Troll City

Well, after a couple of not bad practices on Wednesday and Thursday, today was almost a complete write-off. My feet didn't want to know, and there were little $%@'s on hockey skates everywhere!!! I had a brief chat with A Certain Celebrity from last year's Dancing On Ice about how impossible it all was - you can't do much, cos you know that they can't 'read' what you are doing.

3-turns & mohawks: Were there just about. Somewhat abysmal compared to the last couple of days, so I left them pretty much alone.
Russian Stroking: This was one thing I was quite pleased with, as I am getting nice big, semicircles on these now, and the FXO's are pushing off in the right direction, ie. at 90 degrees to the direction of travel.
FXO's: Okay - I am beginning to feel the lean into the circle now. Still can't fit in eight on the circle though!
Novice Foxtrot: I had about three minutes to do this, before four horrors got on the ice for this afternoon's session. My main focus was the swingroll, as I have a tendency to hitch the free hip up. I found today, that if I turn the free leg right out after the swingthrough, my ballet reflexes kick in and my toes point, hip drops, and posture feels good! I am feeling less like I am going to pitch backward now after the swingthrough as well, which is reassuring.

That was all I could really do, for specifics. The rest of the time, I did lots of vanilla stroking to build up my power (and not feeling smug when overtaking said trolls, honest!), played around with my edges and some perimeter stroking / crossovers.

Then I had one of those stupid accidents - I was hurtling towards the barrier, and went to stop. However, I caught my blade on the wrong edge, went pitching forward and caught my hand between me and the barrier. I seem to have a light sprain in my right hand with a little bruising (and my arm is a bit achey as well), but nothing too serious. Bit ouch at the time though!

So not a brilliant skate, but never mind. It happens.