| Tricky Skating Coach |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|01:20 pm] |
I'm so mad about my group lesson this week. We worked on brackets,
counters, and rockers. Oddly enough, I'm better than most the kids, and
about as good as Y. (the good kid) at them- (That's not saying much) but I
do think Andy was impressed. So after spending 5 minutes on brackets and 15
minutes on counters and rockers he draws a turn that has a really deep edge,
another edge, and then the turn and exit edge and asks us to identify it.
Walking it over in my head, it's not counter rotational, so it has to be a
rocker. Nope, he says. But it turns into the circle - it has to be.
Nope. So then I try to figure out how it can be a counter, it can't be but
that's the other choice, nope not a counter. So I think about the R and
C Amber Czisny drew on the ice- it definetly faces the way of the R. It HAS
to be a rocker. So then I start thinking "is it a 3-turn?" but there is a
big edge change at the beginning, like the one that leads into a
rocker/counter, so it can't be a 3-turn, and I go with rocker as my final
answer. None of the kids can even decide why it might be one turn over the
other (I at least had rotational reasoning for a rocker). Andy finally
demonstrates it. The darn thing was a 3-turn with an edge pull before it.
I KNEW that, it made me so mad. So he asks us all what that means? I said
"We are very bad at turns", and he looked at me and said "Exactly". Grr, I
feel tricked. If we had reviewed all the turns and I wasn't in a
counter/rocker mindset, I would have gotten that right! |
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