Group Lessonz

Today was the day that myself and two of Christopher's other adult students were to do a group lesson. I haven't done a group lesson in....oh, 13 years?

Group Lessonz - I think we spent 15 minutes as a group before he broke us apart and worked with us individually. It was mostly edge work down the length of the rink with some twizzles at the end. It was nice but I think I much prefer the one-on-one lessons. It was a nice bonding experience for the three of us though so there's that :)

Private Lessonz - I had some time after the group lesson to work on some things before it was my turn for the private lesson. Since I was working on backward power pulls when he skated up to me to start our lesson, that is what we began with. We worked a bit on getting me to not lean forward so much and to keep my arms in check. Then, we worked a bit on getting that nice ripping sound. It seems so effortless for everyone else but I feel like I really have to push into it to get even the slightest rip. With that out of the way, we worked on the backward cross strokes for the remainder of our lesson. He wanted me to treat these almost like an ice dancer would with a nice backward lean. So, we worked a bit on a leaning exercise where I do an LBO-RBO-RBO in a full circle all while leaning back. It's pretty scary because it feels like you are going to slip off the heel of your blade at any moment. But, I gotta hand it to him, when we did the cross strokes again, they were already much better.

Practicez - I had some time to work on some other moves and free skate elements before the session ended. I worked on some of the choreography that we played around with earlier in the week and I spent some time with the eight step mohawks and change foot spin. The hour went by really quickly and I left feeling like I didn't accomplish much. I really miss those quiet mornings when I could just plug away at these things. Next week I'm skating three days in a row with two lessons, one for moves and FS and another for just choreography.