Careful camels
Good progress on camel spin and back spin today. I'm consistently getting 1.5-2 revolutions on my camel, and many times 2.5 or even 3. By the end of the session, I could tell I was getting my leg higher and torso lower, too, maybe even within shouting distance of horizontal. I toe picked out of, or let my free leg open too much, on some today and was able to easily save myself so I didn't go crashing to the ice, so I feel more confident that I won't die if I get in the right position.
Improvements to back spin are harder to quantify, because I'm rarely in the actual back spin position, but P was pleased with some improvements to the entrance and getting more of my weight over to the right side (although I failed to actually find the right spot lengthwise on the blade, sigh). I figure, it took me a solid year to get a real forward spin going, and a back spin is harder, so if it takes two years, that'll be about right. I started working on it in January, so minus the two months I was off, if I get it going in the next 18 months, I'm actually going to be ahead of schedule.
I successfully managed to do a loop jump on the wall. Yay abs! You're back! It's going to be a while until I feel comfortable moving it off the wall, though. I've also been concentrating really hard on bending my takeoff knees in salchows and toe loops so that I get an actual spring off them, and it's been very successful for the past week or so. They look more like jumps now.
P taught me more Curry stuff, including a vicious little backwards exercise. It looks so simple, and yet it tests the edge of my ability to differentiate right and left so hard. It's just going backwards on alternating lobes, but you have to bend just the outside knee, not both or just the inside one, and that just flummoxes me. I finally figured out that if I think of it more as popping out the hip of the leg I want to bend, it works better, but of course my left hip is like, "Nope, I'm the lower/less sticky-outy hip, I don't do that," and bollocks it all up. I think I finally got it by the end of the session, but it took many tries. There are arm movements that go with this exercise too, but I had to hit pause on them until I figured out how to move my legs.
It really works whatever muscles go down the outside of your hips and thighs, and made me realize that my current PT program kind of ignores them. Not totally, but enough that I think I need to look up something to add for that. The one on the left in particular needs work, which doesn't surprise me given my hip misalignment.
And then I got out of the rink and it was about to storm, but the storm kind of stalled out just west, so it's been beautifully cool and windy for the last couple of hours and I love it. AUTUMN IS COMING.
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Improvements to back spin are harder to quantify, because I'm rarely in the actual back spin position, but P was pleased with some improvements to the entrance and getting more of my weight over to the right side (although I failed to actually find the right spot lengthwise on the blade, sigh). I figure, it took me a solid year to get a real forward spin going, and a back spin is harder, so if it takes two years, that'll be about right. I started working on it in January, so minus the two months I was off, if I get it going in the next 18 months, I'm actually going to be ahead of schedule.
I successfully managed to do a loop jump on the wall. Yay abs! You're back! It's going to be a while until I feel comfortable moving it off the wall, though. I've also been concentrating really hard on bending my takeoff knees in salchows and toe loops so that I get an actual spring off them, and it's been very successful for the past week or so. They look more like jumps now.
P taught me more Curry stuff, including a vicious little backwards exercise. It looks so simple, and yet it tests the edge of my ability to differentiate right and left so hard. It's just going backwards on alternating lobes, but you have to bend just the outside knee, not both or just the inside one, and that just flummoxes me. I finally figured out that if I think of it more as popping out the hip of the leg I want to bend, it works better, but of course my left hip is like, "Nope, I'm the lower/less sticky-outy hip, I don't do that," and bollocks it all up. I think I finally got it by the end of the session, but it took many tries. There are arm movements that go with this exercise too, but I had to hit pause on them until I figured out how to move my legs.
It really works whatever muscles go down the outside of your hips and thighs, and made me realize that my current PT program kind of ignores them. Not totally, but enough that I think I need to look up something to add for that. The one on the left in particular needs work, which doesn't surprise me given my hip misalignment.
And then I got out of the rink and it was about to storm, but the storm kind of stalled out just west, so it's been beautifully cool and windy for the last couple of hours and I love it. AUTUMN IS COMING.
This entry was originally posted at http://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/988583.html. It has
comments over there.