Ok, first, Happy post-Thanksgiving! We are in between contracts and there was a week of holiday drop-ins which really limited my ice time so practicing was scarce. Oh yeah, and then add in the week when I was dying of plague and I was really a hot mess on the ice on Wednesday for our lesson. To be expected, I suppose.
Lessonz: We scheduled our lesson this past Wednesday (the day before turkeyz) because the rink was closed over the weekend for the holiday. I know he had to squeeze several of us in on this one session so I wasn't sure where in that hour I would get to work with him. Since I was the first to arrive, I was the first up. Needless to say, I got one lap of warm-up and then we got right to work. Since I was using it as a warm-up, we started with the power perimeter stroking. He fixed my arms going forward and wants me to do a more deliberate under-push on the back strokes. Otherwise, I think they might be in okay shape. I feel like I get good flow with these so now I just need to work on the technical details. Next up were my power 3-turns. It was a really busy session so I had to break the pattern a few times but I think they might be okay as well (at least I can't remember anything that he said that required major fixing on my part). That took up half of our lesson and we still needed to get started on the beginnings of the Star Wars program. He finally sent me a cut of the music a couple of days prior to our lesson and holy smokes, it's speedy! I mean, it all sounds like fun in your head and then you hear it over the speakers in the rink and it's like "oh yeah, I need to, like, actually skate to this now!" Yikes! Time was limited so we didn't get too much done but we were able to work out some kinks with the spiral sequence and choreograph the first 15 seconds. Thankfully, he was amenable to me recording him doing the opening moves so I was able to study it and practice at home in my living room over the holiday weekend. He also sent me home to think about what I want my opening jump(s) to be so I spent a lot of time analyzing the music and how much time I will have to get into position for jumping and, although the music really calls for a three jump sequence (I thought a toe loop-side toe hop-waltz would work well), I'm not really sure if I'll have time to get into position for that. So now I'm thinking a flip-toe loop combo (I think future Mandi is really going to hate me for this). I'll work on both tomorrow when I have some time to play around with things. Doing floor jumps at home makes me believe I will have time for the three jump sequence but in reality, I may only have time for two unless I get super speedy overnight (which isn't likely to happen). Since I'll be competing with this before I use it for testing, there is a bit more flexibility in terms of combos and sequences so I want to do as much as possible to get those pointz! If I'm able to fit the three jump sequence in at the beginning, that leaves room for the loop-loop combo I've been working on later in the program. I shot video of my progress on this a month or so ago. I'll see if I can find it to post it here. Mostly, I think it's in good shape but I still need to work on crossing my leg in front on the second of the two jumps. The first jump is properly crossed, the second one is flamingo'd. Oy, with the flamingos already!
So.Much.Work.To.Do!
Edit to add: I just posted the loop-loop combo video in a separate post because blogger is rude and wouldn't let me tag it onto this one. Boo, Blogger.
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