Skating technique: Forward Progressive - Ice Dancing steps for beginners

Ice Dancing first steps are Forward Stroking, Forward Chasses, that I already covered, Progressives and Swing rolls, all forward. As with all forward skating you should feel the weight on the blade on the back of your foot arch. Also watch your posture, extension meaning both higher lift and straight leg, bend into the ankle for a strong push, leg should be  turn out from the hip, toes pointed, look up, all that described on forward stroking.

Forward Progressives on a circle:
A progressive is a kind of crossover.
1. stroke on an forward outside edge with the free leg extended 45 degrees back
2. and then a crossed over on an inside edge of the previous free foot.
There are two points that makes a progressive different from a crossover. The second step (that crosses over)  is placed on the ice before crossing! That gives this step a more polished look. This is the first correction I got over and over again. Watch it here.
The second difference, that it wasn't insisted on in the beginner phase, is that after the second step, the foot that was on the first step the skating foot on an outside edge, crosses under but doesn't extend laterally, as in crossovers, but a little more back. The reason is to mach the partner feet extension when they do a backward progressive. But this correction is needed at the second level dances, so don't worry too much about it at the beginning. There is not done in the video from before either.
My coach wants the upper body and arms square, so perpendicular to the circle, so I can practice the lean of the body towards the inside of the circle sideways. Another reason for this is to learn to keep the upper body still, with the same lean, when you under cross. When I do crossovers on a circle I twist the upper body towards the inside of the circle.
The abbreviation use in Ice Dancing is:  LFO, RFI and Pr written near a curved arrow that shows the direction of traveling, and repeat for CCW skating and RFO, LFI and Pr and repeat for CW skating. (Updated Sept 25, 2018)

Forward Progressives on alternating lobes:
This has 3 steps: 1. outside edge, 2. inside edge crossed over, 3. longer outside edge and repeat on the other direction. The transition between lobes is the one I described in Advanced Deep Forward Edges. Here are mine, done 6 months ago and that is a year and a half from when I started to work on them. The abbreviation is LFO, RFI, LFO and Pr and the curved arrow (CCW) and RFO, LFI, RFO and Pr (CW)

I have a harder time controlling the rotation, so changing the lobes for progressives then for chasses. And there are few reasons:
- my RFO edge is not always at its best. I'm not always over my hip and foot before talking a stroke on the other foot. I lean with the upper body forward, so I'm not on the back on my blade where I'm suppose to be. I also don't hold the free foot at 45 degrees after the stroke, I let it slide back. Holding it laterally helps holding the outside edge
- I change the lean, or loose the lean on the under push.
As I was saying on the chasses description, there are more things to be improved from now on, but this is "good enough for this (beginner) level" as my coach says.

I will come back with more corrections after I cover all the other beginners steps and beginners Pre Bronze pattern dances.

(Update Sept 25, 201). As with the Chasse, at first I thought the Progressive is a combination of edges. Now I think it is just the inside edge that "progresses" over the outside edge, equivalent with the cross under step in Crossovers. Read more on the Rhythm Blues pattern dance post.

A Progressive is also called a Run.