Ice Skating 197: Start!

We made a huge realisation last weekend - Lil Shauna hadnt been crossing her leg the right way during her axle jump. Coupled with not landing straight, she ended up landing on the wrong foot 1st every single axle jump. We missed this bcos my oppo phone camera no longer allowed me to slowly scroll through the video, a crucial function in helping to identify and rectify her skating mistakes. We only spotted it when I downloaded an app to do so. No wonder Coach Raymond had been telling her to close her legs (sounded so crude) for the longest time.

We had been trying to rectify the leg crossing thing for the last few ice sessions. It didn't work. Lil Shauna said that she cannot feel her legs. Win already. Not like I am a Goblin and can slow down time to help her cross her leg when she is in the air. She had to find her own way to slowly rectify what. Faint.

Lil Shauna had decided to go for the preliminary competition in April. While it is her PSLE year, I don't think she will spend the time off the ice on her academic work anyway. She eventually selected 3 songs for Coach to pick one and her poor mother laboriously edited the song to fit the required 1min30sec, +/- 10 sec. I is good with this song editing stuff already.

Coach started on her program y'day. It was up 3/4 of the rink and down all the way. That took the entire 30 mins lesson.

I helped her to video for her to refer back if need be. I am sure she needed to be much faster bcos it took like 45 secs for her to go up and down the rink.  I dont think half the program is made up of only those.

She came back from lesson, exclaiming how difficult it was. The steps do look much difficult as compared to her last one, turn here, then turn there. Oh my 天!

She stayed on slightly after class to practice the just learnt steps. She already forgot half of it. Die 了. We went on to practice her axle jumps. Still cannot leh and she ended up falling left, right and center. Haiz.

To make sure that she has time to practice, I have booked weekly SISA ice for the remaining February. I hope there is enough time. Fighting!

Mummy Lim