It's a good thing you didn't break your elbow!

My coach was definitely trying to kill me during my lesson yesterday!!! It's true!!! hahaha everything started off pretty normally...the ice was really wet, and so when my coach asked me if I wanted to start with skills or freestyle, I suggested spins since most of my lessons with her involve jumps. Sooo we worked a lot on my spins, and I tried an intense camel-layback-back sit which turned out to be veryyyy ugly!!! lol and then we moved to jumps. We worked on my axel, double salchow, and double toe, and then things started to get weird. First, my coach said that we would skip working on skills since it was my last lesson with her until the fall. GREAT! I thought, because I hate skills, but oh no...she clearly had something else in mind...

First, it was that she wanted me to try flip-double toe because she said that some people find it easier to do double toe in a combination. Not me. That's all I have to say about that one. Then, we worked on double loop, and behold, she wanted me to try flip-double loop! Then, we worked on double flip and I took some very interesting falls...

AND THEN, she convinced me to try a DOUBLE LUTZ. That was not a pretty sight. I tried one and fell kind of badly, and apparently I was lucky that I didn't break my elbow. Haha so that one's going to have to wait for a while...I'm clearly not ready for it yet :)

So ya, my coach definitely tried to kill me yesterday. It was a fun lesson though :)

On a completely different note, we picked up my piano pieces for next year from the music store. I tried to play the Rachmaninoff one (whyyyyy am I playing more Rachmaninoff???) and oh boy...lots of notes...

Anyway, that's all for now...I'll try to write more before I leave on vacation but if I don't, I'll write more in a couple of weeks!!

I had to wake up at 7:00 this morning.

To babysit. At 7:30. To bring the kids to camp. Ahhhhh. And tomorrow, I have to spend 11 hours with them...I have no clue how I got myself into that....anyone have any idea how to entertain a 6 year old and an 8 year old for that long? haha it's going to be a long day.......

Skating yesterday was surprisingly really good! I worked on double salchow, double loop, double toe and double flip in my lesson, and then did some skills.

I have issues with the double salchow...because when I'm in the air, I can't, for the life of me, stay in the right position!!! My legs either uncross and I'm really open in the air, or they are so crossed that I get my blade stuck in a hole that I have in my tights and then fall!!

My double toe is pretty hopeless...although it's getting better and is less scary than it used to be...but I did take some pretty funny falls while practicing it yesterday! The good news is, my coach doesn't think I'm one of her students that should be on America's Funniest Home Videos because the majority of my falls aren't funny enough for her :P

Today I have to convince my dance coach to let me test my dance next week, because I either try it next week or wait until November, because I'm away for the test day in August. If I work on this dance until November, I might die, so I really hope I can at least try it next week...if I fail, fine...I'll retry it in the fall, but at least I'll have a CHANCE of passing...hopefully my coach will agree with me :)

Anyway I have to go...sorry about this kinda "mini-post" but I'll write more sometime this week, hopefully :)

My skates when they were new and pretty and not full of scratches like they are now lol

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. -- Douglas Adams