Lesson this morning! Kinda nervous as I don't really feel like I've made much progress with any of the things I was supposed to work on. But, the music in the rink was nice today! Some old late 80's early 90's rock ballads including Guns n' Roses "November Rain." It's a nice change from the usual Saturday morning country songs.
Lessonz: We started off with spins, specifically the sit spin. We spent a lot of time on the entry trying to get me to hold that LFO entry edge longer. I love how Christopher never gives up working with me on this. Persistent man, him. We made some adjustments to my arms to see if that would help. So, instead of keeping that left arm checked in front as I enter the spin, he now wants me to to have my right arm in front. Perhaps that will help. I'll try anything at this point.
Moving on to jumps! I admitted that I'm still struggling with the flip jump so he asked to see one. Given my history of only being able to do this jump in his presence, I was confident that I would be able to do one today but, to my surprise, I couldn't. It is now completely gone. Goodbye flip! We did several attempts and he mentioned that it really does look like I'm making it a lot harder than it needs to be. This proves that I have been overthinking it to the point of non-existence. I wish I could hit the "default settings" button in my brain to just start over with this. He's right, I'm too much in my head with this and I should just trust that my body knows what to do. This isn't a new skill.
He mentioned working on a lutz jump and I thought I heard him wrong so I asked him to repeat himself. Yeah, he actually said the word "lutz." No misunderstandings there. My first comment was, "ah, so you really are trying to kill me." He assured me that we'll take it slowly so we started off with the half-lutz. I haven't touched this jump since I was in Christopher's jumps class a year and a half ago and I remember making the comment back then that this jump seems like a great way to break an ankle. So, he showed me the entry (backwards one-foot glide, get on an LBO edge just before the pick in, and the rest is like a half-flip) and I was able to do one very slow half-lutz with an obvious LBO. Cool. Another thing to work on. I can't imagine building this up into a full fledged lutz without having a flip first but I suspect this is part of his plan to get me to rethink the flip. If I can wrap my head around a lutz, maybe my flip fear will go away :)
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