Mood:
downGood news and bad news...I'll start with the good. Michelle Kwan is coming to Denver! Seems as though she is taking a year off of skating to attend the University of Denver on a full time basis. She plans on skating in exhibitions only but nothing competitive. Maybe I'll see her around and she could give me some pointers on the dreaded backspin.
Which brings me to the bad news. I had my lesson today and I still do not have the two revolutions on the backspin required to pass Freeskate 2. I am so frustrated because I have all of the other elements down pat so I could easily pass the test next week except for that darn backspin! I have tried going into this spin from numerous entries but nothing seems to work. This is totally killing my motivation. I know it shouldn't. I know I should be nicer to myself because I am making progress on everything else. But it frustrates me to no end that I spend so much time on this and I am not getting any better. One revoultion. Always just one revolution. And....it's not even a nice 1 revolution. It's a panicky, spazzed out revolution. I'm bummed.
