Grinding

I've been doing more off-ice training to supplement my on-ice adventures and I'm starting to really feel the difference! I'm able to stay upright more often on botched landings and I'm just feeling stronger and more confident overall. Yay for progress! I skated on Saturday but there wasn't anything to report so I didn't write an entry for that day. However, today was nice and I feel like I made progress on a couple of things.

Warm-upz - I ran a lap, I walked a lap, and then I did some stretching before getting on the ice. I would like to get this to the point where I can increase the amount of laps I run. I'll get there but my lungs are not the best. My stamina says "keep running" but my lungs are like "I will literally KILL you." On ice, I did about 10 laps of various things so, after 15 minutes of on-ice warming up, I was ready to start working on Bronze MIF.

Movez - Circle 8 felt pretty great. I feel like I'm finally getting more of a stronger push for each circle although the push onto my RFI still feels "toe pushy." I did three full patterns of this before moving on to power 3 turns. These also felt better but I still feel like I'm running out of rink at the end of my first side. I can make it but I'm getting awfully close to the wall. BX-BO edges are much improved. With Christopher's fixes in place I think I got the hang of this again. Five step mohawks felt speedy today which was nice and my power perimeter stroking is still good so nothing to report there.

Jumpz - I ran through everything but spent a lot of time on the flip jump. Now that I'm not scared of this jump anymore, I'm pretty obsessed with trying to improve my technique. They are still pretty small but I'm able to do them which is a huge achievement for me this past year!

Other Thingz - Backward 3 turns are still a disaster but I'm trying. Backspins are coming along. Now that I'm more comfortable getting the rotations around the 5-6 rev mark, I'm slowly trying to cross my leg over. This is tough. Finally, at the end of my practice, I did a couple of laps of consecutive outside spirals. Ugly, but they got done. I'll start doing the inside spirals once my outsides start to look prettier. I'm pooped!