Leaving that Geisha life Behind

I've been sick all week and skipped all of my regular practice sessions as a result. It was just a cold but it knocked me on my ass. I was feeling slightly better enough to have a lesson today but was pretty worried about the state of my skating since I haven't been to the rink to work on anything since the last time we had a lesson. This should be interesting.

Lessonz: Christopher got on the ice earlier than our scheduled lesson time so I didn't feel like I had a lot of time to warm up properly. Usually, I do about 15 minutes of moves and 10 minutes of jumps/spins before our lesson but today I only had about 10 minutes before he was there ready to start our lesson. Cool. I'm adaptable. He asked what I wanted to work on today and I said "Anything but spins please" because I already felt like my head was spinning from the sick. So, of course, what do we start with? SPINS! I just kept hoping that I could keep everything from coming up all over the ice. Ugh. Per usual, we worked almost exclusively on the entry. He gave me an exercise where I do spin entries from a standstill all the way down the blue line. That's enough to make me hurl on a good day so I had to work extra hard to keep it from coming up today. After that torture, we talked a bit about Bronze Free Skate planning. Last week, he asked me to think about music for Bronze and now that things have been decided I am happy to announce the new program! I'll be skating to "Rey's Theme" from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I found a really pretty violin cover of it and it has a little bit more speed to it than I'm used to which is nice because it will get me to skate with a little bit more....force (eh?).

Programz: So, we didn't do much today since the music hasn't been cut yet but we played around with some things. He had me do a spiral sequence that includes a RFO spiral with a LFI mohawk into a LBO spiral where I grab my right free leg with my left hand (I'm not sure my body bends that way yet so it looks like more stretching is in my future). We also messed around with the footwork sequence. He asked me how I felt about twizzles and I was all "hells yeah, let's do some twizzles!" I've always wanted to learn twizzles! It looks like he wants twizzles in both directions so we worked on that for a bit. Later, when I was practicing, I noticed that the LFI twizzles are easier than the RFI twizzles which is weird because isn't that supposed to be my bad side? Anyway, these are fun and tricky but I'm excited to work on them! We also played around with some chained 3-turns and alternating mohawks. I asked him what his intentions are for this program in regards to a time frame. Like, am I keeping the Geisha program for sectionals and then testing the Star Wars program after? Nope! Looks like I'm debuting this beast at sectionals in March! So, not a lot of time to get it together but it's going to be fun. I imagine there will be a flip jump thrown in there as well as the sit spin we've been working on. Yikes!

Dressz: I also have a dress picked out for this new program! It's this Brad Griffies dress but with black over grey instead of black over red (to represent light side vs. dark side). I'm ordering it plain and will try my hand at stoning it myself. I'm thinking jet hematite crystals for the grey portion of the dress and some AB clear crystals for the black part (to represent stars). I think when it's done, it's pretty much going to look like the Death Star, lol. Wish me luck!