No specifics since this is an update for a few weeks

[Wiggly Boots]
I am still trying to figure out when I am going to test my Juv free.

[Snug Laces]
Axels and other jumps are getting better

Coach and I had a great lesson last Tuesday with a lot of laughing we were joking about "full moons" because of a combination of things including a story she told me earlier in our lesson and the fact that I am not getting my butt facing parallel to the boards on my rockers and then she said that I needed to do that on both sides and my response was that we needed a "blue moon" *sigh* I'm going to miss her when she is out with her baby!!

2 sal is landed on 1 foot, slightly cheated, but getting better. 2 toe is getting close to being landed on 1 foot...

[Wiggly but Snug]
I start lessons with another coach tomorrow for the period of time that my coach is out. I am extremely excited for her, however, I am not a big fan of change...I like the coach I will be taking lessons from, but the lessons will have a distinctly different feel since coach and I spend so much time catching up and laughing oh well....I know it will all work out though and that a different opinion is sometimes good...

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"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES." --Nike

Wiggly
struggling to do salchows the way new coach wants. She says after the 3 turn entry I need to stay down the whole time. I just don't have any push up from that. I guess maybe I have to be only a little bit down after the turn and then go lower before pushing up. I've always struggled with this jump, so am open to anything that might improve it. I had found it worked better for me to straighten after the turn and then go down again as I start to sweep the free leg around.

Snug
Didn't work hard today. I work hard other sessions, so Sunday mornings are becomming my free-play day. Still worked on everything coach wanted though., just didn't flog myself.

The other adult skater I am helping is going really well. Today I moved her on from preparatory exercises into proper crossovers and she is picking them up well. Also worked on T-pushes, and holding strokes longer. I am always delighted when she gets the hang of something fast.

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Saved by Synchro!
I was over it, now I'm into it again !

Snug laces: I FINALLY got to try out my new skates! And got to go skating with the boi.

Wiggly boots: my new skates have bigger toe picks and more of a rocker. On one of my first trips around the rink, I caught the toe pick and fell flat on my face (well, stomach). I hit the ice and as I went sliding, flat out, I said, "toe pick!" (at least I still have a sense of humor, though it naturally wen't right over my partner's head since I'm sure he's probably never seen that movie). This would not have been so bad except we'd just eaten a big lunch. So I spent a few minutes in the hockey box going "please don't barf, pleasepleaseplease don't barf..."

Snug laces: I didn't barf.

Wiggly boots: practicing two-foot turns, got unbalanced, and fell backwards. Hit my head. Have never done that before.

Snug laces: Luckily, today I had my hair in a bun; usually i wear it in a braid as is my usual style but today I had just washed my hair and didn't want a hairsicle, so i put it in a bun and put a scarf over the top. I felt my head BOUNCE off my hair. A slight headache from the jarring for a minute or two, but otherwise I was fine. Might wear my hair in a bun from now on! I can't imagine what would've happened if i hadn't been doing so, as I hit hard enough that when I got up, my scarf was falling off and my bun was falling down.

Also snug: The boi wanted to see some of the new stuff I'd learned, esp. a spin. I was afraid to try a two-foot spin in the new skates as I sometimes tend to lean forward too far and catch my toe picks, so with bigger picks...yeah. But I tried it, and I think I actually do better on these skates. I had my partner counting revolutions for me and I got up to 4 or 4.5, yay (shuttup, 4 is good for me on a spin). Certainly not perfect, but a bit better. Crossovers as well almost got up to snuff. They will eventually as I get used to these skates.

Wiggly: As usual, other people on the ice. There was one girl who looked like she was giving a lesson to a bunch of kids. They all had hockey sticks, which I'm pretty sure aren't allowed. It wasn't the sticks that were the problem, however...it was that they were utilizing the whole middle of the ice that wasn't the perimeter where people were skating. There was one young girl having a lesson with her coach in the center ring. Then the two spaces on either end, between the center circle and the skating perimeter. I would start trying to practice crossovers in that area while those kids were in the one at the other end, then the girl would have them skating across (THROUGH the one girl's lesson space even! I don't know why her coach didn't say something) and to the other open end area. So I'd switch to the other. Then they'd come back. Finally I decided I was picking a spot and sticking to it, but either way I almost ran into a kid several times. I almost said something to the girl, esp. since a couple of the kids could barely skate and didn't need to be given a hockey stick. Then about half an hour in, a bunch of kids who'd been skating just fine on their own decided to start playing with the ice walkers. I hate those things with a passion, especially when kids just use them as toys, or when parents don't supervise their kids who are using them--hello, if your kid can't even skate without propping themselves up on something, don't just let them go around willy-nilly; you need to be RIGHT NEXT TO THEM making sure they are going the right way and in case they fall. And don't do like one guy did and just leave it in the middle of the ice while you skate off holding the kid's hand. I was about to grab it and take it off the ice when they returned to it. I almost said something to several people today. Next time i will, and next time I will report any kid with a hockey stick or who's messing around with an ice walker. I'm also going to suggest that they keep the ice walkers behind the front counter and only give them to kids who actually need them, rather than leaving them out for people to grab whenever they want to mess around, and that they tell parents that they need to stay with their kids who are using them and that they are NOT to be left unattended on the ice. Also, if I had a dollar for every kid I saw who thought it was a game to throw around their hockey gloves whenever I go skating, I'd be rich--and usually their parent or handler is joining in on the "fun."

Snug: My partner is so funny. He was full of questions about figure skating "tricks." He wanted to know if I've ever seen anyone jump in real life. Well, duh. He wanted to know how many revolutions people usually do in spins and I wasn't sure how to explain to him that stuff like scratch spins get going so fast that it's sort of hard to count.

[Snug]
First lesson with temporary coach...it went well, very different from regular coach, which is going to take some getting used to, but oh well...it's only temporary....

Skated pretty okay today

[Wiggly]
2 sal and 2 toe were not happening...

Just got an e-mail from my club which specifically states that for the show next year there will be no coach, adult, or guest solos...I am unsure of how I feel about this, considering that I am the ONLY adult in the club (minus coaches, etc).... On one level, I am okay with it because performing is not something I enjoy, but at the same time it seems like a jab....

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Thanks

That's the odd part, though--the ankles aren't broken down at all. The tongues seem broken in, but not broken down at all either. I guess I'll switch the laces out and see if that helps.

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Hi Kat12

What is boi?

Re: the problem in your rink about kids messing up with hockey sticks, I think that you can report it to the skate hire counter.

In the rink that I now go to, one Thursday, after my lesson whilst I was practising, I saw that two kids were using one treadmill frame (like walking ice frame), which is against the rink's regulations, as the rink's regulations said that those frames are only for one kid to use. There were another 2 kids who copied those two kids using one walking ice frame. So I went up to the skate hire counter to complain. The counter staff said that she will speak to the ice marshall. After about 10 minutes, one of the ice marshalls talked to the kids, and the problem was then solved.

londonicechamp

The boi = my partner. Cuz I get tired of saying "my partner" all the time. Meaning can be ambiguous, though--when I picked it up, it was in goth communities where it's used to refer to a female's male significant other. It wasn't until later that someone got confused and told me they'd always heard it used to refer to a male's male significant other, which I'd never heard before. I still use it because I figure both ways are accepted, and besides I would think it's pretty obvious on here by now that I'm not a guy, lol.