Flippin' Awesome!

I skated early this morning and it was a lovely practice. I spent more time on jumps than anything else but everything got worked on at some point. The awesome part of my practice is just how I feel about the flip jump overall. It's finally getting consistently worked on along with all of my other jumps and there is no more fear. It is fully rotated (maybe a bit over rotated) and I'm landing it on one foot. I feel like the flip fear that I've been struggling with for nearly two years is finally over :)

I think I know what fixed me. Since it was a fear issue that was holding me back and not the jump itself I found that, when I was attempting them during practice, I wasn't committing to the pick in. I was hesitating and allowing myself too much time to think about how scary it was right before the jump. Once I paired it with a half flip, things all of a sudden started to fall into place for me. So, I would do a half flip and then right away do the mohawk entry into the full flip. Because there was no time to think in between jumps, the full flip happened! So it really was a mental game after all and I beat it!

For the past week or so, I have been pairing the flip with the half flip and getting more comfortable with things in general. This morning I took the training wheels off, so to speak, and just worked on the flip by itself. Glorious.

For the first time, I feel like I can put this in a program and actually make it happen. Progress feels good!