Today was the first day where the new skates felt good and didn't leave my ankles sore. Progress! Again, I focused mostly on Silver Moves but I threw in a bunch of spins and a few jumps as well.
Movez - I feel like I made the most progress today on the backward 3 turns. It's been a journey getting the feel for these again in the new skates but I was able to improve the consistency of my LBI 3 turns and I was able to get a better glide-out after my RBO 3 turn. There were no earth shattering improvements but things are getting better slowly. I worked a bit on the other moves but spent more time on the cross strokes trying to get the glide across better on the forward strokes.
Spinz - These felt really good today. I have discovered that with these new blades I'm hitting the sweet spot more often than not and it feels really nice to see centered tracings on the ice for a change. I even worked on some scratch spins now that I'm not traveling much anymore! The one thing I struggled with today were the backspins. Christopher gave me some homework which is to glide backwards in the backspin position to get the proper alignment but I keep twisting! It's weird because when I do the same position going forward, it's fine. Going backward, I twist. I know this is why I'm struggling with my backspins but I'm at a loss for how to fix it. This only happens when I cross my leg over for the backspin but not when I'm flamingo'd. I think I'll make fixing my backspin one of my goals for the new year!
Jumpz - I did them. Nothing fabulous but they got worked on briefly. They feel more secure now that the skates are feeling more comfortable. My loop doesn't feel as big as it used to though so that's disappointing. It was the one thing I could at least do sorta well.
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