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wake up call!
This weekend is the big ice dance weekend in Wichita. I've gone the last two years, but simply could not swing it this year due to school stuff. I'm sad to miss it, but also glad to not have something else to stress over ( Read more... ) -
lessons with DB
Last Friday I had my usual lesson with DB and we spent the entire time on the Bronze dances. Willow was much improved - once I figured out that for the LFO3, I need to step *outside* of him, not try and cut inside the circle. And then we moved on to Ten Fox. We did it a few times and it went just fine, even the mohawk part. Although after ( Read more... ) -
the magic skates
Skated yesterday for about 2 hours and had a lesson with Coach L. DB had left my newly sharpened skated for me. I don't know what that man did to my blades, but I swear, it was magic. My edges were solid. My spins improved, no catching the inside edge or rocking up onto the toepick. BXOs were quiet. 3turns were not scraped. I was in shock. ( Read more... ) -
body slam
Last week DB was out of town, the week before that we had tornadoes and storms, so this week I was raring to go for my lesson. We started out with a few run throughs of Fiesta Tango, which were more or less fine, although he told me I'm not skating into my edges, but am floating on top of the ice. How a 200 lb woman floats on top of the ice is ( Read more... ) -
Wednesday lesson
Had a lesson with Coach L on Wednesday. We spent most of the time working on some of the Silver Moves, starting with back crossrolls. These have really been neglected as they are difficult to practice during crowded public sessions. They aren't bad form wise, but they are very small and fairly slow. Still, I just need to practice them more and ( Read more... ) -
Thursday and Friday
Last week I was able to skate Thursday and Friday. Had a good practice on Thurs and on Friday a lesson with Coach L. Per plan we hit FO mohawk and then Ten Fox, 14Step and Foxtrot pretty hard. These are coming along better than anticipated. I'm finally starting to get my nerve back on these (remember the FO mohawk on the TF is how I broke my ( Read more... ) -
plugging away when I can
I skated on Friday, but only for about an hour. We had the big snowstorm on the way and as the thunder rolled on and the rain pounded on the roof of the rink, I was too anxious about the long drive home to concentrate. DavidBowie didn't show up, so I headed out. Have not skated all week until today - got in a good hour and a half. DB is out of ( Read more... ) -
unscheduled skate
Class was cancelled today, so I got an unexpected Monday skate in. There were only a few people on the ice, all of them adults I knew, so it was a really really nice skate. I had decided that I was going to make my way through Bronze dances today, so that I could work on Ten Fox with DB on my Friday lesson. So after working Willown and TF for ( Read more... ) -
fiesta, hickory, willow
Skated about an hour and a half and had my lesson with DavidBowie. We were somewhat crimped by all the little spring break ankle biters, but still managed a decent lesson ( Read more... ) -
milestone: half flip!
Apparently I now have a half flip. If you've been reading along, I've been trying to do this stupid half rev jump for what, 2 years now? I finally figured out *when* the jump/hop occurs - I've been jumping backwards onto the toepick instead of springing from toepick to toepick. Now I can actually test PreBronze Free - 2+ years after passing ( Read more... )