Skating Update
Jul. 8th, 2021 08:56 pmGood
My forward three turns are back! Okay, the inside ones are still kind of shaky, but I can officially do all four without touching my free foot down at least some of the time.
P reminded me that fun spins like pancakes and tucks exist, so I've been rediscovering them.
Still managing about one revolution in the right spot on my back upright spin from a standstill. With luck I might get to a point where I can do it from an entrance sometime in the next decade.
While I was struggling with forward threes--and continue to struggle with back ones--P invented some Curry exercises that go up and down the ice so that I could get away from just doing threes on a line, which is BORING. (So in layman's terms, it went from stand on one of the hockey lines, skate forward, do the turn, skate back to line, stop, repeat, to doing the turns with a few connecting steps mixed in so you never stop, just keep doing it down the length of the ice.) They are much more interesting.
I briefly forgot how to do a forward outside rocker the other day. On the plus side, I ended up doing a forward outside counter, which is harder.
I poked very gently at the choreography for my 59th Street Bridge Song program that P and I started working on right before the pandemic. What we had so far had a lot of pivots, which I'm not great at, so hopefully this is the year I get good at pivots.
Bad
I haven't been able to center a spin for two weeks now. So frustrating. Grr.
Jumps are getting less consistent about getting off the ground. Could be technique, could be fear, could be my back usually hurts by the time of a lesson or practice when I start jumping.
Cross rolls and spirals cause searing agony in my back. This is bad, since the Silver Moves in the Field Test I was hoping to maybe take in the next 12 months requires both. Hoping I can exercise it away. I wish physical therapists had some kind of consult service, where I didn't have to go to an orthopedist, get prescribed weeks' worth of therapy, and pay a bunch of money, when I just need an hour with someone who can tweak what I'm already doing.
My forward three turns are back! Okay, the inside ones are still kind of shaky, but I can officially do all four without touching my free foot down at least some of the time.
P reminded me that fun spins like pancakes and tucks exist, so I've been rediscovering them.
Still managing about one revolution in the right spot on my back upright spin from a standstill. With luck I might get to a point where I can do it from an entrance sometime in the next decade.
While I was struggling with forward threes--and continue to struggle with back ones--P invented some Curry exercises that go up and down the ice so that I could get away from just doing threes on a line, which is BORING. (So in layman's terms, it went from stand on one of the hockey lines, skate forward, do the turn, skate back to line, stop, repeat, to doing the turns with a few connecting steps mixed in so you never stop, just keep doing it down the length of the ice.) They are much more interesting.
I briefly forgot how to do a forward outside rocker the other day. On the plus side, I ended up doing a forward outside counter, which is harder.
I poked very gently at the choreography for my 59th Street Bridge Song program that P and I started working on right before the pandemic. What we had so far had a lot of pivots, which I'm not great at, so hopefully this is the year I get good at pivots.
Bad
I haven't been able to center a spin for two weeks now. So frustrating. Grr.
Jumps are getting less consistent about getting off the ground. Could be technique, could be fear, could be my back usually hurts by the time of a lesson or practice when I start jumping.
Cross rolls and spirals cause searing agony in my back. This is bad, since the Silver Moves in the Field Test I was hoping to maybe take in the next 12 months requires both. Hoping I can exercise it away. I wish physical therapists had some kind of consult service, where I didn't have to go to an orthopedist, get prescribed weeks' worth of therapy, and pay a bunch of money, when I just need an hour with someone who can tweak what I'm already doing.
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