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Updates
Skating: Third back spin lesson with BF today. We tried a couple new techniques, and I did something resembling a back scratch spin at one point! He's given up on teaching me the start-with-free-leg-turned-out method, claiming I have so much turnout that it's counterproductive, as it winds up pulling me toward the inside. Or something. Anyway, ( Read more... ) -
Back in the saddle
I started a vid tonight. It's been--oh god--almost two years since I vidded. I've forgotten how I did this.
(On the other hand, vidding! Creative output! Surely fic cannot be far behind...especially since I still haven't started my Yuletide fic. *hands*)
ETA: So El Capitan (newish Mac OS) broke Handbrake, because of course it did. But Google ( Read more... ) -
Dear God.
Still holding out hope I woke up in the evil alternate universe this morning.
(Not Redverse. Redverse would never. It must be Orangeverse.)
This entry was originally posted at http://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/1017814.html. It has
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Weekly update
Skating: Yesterday I did the entire Silver forward inside-back outside three turn pattern, down the entire rink on each foot, without a single step down on any of the back threes. HOORAY ( Read more... ) -
Some updates
Humira: Gave myself my first shot on Tuesday. It wasn't as bad as I thought it might be; basically it's akin to an allergy shot that has the needle stay in the skin about twice as long. I got some post-injection fatigue that day and the next, but it went away. I had a very bad pain day on Thursday, set off by two hours of my worst trigger, ( Read more... ) -
Pain in all its many permutations
Ugh. I got distracted talking to P before the freestyle session started yesterday and got on the ice with my blade guards on. I was hanging on to the boards with my left hand and managed to sort of let myself down gently, so it didn't hurt at the time. Today: OUCH. My whole left side is screaming at me ( Read more... ) -
Some things wot I've been working on
Forward camel into beginning forward layback spin:
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Forward camel into layback spin from Skater on Vimeo.
Waltz/half-loop/Salchow jump sequence (aka the very awkward one I mentioned a few weeks ago):
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Waltz, half loop, Salchow jump sequence from Skater on Vimeo.
This entry was originally posted at http://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/1016329.html. It ( Read more... ) -
Dear Yuletide Writer 2016
[Note: I am icepixie across LJ, DW, and AO3 ( Read more... ) -
Skating update
My lesson with our local spin doctor went well, although I find it incredibly ironic that after all this PT to strengthen and learn how to use my butt muscles, the biggest thing keeping me from a back spin is...I don't use my butt muscles. *facepalm ( Read more... ) -
Edges class
We had a guest coach for the adult edges class today, a Russian fellow whose background is, I believe, in pairs. It was nifty. He had us do really clean, deep versions of alternating forward crossovers, and for the example, he started on the goal line about a third of the way from the wall (his axis was a bit further in than the one on the hockey ( Read more... )