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General Ice Skating Chat / Re: What did you do in today's lesson?
« Last Post by Laimelde on April 21, 2018, 07:07:53 AM »First week in level 5, I felt unusually anxious as I love my lessons but I'd had a quick look at what level 5 covers and forward crossovers scare me stupid!
Hey Squeeze, I was properly terrified of crossovers too! That moment when you cross one leg over the other always felt so dangerous, like I was intentionally putting myself in an unstable position where the risk of falling was dramatically higher, and it just made no logical sense to me to be trying to do this move at all!

I can assure you it gets better! Make sure you're bending your knees as much as you can - it makes the crossover easier and lowers your centre of gravity and makes you more stable, so the move becomes a tiny bit less scary. (Only time and practice will take away the rest of the fear.)
You'll get your 3 turns too - they took me forever but now outside 3s are one of my favourite moves!