Christopher seemed pleased about how I did in Casper but wanted to get to work right away on trying to fix some of my problem areas - camel spins and lutz.
Camels - Even though I've made progress with not swinging my left arm into the spin, it still needs some work. He gave me one of the long dogs to hold with both arms extended in front as I enter the spin and man, that's difficult! But, it's a good way to train my brain into really keeping that left arm out in front during the entry edge. We did some without the long dog to focus on my free leg position. Currently, it is slightly bent on the entry edge so he wanted me to do some while making a conscious effort into keeping that leg as straight as possible. Old habits are hard to break so this was hard for me. I'll keep working on it that way, though.
Lutz - He gave me the long dog again and had me hold both arms out extended in front of me for the whole jump in the hopes that it would get me to stop pre-rotating on the entry. Again, difficult but I'll keep working on it. He also had me do some exercises where I do two half lutzes and then do a full lutz. My pick in for the half jumps is great but when I add that extra half rotation for the full jump, the pick in goes to hell. So he would like for me to do several passes of the half jumps to full jumps to trick my brain into doing the proper pick in.
Free Dance - It's been a couple of weeks since we worked on choreography for my new free dance and I've been so consumed with preparing for Casper that I haven't really been working on it. We went over the intro choreography again and I promised I would dedicate some time to this since I don't have another competition until April.
So yeah, my work is never done. There is always something to fix or work towards.
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