Lots of Pain–We’ll Find Out About Gain on Monday
As I embarked on my plan to get in shape and start taking lessons again next week, I probably should have added actual skating to the mix before this week. Oh, well. Today was probably the fifth time I’ve been on the ice in the last six months – the second this...Monday Clinic
So … yeah … not my most impressive showing at the clinic … On the plus-side, I have a new stick. The old one was wood, no flex at all and cost $19.99. New one’s composite, has some flex which may help my shot and was $69 – which is still on the cheap side,...I’m not the Slowest! (except sometimes)
The skating drill at tonight’s clinic was an important milestone for me: I wasn’t the last one across the ice in one of the drills. Yay! So skating drill tonight was goal-line to blue-line forward, then return backward; then the same to the red-line; then the same to...Monday Clinic
Tonight’s clinic started in what I’m going to start calling The Bad Way – that is, goal-line to goal-line skating drills that I’ve described in two of the last three clinic posts. Not going to elaborate further again. However, they didn’t wear me out as much as...Monday Clinic
Made it to my second Monday clinic and it was a much better experience than the first one. Coach started us off with laps because no one had stretched – four times around, but I was able to stay with the pack and had no foot pain, so I was pretty pleased about...Book Recommendation
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