Sunday practice
It appears that watching our Sunday adult practice session has become a free family fun activity. Or maybe there was a hockey game in the other rink everyone was getting bored with, IDK, but we had at least eight different sets of parents and children spectate for various amounts of time. That was kind of fun.
Good things about today's practice:
1. Secrets of the Salchow (I would watch that TV show): If I leave my right foot on the ice as I go into the jump and kind of swoop it around, I have much more stability as I scrape onto to my right toe pick and hop off of it. YouTube suggests this is acceptable practice for Salchow entries, though of course P will have the final say.
2. No six-revolution forward scratch spins, but many five-revolution spins out of back crossovers. Some of them were even centered. (Others, the tracing was longer than I am tall...)
3. If I really really really concentrate, I can check my right forward outside three turns as well as the left ones now.
4. P is the only coach in the area I ever see skating just for herself, and she usually does so at this session. Watching her is always so cool. She has these huge, powerful singles (her Axel is beautiful) and elegant in-between moves.
Less-good things about today's practice:
1. I got bored towards the end of the session and started playing with stuff I don't usually practice. I did a lunge, and my knee loudly reminded me why I stopped doing those after Delta. Owwwwww.
2. I attempted a proto-sit spin, and it ended about as badly as one can while still remaining on two feet rather than on one's butt. Sigh. (Sit spins are on the Bronze Freestyle test. They are the one reason I'm not sure I'll ever attempt that test.)
3. Waltz jump-toe loop combos stubbornly refused to happen. Bah.
In other news, it was gorgeous outside for the first time in forever. I was reluctant to go skate, actually. However, because of the time change, it was light long enough after the session to take the dog for a walk, so yay.
This entry was originally posted at http://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/971731.html. It has
comments over there.
Good things about today's practice:
1. Secrets of the Salchow (I would watch that TV show): If I leave my right foot on the ice as I go into the jump and kind of swoop it around, I have much more stability as I scrape onto to my right toe pick and hop off of it. YouTube suggests this is acceptable practice for Salchow entries, though of course P will have the final say.
2. No six-revolution forward scratch spins, but many five-revolution spins out of back crossovers. Some of them were even centered. (Others, the tracing was longer than I am tall...)
3. If I really really really concentrate, I can check my right forward outside three turns as well as the left ones now.
4. P is the only coach in the area I ever see skating just for herself, and she usually does so at this session. Watching her is always so cool. She has these huge, powerful singles (her Axel is beautiful) and elegant in-between moves.
Less-good things about today's practice:
1. I got bored towards the end of the session and started playing with stuff I don't usually practice. I did a lunge, and my knee loudly reminded me why I stopped doing those after Delta. Owwwwww.
2. I attempted a proto-sit spin, and it ended about as badly as one can while still remaining on two feet rather than on one's butt. Sigh. (Sit spins are on the Bronze Freestyle test. They are the one reason I'm not sure I'll ever attempt that test.)
3. Waltz jump-toe loop combos stubbornly refused to happen. Bah.
In other news, it was gorgeous outside for the first time in forever. I was reluctant to go skate, actually. However, because of the time change, it was light long enough after the session to take the dog for a walk, so yay.
This entry was originally posted at http://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/971731.html. It has
comments over there.