Pre Thanksgiving Workout in Roseville

 Down in California for Thanksgiving. Stopped by for coffee club. Thank you to all my new skating friends. Can't wait to come back again.

1st Run Xmas Program

Nuf said.... it was our first run with music.  Stuff was forgotten and I pooped out at the end.

I did a little warm up on singles stuff before Hank got there.. wow... I need to get back to work on my singles skating:

Pairs Christmas Program Progress

Had a lesson with my regular coach today for pairs. She helped us with a few suggestions about bigger crossovers and some choreography improvements.

First some off ice practice:

1st Day of Choreography for Pairs Christmas Program

Today we had a little more success off ice with the Axel lift but we left it alone on ice to work on our Christmas Program a month away.

These are the bare-bones-beginnings of it.

More Lessons More Progress ...

.... MORE FRUSTRATION !!!

The Axel lift and the Lutz lift are really giving us trouble.  We keep saying to each other "it's not you .. it's me" !!!  I am sure it's a little of both.  We are committed to getting it right.  I have seen ladies bigger than me get up there... so I know it can be done!  Also Hank is pretty tall.  Looks great on ice, but it actually seems to be harder to do the lifts.

Today we had some lessons both on and off ice.  We were both disappointed in our "performance" during the lessons.  Typical.

Lessons, Lessons, Lessons

Back from a short holiday -  A little jet lagged, but I showed up for practice early to work on music choice and off ice practice and lessons.

My two coaches collaborated today together to give us a great lesson.  We never seem to make any visible progress while we are in the middle of a lesson, but we take from it and work on it during the time between lessons.

Off ice we worked on the Axel Lift and Loop Lift.  We are getting closer to an Axel lift off ice, but we haven't gotten it up into position on ice yet.  The loop lift we just accomplished the other day needed fixing and it felt like we took a 1/2 step backwards before we fix that and move forward.

On ice .... with two coaches watching us we worked on fixing some of the things plaguing us.  We put some different arm positions into our side by side jumps to up the ante and get us more in sync.  We were able to recognize the trouble with our throw loop and will continue to work on it on our own.

We got a little frustrated working on the lifts today, but we will take away from the lesson and hopefully put it to use on Thursday at our next lesson.