When Group Coaches Try to Fix Me

You know, I've spent a long time getting over  a technique, or learning some skill, then a group coach will come along and.....thinks....

One coach tried to get me to do an outside mohawk--at speed--into a back cross with a twizzle to a forward cross into an outside mowhawk--wash, spin, repeat.

Outside Mohawk 

 

Now, I used to do outside mohawks when I first started skating. But more than one coach told me "Oh, don't do those, those are dangerous. You may step on the tail of your blade." So I switched FOR YEARS to inside mohawks.  Now, this new coach says, "Oh, do this exercise with an outside mohawk."

I spent years not doing outside mohawks, so now, out of nowhere, they pop up again?

Oh, yeah. And at the same time, I'm also supposed to hold my arms still--no flag waving arm for me!

Don't get me started about the group coach who wanted me changing my free leg position in my one foot spin: knee bent, pointed outward, with the foot crossing the leg. That's THREE THINGS!!