wake up call!
This weekend is the big ice dance weekend in Wichita. I've gone the last two years, but simply could not swing it this year due to school stuff. I'm sad to miss it, but also glad to not have something else to stress over.
I have not been able to skate all week until today's lesson with DB. It was really a wakeup call! The first part was OK - we worked on TenFox which actually went surprisingly well, then Willow Waltz. Then we did 14Step for the first time. I was really nervous for this one and after a few runthroughs I stopped him and said Enough on this for today. I'm glad we finally got the first time out of the way, but I'm freaking now. So we spent a few minutes on consecutive outside mowhawks which went rather better than I had any right to expect. Then we did that FI3 BI3 thing in a circle, and I took a big bellyflop of a fall. Not really hurt, but kind of stunned! After that we did twizzles which were quite bad but at least I was able to more or less stumble though them. Then he wanted to see bracket 3 bracket, and I was like No. I'm so exhausted I can barely stand up and with something that requires that much core strength, I'll hurt myself. You can push me aerobically, but you can't push me on turns right now. So we did power pulls. Then we finished up with stops. He told me I have to learn to stop on 1 foot, which I absolutely cannot seem to manage; it always turns into a lovely little 3 turn. Very exasperating.
Anyway, today really brought home to me how terribly out of shape I've gotten since September. I was so tired 20 minutes into my lesson that I wanted to cry. School is finishing up for the semester and for the next 2 weeks I should be able to skate on both Monday and Friday. And then after that I should be back to 3 times a week. I've got to get myself back in shape - it's mortifying to be so tired after an hour of skating. Also, I haven't made any progress in over a year now - at Wichita last year I tested Swing (pass) and Fiesta (fail), and I should have retested and passed Fiesta months ago. To be fair I probably *could* test and pass, but I'm not willing to do it until this thesis is out of the way. But I can work on Silver Moves and I can work on (what I laughing call) freestyle. And I can relearn the Silver Dances and play with them while I plug away on the Bronze dances. But mainly I've just got to get back on the ice regularly and skate.
I have not been able to skate all week until today's lesson with DB. It was really a wakeup call! The first part was OK - we worked on TenFox which actually went surprisingly well, then Willow Waltz. Then we did 14Step for the first time. I was really nervous for this one and after a few runthroughs I stopped him and said Enough on this for today. I'm glad we finally got the first time out of the way, but I'm freaking now. So we spent a few minutes on consecutive outside mowhawks which went rather better than I had any right to expect. Then we did that FI3 BI3 thing in a circle, and I took a big bellyflop of a fall. Not really hurt, but kind of stunned! After that we did twizzles which were quite bad but at least I was able to more or less stumble though them. Then he wanted to see bracket 3 bracket, and I was like No. I'm so exhausted I can barely stand up and with something that requires that much core strength, I'll hurt myself. You can push me aerobically, but you can't push me on turns right now. So we did power pulls. Then we finished up with stops. He told me I have to learn to stop on 1 foot, which I absolutely cannot seem to manage; it always turns into a lovely little 3 turn. Very exasperating.
Anyway, today really brought home to me how terribly out of shape I've gotten since September. I was so tired 20 minutes into my lesson that I wanted to cry. School is finishing up for the semester and for the next 2 weeks I should be able to skate on both Monday and Friday. And then after that I should be back to 3 times a week. I've got to get myself back in shape - it's mortifying to be so tired after an hour of skating. Also, I haven't made any progress in over a year now - at Wichita last year I tested Swing (pass) and Fiesta (fail), and I should have retested and passed Fiesta months ago. To be fair I probably *could* test and pass, but I'm not willing to do it until this thesis is out of the way. But I can work on Silver Moves and I can work on (what I laughing call) freestyle. And I can relearn the Silver Dances and play with them while I plug away on the Bronze dances. But mainly I've just got to get back on the ice regularly and skate.