milestone: half flip!
Apparently I now have a half flip. If you've been reading along, I've been trying to do this stupid half rev jump for what, 2 years now? I finally figured out *when* the jump/hop occurs - I've been jumping backwards onto the toepick instead of springing from toepick to toepick. Now I can actually test PreBronze Free - 2+ years after passing PreBronze Moves.
So yesterday I skated for about 1.5 hours and had a lesson with Coach L. She's SO excited about my half flip, it's sweet. Now she wants to start of full rev jumps next week, holy crap. She asked toe loop or sal, and since I'm an edge girl, I was definite that I want to do sal. OTOH, maybe I should do toe, since I finally figured out the picking action?
We also worked a lot on spins. We spent some time on backspin, concentrating on position of the free leg (my hip wants to open and I want to cross my legs) and once I got that, on staying on an outside edge. Some definite albeit slow progress - I can eke out 2 slow pathetic non concentric 2 revs, but that's a HUGE improvement from getting around about 1/2 a rev before. Also, forward spin from a 3 turn is coming back, very slowly. I've skated so little since September it's really hard to make progress, and I'm still trying to get back to where I was before the damn arm break.
We finished up with forward crossrolls and power pulls (too crowed/full of holidayers to essay back ones). Forward crossrolls she thinks are test ready. (Forward back one still need a lot of work, but are improving.) Forward power pulls actually *look* worse, but they *are* better - I'm finally getting some real knee action - my legs are stronger than they used to be, perhaps all that treadmill walking on an incline?? Anyway, they look less confident and are smaller, but they are starting to be real power pulls now instead of just floating on top of the ice, if you know what I mean. Not sure what state the back ones are in.
Coach L wants me to get back to seriously training Silver Moves, and I agree. I just have not been able to make it regularly to the rink this semester thanks to my class schedule, but also to being sick and then last week I had that stupid conference. Right now the only day I'm 90% sure of making is Fridays. However if I commit to Wednesday mormings as well, that would at least give me two consistent days a week for the next 2.5 months, and that's 100% better than 1 day a week. So I guess that's what I'd better do. I'm starting to really enjoy skating again, and that's been missing lately, which is one reason I've been less than faithful about getting to the rink. I've got to toughen my feet up again again and get my stamina back so I can really get a workout and enjoy myself.
So yesterday I skated for about 1.5 hours and had a lesson with Coach L. She's SO excited about my half flip, it's sweet. Now she wants to start of full rev jumps next week, holy crap. She asked toe loop or sal, and since I'm an edge girl, I was definite that I want to do sal. OTOH, maybe I should do toe, since I finally figured out the picking action?
We also worked a lot on spins. We spent some time on backspin, concentrating on position of the free leg (my hip wants to open and I want to cross my legs) and once I got that, on staying on an outside edge. Some definite albeit slow progress - I can eke out 2 slow pathetic non concentric 2 revs, but that's a HUGE improvement from getting around about 1/2 a rev before. Also, forward spin from a 3 turn is coming back, very slowly. I've skated so little since September it's really hard to make progress, and I'm still trying to get back to where I was before the damn arm break.
We finished up with forward crossrolls and power pulls (too crowed/full of holidayers to essay back ones). Forward crossrolls she thinks are test ready. (Forward back one still need a lot of work, but are improving.) Forward power pulls actually *look* worse, but they *are* better - I'm finally getting some real knee action - my legs are stronger than they used to be, perhaps all that treadmill walking on an incline?? Anyway, they look less confident and are smaller, but they are starting to be real power pulls now instead of just floating on top of the ice, if you know what I mean. Not sure what state the back ones are in.
Coach L wants me to get back to seriously training Silver Moves, and I agree. I just have not been able to make it regularly to the rink this semester thanks to my class schedule, but also to being sick and then last week I had that stupid conference. Right now the only day I'm 90% sure of making is Fridays. However if I commit to Wednesday mormings as well, that would at least give me two consistent days a week for the next 2.5 months, and that's 100% better than 1 day a week. So I guess that's what I'd better do. I'm starting to really enjoy skating again, and that's been missing lately, which is one reason I've been less than faithful about getting to the rink. I've got to toughen my feet up again again and get my stamina back so I can really get a workout and enjoy myself.