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Mar. 13th, 2019 10:43 pmI started taking skating classes again! It has been pretty good so far. The only thing I do not like is the spinning. Oh my god I'm so dizzy and my brain hurts. Apparently it's supposed to get better. It has been...but it's painful. Also I am amazingly hungry afterwards.
I got sorted into Basic 5 and have mostly regained my edges, though I'm still slipping on the backwards outside left - I had my skates sharpened so I think it's a skill/balance issue, not a skate issue. Before I sharpened them, I slipped on ALL my edges, which is pretty scary. I think my weakness on this particular edge is because every rink I go to apparently is diehard counter-clockwise in skating direction. I have tried to convince people to go the other way, but it's ridiculously difficult. So I don't get to actually practice that one. (Edges - skates aren't a flat piece of metal on the bottom like a ]|, they're more like (|, i.e. in a curve, which is measured by the radius of the circle. This makes two edges. Lots of the interesting things in ice skating is done on one of the edges. There's a R/L front and back edge.)
I finally fixed my 3 turns (well, the easy forward outside ones!) This is how you learn to do one foot forwards-to-backwards (or vice versa) turns. I've struggled with this for foreverrrr and it took pretty much 1 comment from the instructor to fix most of my problems. So I feel that alone was worth the price of lessons.
I got sorted into Basic 5 and have mostly regained my edges, though I'm still slipping on the backwards outside left - I had my skates sharpened so I think it's a skill/balance issue, not a skate issue. Before I sharpened them, I slipped on ALL my edges, which is pretty scary. I think my weakness on this particular edge is because every rink I go to apparently is diehard counter-clockwise in skating direction. I have tried to convince people to go the other way, but it's ridiculously difficult. So I don't get to actually practice that one. (Edges - skates aren't a flat piece of metal on the bottom like a ]|, they're more like (|, i.e. in a curve, which is measured by the radius of the circle. This makes two edges. Lots of the interesting things in ice skating is done on one of the edges. There's a R/L front and back edge.)
I finally fixed my 3 turns (well, the easy forward outside ones!) This is how you learn to do one foot forwards-to-backwards (or vice versa) turns. I've struggled with this for foreverrrr and it took pretty much 1 comment from the instructor to fix most of my problems. So I feel that alone was worth the price of lessons.
