Ever have one of those days where you are suddenly clueless?

Oh god - it happened today. I had days like this when I was a dancer, and always dreaded them. The horrible day that I step onto the ice and seem to have zero balance..... As a dancer, I could tell within moments of starting a class that I wasn't going to be worth shit that day - and on the ice it's no different. From the moment I took off the blade guards and stepped out onto the ice, I could feel that my balance just wasn't there today. My placement was shot, I kept losing my center and wobbling all over the place. Stuff that was effortless is now gone completely.

I hate days like this.

I kept at it though - decided to concentrate on basics as a way to compensate, so I did 30 minutes of edge control work, about 15 minutes of VERY slow stroking, and the rest of the time breaking down swing rolls with the new corrections Will gave me at my lesson on Friday.

I suppose the good news is that things seemed to start evening out by the end of the hour, and Will (who showed up for his own practice) complimented me on my stroking.

I guess the moral of days like this is to just plow through them and work it out.

I still hate days like this, though!

OK - went to the Pilates place.... $95 a session!!!!! No friggin' way! Damn, I'm in the wrong line of work! The good news is they train Pilates teachers, and you can work with one of them for $20. That's do-able, and I'm happy to work with a student, since the option is not doing this at ALL. WOW that's a lot of money! As soon as the students start back for the semester, they will contact me to set up my first session. Twice a week for a month, then we can probably go to weekly. Did I say this was an expensive hobby? :)