you do...honestly I don't remember the exercise itself, but it involved alternating back crossovers. I've only ever done them on a circle, which lets you just do right crossover after right crossover or vice versa. So I have no idea what skill we were actually supposed to be learning, but now I know how to do alternating back crossovers! You know, when I can remember which leg is supposed to be where. It's definitely a skill at the edge of my ability to differentiate right from left, which is still poor even after eight months of a sport that uses it a lot. Add in arm movements, as we were doing, and it all really goes to hell.
On the other hand, somehow I can now do effortless alternating forward crossovers. Dunno when that happened.)
We learned a figure that's composed of an outside swing roll, change of edge, and inside circle. I can do everything but the change of edge on one foot. Hopefully that will come soon.
Regular class tomorrow morning. Depending on who else is in it with me (maybe it'll just be me again? That would be awesome), it'll be some kind of mixed Delta/Freestyle 1 thing. Uhhh, unless we're moving from ISI to USFSA this session instead of the next one? I'm not real clear on when that's taking place, just that it's happening sometime this winter. Looking at the chart, I think I'm somewhere between Adult Basic 5 and done with that curriculum, depending on how "beginning" the "beginning two foot spin" in level 3 can be. (Three revolutions sounds adequate to me. Let's have it be three!)
(Heh, we were doing this thing where you do...honestly I don't remember the exercise itself, but it involved alternating back crossovers. I've only ever done them on a circle, which lets you just do right crossover after right crossover or vice versa. So I have no idea what skill we were actually supposed to be learning, but now I know how to do alternating back crossovers! You know, when I can remember which leg is supposed to be where. It's definitely a skill at the edge of my ability to differentiate right from left, which is still poor even after eight months of a sport that uses it a lot. Add in arm movements, as we were doing, and it all really goes to hell.
On the other hand, somehow I can now do effortless alternating forward crossovers. Dunno when that happened.)
We learned a figure that's composed of an outside swing roll, change of edge, and inside circle. I can do everything but the change of edge on one foot. Hopefully that will come soon.
Regular class tomorrow morning. Depending on who else is in it with me (maybe it'll just be me again? That would be awesome), it'll be some kind of mixed Delta/Freestyle 1 thing. Uhhh, unless we're moving from ISI to USFSA this session instead of the next one? I'm not real clear on when that's taking place, just that it's happening sometime this winter. Looking at the chart, I think I'm somewhere between Adult Basic 5 and done with that curriculum, depending on how "beginning" the "beginning two foot spin" in level 3 can be. (Three revolutions sounds adequate to me. Let's have it be three!)
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