This morning I had my last practice before competition. Overall I did much better than last Friday morning; I warmed up my jumps off the ice, did plenty of skating and stretching and warmed up my elements before my lesson. Part of the problem last Friday is that I got the first lesson of the morning when I was all stiff and cold. Usually I get the last 20 minutes out of the hour.
Anyway I was feeling pretty good so I asked to do a run-through first thing. I hadn't got too far when the CD skipped, but I thought my coach had stopped the music to correct something (I don't know why, she never does that) so I stopped skating. When I realized it had only skipped I tried to pick it up again but it really threw me off and I made some more mistakes. Meh.
After that we worked on the flip-toe because I had missed that one in the run-through. I didn't chicken out on any of them but I am still pre-rotating my shoulders and my coach is trying to get rid of that. Then we worked on my loop but I was really messing them up, like not wanting to actually leave the ice, and we were running out of time so I asked for another run-through. This time the CD started skipping horribly but I could hear my coach shouting "Keep going!" so I kept going like nothing had happened. It kept skipping like crazy and finally my coach turned it off thank goodness. I tried to just skate it through as best I could without the music. It actually went decently but timing was one of the things I wanted to work on! So, that was my final run-thru before competition, sheesh. Not really what I had wanted.
I spent some time going over it in my living room this evening. I realized I had forgotten some of the arm movements and tried to work on some of the sloppy sections. It's not nearly the same as skating but it is good for working on timing and boosts my confidence a bit!
My coach and I had a bit of a mix-up about the competition. She assumed she would go, and I assumed she would NOT! I hadn't even thought about it. It's a bit of a drive and it's not like I need my coach there at the boards to give me important advice about my triple-triple combination before I go skate. Of course how could I have known that she always goes to the competitions of her skaters and was fully prepared to go to mine? Oops! The longer I skate the more I learn these unspoken rules, heheh.
Tomorrow I usually skate for 3 hours but I don't want to wear myself out so I will probably just go in and do my Skills lesson (hopefully no big wipeouts), maybe teach CanSkate and warm up my elements a bit and then go home. Maybe not even that much. Then at the competition I'll make sure I'm super warm and super stretched out before it's time to get on the ice. Also I have to remember to do my jumps off-ice!
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