I didn't post about yesterday's practice because it was just a whole lot of suck anyway. All backward three turns deserted me and I could not even get around once on my backspin. It was just an off day. Maybe it had something to do with the "ice snobs" being there. It's these two teenage girls who have obviously been skating their whole life. I usually smile at them to say hello because I see them every week, but they never say hello or smile back, they just look the other way. Rude! Last night I fell on a BO3 and they looked in my direction then looked at each other and started giggling. I really felt like going over there and giving them a piece of my mind. But instead, I let it get to me and had a crappy practice. I can't stand them!
Today, I did much better. In the practice session before my lesson, I was able to do BO and BI three turns with no problem. I even made some progress on the backspin! I had two that had about FOUR (!) revolutions. Most of my attempts got three rev's consistently. If I think about putting pressure on my right pinky toe it helps get me on that outside edge. Stupid, but it helps.
Today's lesson started off with waltz eight and forward/backward crossovers in a figure eight pattern. Gigi looked up in one of her rulebooks that the first three turn in the pattern should be in the closed position and even though it looks nice in the open position the way I do it, she would like me to actually follow the rules....geeesh. Not a big adjustment, but I still like it better the other way. Next we worked on salchows. She just made some slight corrections but overall she liked them. My toe-loop on the other hand is still a mess. She figured out that my problem is that when I come out of a waltz jump, for example, I am in this nice landing position with the freefoot turned out and pointed. This puts my foot in the wrong position to pick in for a toe-loop. When I come out of a waltz jump, I should think about where my foot should be for the toe-loop and have it ready. It can't be a "landing position" foot! Something to work on. At least now I know what to fix.
No class next week. Don't know why...there just isn't :(
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