Final Test Prep

This morning was my final lesson with Christopher before the test on Friday. Things are getting real!

Program Run Thru #1 - It felt sloppy to me and I felt like I was gasping for air about halfway through (stupid old lady lungs!). No falls and I ended on time with the music but it was meh. He had me reskate the sit spin and it was better on the reskate.

Spot Checking - We worked a bit on the toe loop which is either really cheated or I'm over compensating for the cheat by picking in too far in back of me. I need to find a nice middle ground with this. I asked him to also look at my toe loop-loop combo because I feel like I made some improvements on this. Turns out progress happened and it looks nice. I finally have my leg crossed in front for the loop!

Program Run Thru #2 - Better this time! He said the footwork had more flow so yay! I also took my time on the sit spin and was able to do one that was "passing." He didn't ask me to reskate anything but did have me skate an endurance lap right after to build up stamina.

Since I don't have the schedule for Friday yet and I don't know what time I'll be testing, I'm not sure if I can squeeze in a practice the morning of the test. Hopefully, I can skate the first session of the day and run my program a couple of times before I skate the test. It always seems like my first run through is garbage but then any that I do after that are better so it would be nice to get those crappy programs out of my system early and then skate a nice program for the judges. I still have my Thursday practice but I'm worried about getting a proper warm up the day of.