Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Big Bite, Can't Chew

So, yeah, I feel like I bit off more than I can chew with this program. I feel like we are including all of these great elements but I'm not skilled enough to make them happen. Also, I'm having a difficult time remembering most of the stuff Christopher showed me on Saturday. Like, I know how to get from point A to point B and then to C, but all of the little in between nuances are gone. And I'm SLOW. Like sloth slow! I feel like I spent half of my practice this morning thinking rather than skating. Why am I so terrible at remembering all of those little steps in between?

Movez - It wasn't all bad, though. I spent 30 minutes just on moves and they all felt pretty comfortable. I think at this point I really just need to focus more on power and flow, especially on the moves that call for it. I am no longer worried about the Circle 8. It is consistently good and holding that LFO edge is easy now. I did a couple in the beginning of the session to get them out of the way because I don't want to use the center circle later in the session when people need it for spinning. Power Perimeter Stroking felt better with the adjustments Christopher made. Power Three Turns actually felt okay today, especially on my good side but I still need to make the end pattern look more deliberate. BX-BO Edges felt nice and Five Step Mohawks felt pretty good. So yeah, Bronze moves are alright.

Spinz - I worked on them. Nothing terribly earth shattering in terms of progress but they happened.

Footworkz - I don't have a choreographed footwork sequence for the program yet but he did give me some things to work on (twizzles, alternating mohawk crossovers, and chained 3-turns) so I basically just spent some time combining those all at once to create a simple footwork sequence to get a general feel for what it will be like. It wasn't awful.

Jumpz - I did a few of the jumps I already know how to do but I spent the majority of the time working on the salchow from a mohawk entry and, of course, the flip jump. Here is where I really felt incapable. My flip jump has left me once again. I was having such a good practice up until this point and then I started working on this stuff and I felt like a beginner again. How am I supposed to get this together in time for March?

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