#personal skating update

Tested out a couple of a loops. Under rotated and two footed.....

But we are so back.

Will still treat with caution though. Brian mentioned testing on Wednesday so I'm definitely going to be drilling the absolute crap out of 3 turns. Hopefully the left forward inside one will refrain from trying to kill me for once.

Trying to learn s - step/chocktws and they are not working. I get them in principle but getting them to actually work is another thing.

Also learning a new entry for sal! I think its tge same as junhwan cha! (Mohawk, back outside 3, Mohawk, sal) so that's cool! Feels clunky as all hell at the moment though.

Lesson: largely good. I feel on my waltz jump which was mildly hilarious with Brian pointing out i should try and finish the jump i start before thinking of the next lol (my brain be like that lol). toe loop has improved enough that Brian didn't hang shit on me for it. Did it in combo with a sal too. Got to keep working it though. The pull through action pivot are working better but not quite jumping in the right direction. Worked on falling leaf and half flip again. I should be able to remember them now. I have something resembling a loop. We now strive for consistency.

Also:

I bought a second pair of frozen couture crash pad legwarmers. I had a bit of buys regret because they cost more than what I would have liked. Then I got them this afternoon and got ridiculously excited that lining is a similar shade of purple my skate guards.

Friend kat is going to give me a hand with choreography on Friday.

Currently my only thoughts training outfit wise is 'surviving Melbourne's weird autumn weather ' which basically has me sticking with black. It's goes with everything and honestly it's become a comfort colour.

Coach is happy with my progress. And we're working towards flip again. It's going to be interesting as the picking action is far lower on the toe pick than I thought and getting the timing is going to be...an interesting experience.

With it being school holidays and there being skate camps the rink is starting to get busy earlier. And competition season begins early so alot of the skaters who would normally be on the other rink are on the public rink so practice is going to be interesting the next couple or weeks. At leat by next week track works will be finished (hopefully) so I'm taking so long to get in and out of Melbourne.

I have paid my rink membership today, which will last me 6 months. Massive chunk of money but it means I don't have to pre book for public skating and its cheaper in the long run.

First day with a new coach. It went well enjoyed.

In the long run I think Brian is going to work out.

In the short term, I still miss Mark.

There is also the secondary problem of coaches price. While brain is the same as Mark, he only tends to do 45min lessons on week day public sessions. The difference why is Brian has to pay entry fee to get into the rink. Mark was employed by the rink and didn't have to pay entry fee.

So I am going to have to do some cash flow tweaking.

Hopefully Brian will some how magically get me to do a loop jump finally.

This week's training colour is red.

I did a sit spin.

I held it for at least 3 revolutions.

It was centred.

I have a witness.

It actually happened. *

*internal screaming *