Sunday Practice - This was quite good, actually. I was able to divide my time equally between Gold Moves, Free Dance, and Free Skate. I worked a lot on Forward Brackets and Backward Circle 8 and feel like I'm steadily making progress with these. I touched on the Backward Power Circles (aka Snails) and finished up with some Double 3s (no progress this time). After moves, I ran both my Free Dance and my Free Skate and those are holding steady. My camels in both programs spun as they were supposed to so that was nice for once. I dabbled in some individual jumps, spins, and footwork to round out the hour. I worked hard to get as much done in one hour as I possibly could.
Monday Lesson - Feeling like I have more energy lately so I did some off ice warm-up walks and even a six minute run. On the ice, I warmed up with a smattering of everything since I wasn't quite sure what Christopher wanted to work on today. When he got on the ice, we started with Forward Inside and Outside Brackets on the hockey circle. The turns are happening and they seem to be proper brackets so it was a lesson in getting my free leg and arms to work smarter not harder. I tend to whip the turn a bit causing some flailing with arms and free leg. With a little more knee bend, I'm better. Next up, Christopher surprised me and asked if I wanted to get in the harness for some Axels. I mean sure, I always do but I warned him that my Axel preps have been neglected these past few months while getting choreography for two programs under control. He strapped me in anyway and I did a few sloppy Axels (one of them was not entirely sloppy according to my husband). I need to get back to working on my backspin and doing the waltz-backspin exercises. I'm convinced a nice backspin will be the thing that brings this together for me. As of now, I'm landing it on the harness on one foot but because I'm not snapping into the backspin position in the air, it's looking sloppy and too open. Moving on, we had a little time left to work on Pattern Dances. I admitted that these have also taken some time off during the summer and that the only one I think I still remember is the Hickory Hoedown. So, of course, he wanted to work on the Willow Waltz. Sigh. We reviewed the steps and they came back to me enough that we were able to partner it without the music. It wasn't the worst but, yeah, I need to start working on Bronze Dances again.
So, lots of work on the ice this week. I've been feeling pretty good lately so I'm trying to take advantage of this energy by packing in as much as I can before I'm benched.
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