August 22, 2007

7:13p
Lesson
Today was a great lesson.

The bad: WEATHER. It was horrible. Forboding clouds, green tinted sunset, POURING rain (we had to put buckets out on the ice because the roof leaks).

The good:
I felt super cute :) I wore a dress with a t-shirt over it and stirrup tights. I think I'm going to try to sell some of my shorter skirts and hope to be able to buy a few longer ones. I need my big bottom covered.

The lesson:
We went over the PB freeskate. I'm doing a waltz jump and probably a toe-loop, but we are also preparing a salchow, and i'll (burton) will decide that week. We started by working on one foot spins, and Burton wants me to show a full wind up and all 3 positions of the spin- leg fanned out, leg pulling in, and leg in. He's not requiring me to cross my leg- so if I keep practicing I'm good. Then we did two foot spins, which I'm doing from a 2 footed edge glide. Mine are a little scratchy on the toe picks but usually at least 6-8 rotations, so i'm good. Then we did spirals- and Burton wants me to do two- which i'm a bit unsure about, but whatever. My first one was a bit granny legged, and I got called on it, and typical me tried to make excuses- but apparently possibly breaking a rib less than a month ago was valid, so he talked about "emergency" stops for shaky spirals. HAHAHA- by the time you realize you've gone over the toe pick, you're already on the ground. I've only caught a toe pick once on a regular spiral- and the bad fall was completely my fault- I totally shifted my weight, so after a few tries, I was back to regular spirals.

We did lots of waltz 3s- and those are fun, but very dizzy going CCW.

Jumps went well. I need to stop looking down. We also worked on half lutzes in both directions, and half flips/split jumps. I'm actually starting to feel a bit like a skater as I've moving going into jumps :)