Inching forward

[icepixie]

Progress on backspin and loop! You know, for my definition of progress on these particular elements, which is kind of like two steps forward, one and three quarter steps back. P had me do the inside-three-turn-in-place-with-free-leg-forward exercise and then go into the spin from that. It works a bit better than what I've been doing; it gets me turning on the right part of the blade, but now I go up too far on the toe pick instead of staying too far back. When I bail on it now, my left foot crosses my right to touch the ice, which is a good sign. (It's also how J the Younger broke her ankle, but I'm steadfastly refusing to think about that.)

Loop improvement is so minimal and hard to describe in words that I won't even try, but at least it's less crappy. Ugh, that jump.

I got my outside counters back, woo! And outside brackets to boot. They aren't pretty, but they turn almost as often as they don't. And P gave me a Curry exercise to do with outside rockers that disguises the fact that I can't hold the outside edge after the turn very well, hee.

Now I am writing Yuletide fic. I have 781 words on my assignment right now, and if it turns out as I expect I have about 5,000 more to go. I'm tentatively taking next Wednesday off in addition to Thanksgiving and the following Friday, so I hope to get the majority of it finished over the long weekend.