The good and the bad of it...but mostly the bad

I feel like every time I have a good session on the ice it is followed by a bad session. I'm really struggling with finding time to practice. The last few times I went to APEX on a Wednesday night it was great! Only a few people on the ice. Last night, however, an entire sixth grade middle school class was there. I'm not kidding, there were about 100 kids on the ice. The one figure skater who is always there when I go kinda just looked at me and said "wanna share the circle"? (meaning the small center hockey circle). I mean, yeah, I guess we don't really have a choice but to claim this small space as exclusively ours and hunker down. There was no room to work on anything...but I tried anyway.

Jumpz - Tiny waltz jumps and tiny salchows are my life now.

Spinz - Still just plugging away at those one-foot spins with a spattering of two-foot spins. I'm not working on scratch spins right now until I can get more comfortable spinning on my bad leg. I did eek out some back spins. They were terrible but that's not anything new.

Movez - Yeah, no room to work on anything moves related but I did try to see if I can get the hang of the circle 8. I tend to get a quarter of the way around the circle and then I start drifting inside the circle. I'm on too much of an edge it seems. It might be an arms problem as I don't think I have my arms set up the right way. I watched some YouTube videos and it looks so easy. Why can't I do this? I also worked a bit on forward edges and tried to make them more shallow and slow. And finally, to be able to tell Christopher that I indeed worked on them, I did a couple of spirals. Oh! And I worked a bit on the swingroll/mohawk transition for the crossovers. That's getting more comfortable. At least the fear is gone now :)

At one point in my practice a girl skated up to me and asked me if I was a professional (bless her heart). Honestly, I think it was because I was wearing my club jacket because it surely wasn't my skills that impressed her. Maybe it was the pigtails! I rocked some cute pigtails last night hoping it would give me some spunk. They worked?