Spin Doctor

So, you know that side attitude spin I've been working on? I finally got it to where I'm consistently getting 3 revs (albeit slowly) so I was excited to show my coach this morning. Guess what? The way I'm doing it, it's really just a one foot spin, not an attitude. Sigh. Back to the drawing board. I really thought I was doing the thing :(

Spinz: After my disappointing attempt at a side attitude, we worked a bit on spins (of course), particularly holding that LFO entrance longer before the hook. You know, my coach has some amazing patience with me and this whole LFO edge debacle. I don't know how he's not giving up on me yet. I mean, I'm ready to give up on me! I just don't know what else to do at this point. It's frustrating and I'm not making progress even though Christopher insists that I am. One thing that happened during our lesson that bothered me was that another coach came by and asked Christopher if he has tried this and that and even had her student demonstrate. I don't know, that was kind of rude right? It was basically like saying "you're not teaching your student right," not to mention that she interrupted our lesson to do this! Christopher was polite but seemed a bit bothered. I mean, this other coach doesn't know my story and what I'm struggling with in terms of recovery from my injury. It's just a bit rude to assume that my coach isn't doing all he can for me. Sorry, I just needed to rant about that for a hot second because it really bothered me and I'm sure it bothered my coach even if he's too nice to say anything.

Compulsoriez: Moving on, he wanted to see how much progress I have made with the compulsory moves choreography. I am pleased to say that I did the whole routine without falling or forgetting anything. His main criticism was that I was a bit slow and I'm only using 3 out of the 4 corners. Also, since he timed me, he pointed out that the whole thing was 1:14 instead of 1:30. So I have another 15 seconds to fill. We added some fluff right after the "airplane" move to not only take up time but to take up some space and get me into the other lutz corner so I'm touching all four corners of the ice. Overall, I don't think he hated it so whatever I did last night was enough :)