Feelin' Green

We have three sheets of ice at our rink and I've only ever skated on the Green Rink during group lessons and LTS so when I got to the rink and Christopher told me we were skating on Green today, I was excited! It's been three years since I was last on it. It was refreshing. Kinda felt like a fresh start.

I was first up for a lesson so I didn't get much time to warm up. Alas. Even still, it was a good lesson :)

Movez - We started with power pulls and some exercises to get me to trust my edges more and dig them in a little deeper. Hopefully, I can expand my practice opportunities a bit more and actually practice these things in between lessons. I feel like it's really going to help. Moving on, we worked a bit on the 8 Step Mohawks with a focus on being more deliberate with my arms.

Spinz - We worked a bit on the entry to the scratch spin and then moved on to backspins and change foot spins.

Jumpz - We started with easiest jumps first and worked our way up to....FLIP JUMP! Ugh. I haven't done them since March because (spoiler alert) I got fearful again. But Christopher pushed me out of my comfort zone and I did a few and they weren't terrible. He would like to see me pick up my free leg earlier but in general, they were okay. He took some video so I could see myself doing it and, of course, the first thing I do is pick it apart and criticize. He reeled me back in and told me to just celebrate the fact that I conquered a fear and did the thing. I need those reminders often. I'm pretty mean to myself sometimes. We also spent some time trying to unwaltz my toe loop.

After my lesson I had some time to work on backward 3 turns. They are starting to feel comfortable again. Here's the weird thing, though. I do them better when I pull down my mask and can see the ice. It's not that I'm really looking down at the ice but when I can't see the ice at all I feel like I'm going in blind. Scary.

In a nutshell, today felt really good. It also helped that I saw one of my adult skater friends on the way in. I really missed seeing him at the rink so starting things off by seeing a friendly face did wonders. Good times :)