PRAISE BE! TODAY, I DID MORE THAN ONE COMPETENT UPRIGHT SPIN WITH LEG OUT AND THEN FREE FOOT BROUGHT IN TO THIGH BEFORE FINISHING CORRECTLY
You have no idea how long I've been trying to do this for; little ol' basic upright spin has been a monumental challenge. Almost everything else I've learned in skating has been a case of just practising it for a few weeks and I'm inexplicably and magically loads better at it*, but upright spin has been the one area that has eluded me for ages. I've been struggling with them for so long that I think my coach was largely running out of pointers for me on them, we've both known it's just a case of me needing to keep going at them until my body gets to grips with them.
The sad news is that I'm probably only skating once more before the Christmas break and that'll be two weeks of no skating so I'll probably have lost all my progress by the time I return
Other good news though, I've finally made the decision to move my lesson time out of a public session and into a patch session, because practising things like the Lutz just take up a bit too much space with lots of people running around. I don't have a problem working around people on public generally, but finding windows for longer jump windups on public can sometimes be tricky.
Very pleasing to see progress on my upright spin though!
* My backwards one foot slaloms are my current miracle of learning, a month ago I could barely do one or two, now I can do 7 or 8 in a row and I'm starting to push the lobe size out a bit (on my good leg, bad leg is still coming along).