Category Archives: Skating

Skating club: We worked on fancy entrances and exits for jumps and spins: Ina bauers into salchows. Spiral to bracket to half-lutz. Forward spin to back pivot. So I adapted things to my level: Salchow. Spiral to bracket. Forward spin. … Continue reading →

We did a bunch of different stuff in skating club tonight: spirals (straight line, outside, inside) (ok-ish), double 3s (forward then backward on the same foot) (ok), waltz jumps (ok), loop jumps (ha ha), swing rolls (fwd and back) (ok-ish), … Continue reading →

Skating club. Got kicked out of the beginner class and into the advanced class, which luckily was not jumping today. Afterwards the coach that bumped me up asked how it went and told me to stay there; I told her … Continue reading →

Skating club! Broken zamboni; took half an hour to get the spare and make ice badly. Dances again. Progress on progressives? THREE GOOD SPINS. For “good” = “several rotations” = “good for me, not objectively good”.

Skating Club: Dance again – the Blues. Mostly ok except for a forward cross-behind, where you skate on your left foot and cross the right behind it and pick up the left foot. I can’t do it (I get stuck … Continue reading →

Skating Club: Excellent. We worked on so many things that I could be doing better, mostly mohawks and alternating forward inside 3-turns. Supposedly those are easier than alternating forward outside 3s, but since my inside 3s aren’t great, being able … Continue reading →

Skating club: Frustrating. We worked on basic stroking and crossovers, which meant I actually had to pay attention and do them properly, which I never do because it’s boring. And I know we need to learn basics before we work … Continue reading →

When someone actually explains it well. Back at skating club for the first time in a few weeks. We went over the Dutch Waltz, which we’d done on two previous occasions – but this time, with the other coach. She … Continue reading →

Another fabulous evening at skating club. During class they had us do figure 8s. This is much harder than it sounds. After class I pulled out some old printouts of ISI dance steps (a set of moves they make up … Continue reading →

Dunno what progressives are supposed to be. They’re a dance move. The coach kept saying “they’re not like crossovers”, which was not so helpful, since what she was doing didn’t make me think “crossover” at all. We learned the Dutch … Continue reading →