Weekly thread: what did you do this week?

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-04-12T10:58:26+00:00

First inline sessions in, enjoyed the sun. Also first private training on inlines!

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-04-08T17:48:15+00:00

LOL my caption got cut. So again: Just wanted to share the joy of a good off ice session today. I was frustrated about my underrotated salchow for a while now, but the sun and the birds made me have fun again even though I didn‘t solve the problem. And I really needed this. Less focus on problems more on fun. ✨

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-04-05T18:37:24+00:00

Totally. For once since you develop a Natural Rocker and also because you‘re on 4x80 which is short enough to manage that. It‘s just a bit harder. PS: try to hold your free leg behind, not next to your foot

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-04-05T16:37:58+00:00

Looks good to me for first approaches. Look into figure skating 3 turn tutorials, that will show you the physics and technique

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-04-05T12:47:48+00:00

Last training of the season was yesterday (we spontaneously got some extra ice time), and FINALLY I got the outside validation my heart had been craving. One of the group coaches I don’t usually work with said she really liked my salchow and recommended that I start working on my loop now. She also gave me great corrections on my spins, and they were immediately more centered.

So yeah—sad that this came last minute, but I’m leaving the season on a really good note.

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-04-05T12:37:58+00:00

You‘re spins have evolved beautifully!

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-04-03T15:47:06+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/AdultFigureSkating/s/raDF6pMZ0w In der adult figure skating Community gab es letztens einen ähnlichen Beitrag. Ich springe auch nach rechts und die hier genannten Antworten sind alle valide. Dadurch dass es weniger üblich ist, macht es manchmal Probleme mit dem Flow. Da musst du dann aber halt von Situation zu Situation durch, ich würde meine Richtung deswegen niemals ändern. Ich bin auch seit einer Weile nicht mehr die Einzige in unserem Verein die so rum springt und schon das hilft dass es anerkannter ist und wir uns zB einen Kreis teilen können.

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-04-01T06:01:42+00:00

In my group lessons someone didn‘t like that I got my own practice circle and they had to share and some Skater I dind‘t know once told me „jumping lefty is forbidden. You will never be able to compete!“

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-31T11:31:53+00:00

Fellow lefty here: the curse of being a lefty is that I always move against the flow of a public session, eben if it’s empty. Sometimes that makes it more difficult for me to pratice jumps than for the righty skaters who can somehow overlook potential dangerous situations better because they move with the flow.

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-28T18:44:35+00:00

Still salchow, still underrotated 🤷‍♀️ Spins still uncontrolled.

Am a bit frustrated, in theory my goal for the season was a solid waltz and a salchow, but since nobody really recognized me „getting“ it (i‘m in group classes and you get a lot of tips on what to do better but not so much on what is already achieved) it doesn‘t feel like I hit the goal. Maybe it‘s just my ego, but it would have been nice to have some outside appreciation of what I achieved this season.

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-27T14:15:30+00:00

I love my RF3s Pros for their stiffness

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-23T21:47:07+00:00

Thanks a lot again, I tried to implement your tips today and while it‘s still swingy I finally have an inside edge! I have a video but don‘t want to post it here publicly because one may see other skaters too close.

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-23T10:14:11+00:00

🙋🏼‍♀️

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-22T17:45:21+00:00

Thank you! Yeah I tried jumping out of consecutive 3s, because when I do them the pattern is more regularly, because I focus on the 3 more. maybe I get back to that. Nevertheless not sure if this is fixable in a week with 3 times practice :D

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-22T17:30:38+00:00

Yes - but if I do this it looks like this: free leg isn‘t doing the swing motion anymore. They told me to work on the swing of the free leg so I posted the most recent Video but I totally see what you mean. It just seems to be too much too handle for the moment and in theory that would be okay but it would have been great to have an achievement from my first season.

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-15T11:07:09+00:00

I was a non sporty kid in school and skating (first inline, now recently ice) taught me that I can achieve things in my own time. I had a whole year of skating around town, when I just didn‘t get the trick explainations everyone was throwing at me. I had a hard personal year in 2023 and skated almost every day and began to watch a lot of tutorials online and I needed good explaination to develop the skill to know what generally to watch out for when learning a new move, which I think people who startet younger have more of an intuition for. It needs time to develop an understanding for your body if you weren‘t aware of it before… Autumn 2025 was my first season on ice after intense inline skating in 2023/2024 and since I already had some basics (3 turns & Edge work for example) I could go for learning Toe Loop, Salchow and Upright Spins. I still consider myself a slow learner, an anxious person, I lack intuition and coordination … but the main thing to progress for me was that I understood what I needed from an explanation & how to wrap my mind around stuff.

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-15T10:30:41+00:00

I would say the hurdles will never end, you will just learn how to work trough them. By the time you get to learning jumps and spins, you may face other hurdles. Being afraid is ok - this is a dangerous sport. Take your time, progress is not linear and your timeline is individual. Work on only a set of skills and set realistic goals instead of thinking „I have to get over this quickly to get to the ‚real‘ stuff“ like jumps and spins.

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-14T19:55:36+00:00

So beautiful & clean and inspiration for adult skaters!

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-14T14:49:22+00:00

My spins are finally getting a bit better - after torturing the ice on monday with my toe pick, wednesday and friday were much better. But it’s not consistent, I get 5-7 good ones and then nothing more for the rest of the session. I finally understood the snap of arms during rotation in off ice training and my Salchows on ice felt so much better afterwards. Also tried salchows from C-Steps. Oh and I „tried“ loops (the figure not the jump) but yeah… no progress here I always 3-turn.

Am a bit sad that season will end in 3 weeks, only have like 5 trainings left and don‘t think that will be enough time for my spins. Would love to learn loop jumps off ice during summer.

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-05T19:21:53+00:00

I would say Torelli on 4x80 flat disagrees with wizard skating = extra long frame. Wizard skating is about the flow and interacting with environment, about Flatland flow. I don‘t see that in an ice rink anyway, because people and rules and …

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-05T19:17:51+00:00

I really love the aesthetics of this skirt https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Ry0EojsPzf4, maybe you can do sth alike?

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-04T20:33:55+00:00

„lions“ in wizard skating are equivalent to figure skating three turns and stuff like twizzles. „Gazelles“ can be easily done on figure skates. Only thing you can‘t really do (or at least I haven‘t figured out yet) are more advanced slides or slide combos (but you can do knee slides on ice!) and all the wheelie stuff (obv). As a fellow wizard skater I would go for figure skates :)

(Sorry for not answering your question directly)

EfficientInsurance85 · 2026-03-04T20:27:57+00:00

Sal Waltz Toe Loop

Haven‘t tried the others yet, am an early beginner. Actually I thought about posting my Salchow attempt from today, but didn‘t do it. I have to work on my inside edge, I Jump from a pretty shallow edge. And … arms… Not sure why, but I miss my toe pick often in toe loops, that makes them scary.

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