Combo Post

I didn't blog about Wednesday morning's practice so I'm just going to combine Wednesday and today in one post. Overall, skates are feeling better each time I get on the ice. One of the biggest things I've noticed is how quiet I am now. I was a very scratchy skater before but now I'm not! Going backwards in the old skates, I always felt toe heavy and you could hear me scratching from the other side of the rink. Now, I'm like a stealthy ninja! So silent! I'm not sure if it's the blades or the boots or a combo of the two but, whatever it is, it's working for me!

Movez - I worked on all of the Silver Moves! On Wednesday, I feel like I was really making some progress with my weaker backward three turns but then today I struggled. I don't mind skills disappearing as long as I know they'll come back. Hopefully these will. I also feel like I made some headway on the power pulls. Going forward on my right leg feels less scary and I'm even able to do some backward pulls on my left leg now. It's getting there!

Jumpz - I spent the second half of my practice working on jumps and spins. I have been able to get my jumps back with the exception of (oddly) my waltz jump. Today, however, I figured that I just had to change my approach a bit. If I jump up more instead of out I'm able to do a better jump. Toe loops feel pretty good now and my loops are less scary. Salchows were a hot mess before the new skates and they still kind of are. Alas. I tried a flip jump. I almost died so I didn't try another.

Spinz - These were feeling pretty centered today so I tried some camel spins. Ooooh boy...that was awful! But hey, I tried. I'll just have to keep trying until they start to look less awful.

I think at this point, my moves are better now than they were before the new skates and injury. I definitely feel more confident doing them even though they are still nowhere near testing. Progress is being made in very small increments but I'll take that over no progress at all.