February 3, 20188 yr 7 hours ago, yuzuangel said: today I fell once on a bunny hop you actually fell??? falling on a bunny hop sounds really cute
February 3, 20188 yr Author 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
February 3, 20188 yr 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
February 3, 20188 yr Author 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
February 3, 20188 yr 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.
February 3, 20188 yr Author 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
February 3, 20188 yr 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).
February 5, 20188 yr Okay um so today we sorta practiced the loop entry and I would like to ask mmmh what the fuck
February 7, 20188 yr 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.
February 7, 20188 yr Author 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
February 7, 20188 yr 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
February 7, 20188 yr 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.
February 7, 20188 yr 19 minutes ago, robin said: I just can’t get any height on them pure edge and leg power....sadly.
February 7, 20188 yr 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
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