Skating again, finally
Mar. 3rd, 2015 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieI actually managed to skate today for the first time in almost a week. It may not have been the greatest idea, given my blood loss-related tiredness (definitely having the new doctor check my iron levels; despite non-stop iron supplements, I suspect they are somewhere in the basement) and the combination of sinus freakout due to impending rain and teeth freakout due to my dentist drilling on the crown and the tooth next to it in the ten-months-ongoing-now effort to make said crown stop hurting*, but I didn't care.
The Tuesday evening session is usually crowded, but it was almost empty today, so I mostly did moves. (See above re: tired.) The three turn pattern is...I don't know if better is the right word, but it's different. I'm actually only doing six on the left foot and five on the right, so that's good, but the lobes are shallow. The right turn also insists on circling back on itself. Bah.
The Circle 8 is, like, 85% there. Inside edges are fine. Left outside edge is...well, it exists, but it's not pretty. I'm bent over so far I'm practically doing a spiral, my free leg is way out to the side, and I definitely have to force the last foot or so, but hey, it gets back to the center. The right outside edge is...halfway there. No one is surprised. Stupit uneven hips.
Back crossovers to back outside edges get better and better. I need to straighten my knee on the edges, but other than that they felt great. Deep and powerful and extended. I might one day have enough confidence to try a back spiral after this.
I did a lot of terrible toe pick spins and one amazing, beautiful 3- or 4-revolution spin where I finished and looked down at the near-centered tracing in astonishment, wondering, "Did I do that? Is that really my tracing and not someone else's?" Now if I could just re-create that.
* The current theory is that I've basically had a sprained tooth for a while due to the bite not being aligned. I did not know this, but each tooth is actually attached to the bones of one's mouth via a couple of very tiny ligaments. Since that nerve is gone, my dentist thinks the ligament is the part complaining.
The Tuesday evening session is usually crowded, but it was almost empty today, so I mostly did moves. (See above re: tired.) The three turn pattern is...I don't know if better is the right word, but it's different. I'm actually only doing six on the left foot and five on the right, so that's good, but the lobes are shallow. The right turn also insists on circling back on itself. Bah.
The Circle 8 is, like, 85% there. Inside edges are fine. Left outside edge is...well, it exists, but it's not pretty. I'm bent over so far I'm practically doing a spiral, my free leg is way out to the side, and I definitely have to force the last foot or so, but hey, it gets back to the center. The right outside edge is...halfway there. No one is surprised. Stupit uneven hips.
Back crossovers to back outside edges get better and better. I need to straighten my knee on the edges, but other than that they felt great. Deep and powerful and extended. I might one day have enough confidence to try a back spiral after this.
I did a lot of terrible toe pick spins and one amazing, beautiful 3- or 4-revolution spin where I finished and looked down at the near-centered tracing in astonishment, wondering, "Did I do that? Is that really my tracing and not someone else's?" Now if I could just re-create that.
* The current theory is that I've basically had a sprained tooth for a while due to the bite not being aligned. I did not know this, but each tooth is actually attached to the bones of one's mouth via a couple of very tiny ligaments. Since that nerve is gone, my dentist thinks the ligament is the part complaining.
