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Aug. 2nd, 2015 05:33 pmFreestyle was kind of sucky at practice today (ugh, toe loops, ugh), but there were many good parts:
1. I got my free foot in the right spot and my weight over the right part of my blade on a sit spin. Once. For two revolutions. But that's more than it's been before.
2. I got 1.5 revolutions on a "camel" spin. I was in at best an arabesque position, but, you know. Baby steps.
3. Back cross rolls were amazing again. I easily got all the way down the ice without running out of steam. I'm astonished when I remember that 18 months ago in the Edges class, J the Younger and I were cracking up as we kept moving our feet frantically and getting absolutely nowhere.
4. I don't usually compare myself to other skaters because we all started at different points (most of them way earlier than me) and have been out for different amounts of time due to injury, have different ages and genetics, etc., so it's kind of futile. But that said, G is our Moves and Curry champ, second only to P. (She's been P's student for umpteen years, so it's not surprising.) She has beautiful, graceful spirals, turn sequences, etc. And yet today I managed to give her advice when she was having trouble on the Bauer three turns that were the bane of my existence for a couple of weeks in March, and which I have now made my peace with. That felt good.
1. I got my free foot in the right spot and my weight over the right part of my blade on a sit spin. Once. For two revolutions. But that's more than it's been before.
2. I got 1.5 revolutions on a "camel" spin. I was in at best an arabesque position, but, you know. Baby steps.
3. Back cross rolls were amazing again. I easily got all the way down the ice without running out of steam. I'm astonished when I remember that 18 months ago in the Edges class, J the Younger and I were cracking up as we kept moving our feet frantically and getting absolutely nowhere.
4. I don't usually compare myself to other skaters because we all started at different points (most of them way earlier than me) and have been out for different amounts of time due to injury, have different ages and genetics, etc., so it's kind of futile. But that said, G is our Moves and Curry champ, second only to P. (She's been P's student for umpteen years, so it's not surprising.) She has beautiful, graceful spirals, turn sequences, etc. And yet today I managed to give her advice when she was having trouble on the Bauer three turns that were the bane of my existence for a couple of weeks in March, and which I have now made my peace with. That felt good.
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