Stumped
I managed to (temporarily) stump my coach today. Given how many years of experience she has skating and teaching, that is almost unheard of.
We were working on back scratch spins, which you enter with a forward inside three turn. Because I spin CCW, for me it's a right inside three turn. Apparently, I have been muscling my way through that turn all this time by using only my hips, and not doing much with my shoulders at all.
Quoth P: "How are you...I don't understand...how is that even possible??!" Later: "Okay, you've got me stumped. I can usually fix something if I can recreate it, but I can't recreate this."
Go me?
She did manage to recreate it soon after, because she's awesome like that. The upshot is that a good inside three keeps your hips almost still (they flip from front to back because your entire body does, but they don't do anything to make you turn) and all the impetus comes from the twist at your midsection, driven by your shoulders. Or something like that.
This turn is likely complicated by my uneven hips. The lower one on the left kind of pulls my body weight in that direction, which makes it difficult to get enough of it over my skating leg to go from a right inside to a right outside edge, as in this turn. (I have no problems doing it on the left.) P thinks doing it right is within my reach, it's just not going to be fudgeable. I need to have the shoulders and the core body twist perfect or it won't work.
...That said, I can totally do it right if I have something to distract me afterwards, like a toe loop. I don't even know.
In other news, I can consistently get four revolutions on a forward scratch spin from either a T-entry or back crossovers now. YAAAAY. P was very impressed. I am very impressed.
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Other amusements:
Today I received a birthday present and a card from rowdycamels that includes a drawing of a stake through my uterus, which is bemoaning the crumbling of its evil empire. I very much appreciate the thought.
Representations of various states with Lego people. All of them are hilarious, but I think New Mexico has to win.
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We were working on back scratch spins, which you enter with a forward inside three turn. Because I spin CCW, for me it's a right inside three turn. Apparently, I have been muscling my way through that turn all this time by using only my hips, and not doing much with my shoulders at all.
Quoth P: "How are you...I don't understand...how is that even possible??!" Later: "Okay, you've got me stumped. I can usually fix something if I can recreate it, but I can't recreate this."
Go me?
She did manage to recreate it soon after, because she's awesome like that. The upshot is that a good inside three keeps your hips almost still (they flip from front to back because your entire body does, but they don't do anything to make you turn) and all the impetus comes from the twist at your midsection, driven by your shoulders. Or something like that.
This turn is likely complicated by my uneven hips. The lower one on the left kind of pulls my body weight in that direction, which makes it difficult to get enough of it over my skating leg to go from a right inside to a right outside edge, as in this turn. (I have no problems doing it on the left.) P thinks doing it right is within my reach, it's just not going to be fudgeable. I need to have the shoulders and the core body twist perfect or it won't work.
...That said, I can totally do it right if I have something to distract me afterwards, like a toe loop. I don't even know.
In other news, I can consistently get four revolutions on a forward scratch spin from either a T-entry or back crossovers now. YAAAAY. P was very impressed. I am very impressed.
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Other amusements:
Today I received a birthday present and a card from rowdycamels that includes a drawing of a stake through my uterus, which is bemoaning the crumbling of its evil empire. I very much appreciate the thought.
Representations of various states with Lego people. All of them are hilarious, but I think New Mexico has to win.
This entry was originally posted at http://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/970509.html. It has
comments over there.