With the rush at work, I couldn't get to the rink Monday or Tuesday, so decided to really work HARD on Wednesday. Spent the morning dodging the kiddies and working on my crossovers. It's really starting to smooth out, and I feel like it's actually starting to look like something. I don't get to practice clockwise much because of the flow of traffic and the number of kids at that hour, but I got in a real solid hour's practice before I had to head to work.
Once I got to work, I discovered that nearly everyone was going to take a half-day off so thought DAMN, ME TOO! That meant I got to go to the rink that afternoon for two solid hours! Interesting - it is a completely different crowd after-school as opposed to before-school. I don't know if this is normal, but the mornings are mostly the little kids, and the afternoon seems to be the older ones. Dodging people is also different. With the little kids, you know they aren't watching, but it's OK because they aren't going very fast. In the afternoon it's more like the Indy 500.... those kids get up a huge head of steam and pretty much just expect you to get the hell out of their way. Frogger, anyone? :)
For the afternoon session, I decided to spend some time really breaking down body positions for forward stroking and the crossovers. Zeroing in on little placement things like shoulders, head, hands, etc. I used to love doing that in the dance studio - it's meditative... you just go into this weird zone where it's just you and the moves. By the end, my ass was killing me, but I felt like I'd made some serious progress... we will see what Will says on Friday - he's crushed me before (Anna crushes me all the time) :)
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