Uh oh, come on you two! behave!
Second public skate today, much much quieter ice (10ish people for the whole 2 hours) so it was much easier to focus on what I was doing. I managed to practice crossover turning both ways, though CCW is much easier. CW is ok, but I cant build any power from it yet. As for stopping, I feel much more confident now. I can snowplough easily, as well as using the edges to increase/descrease pressure on the ice if I need to stop more quickly. Toward the end I was (accidently) stopping using only one foot whilst the other was in the air, so Im hoping that bodes well for starting to hockey stop next time.
I also started to skate backwards. I have watched a few video's where they describe cutting a 'C' shape on alterating feet, which worked really well. I can't crossover backwards yet, but thatl come with time. Stopping using a backwards snowplough came easily enough, though I did have one really bad stop that nearly put my on my bum. I played around with transitioning from forwards to backwards, I prefer to spin CCW but can do both ways, as long as I'm not going super fast.