Today just sucked. It zapped the life out of me and killed my motivation. It started with a crowded public session for a warm up. I was unable to do anything and spent most of the time chatting with my classmate. Then the lesson....One of the worst lessons I have ever had. My coach told me at least two different times that what I was doing was "terrible" or "just horrible"! He said my sit spin was "all show and no go" whatever that was supposed to mean. Keep in mind I have just recently started working on the sit spin. It is a new skill for me and while it could be lower, I at least have the feel for it and get the rotations. But this is only the second time in lesson we worked on it and for him to say it was "terrible" made me feel so bad! Tell me what I need to fix, work with me on it some more but DO NOT tell me it was terrible. I know it's terrible compared to what it should be but I JUST LEARNED IT! Anyway, he gave me this torturous exercise that is supposed to help my sit spin. It's a spiral/shoot the duck/spiral (OMG WTF!). It is when I attempted this that he said "That was just horrible, no wonder your sit spins look the way they do". I wanted to just die. This is supposed to be fun. I'm doing this for my own enjoyment and he just sucked all the fun out of this lesson today :(
Oh, and I did a whole bunch of loops today (fully rotated). Despite the things my coach said to me today, I was proud of myself for landing this jump. It still needs more height but I'm doing it. Not too many adult skaters would be as daring as to try it away from the boards after only one lesson. And I didn't fall once doing them either :P
I have a few more group lessons with him and then I am going coach hunting.
My reward for believing that I rock even though my coach repeatedly told me that I suck....a "New Creation" Smoothie from JJJ :)
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