Practice today and the focus was spins and footwork. I was able to get the first half of the footwork up to speed but the twizzle into the ballet jump slowed me down considerably. I can do the twizzle slowly but I just don't have it under control enough to add more speed. So much work needs to be done still! I also fussed around with stepping forward into the attitude spin right from the toe loop landing. That, thankfully, was not as difficult as I thought it would be.
For Christmas I asked Santa for some padded shorts that I can wear over my regular skate pants (and by Santa I mean my in-laws). Today was my first day skating with them and I had a few of those bad backward falls while working on the twizzles. Holy smokes these pants actually work! I felt NOTHING! I swear by these pants now. Go out and get yourself a pair! Jerry's 850 Protective Shorts. They literally saved my ass!
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