Where the hell did those come from?!

Today was a weird day. Morning practice went really well and then, during my lesson with Christopher later in the day, skills just magically appeared out of nowhere. I'm not complaining. It's all good. But damn, where the hell were those skills on all of the other days I practice?

Morning Practice - Today was the first time I ran my program since Casper and I wasn't expecting much considering it's been a little over two weeks. Well, it was a clean program! Neat! I also ran my compulsory moves a couple of times and those were good. I ran my Free Dance program a bunch of times too (what little I have so far, anyway). Everything felt really nice today. Spins were great as well.

Afternoon Lesson - Christopher wanted to put me in the harness for Axels today so we started with backspins. I gave him a look like "are you ready for this trash?" Except, they weren't trash! My backspins have FOR YEARS been flamingo'd and I've never really been able to cross the free leg over. Except today? Every.single.one had the free leg crossed over with really nice exits!!! Dang! I'll take it! Christopher still had corrections though. He would like for me to cross at the ankles instead of my free leg being so open and crossed over the knee. So, he puts me in the harness and has me do some waltz jumps and waltz to backspins as prep and then he set up his iPad to record some Axels. I landed TWO of them! On one foot! What?! Where the hell did those come from?! I was so excited to see the footage however, when he went to go check, it hadn't recorded after all. NOOOO! Aghghg! So we tried some more and I couldn't land any! How frustrating! I also ran my program and it was good except for a fall on my loop (of all things). So he had me do the loop again while I was still out of breath and then had me do the lutz-toe again while I was even more out of breath. It was a great lesson and I landed a couple of Axels! Woot!

The 24 Program Challenge (2/24) - Oh hey, another program challenge! I have 24 practices between now and my next competition in April and these challenges are really helping me keep myself accountable so I'm going to keep doing them. I ran my program once in the morning and again during my lesson. That's two down!