toe loop
Skated today and had a lesson with Coach L. I was extremely tired and unmotivated and unfocussed. Still I knew that I wanted to work on my pathetic and nonexistant jumps since we haven't done those in awhile. So we started with waltz jump then side toe hop waltz and finally waltz side top hop which is more difficult but I can do it if I scale it down to two itty bitty hop things. Then half flip. Which, amazingly, is still there. Then she asked me what else. And I said I wanted to learn the set up for the next jump.
So she decided to teach me toe loop set up. She showed me once about a year ago but I got it confused with half flip so we abanonded it almost immediately. Today she showed me the set up, I walked through it - and then I did it. Adn then I did it again. OK, it's a bit toe-waltzy, and it's miniscule - but I did it. Several times. And then we even did a few waltz toe loop combos. "That can't be right," I kept saying. She laughed at me and said I needed to skate tired more often, because I wasn't nearly as uptight and nervous and anxious as I usually am, I just sort of went with what she told me. Hmmm. Food for thought.
So she decided to teach me toe loop set up. She showed me once about a year ago but I got it confused with half flip so we abanonded it almost immediately. Today she showed me the set up, I walked through it - and then I did it. Adn then I did it again. OK, it's a bit toe-waltzy, and it's miniscule - but I did it. Several times. And then we even did a few waltz toe loop combos. "That can't be right," I kept saying. She laughed at me and said I needed to skate tired more often, because I wasn't nearly as uptight and nervous and anxious as I usually am, I just sort of went with what she told me. Hmmm. Food for thought.