Injured: My left back outside edges! I spent half the lesson just working on these, and I am still having trouble with them. It seems to me that I simply cannot push off on to a LBO edge and take the rest of my body with me - it stays behind, so I lurch forwards, and flat! The RBO edges are much better. I ended up having to do LBO chassés in a very tight circle which was horrible, but eventually managed it.

Hadn't practised my changes of edge for ages - mostly okay but LFO to LFI was pretty dire. I tend to counter-rotate, and of course pull everything over to the wrong side!

The atmosphere at the rink wasn't very nice today - the elite skaters were all in a foul mood, for some reason. I didn't desperately want to stay on very long after my lesson.

Inspirational: However, I did stay on, and eventually my coach's wife was taking a small girl through her level 1 and 2 dances. I decided to dance, too - and was amazed! I had edges, I was covering the ice, I even had some speed! I've never danced solo better. Maybe I will do solo-dance at Oxford Seniors, after all....

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Injured: My psyche. Suddenly I'm feeling EVERY FLAW that Mr. Klingbeil described about my boots...:? Was told by a friend the same thing happened to her after he looked at her original pair (she's now been in Klingbeil's for a while). That high ankle on my boot was a MAJOR annoyance last night.

Inspirational: I was too distracted by work and my sinuses (yes, its raining today, my sinuses are more reliable weather predictors than Grandpa's corns!!!!) so I just played last night. Worked on the footwork moves we tried last week, and made some progress. (Most of yesterday's morning lesson was talking, discussing which blades to get for the new boots, etc.) Waltz jump was a bit wonky at first but then flowed just fine. The ice last night at Adult Skate was just "off" -- very few of us could get a "grip", literally.

On the other hand my husband got his LFO3 (I'm just a little jealous, he has much more natural edging that me...sigh...)

Looking forward to an extended break this weekend from work, so that should help.

Beth

Injured - my ability to jump off a back edge, I don't get it!! I am having the toughest time with my salchow and loop jump!!

Inspirational - my toe pick jumps! They are really pretty good, my toe loop is good, my flip is often fully rotated so when I learn how to land on one foot I'll actually have my flip, and my lutz, I only do the "approach" but I get lots of pop up from picking in and both my coaches said it's really good, it's better than people who have been skating 2-3 years longer than me.

I actually got the "hook" on the scratch spin 4 times, I couldn't spin, but I actually got the hook, I could feel it in my skate and see it on the ice!! One step at a time. :-)

My extension on my spiral's were great but my edges were kinda scractchy.

I made it into Atlanta yesterday evening and skated at Ice Forum this morning. Got a late start so I didn't get to skate a proper freestyle session. But the 10AM public was almost empty, so I skated on it for about an hour.

Nice ice... softer than what I'm used to and a pretty warm rink.

Anyways, my MIF practice went well I think. I worked as best I could on the dance (considering I couldn't put my dance music on), and it felt reasonably good.

Thursday & Friday

I had a playabout day on Thursday.
I didn't do much today either, except backspins, bits of my programme and field moves. My blades are away to be sharpened.

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At least you went! I had a day off, which I think I needed. But I am now restless. Maybe we will get up early tomorrow morning and skate then.

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Injured - well, let's just say my muscles and knees are rebelling a little after not skating for 9 months.

Inspirational - after I quit 9 months ago (after 7 years and in a rut) I decided to give it a go again. Skater about 5 times before having my 1st lesson with my previous coach, on Wednesday.

I set some new ground rules before we set a date to start. Anyho--true to her word, we started with the forward perimeter power crossover stroking (PJM) to get my edges comfortable. Then we went onto alternating 3's (yukky.) But tonight I had the local rink 6 pm (the last of the summer season) all to myself!! It was so cold but after about 8 minutes, I just started to work on the edges....over and over and over till I really found I was getting the rhythm - I was so proud of myself. I also did some alternating 3's but not with as much success. I'm back.....and I think I am going to do just fine (no testing or competing - just me, the ice, and a challenge to be the best I can before my body gives out.) My speed is coming back quicker than I anticipated. And for now will just do 3 sessions a week until my joints loosen up more.

Happy at 55!

Injured:

Axel is still not 100% consistent 100% of the time....
Between sessions I swing from near 100% to 50% proper landings (shaky or wierd ones not counted)
But thats about all

Inspirational:

Layback! Again! I am still very happy with it.
Flying camel. i managed one round!
Camel jump camel... I have no idea if I'm doing it right. (trying it out on my own) I just thought it would be fun... Do you bend you knee in the forward camel and just jump over to the back? Is there anything to look out for?

Everything else is on hold again... oh well... can be discouraging when nothing is moving for double jumps...

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Good for you, Skateflo - and welcome back!

Went down this morning for an hour, not much cop, really. Mostly a matter of flow and edges; our Swing Dance is terrible, our Canasta pretty dire, I really don't think we are going to do well in Bordeaux at all. If we do, it'll be on our Dutch Waltz, but not if we dance it like we did this morning, all flattened edges and changing our weight too soon. At least, I was changing my weight too soon after the LFO swing roll into the run that follows it. I did manage to correct that, but if I get it right, Robert gets it wrong, and vice versa! But it's the only dance we really manage to get an edge on every step now - in the Canasta Tango we are both apt to flatten off the slide chasses. Oh dear....

At least we're at the stage of noticing when we do it! We spent a long time trying to practice the start of our swing dance, because I always find Robert is in the wrong place whether I do a Mohawk or 3-turn to start with, and have to lunge for him. Maybe I'll just start off going backwards - after all, where does it say that the woman has to start going forwards???

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I'm VERY inspired because I finally passed my juvenile MITF!!!

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