Had a nice long (2 hour) skate and a long lesson today with Coach L. We spent the first half of the lesson resurrecting my Silver Moves. We did everything but 3s in the field. Spirals are fine. Both cross strokes and power pulls were better than they've ever been and very close to passing - I have NO IDEA where they came from! We played with ( Read more... )

Two hours of Argentine Tango (not on ice, alas) and my feets are TYRUD. But I'm happy I was able to do dance at all - my whiplash seems to have peaked yesterday and my neck is much much better today, thankfully. I have an impressive lump on my forehead that is a sickly shade of yellow, but my bangs more or less cover it and you can only see it ( Read more... )

Holy moly, I had no idea I hadn't posted yet this year! Here I thought I was doing monthly posts. Well I just went back and looked, and I have barely skated at all so far this year - twice in January, thrice in February, and so far twice in March. And here I was deluding myself that I was getting out to the rink twice a week more or less. ( Read more... )

Thanks to end of semester nonsense, I as unable to skate at all the first two weeks of December. I did skate twice last week, including a lesson with Coach L. She is chomping at the bit for me to test PreBronze Free to get it out of the way, and I know I should, I just am so busy that committing such a large chunk of a weekend day to a test ( Read more... )

It's a long holiday weekend here in the States. I skated Wednesday and was scheduled for a lesson but Coach L had car trouble. Still got a good 75 minutes in, depsite the holiday hooligans on the ice. Spent some time talking an older woman (visiting for the holiday) who was working on her Gold Moves. She told me Adult Moves will change after ( Read more... )

Had a lesson with Coach L today. We spent most of our time on 3 turns. Specifically 3s in the field from Silver Moves (FI to BO and FO to BI). I'm a little shocked these aren't much worse than they are. I've got considerably more flow and speed than I used to - OTOH, I've still got the same damn errors, namely lurching forward after the back 3 ( Read more... )

Had a lesson with Coach L on Friday - my first lesson in something like 2 months.  We resurrected Silver MITF, and I'm pleased that they are not nearly as dire as I had thought.  Which isn't to say they are at all good, mind you.  Started with cross strokes, and she totally called my bluff - I have really beautiful cross rolls, but my cross * ( Read more... )

First of all, I am DONE with my thesis.  Turned in 3 copies of  the final revisions with all the revisions last week.  So YAY for that ( Read more... )

Left my new boots at the rink today to have the old blades mounted (Husband chickened out about putting them on, which is probably for the best).  So no skating until I get them back.

***taps foot impatiently...

I did do weights and abs twice last week and again today.  Yay me.

Last Friday I thought DavidBowie had stood me up, so I took off my skates and was about to change clothes, when he showed up.  Put my skates back on and we had our lesson.  It went soso.  Waltz 3s in hold are definitely better than they used to be, although still need a lot of work ( Read more... )