Friday, June 23, 2017

Coffee Club June 23, 2017 ...Privé

Normally I would never complain about private ice time, but in this case I was sorry.  Only 2 of us showed up for Adult Drop In Coffee Club today.   It's summertime and today was beautiful out.  Some of our regular attendees have moved away for the summer and one moved to Sweeden!  One went to Missoula to take a MIF test .. (I'll let him off the hook!) Another got a job and as for the rest.... the jury is out.

I have worked so hard to make this coffee club a reality and I don't want to lose it.  I hope I can get some more skaters to show up next week.  We have a guest coach coming up from McCall Idaho!

So Hank and I were the only ones who skated.  We had Stephanie Krupke-Parkinson all to ourselves, which was both fun and interesting since Stephanie is not a pairs coach!  We worked on crossovers, Waltz jumps and Toe Loops.  We were introduced to the Toe Walley.  Basically a Toe Loop with a different entry.  I have never been able to do one - nor have I tried.  I think I am going to try to learn to do one this way.  According to Stephanie you can get more spring from it.  We also worked on getting our sit spins lower.  I found out today that Hank can actually squat all the way down.  On the video I have a typo... I said "He can't get all the way down" and I meant to say "He CAN get all the way down"! ... now we just have to incorporate that squat into a spin!


Friday, June 16, 2017

Coffee Club June 16, 2017

Stephanie Krupke-Parkinson guest coached the adults at coffee club Friday morning.  We are now on the summer schedule at the rink and are on rink #2 at at new time 9:30 to 10:30.

Stephanie has been skating over 25 years.  Starting as a freestyle skater and competing through Novice level and now she is coaching both freestyle and hockey and power skating.

Everyone enjoyed her 30 minute class.  Most of us were drinking water and tired at the end!


Tuesday, June 13, 2017

It's Been A While ...

4 weeks to be exact .. since Hank and I last had some pairs practice in.  Longer .. if you consider we have not been working on things other than what we were doing in the show since mid April.

We had an enjoyable practice .. one out-of-nowhere fall and a successful Axel lift.  Considering I put on about 10 lbs from careless eating and not skating much .. I can't complain!


Friday, June 9, 2017

I Have Not Vanished From The Ice

.... I have been super busy.  After our ice show - I was drained.  The pressure of co-producing a show and trying to make it successful while trying to make everyone happy was a task I am not cut out for!

Following the show we had a weekend at a car show and then a vacation in Yellowstone.  All fun but alas, no skating.  I even missed out on a local competition that some of my friends participated in.

Hopefully for the rest of June - I will be skating with more regularity.

Today I am posting 2 videos from Coffee Club.  The first is from the group lesson and the second is me ... trying to get my legs back under me.  (Notice the lack of jumping and spinning!)


A Mid-Summers Day Lesson

 Home for a couple of days before a trip to Cabo ~  Grabbed an impromptu lesson with Vitali.  Had rubber legs for the first 30 minutes but t...