It was a game of chicken and I lost

I skated my usual early Tuesday morning freestyle but, before I give my overview of what I worked on, please allow me a brief moment to vent. There is one particular skater at my rink who is, well, an absolute bully. I don't know why she feels the need to purposefully get in my way but she often goes out of her way just to get in my path. Most of the time I ignore it and keep doing me and I never say anything because the girl is like 7 years old and I assume nobody taught her manners yet. I try not to take it personally because I have heard the way she speaks to her parents and I've watched her not be courteous to other skaters as well. But she is a bit of a terror, honestly.

So, picture this. There are only the two of us on the ice so there is plenty of room to not get in each other's space, right? I'm in the center working on a spin and, through the blur of my spin, I see a small pink blob heading my way. I exit the spin just in time to see that she is like 5 feet away from me heading right in my direction with no intention of stopping. Had I continued on in my exit position, we would have collided, so I took a fall. A hard one! And she kept skating on in victory (Yay, you made the old lady fall. You must be so proud of yourself!). Up until this point I have broken out of moves patterns to move out of her way and have generally stayed as far away from her as I can manage. But, you know, when someone is spinning, I feel like they have the right of way considering it's difficult to see precisely what's going on around you. I mean, that's why the middle is reserved for spinning. There was no excuse for her to get that close especially since she had the whole rink and she wasn't working on a moves pattern or choreography. If this continues I really will talk to her parents/coach because what she is doing is frickin' dangerous and I'll be damned if I get hurt again just because she feels some weird need to intimidate someone who is old enough to be her mother. Ok, rant is done.

Movez: I ran through the entirety of my bronze moves multiple times, including end patterns. Everything felt fine except for my five step mohawks (oddly). Those are usually my best move but today I was having a hard time fitting in four lobes without getting uncomfortably close to the boards at the end of the rink. I might have made the pattern too big? I don't know. It's a spacing issue though and not a footwork issue so I think this will be easy to fix.

Jumpz: Yeah, I ran through everything but spent the bulk of my time on the flip jump. Once I got all the miscellaneous jumps out of the way, I did a few loop jumps and then the flip prep. I paid special attention to the pick-in trying to be more committed to vaulting from my toe pick. And then I did some actual flips. All of them were two-footed. Alas. But hey, I worked on it.

Spinz: I worked on crossing the free leg in the backspin (unsuccessfully) and then moved on to sit spins. I'm getting the rotations with these but I just can't get low enough for it to look good. It's definitely more of a squat than a sit. I'm still working on ankle exercises to get more bend but it's a slow (and hurty) process. I'm proud of myself for getting the feel for the rotations, though! I can always get lower with time but at least the spin is happening. Oh and I'm keeping my back straight! I could probably get lower if I hunched more but that isn't cute so...