This is one of those "instructor is a figure skater" things: crossrolls are her favorite warmup.
Ah, I see. We have one of those. She gave one of her private hockey students an honest to god figure to work on once.
Also, I'm having trouble picturing crossrolls as a warm up. Right now, they're something to be attempted only after much limbering!
Ours is in the middle of renovations, so every so often we get emails like, "Due to falling construction material UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE the ice surface is UNSAFE for SKATING." (There is never further notice.)
That's...helpful?
Might it still be worth the lesson, especially if you have a small class again?
Well, I'm switching over to privates entirely now, so classes don't much affect me anymore. I figure if there are enough freestyle sessions in a block on Saturdays to give me a half hour of instruction and 90 minutes of practice, I'll keep up with the lessons. I find I really need about 1.5 hours of practice to really get everything covered in 30 minutes of instruction to sink in. If there's less than that, or if it's really insanely crowded, then maybe I'll drop down to a lesson every other week, with extra practice on the alternate weeks.
But 4:30 wakeup calls? Yeah, no.
Exactly. They have a 7:30-8:30 session, which would put me at work a little before 9:30 (and mean I only had to get up at 5:30), which I suppose technically could work if I'm willing to stay until 5:30 and forgo a lunch break, but I don't think I am. If they just had a session at 5 instead of 4, I could at least do an afternoon/evening, but nope. Ugh.
10 PM adult sessions
OH MY GOD. Who goes to these? Do they have jobs? I wouldn't mind some evening skating times, but I'm thinking, like, 6 or 7 PM. Jeebus.
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Date: 2014-02-07 11:34 pm (UTC)Ah, I see. We have one of those. She gave one of her private hockey students an honest to god figure to work on once.
Also, I'm having trouble picturing crossrolls as a warm up. Right now, they're something to be attempted only after much limbering!
Ours is in the middle of renovations, so every so often we get emails like, "Due to falling construction material UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE the ice surface is UNSAFE for SKATING." (There is never further notice.)
That's...helpful?
Might it still be worth the lesson, especially if you have a small class again?
Well, I'm switching over to privates entirely now, so classes don't much affect me anymore. I figure if there are enough freestyle sessions in a block on Saturdays to give me a half hour of instruction and 90 minutes of practice, I'll keep up with the lessons. I find I really need about 1.5 hours of practice to really get everything covered in 30 minutes of instruction to sink in. If there's less than that, or if it's really insanely crowded, then maybe I'll drop down to a lesson every other week, with extra practice on the alternate weeks.
But 4:30 wakeup calls? Yeah, no.
Exactly. They have a 7:30-8:30 session, which would put me at work a little before 9:30 (and mean I only had to get up at 5:30), which I suppose technically could work if I'm willing to stay until 5:30 and forgo a lunch break, but I don't think I am. If they just had a session at 5 instead of 4, I could at least do an afternoon/evening, but nope. Ugh.
10 PM adult sessions
OH MY GOD. Who goes to these? Do they have jobs? I wouldn't mind some evening skating times, but I'm thinking, like, 6 or 7 PM. Jeebus.