Progress

6/27/26

Andy does a great job learning technique, and I love his eagerness to learn! We are working a lot on his edges/skating skills, and he did a backspin this week that was at least 5 revolutions, had straight legs and was on the correct edge!

6/19/26

Andy is doing great! Congrats to him on his great skating at Skate Bloomington, and he is doing really great on the ice this summer! He is great at practicing, and he works really hard and has LOTS of enthusiasm for skating! His backspin has improved a lot this week, and so has his sit spin! He’s done a great job holding them for 10 revolution. Andy learned his salchow and toe loop this week, and has started working on his half flip and split jumps. He even landed a few clean axel jump on the floor! The technique needs work, but it was clearly 1.5 rotations in the air! We also changed his program to the Basic 5 elements, and he is doing well learning more skating skill exercises!

5/30/26

Andy is doing really well working to make his crossovers smoother in his program and remembering some new choreography. He learns quickly, and he is doing a great job picking up new skating skill exercises (i.e. forward crossrolls and alternating 3-turns) quickly! He is gaining good heights on his bunny hops and waltz jumps too!