Skated today at Eastern Washington University - the equivalent to HOT YOGA for figure skating! This rink is so warm. Heaters above the ice and bright inside. I wish every rink was like this one.
You can peel off all the coats and sweaters and sometimes even the gloves for practice here....
...that is when they let you practice. They have strange rules about what you can and can't do on a public session. Sometimes you can skate to your hearts content as long as you look out for others. Sometimes an ice monitor will come out and tell you that you cannot do ANY freestyle or even skate backwards!
Today I went to their one and only drop-in freestyle session on Friday from 4:00 to 5:00 pm. $5. Such a deal.
After a day of doing nothing except watching videos of other adult skaters I decided to get off my butt and get some exercise. My pairs skating is so much fun, but I have really neglected regular singles practice and now some of my elements ... along with my stamina are suffering.
My Lutz is 100% gone. I balk every time I toe pick in and just do a 1/2 Lutz. Flip? Not a problem. And considering my Lutz is a Flutz (a Flip from a Lutz entry) ... this should not be a jump that gives me trouble, but it does. So today I resigned myself to the fact that my competition next Sunday
at PCAS will probably look like a Bronze skate.... at best.
