Today I learnt the importance of putting my seatbelt on, and that helped me achieve some cool stuff.
To clarify, it's a new way my coach has of explaining where your arms need to be sometimes - as an example, my arms have a habit of wandering during the inside edge exercise on the new level 1 skating skills. What he wants me to do, is really bring the arm that's in front right across my body. Like the motion you do when you put a seatbelt on in a car. I am explaining this badly - if I remember next week I'll get a video, but for me, it works, and it works for anything where you need that arm position.
Then when I was practicing with a friend, begrudgingly practicing my backspin, he stopped me and said he knew why I was having an issue staying off my toepick. I tense up on the entry - as soon as he said it I realised I could feel myself gripping the inside of my boot with my toes! So he told me to relax.
I did some of my best ever attempts. One actually even started to rotate and scared the living skates out of me!
Did a gorgeous upright spin in lesson too - my coach always said if you get everything right, a spin should just feel like you could sit there forever. That happened today. Only once mind, but it was a beautiful feeling.
