Moving on
Because Pre-Bronze Moves aren't difficult enough, C started me on Bronze Moves today for kicks. I've been working on the Power Perimeter Stroking for a while now, so we went on to the Power Three Turns. They sound awful, because I hate three turns, but actually turned out not to be as bad as I thought they would. To practice the turns themselves I've made up an exercise that's similar, just without the crossover after each turn, so adding that was reasonably non-terrifying. Back crossover to back outside edge was also not that bad.
The forward circle eight, though. How can something that looks so simple be so very, very, VERY hard? Just...wow. I would get 2/3 of the way around the first half of the first circle, C would say, "Don't move, don't move, keep it going!" and I would reply, "But I'm falling off my edge!" and have to swing my leg and switch my shoulders, which resulted in a tiiiiiiny second half of the circle. So it was kind of an eight that had had a blowtorch applied to one side of it and was all melty on that side.
We didn't get to the five-step mohawk sequence. I've heard horror stories, though.
I also did my first combination jump today! It was just a waltz jump followed by another waltz jump, but I still feel accomplished.
And we tried yet another way of getting me into a forward scratch spin (this makes method #4, for those keeping track at home). I feel like this one might actually work, but it's still too early to tell. Now I'm going into it from something very like what we called "airplane curves" in my very first Pre-Alpha class, which were my very first spin-like thing, which is a nice bit of symmetry.
Alas, only two more lessons before I'm off for a month. Well, I assume I'll need a month to fully recover from surgery to the point where I'll be able to do something as ab-intesive as skating. They couldn't tell me how long I'd be off at my pre-op testing and registration appointment yesterday; apparently it depends on how much digging and cutting my gyn has to do, which will depend on how much endometrial tissue there is. The number/size of deposits has almost no correlation with the amount of pain, so it could look like any of the figures here. Well, okay, it's unlikely to be Stage I given the cyst they found with ultrasound, but other than that it could be any of those stages.
Anyway, the rink in Franklin is also open the morning of Memorial Day, so we adult skaters plan to take over the ten o'clock session and then go for crepes afterward. It'll be great. Hopefully all the children will be out of town.
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The forward circle eight, though. How can something that looks so simple be so very, very, VERY hard? Just...wow. I would get 2/3 of the way around the first half of the first circle, C would say, "Don't move, don't move, keep it going!" and I would reply, "But I'm falling off my edge!" and have to swing my leg and switch my shoulders, which resulted in a tiiiiiiny second half of the circle. So it was kind of an eight that had had a blowtorch applied to one side of it and was all melty on that side.
We didn't get to the five-step mohawk sequence. I've heard horror stories, though.
I also did my first combination jump today! It was just a waltz jump followed by another waltz jump, but I still feel accomplished.
And we tried yet another way of getting me into a forward scratch spin (this makes method #4, for those keeping track at home). I feel like this one might actually work, but it's still too early to tell. Now I'm going into it from something very like what we called "airplane curves" in my very first Pre-Alpha class, which were my very first spin-like thing, which is a nice bit of symmetry.
Alas, only two more lessons before I'm off for a month. Well, I assume I'll need a month to fully recover from surgery to the point where I'll be able to do something as ab-intesive as skating. They couldn't tell me how long I'd be off at my pre-op testing and registration appointment yesterday; apparently it depends on how much digging and cutting my gyn has to do, which will depend on how much endometrial tissue there is. The number/size of deposits has almost no correlation with the amount of pain, so it could look like any of the figures here. Well, okay, it's unlikely to be Stage I given the cyst they found with ultrasound, but other than that it could be any of those stages.
Anyway, the rink in Franklin is also open the morning of Memorial Day, so we adult skaters plan to take over the ten o'clock session and then go for crepes afterward. It'll be great. Hopefully all the children will be out of town.
This entry was originally posted at http://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/940918.html. It has
comments over there.