casey? "here!" teacher?... teacher??

ok so i havent been skating since derby, so was really excited about going today, but hey what do ya know, my teacher wasn't in, isn't he clever? so i spent five hours attempting to remember some stuff he'd told me to work on, luckily enough i gained a new friend, his names' james and he also works at the rink, he filled in today while tom was away, so no worries there, he said my balance wasn't as great with my 'faward crossovers' so we worked on that, he even helped with my balance by maintaining my posture as he saw fit. next we tackled 'lemons' both faward and backwards, theese went well at first but i did find going back on them abit tricky but got there after about ten minutes, he wanted to see how i would handle my balance gluiding on one skate, so i tried, naturally he was there acting as a support incase i needed it, luckily i didn't. every good coach says "falling is a part of learning" so i'm thinking that a lesson on falling would be a good idea. i was mainly working on balance today, and i got to observe some of the more experianced skaters, we even attempted a few things they were doing, nothing dangerous of course, just a few different spins and some moves. i've also been given a new challenge, my love of skating has set off ideas for my college course, for the next year and a half i will be basing all my art on skating.so thats cool. one of the coaches has also invited me to a dancing on ice skating lesson on sunday morning so i'm thinking of giving that a go, should be fun. all in all its been a good skate and five hours of smoothe ice is always helpful. anyway i'm off to go put my feet up, they're abit sore. =)

casey

skating in derby

well i havent wrote in a while have i, any way, went up to derby over the new years weekend and went skating, woop woop, it was fun, we laced up and got sraight on the ice, my main purpose there was to help lydia and as well as helping i learnt from her aswell. so all was good, we got into abit of an arguement with some stuck up hockey players but all ways fine. lydia is doing extreamly well with her backwards manouvers and im happy with how fast shes getting to grips with it. as for my i'll keep up practise and keep up my reaserch on the best ways to feel good on the ice. only a short skate, just fun really but still good practise none the less.

casey