Jumpz - We started by looking at the loop-loop combo and I'm still not crossing my free leg on the second loop. We fussed around with my arms a bit and that seemed to help things along but I'm still not completely crossed. I'm practicing this at home on the floor and it's fine there but on the ice it's still not happening. This is frustrating.
Programz - We ran the program earlier in our lesson to avoid the crowds so that was nice. After my awesome run through on Monday, I was excited to show him what I could do...except I fell on the first jump (the loop-loop combo) and that kinda set the tone for the whole thing. Even though I got right back up after the fall, I felt like I was playing catch up the whole time and, because I was rushing, everything was super sloppy. I skated up to him afterwards in defeat and he immediately told me to take a lap. Personally, I think he was just so aghast at how terrible that all was that he needed some time to collect his thoughts before talking to me about it. It's been a while since I've felt like this much of a disappointment. I have skated sloppy programs before but that one fall just destroyed any ability I had to recover. I'm honestly kind of scared now about this happening in competition. Will I falter then too? After my lap of shame I apologized to him once more and then we got to work on making corrections. He had me skate the program again and it went better and then we did a couple more half-programs to work on specific things. He also instructed me to expand things out toward the boards more to make better use of the whole surface of the ice. Something to work on.
I know I have it in me to skate a clean program, I just hope he doesn't think I'm not ready or that I haven't been practicing. It was an off day. I'll just work harder next time.
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