#help me I'm in (backspin) hell

[doomduck]

Personal skating update:

Coach passed me. It feels a little like pitty pass as my backspin, while improving, barely exsists.

Take away from today:

- sit spin is improving but needs to be lower (coach says it will probably take another 6 months. I can live with that). Don't rush/force the entry.

- need to practice bringing my leg into the cross position more. Good thing is I'm starting to do it. Work on check out

- everything else was largely fine i mostly just need to be more patient with entries of things and get a bit more flow on my right hand power 3s.

I've started asking around about coaches. But I won't approach any until I get my finances into order.

I've got a short list of four.

Main things I'm looking for:

- coaches on a Wednesday morning

- very technical and good at explaining the technical side of skating

- patient and good with adult beginners/students

Honestly I'm not sure what else I need other than hopefully getting along with them as well.

[doomduck]

Backspin [derogatory]

[doomduck]

Sit spin didn't want to sit or spin today and thus is in my bad books.

Backspin....I busted my butt working on it and have no idea if its improving or not.

Loop don't want to loop off the boards. I started trying to do it from a back spin and didn't died. So that's good I guess.

Elementary 3 turn pattern is getting smoother and more consistent each time. So happy with that. Need a better running edge off the back inside 3s and more ice coverage but I'm starting to enjoy them (when I don't hit my toe pick lol).

My upright spin is becoming a bit more stable too.

None the less, the elements I'm struggling with make me want to scream and cry in frustration.

[doomduck]

Much to my shock and delight, the backwards 3 turns are showing signs of real consistency.

Now to get the spins and loop jump to join them...

[doomduck]

Private lesson with mark:

Worked on back spin for about 15 minutes. And a little bit of combination spin.

Probably the biggest take away was that I was too far back on the blade and ye old hip drop. He also had me put my foot way closer in for my back spin that jasmine because I was having trouble sticking my weight properly the other way.

More work on loop. It seems to be mostly a head game with it now. I can land it when I'm near the boards. But can't when step away from them.

Some toe loop. Which mark seemed happy enough with that we only spent a couple of minutes on.

The finished with half flip. Which hopefully means working towards a full one.

Hung out with Ellis afterwards, working on back spin and sit spin. Because my jump landing is reasonably solid we're thinking maybe trying to get the loop jump off of my waltz jump landing. My left inside three turn (FYI I jump clockwise due to an unstable right knee) is my worst three turn and as a consequence has a less than great running edge. Though it hasn't tried to kill me recently so that's nice.

While not nailing everything is frustrating the hell out of me, I don't feel like shit.

If Elias makes it Friday we're going to video our skating and analyse it.