I iz defended.  You may call me Master!  If you are a masochist curious and want to read the blow by blow, it is here.

I've been planning on buying myself new blades as a graduation present, but instead decided to go with new boots.  I have a fairly new pair of Jackson Elites that have just never been comfortable.  They were a birthday present ( Read more... )

Last week I managed to skate twice, once on Tuesday, for about an hour and again on Friday for an hour, with a lesson from DavidBowie.  I really feel like I have seriously regressed in the last year.  On some levels that's not true - my FO mohawk, while still dreadful, is at least dreadfully consistent now, and I'm more secure on the ice in general ( Read more... )

With the exception of the week I went on vacation, I skated 2 or 3 times a week in August.  Classes have started back up for me, so I will be back to a regular schedule by next week.  I will either skate MWF, or TF, depending on how my classes work out ( Read more... )

So I  managed to skate anywhere from 1 - 3 times a week during July.  My focus was definitely not on skating as I've been trying to finish my thesis.  I should have been done by now, but my adviser vanished for 3 weeks - it's been a nightmare.  I'm trying to finish by the end of the week, because I'm going on vacation next week.  Hopefully we will ( Read more... )

Sunday June 28 - garden for a few hours

Tuesday June 30 - ballroom 2.5 hours

Wednesday July 1 - skate 1.5 hours

Friday July 3 - skate 1.5 hours, ballroom 3 hours

Didn't do any core or weights last week.  Also, DavidBowie cancelled my lesson at the last moment, grrrr.  I did get a lesson from Coach L, and I had a visiting friend take some video of 3s in ( Read more... )

Sunday - gardened for a few hours ( Read more... )

Activity this week ( Read more... )

Holy moly, has it really been a month since my last post?

I'm still skating.  However I'm writing my (MA) thesis this summer and I have exactly 4 weeks left until I turn in a complete draft to my committee, 6 weeks 'til I defend.  Obvioulsy, skating is taking a backseat this summer.  Still,  most weeks I manage to go twice, although this week ( Read more... )

Skated today and had a lesson with Coach L.  I was extremely tired and unmotivated and unfocussed.  Still I knew that I wanted to work on my pathetic and nonexistant jumps since we haven't done those in awhile.  So we started with waltz jump then side toe hop waltz and finally waltz side top hop which is more difficult but I can do it if I scale it ( Read more... )

On Monday I skated for an hour and had the ice completly to myself; it was lovely.  I worked on Silver Moves and Bronze dances mostly, just trying to get back into some sort of skating groove.

On Friday (today) I skated for about 1.5 hours and had a lesson with DB.  Some country music was playing, so we started off with Hickory Hoedown, which went ( Read more... )