Transitions
Jan. 4th, 2020 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicornduke I've got them!
In ice skating.
I went yesterday for a full two hours of public skating and again it was busier than I expected but not too bad. I had been practicing both the two foot transition and the stepping transitions and both were very rough, I was losing my balance a lot, etc. The two foot, I had been jumping up and turning since that's how I'd been taught. And I could do it but it wasn't great.
But towards the end, I just went, what if I just turn. And I did it. And now I can do transitions. No wonder I couldn't get it before. You can't teach this shit. All you do is turn. Granted, right now I'm using arm movements as a counter balance to get the momentum I need to do the turn but also: what the fuck.
you just. do the turn. there's no teaching this shit oh my god
In ice skating.
I went yesterday for a full two hours of public skating and again it was busier than I expected but not too bad. I had been practicing both the two foot transition and the stepping transitions and both were very rough, I was losing my balance a lot, etc. The two foot, I had been jumping up and turning since that's how I'd been taught. And I could do it but it wasn't great.
But towards the end, I just went, what if I just turn. And I did it. And now I can do transitions. No wonder I couldn't get it before. You can't teach this shit. All you do is turn. Granted, right now I'm using arm movements as a counter balance to get the momentum I need to do the turn but also: what the fuck.
you just. do the turn. there's no teaching this shit oh my god
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Date: 2020-01-04 05:11 pm (UTC)And, yup, there's no teaching it. (Though there is sometimes what one might call structured encouragement.)
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Date: 2020-01-04 07:37 pm (UTC)I was never much of an iceskater, but I was a roller (derby) skater, and while I could teach leftfoot transitions because I'd had to practice over and over to build myself the muscle memory, I never could teach anyone right footed transitions for exactly that reason. You just turn, I can't explain it, once you get it, it's so natural you can't figure out how you couldn't do it before. Bodies and brains are weird.