2loop2loop
11-19-2007, 05:16 PM
I don't often post on here about my own skating progress, but today I hit a milestone that deserves a mention. For the first time (at the age of 28 :) ) I landed all my doubles: salchow, toe, loop, flip and lutz in a single session. Lutz has been the problem here. I've only landed it twice before, and not for well over a year, and back then I was still struggling with a reticent 2toe, so I'd never got all 5 doubles on the same session before.
For some time I've had a nice, perfectly rotated double lutz that I sit down on as soon as I land. Everyone says that technically it is the best of all my jumps, yet no landing :frus: . Today I was feeling good, I'd landed all every 2flip I tried in the group lesson so after the lesson I decided to do some lutzes. I did some nice jumps, but still with the same sitting down problem. After I'd tried about 5 my coach told me to leave it, but I said I wanted to try one more. Now I have a good 2loop-2loop combo so as I went into the jump I just thought about putting a loop on the end, and I got a really good landing. I didn't attempt a loop afterwards, just checked out. Yay! Now for those pesky 2axels and 3sals!
John
For some time I've had a nice, perfectly rotated double lutz that I sit down on as soon as I land. Everyone says that technically it is the best of all my jumps, yet no landing :frus: . Today I was feeling good, I'd landed all every 2flip I tried in the group lesson so after the lesson I decided to do some lutzes. I did some nice jumps, but still with the same sitting down problem. After I'd tried about 5 my coach told me to leave it, but I said I wanted to try one more. Now I have a good 2loop-2loop combo so as I went into the jump I just thought about putting a loop on the end, and I got a really good landing. I didn't attempt a loop afterwards, just checked out. Yay! Now for those pesky 2axels and 3sals!
John