Iris First Skating Blog

My name is Iris.  I am 6 years old.  I am participating in figure skating for 1 and a half years.  I love figure skating.

My figure skating coach is Rachel Davis.  Every week, I have 4 lessons, 1 private and 3 group lessons.

I am currently learning the following techniques.

1. Forward Blade Pushes
2. Forward Bubbles (Skullies)
3. Forward Skiing (Slalom)
4. Forward Russian Stroking
5. Backward C Pushes
6. Backward Bubbles (Skullies)
7. Backward Skiing (Slalom)
8. Backward Russian Stroking
9. Forward outside edges
10. Forward inside edges
11. Backward outside edges
12. Backward inside edges
13. Forward Crossovers
14. Backward Crossovers
15. Forward outside 3 turn
16. Forward inside 3 turn cross
17. Mohawk
18. Back outside 3 turn
19. Bunny Hop
20. Waltz Jump
21. Toe Loop
22. Salchow
23. One foot spin
24. Back spin
25. Sit spin
26. Spiral
27. Shoot the Duck
28. Drags
29. Spread Eagle
30. Ena Bauer

My skating techniques are still not good enough.  I am unable to do "Shoot the Duck" on the ice.  My body seems to be leaning backward and my feet seems not strong enough to hold my body.

My Forward Blade Pushes have improved, I start bending my knees and straighten up my body.  However, my pushes are not strong enough, and I will keep practicing my pushes.

My Forward and Backward Skiing are my best techniques.  My coach's son praised me several times. I will keep practicing to have a stronger and faster skiing push.  My daddy said my back needs to be more straight.

My worst skills are crossovers.  My back is bended, and I am losing balance when doing crossover.  My daddy said my upper body is leaning out of the circle instead of leaning in to the circle.

My Waltz Jump and Salchow are good.  My coach likes my jumps.  However, my toe loop jump is bad.  I am unable to put my toe pick on the ice, and my crossover before the toe loop jump is bad.  I need to practice more on the toe loop jump.

I cannot do spin yet.

By the way, I don't know what is Mohawk, Russian Stroking, Spread Eagle and End Bauer.