Another week went by without practice. The back issues turned into something else entirely so I've been taking it easy so as not to further aggravate things. I skipped last Monday's lesson to rest but I felt well enough today for a lesson so to the rink I went!
Team Spirit - When Christopher got on the ice he asked why I didn't go to our club banquet yesterday evening. I went last year and it was wonderful but, again, resting took top priority. He said it was a shame I didn't go because he put my name in for the Team Spirit Award. This award is given to a club member who always cheers for others and encourages others to do their best. I'm always cheering for my competition or anyone who takes the ice. It's a hard sport and cheers help. It was super sweet of him to nominate me. Alas, my club has this weird rule that if you don't attend the banquet to receive your award, you just don't get it. Drats. That's fine. I'm honored that Christopher nominated me :)
Lesson - We started the lesson with some clean up work on the Flip and Lutz. After awhile, they started to look better, but only slightly. We moved on to camels and sits. I still have the bad habit of scooping down and up into the camel. If I just keep my head and chest up and don't swing my left arm, I get a better spin. Bad habits are hard to break. He surprised me by asking to see my sit spins so I reeled one off for him that felt really good. He challenged me to do another one and force myself to go even lower. I did the best sit spin I think I've ever done. It felt like my ass was on the ice. Neat! But when I skated back to him he said he thinks I can go even lower! Aghghghg. Like, that felt pretty damn low. Finally, we worked on Brackets. FI brackets are still my strongest but the progress I made on the FO ones disappeared over the week of no practice. So we spent some time on those and then took them to the pattern (were I immediately ate shit on the first LFO bracket I did). Sigh. But hey, a month or so ago I was too afraid to do them away from the wall so this is progress regardless.
Even though I was off the ice for a week, my husband said this is the strongest I've skated during a lesson in a while. Maybe resting has benefits.
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