This week, I had MAJOR skate issues. Firstly, I asked Edgy to get my skates for me so I could rush to the ladies' room. Apparently, when he asked for my skates, he got the broken ones AGAIN. (Backstory: there is a pair that has a broken lace loop so are completely useless. I have asked them several times to put them aside and either get them fixed or chuck them out as they can't be used but they keep ending up back on the rack). So he got them changed.....to two right skates! I was wondering why it felt funny to skate in them! I was getting pain in my left foot. No wonder. Because it wasn't a left skate.
So I took them back again and got the left skate, with a lace about 15m long and with three weak points in it. So as I tightened the laces, they snapped three times! So I had to tie them all together. It is now 25 minutes into the lesson. I was too worried the lace would break again so I didn't do it up tightly enough and so consequently spent the remainder of the lesson skating in loose skates. In the end, I got frustrated and gave up.
I HAVE TO GET MY OWN SKATES. I HAVE TO. Otherwise I am going to quit!
First lesson back this week and already, our regular coach is not there. However, I really enjoyed the lesson this week. The young girl replacing our coach for three weeks is extremely helpful and spent a considerable amount of time refining our current skills which I think we all needed (including the class above ours). I felt as if we were all given individual attention and I need that more than ever.
I finally have learned (sort of) how to do a LFO three-turn and keep my leg extended - I even managed to maintain an edge and movement after turning which was good. I've managed to do quite a few where I haven't had to put my free foot down which is great because it means I'm getting more confidence to stay on the one foot. I did, however, have a fall that aggravated an existing pain in my butt (literally). Just before Christmas, I went skating for my birthday and my sister and I were stuffing around on the ice (doing linked arm pair spins!) and we fell. I landed on my coccyx and whilst it didn't really show at the time, a few weeks later I could hardly move. So this week, landing in the same place wasn't the greatest thing!
But oh well, I'm getting more resilient these days and bounce back a lot quicker after a fall. That's gotta be a more positive start to the year, eh?
