Today was better than Wednesday, although my legs were still achy. My torn muscles were OK until I took off for am axel jump incorrectly and came crashing down into an awkward position.
I was hoping to avoid sit spins in my lesson, but sit spins were what I got. Hopefully my legs will strengthen up soon. There were some improvements. I managed a flying camel spin, although the quality wasn’t brilliant and managed to improve some of my spins.
I am realising that I am going to have to go back to basics more than I envisaged. My coach gave me a basic step sequence to learn and I couldn’t even do the most basic turns. I am going to have to learn to be patient and establish my basics again to a higher standard before I try advanced moves. My skills aren’t coming back as quickly as I thought they would, which really isn’t surprising. I’ve not skated for a long period of time so I can’t expect to be able to just scoot around and effortlessly land jumps that I haven’t worked on in years. I think from now on I’ll try to concentrate on the basic skills I’ve been told to practice and let my coach reteach me my double jumps when I’m ready.
Diary Of a Returning Skater 