I completely failed to land flip today, loop was also a bit of a mess. It's such a shame because flip was such a consistent jump for me until I started thinking about holding the inside edge coming out of the 3 turn before picking in. I picked up this weird mistake in Salchow as well where I'm switching to outside edge as I try to hold the inside edge coming out of the 3 turn. I tried to blame my blades (which desperately need a sharpen), but my coach gave me the ol' 1-2 about poor workmen blaming their tools. I later went on to do a perfectly fine one later in the day so that wasn't so bad.
We talked a lot about arm positioning for the flip and loop today, which I struggled IMMENSELY with. I can't get my right arm into the right position and my coach and I spent ages trying to get it in the right place and I just wasn't getting it, I think I might be overthinking it somewhat because I feel like this should be fairly simple. Anyway, that all contributed to making the flip and loop even worse (although when I slowed loop down and got the right arm position then it did feel much nicer). The problem is, every time I tweak one thing then another goes awry, like I started forgetting to bend my knee more in order to do an effective reach back for the pick into the flip - and because that's way more important than the arms then it meant the whole thing started falling apart.
More bashes at 3 jump + loop, which was actually much more consistent after a few practise runs. Lutz was absolutely fine, but I'm still doing it relatively slowly compared to my other jump speeds.
All in all, not amazing, but I learned some interesting stuff to think on so that's something.