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[kirkcudbright]

Yesterday, special aikido class with Dan McDougall, our sensei's sensei. Real good stuff. He spent a lot of time talking about the Principles. Usually class is about technique, and Dave will talk about this or that aspect of the technique, and sometimes about the feeling you're trying to capture, but not so often about the principles in and of themselves.

Today, I passed Freeskate 2. The instructor gave me the choice of staying in FS2, but thought I might benefit from trying the more advanced moves of FS3 (salchow? I can't even spell it). I have to agree, up to a point. We spent most of the last 10 weeks working on back edges and back spins. But I feel like what I really need is remedial Freeskate 1 - scratch spins, waltz jumps, toe loops, half flips, and backward 3-turns, all of which I feel really unsure about at this point. Guess I need to spend some time down at the park at lunchtime.

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[docorion.livejournal.com]

Close-salkow, according to my ex-wife, who used to teach skating. Watching figure skating with her was always fun-she'd announce the moves just before Dick Buttons did.