fiesta, hickory, willow
Skated about an hour and a half and had my lesson with DavidBowie. We were somewhat crimped by all the little spring break ankle biters, but still managed a decent lesson.
Fiesta continues to improve. I realized that I was *really* feeling more comfortable with it when we had to sort of bail on the center steps (cross front, cross back, slide chasse) and then the long change edge (due to traffic), but I was still able to do the mohawk on time and without freaking out. So that was really encouraging. Hickory feels good; I love the speed and power on this dance and I love the feeling of doing the heehaww thingy in unison.
It felt a bit too scary to work on Willow with all the traffic, so I asked if we could work on waltz 3s in hold. These are finally improving. On the L ones I was stepping inside the circle again, and he told me to look at straight at him. I actually shifted my gaze to his L shoulder, so I was looking slightly out of the circle and that really help get my L foot where it needed to be for the 3 turn, and not tweak my R hip. Then we went ahead and did a few runthroughs. Again, I'm starting to feel more confident, and not shying and freaking at every little twerp that crosses our path. The 3turn on this is finally starting to feel a bit better, although the back run right afterwards is more of chasse than a run at this point. Still, itty bitty steps of progress are better than no progress, so I'm happy.
Next week I definitely want to start in on TenFox in earnest, and also more Willow work. Maybe even take a look at European, woot!
Fiesta continues to improve. I realized that I was *really* feeling more comfortable with it when we had to sort of bail on the center steps (cross front, cross back, slide chasse) and then the long change edge (due to traffic), but I was still able to do the mohawk on time and without freaking out. So that was really encouraging. Hickory feels good; I love the speed and power on this dance and I love the feeling of doing the heehaww thingy in unison.
It felt a bit too scary to work on Willow with all the traffic, so I asked if we could work on waltz 3s in hold. These are finally improving. On the L ones I was stepping inside the circle again, and he told me to look at straight at him. I actually shifted my gaze to his L shoulder, so I was looking slightly out of the circle and that really help get my L foot where it needed to be for the 3 turn, and not tweak my R hip. Then we went ahead and did a few runthroughs. Again, I'm starting to feel more confident, and not shying and freaking at every little twerp that crosses our path. The 3turn on this is finally starting to feel a bit better, although the back run right afterwards is more of chasse than a run at this point. Still, itty bitty steps of progress are better than no progress, so I'm happy.
Next week I definitely want to start in on TenFox in earnest, and also more Willow work. Maybe even take a look at European, woot!