Backwards and Press...

Not only was tonight a fantastic workout, but Greg from Sierra Mountain Times spent the whole practice with us. Very cool of him to spend his time. He said he wishes this had started when he moved here in 2002, (I too wish I had been able to start this 7 years ago)...I was able to clarify that we are not going to be competing within a month let alone a week...glad that is cleared up...

Tonight I skated backwards doing crossovers!! Woo hoo for me! It's taken, oh I don't know, a few practices to be able to do the bit I did tonight, but wow it feels great to get through something I didn't know how to do before.

We did small figure eights, working on our shoulder positions. T, toe and plow stop drills too...one and two knee falls and wowie on my last two knee fall I was messed up on which knee to drop on first and in the middle of my fall I changed from right to left, I now know what it feels like to fall like a total tard and if not for my padding I might have twisted by knee and forearm..Sure glad nothing happened.

For the first time we did drills going through a pack and on the second time through we got to try to actually block a player...Awesome feeling to break through!! And since it was one skater going through, the pack was much larger than the regulation 5 opposing players, there were like 7 or more I think....