la patinage vitesse
Feb. 6th, 2007 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jawnbcLast night was my regular ice skating lesson. Despite loading a few carbs (2 bananas, don't be pervy) beforehand, I found I had no energy, was a bit dizzy, and had a really hard time warming up and finding my feet. Or edges, as it were.
I only have one complaint about these (exceedingly cheap at $54 for 9 sessions) group lessons: the order of skate. We always start with stopping, transitions and backwards skating, leaving things like crossovers to the end. After 35 minutes of the other stuff, my legs are turning to rubber; just once I'd like to start with crossovers.
Last night we learned or practiced:
-a T-push (rear/push skate sideways, pushing onto forward one 1 or 2 perpendicular skates). I started covering about 5m, but am now getting close to 10m per push
-a new transition from forward to backwards skating. Which, interestingly enough, is the first skill that I can do pretty much equally well on either side (left turn or right)
-forward, weak side cross-overs. Which I'd say are now 85% of my strong side ones.
-forward, strong side cross-overs. Aucun problème-là!
-backwards crossovers finally. My legs were really unreliable at that point, so I am only starting to put these together.
However I am an old fat fuck, and barely had enough energy to get home, cook a nice supper (organic steak, organic new potatoes, frozen peas) before I collapsed on my tuches.
I only have one complaint about these (exceedingly cheap at $54 for 9 sessions) group lessons: the order of skate. We always start with stopping, transitions and backwards skating, leaving things like crossovers to the end. After 35 minutes of the other stuff, my legs are turning to rubber; just once I'd like to start with crossovers.
Last night we learned or practiced:
-a T-push (rear/push skate sideways, pushing onto forward one 1 or 2 perpendicular skates). I started covering about 5m, but am now getting close to 10m per push
-a new transition from forward to backwards skating. Which, interestingly enough, is the first skill that I can do pretty much equally well on either side (left turn or right)
-forward, weak side cross-overs. Which I'd say are now 85% of my strong side ones.
-forward, strong side cross-overs. Aucun problème-là!
-backwards crossovers finally. My legs were really unreliable at that point, so I am only starting to put these together.
However I am an old fat fuck, and barely had enough energy to get home, cook a nice supper (organic steak, organic new potatoes, frozen peas) before I collapsed on my tuches.
