Swoop, swoop
Aug. 3rd, 2015 07:47 pmNot only did I have a great lesson today, but I got to squeeze in an extra session afterwards because youth hockey is on break. Yaaaay!
P fixed my toe loop, because she always fixes my toe loop, and I always find some new and interesting way to crap it up again by the next time I see her. This jump and I, we don't get along.
She actually got me to do two full revolutions in something approaching a camel spin position, and I got myself to do...four? in a perching-on-a-barstool position. AND at least six in a regular scratch spin from back crossovers. It was so centered I couldn't tell from the tracings. (YAY IT WAS FINALLY CENTERED AGAIN AFTER A WEEK OF TRAVELING TO TIMBUKTU.)
Her immediate instinct upon seeing how well I was doing with the back cross rolls was to make them harder by adding a bit where you hold your free foot behind the skating foot for a while on the roll part, and it is so much harder than it looks, wow. Ditto for the inside edges with free foot held behind the skating foot. They look cool, very swoopy and powerful, but if you fall off that edge, there is nothing to save you. You're going DOWN.
We also did the inside three turn version of the power three pattern, because I didn't hate that pattern enough. At least I won't be tested on it. And it'll maybe improve my poor, pathetic inside three turns.
P is going to a competition next month and spent some time working on her program to one of the more bombastic parts of "Appalachian Spring," which is such perfect music for her it almost hurts. Ostensibly, I hung out at the boards so I could stay out of her way, but really I was just enthralled. Swoopiness! Power! Confidence! Everything I want to have! She's been working on a spread eagle into axel maneuver for months now that has a prominent place in the program, and it's so great. I hope there's video from this competition.
P fixed my toe loop, because she always fixes my toe loop, and I always find some new and interesting way to crap it up again by the next time I see her. This jump and I, we don't get along.
She actually got me to do two full revolutions in something approaching a camel spin position, and I got myself to do...four? in a perching-on-a-barstool position. AND at least six in a regular scratch spin from back crossovers. It was so centered I couldn't tell from the tracings. (YAY IT WAS FINALLY CENTERED AGAIN AFTER A WEEK OF TRAVELING TO TIMBUKTU.)
Her immediate instinct upon seeing how well I was doing with the back cross rolls was to make them harder by adding a bit where you hold your free foot behind the skating foot for a while on the roll part, and it is so much harder than it looks, wow. Ditto for the inside edges with free foot held behind the skating foot. They look cool, very swoopy and powerful, but if you fall off that edge, there is nothing to save you. You're going DOWN.
We also did the inside three turn version of the power three pattern, because I didn't hate that pattern enough. At least I won't be tested on it. And it'll maybe improve my poor, pathetic inside three turns.
P is going to a competition next month and spent some time working on her program to one of the more bombastic parts of "Appalachian Spring," which is such perfect music for her it almost hurts. Ostensibly, I hung out at the boards so I could stay out of her way, but really I was just enthralled. Swoopiness! Power! Confidence! Everything I want to have! She's been working on a spread eagle into axel maneuver for months now that has a prominent place in the program, and it's so great. I hope there's video from this competition.
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