I would post in this thread more, but my lessons are quite same-y at the moment as I work on refinement. They essentially look like:
Warmups:
- Crossrolls (forwards and backwards)
- Slaloms (2 and 1 footed - forwards and backward)
Field moves:
- Alternating forward 3 turns followed by a crossover into the next 3 turn (in the level 4 field moves I believe - I'm doing both the inside and outside versions)
- Alternating inside mohawks followed by a crossover into the next mohawk (another field move but not sure which level)
- Backward 3 turn practice, the inside version I'm doing both directions but I'm just sticking to anticlockwise for the outside version (I think my coach is worried I'm going to break something doing the clockwise version after a fall I took once)
Jumps
- Everything up to and including single Lutz
- Loop is the big struggle at the moment. I've spent weeks adjusting my arm positioning, but now I'm letting my left shoulder come back to force the take off, instead of holding the arm forward and allowing the edge to twist me up and off the ice - a feeling I'm not entirely onboard with at the moment but I'm working on
- Flip is very variable, I did a good one today, but my practices in my own time are frequently plagued with inconsistency
- I find being warmed up more effectively thanks to my coach pushing me along means my muscles are much better prepared for doing the jumps and I tend to be a bit more consistent with them in lessons
- Rink was busy this week so we skipped Lutz, but Lutz is bizarrely becoming one of my favourite jumps - there's a lot of surprisingly satisfying stuff about its execution
Spins:
- I've put a plural in that heading, but it's more like spin, singular - my hilariously tragic upright spin
- However, on that point, my upright spin is actually making some progress - a lot of experimentation has finally yielded some results. The big changes have been trying to avoid making
any movement after making the entry turn into the spin. I've managed to create some stability following that point and since that moment I've been starting to get more control. It's honestly a huge breakthrough after a disgustingly long period of floundering around with it. I've never had any problem with making rotations, just the stability, so hopefully I should make some more consistent progress from here
And that's basically my lesson structure at the moment, so it's not much to post each week, but I am enjoying it!