Drunken Camel

I wasn't feeling very jumpy today so I mostly worked on spins and MIF. I'm not sure what it was but I just felt weak today, like if I tried to jump it wouldn't go too far. That's not to say I didn't jump at all.

Jumps - I did some tiny waltz jump loop combos to get a better feeling for landing with that free leg in front. Out of the many attempts only one of them turned into an actual combo. It is purely a matter of breaking that muscle memory in my free leg because it keeps wanting to go into landing position. I also worked on some half loop salchow combos. I'm really trying to get my salchow to slow down. I feel like I am relying too much on the momentum I get from swinging my leg around after the initial three turn. If I approach it from a half loop, it forces me to do a salchow without the swinginess. It was tough to say the least but it's a good thing to work on because I'm pretty sure somewhere down the line of tests I will need to do a Waltz-half loop-salchow combo. So, basically, any jumping I did today was to prepare me for that.

MIF - someone forgot to put the goalie nets away and they were too heavy for me to move so working on the forward/backward crossovers in a figure 8 was challenging. I still worked on it but it was wonky. I moved onto consecutive edges. The forward ones are just fine so I ran through them one time and moved on to the backward edges. I have really come a long way in terms of getting that initial push to be stronger (I had to watch a lot of YouTube videos!). These feel comfortable enough and they tend to gain speed the farther I get down the line but I would really like them to be of equal strength from start to finish. Finally, waltz 8. The move itself is not difficult for me, it's size that is the problem. Oddly, I'm a lot stronger on my bad side (cw) so the circle is much bigger. The left side is a regular sized pattern. Ideally, they should both be the size of the left side. So yeah, I need to rein it in a bit on the cw side. Because it was a public session, I didn't do stroking or spirals.

Spinz - To start off, I did some really nicely centered one-foot and scratch spins. Because these felt good today, I started working on camel spins. This is where the title of this post comes in. I get one revolution before I start wobbling. I figured I just needed more speed going into it but that didn't help either. I tried staying down in my knee for a bit before rising up...nope, still looks wonky. I'm not the best spinner and I have a tendency to get up on my toe picks during a spin so that could be what's throwing me off but I won't really know until I have Christopher look at it. I also worked on some change foot spins. They are super unequal. I can get plenty of revs out of the forward one-foot spin but then when I get into the backspin, I'll get one rev if I'm lucky. Also, I don't typically get dizzy on spins but changing from forward to backward is messing up my equilibrium something fierce. When I switch to the backspin, I'm already tipsy (which baffles me because I'm not changing direction, just feet. My body just doesn't like it).

I only stayed about an hour today before I wanted to just go home. I worked on a lot but I don't feel like I accomplished much. Meh.