Saturday, February 23, 2019

Working at my first Freestyle program part 4

This is the third lesson toward choreographing my program with coach B.
Read about the experience with coach A here, the first and second lessons with coach B here and here.

I'll put in bold the things that are new to me. And I also count the arm movement that is all new to me...
- The last element was a kind of back pivot. To come out of it I bring the feet together and push back in a landing position, and pushing the hand forward. This is arm movement number 8.
- Now I step forward and do 2 CW crossovers and a right forward swing roll  toward the center of the rink.
- then 2 left forward dropped 3-turns (from my ice dance repertoire) so I finish on a right backward edge
- then from this backward edge I go directly into a Waltz Jump. I already had a Waltz Jump planed in last week choreography, but we decided to put there a Salchow Jump instead. Here, I get a lot of speed on my dance 3-turns and I can control the Waltz Jump, especially coming directly from the 3-turn better. Or to say it like it is, I wasn't able to do the Salchow here, so we switched the jumps. Even on the other spot I feel I have too much speed and I have to intentionally slow it down...

And that's all we added. But we reviewed everything from the beginning. I'm used from Ice Dancing to follow the pattern, for Freestyle it is a little more free but it's still not always easy to keep the path and edges because of the other skaters on the ice.

We ended with filming my coach doing the program just in case I forgot the steps. He ran it without music, we had trouble with the speaker....

This was on Wednesday. On Thursday I had my dance lesson, where all we did was backward swing rolls...My bad, I was talking too much and then I've got stubborn with wanting to understand these. They are behind because I didn't train them at all whenever the hip was hurting. But finally it seams it was a good idea to keep asking questions, because I misunderstood some things. I'll work on them on Monday.

Friday the skating session is always crowded so I cannot do Ice Dancing or moves... It's good to have a program to work on, even if I train just parts of it. I did all of it a couple of times but adjusting the pattern to avoid other skaters. When I tried it with music, going off pattern took me off the beat. So, hopefully I'll find the time and space to put it on music on Monday.

But on the crowded session on Friday I had enough space to work on coming out of that edge like pivot and pushing back. For some reason I kept wanting to step forward. Then, there is stepping forward CW and crossovers CW, that is the "bad" direction. So I took the time to work on crossovers separately. Then I worked on the dance 3-turns which I tend to hook  and they are very curved at the exit edge. I need too make them straighter. I'll need them like that (linked together, and 4 not just 2) for the European Waltz. And of course I had to learn to do the Waltz Jump, from the 3-turn edge. And I also worked on jumps. I've heard that having a program motivates you to work on elements. And it is SOO true. 

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