It never fails. Whenever I have a great practice and I'm starting to feel like a bad-ass for conquering fears and stuff, my next practice is pure garbage. Today, I felt like a slug. No speed, no ups, and no progress. Super cool, right?
Off ice warm upz - I've slowly been incorporating more off ice stretching and exercises to my daily routine to build up strength, stamina, and balance. Last week when I got to the rink, I did a couple of walking laps around the elevated perimeter of the rink. Today, in addition to stretching, I ran a lap and then walked a lap. The half foam roller has really improved my balance and I'm feeling more confident on my spirals because of it (if I can spiral while balancing on that thing, I can balance on knife shoes!). So, yeah, I'm trying to not be so sedentary off ice. Maybe I'll buy a jump rope too!
Movez - Here's where the garbage started to pile up. Perimeter Stroking was fine as was my Circle 8 but my Power 3 turns were pretty bad. I'm doing the move but I'm struggling with figuring out how many to do down the length of the rink. If I do three, I still have a lot of rink left at the end but if I do four, I'm running out of room and can't finish the move without almost running into the boards. Lame. The BX-BO Edges were also crap today. Weeks ago when I felt that these were super simple, it was because I was doing them wrong. I was spending too much time on BO edge and not enough time on the BX. Half the lobe should be the BX and then I'm supposed to start the BO edge at the top of that lobe to complete the second half. I just need to find my groove with this and I'm sure it will be fine. Finally, mohawks. These were just okay.
Jumpz and Spinz - This part of my practice started off promising but turned to garbage once I started working on loops and flips. Also, I couldn't center a single spin today. Not a single one.
Programz - I did a run through of my program, slowly, to keep it under my feet. Things felt pretty good so I decided to run it at full speed without the music. I landed my salchow and as I was doing the one foot glide to center to get into position for the sit spin, I tripped on my toe pick! I stayed upright at first but then I tripped on my other toepick (I guess I was destined to go down). I ended up landing on my chest and got the wind knocked out of me and then I sliiiiiiiiid across the ice like some kind of broken penguin. While sliding breathlessly, I somehow managed to turn over onto my back and that's when I hit my elbow pretty hard. I was covered in snow and shame and now I feel like I got hit by a bus. Cool.
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