Skating technique: Forward Swing Roll - Ice Dancing steps for beginners

First a little rant... I'm trying to skate 5 days/ sessions a week, Monday trough Friday, instead of 3 and a half, the half being my private lesson after my regular Monday session. Usually I was taking it easy on Monday sessions because I was  feeling rusty after not skating over the weekend, plus I didn't want be tired on my lesson. Now I moved my private lesson on Thursday. So on my skate yesterday, Monday, I felt I could push a little harder. But guess what, I lost my focus for a second on the last 3 turn from my Pre-Juvenile MITF pattern (that has  32  3-turns total) and down I went. It was a quite heavy fall but luckily on my good hip... Latter in the session I was doing the alternating backward chasses on the long axis, always looking ahead of me over my shoulder. Well, somebody that was going backwards straight, so quicker then me because I was on lobes, AND wasn't looking, bumped into me. We were both going relatively slow so it wasn't a terrible crash, but I fell on my bad hip :( I'm feeling it a little today. And I don't know how to avoid falls like these. I guess I actually know, I cannot, it's gonna happen from time to time... Skating today, I realized that my hip is fine, phew..., my butt is hurting, not the hip. Still, I was hurting and not very happy to skate. Also the session wasn't as empty as last year. Last year there ware some toddlers with coaches and some adults, being that the kids are in school. Today there were the z"old" toddlers and adults, plus some kids and teenagers working on choreography and Freestyle with their coaches in 3 of the corners. On "the empty"  Tuesday sessions I was planing to train the dances, well, I cannot if the corners are taken. Feeling frustrated!

Going back to Ice Dancing, after learning the Forward Swing Rolls we have all the steps for the first dance. My next post it's gonna be  the Dutch Waltz!

Ice Dancing first steps are Forward Stroking, Forward Chasses, Forward Progressives that I already covered, and Forward Swing Rolls. 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 I described on forward stroking.

Here is how they look like, done by national Ice Dancing competitors.
And here are mine, done 6 months ago and that is a year and a half from when I started to work on them.

Forward Outside Swing Rolls on alternating lobes:
Each lobe is a single edge. It is a Deep Forward Outside Edge, so read that post first.
1. Stroke on a deep outside edge. Reminders: bend the knees and press stroke into the ankles, keep the weight on the stroking foot, that will became the free foot, to get a strong push. Place the skating foot on an edge, perpendicular to the axis on which the lobes are alternating, knee bent. Upper body has the chest towards the inside of the circle, as on the forward crossovers, not as on the basic forward outside edges. Arms are hold laterally, a  more than 45 degrees between them, but somewhere you can still see your hands. Lean towards the inside of the circle, but don't let the hip fall in. After the stroke, the free leg is gonna be extended 45 degrees, turned out from the hip, toes pointed.
2. At the top/ middle of the lobe straighten the skating leg and bring the free leg near the skating leg, in a straight line, not around, while pressing onto the skating foot and engaging the core to hold the edge and balance. At the same time counter rotate the upper body to balance the leg movement.
3. Continue the movement of the free leg, extending it forward tangent to the lobe. So keep the foot over the lobe tracing. While the name is "swing" roll, you don't have to swing your leg. The motios should be controlled from the core. The upper body will have the back at the inside of the circle and will stay like that to start the new lobe.
When you change lobes you bring the free foot down, while you re bend the skating foot and follow the instructions from the deep outside edges on keeping the weight on the skating foot and an outside edge and then flipping on an inside edge just before stroking.

I think the outside Swing Rolls have something similar in the upper body movement with the Crossrolls, but I'm not sure, I didn't properly learn the Crossrolls just yet.

Let's go over my troubles with the Outside Swing Rolls. When I first learnt them I didn't know I have to start with the upper body towards the inside of the circle, so I didn't have anything to counter or "check" my free leg movement. Then, I was starting to bring the free foot down and forward before I was at the top of the lobe and I was swinging the free foot around to help me turn. I wasn't pressing into the ice on the second part of the lobe, so my weight wasn't totally on my skating hip and I didn't have the best edge. I was also bringing the free foot forward turned out from the hip and that was actually making me drop the hip and the edge. Now I'm thinking to pigeon toe the toes like on the Forward Circle Eight.

Foreword Inside Swing Rolls:
This are Forward Inside Deep Edges where at the top of the lobe you bring the free foot forward not at the ankle. Read there about the upper body positioning and the transitions between an inside edge to an inside edge.