I don't know if I've ever said how impressed I am at your enthusiasm for ice skating and your determination to work at it. From what I can understand of your workout plan, it sounds really well thought out.
Regarding your earlier comments about not getting much help from your instructors on balance issues, I find it's often true that the people teaching something are those for whom it came easily. They can teach the stuff they had to work at, that someone had to explain to them, but not necessarily the things they learned easily. I'm imagine people who have explicit teacher training are better at this than people who are simply good at whatever the subject is (thinking of the many university professors who may be brilliant researchers but abysmal teachers). Glad you've worked out a way to do it yourself.
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Regarding your earlier comments about not getting much help from your instructors on balance issues, I find it's often true that the people teaching something are those for whom it came easily. They can teach the stuff they had to work at, that someone had to explain to them, but not necessarily the things they learned easily. I'm imagine people who have explicit teacher training are better at this than people who are simply good at whatever the subject is (thinking of the many university professors who may be brilliant researchers but abysmal teachers). Glad you've worked out a way to do it yourself.