Twosday

Today is 2/22/22 and I skated twice! Double the ice, twice as nice!

Morning Practice - This morning was spent mostly on getting the opening steps to my new Free Dance under control. Literally it's just the first 4 bars of music and I'm struggling. Christopher's choreography is always so beautiful and flowy and sometimes I'm just...not. Today is one of those days. But I was still able to get some work done. 

Afternoon Lesson - First off, I warned Christopher that I was struggling with the opening steps. He had me demonstrate and, despite the practice, it looked as garbage as I said it would. In particular, it was a simple backward two-foot glide (one foot in front of the other) that was throwing me off. I asked if maybe he could just change it but he was determined to have me do it regardless. It's not that I couldn't do the move, it's that I overthought it to the point that my brain broke around it. He simply told me to add a half pump before it and even though that didn't change the move really, it fixed my brain. Hooray! I can do the thing now and we moved on to the rest of the choreography! I think we have the first 30-40 seconds done now and it's really quite nice. He took video and it looks really good. I still need to polish it and then get the timing better with the music but it's a good start. We also took a look at my dance spin (catch foot camel) and he got a good one on video. Minus the initial anxiety-induced panic over a silly two-foot glide, it was a good lesson.