Monday, January 7, 2013
baby steps!
Dance stuff is going well. :) Slowly but surely I feel like I'm improving, especially in soft shoe (though I still technically need reel steps, whoops). Teach says everything looks good except my arms and carriage. WHY IS KEEPING THAT QUADRANT STILL SO HARD???
I decided to just participate in kids' ceili starting this week because I'm not studying my book. The new edition is supposed to come out soon, and in the meantime I really don't want to study bad material, so I'm kind of in a weird limbo of feeling incompetent. I got thrown into an eight-hand and today my arms are SO SORE from all the lifts. I've been working on arms at boot camp all the time and I'm STILL hurting from holding my arms up for that long. Only in Irish...
My team costume is (allegedly) in production, and I should receive it before the end of the month. I really hope it fits. Sent off my deposit for a Kirations solo dress with a delivery date of late October. I'm thinking black twinkle satin with a emerald green sequin skirt and gold embroidery. Kind of cliche for a redhead, but I'll get over it. :)
I thought my first competition back would be in February, but I am donating bone marrow the Wednesday before that competition (which is still really unbelieveable to me, that I get to help save a life, but I digress) so I probably won't be in dancing shape at that point. However, since it's in town, I'm totally going to go to cheer on everyone and hang out. My first "real" competition back with a full slate will be in March in Dallas, and I just registered for that. Three trophy specials too--guess I need to get the left foot of my treble reel sorted soon!
What I still need to work on:
- Perfecting the stamp stamp step of the treble jig--can mostly get it on my right foot, left foot still looks WEIRD
- Learning the second half of the second hornpipe step
- Re-learning / smoothing out reel lead. I know it, just not well.
- STAMINA. I can get through slip jig but I kinda feel like I'm dying. Treble jig is...not good. I can't even imagine what hornpipe looks like.
- Arms, arms, arms. ARMS.
I'm getting there, and I feel good.
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