Skating on the Planet

[robin]

7 hours ago, yuzuangel said:

today I fell once on a bunny hop 

 

you actually fell???

 

falling on a bunny hop sounds really cute

[yuzuangel]

25 minutes ago, robin said:

 

you actually fell???

 

falling on a bunny hop sounds really cute

yeah i tripped over my toe pick

falling forwards hurts more than falling backwards on your butt 

[robin]

11 minutes ago, yuzuangel said:

yeah i tripped over my toe pick

falling forwards hurts more than falling backwards on your butt 

 

it's harder to control a forward fall when you're tripping on a toe pick... but getting caught on an edge and falling right on your tailbone (and possibly your head hitting the ice) is still the worst kind of fall

[yuzuangel]

2 hours ago, robin said:

 

it's harder to control a forward fall when you're tripping on a toe pick... but getting caught on an edge and falling right on your tailbone (and possibly your head hitting the ice) is still the worst kind of fall

ow, that sounds painful 

 

so i think i mentioned this before but my coach and had a bit of a communication hiccup 

so he keeps telling me that for spin entries it feels like "someone is pulling your arm back." I do it but it feels awkward and i don't center it very often. and he keeps telling me to pull it back while i'm like "i'm pulling it back as much as i can!" so lately i've been doing my spins from a standstill/push for a while and finally got the hang of how to do it, and one of my mental breakthroughs was realizing that good centered spin entries feel like my left shoulder is being stretched as if someone was pulling it back...to which I was like "wait that sounds familiar.......ohhhhhh." apparently i had been keeping my arm back super far behind me but my shoulders were not pulled back - no wonder it felt uncomfortable and twisted.

 

sometimes my coach tells me to "turn out your foot" and i turn out my foot but NOT my hips lol. i remember once he told me he never saw someone turn out their foot so much without their hips turning out at all 

[Xen]

1 hour ago, yuzuangel said:

ow, that sounds painful 

 

so i think i mentioned this before but my coach and had a bit of a communication hiccup 

so he keeps telling me that for spin entries it feels like "someone is pulling your arm back." I do it but it feels awkward and i don't center it very often. and he keeps telling me to pull it back while i'm like "i'm pulling it back as much as i can!" so lately i've been doing my spins from a standstill/push for a while and finally got the hang of how to do it, and one of my mental breakthroughs was realizing that good centered spin entries feel like my left shoulder is being stretched as if someone was pulling it back...to which I was like "wait that sounds familiar.......ohhhhhh." apparently i had been keeping my arm back super far behind me but my shoulders were not pulled back - no wonder it felt uncomfortable and twisted.

 

sometimes my coach tells me to "turn out your foot" and i turn out my foot but NOT my hips lol. i remember once he told me he never saw someone turn out their foot so much without their hips turning out at all 

Sound about right. Good centered spins for me, usually involve a feeling (going into the spin) as if someone took my left arm and shoulder and was leading it around a pole. Rather than go against that pull, I lean into the pole/pull, and voila centered spins. 

 

Wait till you try camel spins...ah the times I sweep the ice with my chest. 

[yuzuangel]

40 minutes ago, Xen said:

Wait till you try camel spins...ah the times I sweep the ice with my chest. 

can't wait  i've been practicing spirals on my left leg in preparation haha. otherwise i never do spirals, they're scary 

[Xen]

Just now, yuzuangel said:

can't wait  i've been practicing spirals on my left leg in preparation haha. otherwise i never do spirals, they're scary 

I'm guilty of using spirals as a cool down move (copying TrollZu). 

[axelnojutsu]

Okay um so today we sorta practiced the loop entry and I would like to ask mmmh what the fuck 

[Xen]

On 2/6/2018 at 4:05 AM, axelnojutsu said:

Okay um so today we sorta practiced the loop entry and I would like to ask mmmh what the fuck 

Don't ask me...Loop is my least favorite jump. The fact that Yuzu loves likes loop jumps boggles the mind.

[yuzuangel]

31 minutes ago, Xen said:

Don't ask me...Loop is my least favorite jump. The fact that Yuzu loves likes loop jumps boggles the mind.

i love the way loops look  esp double loops

[axelnojutsu]

3 hours ago, yuzuangel said:

i love the way loops look  esp double loops

They do look pretty and I love Yuzu’s loop but as soon as I had to try it myself it became a big nope 

[Xen]

30 minutes ago, axelnojutsu said:

They do look pretty and I love Yuzu’s loop but as soon as I had to try it myself it became a big nope 

I tried his method to do the loop...the entire go with a left mohawk to inside edge before switching to left outside, then putting down my right foot quickly for a back right outside edge and jump. It worked for me a bit better, but is considered *very weird* by rinkmates.

[robin]

I just can’t get any height on them 

[Xen]

19 minutes ago, robin said:

I just can’t get any height on them 

pure edge and leg power....sadly.

[robin]

1 hour ago, Xen said:

pure edge and leg power....sadly.

 

 now that I am trying them myself I have so much more respect for loops