Another rssif/rssir refugee here. Due to my advanced age, I can no longer recall what name I used to post over there

Now if we could just lure Sling over to the dark side . . .


Ellen

Brenda and I are on good speaking terms these days. I'm sure I can mess
that up with very little effort. Last year, she had a bunch of little ones
skating on her team. She's beyond a good skater. She's gifted. There's
a story somewhere that I'll never know. I've seen the best of the best,
and Brenda is better than that. Head case.

johns

I think he broke so many bones he had to give it up. I was a gymnast too,
and I remember how totally nuts male gymnasts could get ... and bust.

Well,,,,,,,,,,, with my coach's encouragement and Dr's OK, I have been back on the ice with my cast. Had a dance lesson - second lesson on the Hickory. I held on to my dance coach for dear life! We partnered the entire 15 minutes, slow with no music. Twas great fun.

Also had a 15 minute lesson with my free style coach. I've been wanting to do figures for quite a while, and this is the perfect time.

I'm going to try a public session tomorrow - most times there are only a couple of adults skating.

I'm nuts and I love it, and love that anyone here would understand!

So sorry you broke your wrist in Lake Placid - I hope it was toward the end of the week and not the start!

Pat

A little breakthrough in my "small jumps" this weekend. In the loop, I
learned to add a small hop up off the toe-pick at the 180 position.
I was kind of amazed that the hop went so straight up, and was
repeatable. Landing was easy too ... nothing skidding around. I think
this hop must go a bit earlier, so it comes just as I pull my arms in.
It is easy to do because I have just started the press-up onto the
toe pick, so I just change that to a small hop, and it works. Part of
the hop includes lifting the free leg at the knee, so it is a smooth
coordinated move. I'm not letting the rotation complete yet.

I also went back to the flip, and added the hop there. I don't spike at
all. Instead, I am just dragging the glide skate up to me by placing the
toe-pick on the ice and pulling with it. And as the glide skate reaches
me, I turn 180 on the ice and do the small hop. It is a little different
than the loop hop, because I'm already a bit up on the toe-pick. I think
that is wrong for now, but maybe not. My "teachers" flip is very easy,
and highly pre-rotated. I think the knee lift is very important here too.

The nicest thing about these small jumps is I can do them repeatably
and safely in a public session, and nobody seems worried that I might
run over a kid.

Ah, not so bad then! My cast was above the elbow, making skating impossible, not that I wanted to anyway. I had a good deal of discomfort and the thought of whacking that cast against anything kept me pretty quiet. Even when I went to a splint, I was treating the arm gingerly, and still could not fully extend it. This was my third break on the right arm, and the other two were nothing compared to it, as I was 5 and 15, but this time was 54. I really think age made a huge difference, especially in recovery.

Nope. First full day and I had just paid to take Pre-preliminary moves at the end of the week .

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I'm re-learning all my jumps with a good deal of pre-rotation. Something
I'm beginning to notice is, my small jumps are quickly turning back into
bigger jumps, but with strong emphasis on rocking to the toe-pick so
that the jump comes off the pick which is locked onto the ice. The pre-
rotation simply makes the spin much easier to get, and the pick in the
ice makes the jump more powerful with less effort ... and less need for
perfect timing and skill.

johns

Quick belated hello from another rssir denizen who is, as usual, behind in reading posts.

Johanna, there and here