What Do I Tackle Next?

I think I've figured out FI3,  and I'll formally pass into Pre-Free this session. That leaves me with one skill in Pre-Free I can't do: the mazurka (knees won't let me). I can do everything in Freeskate 1 (except the jumps --knees...again), and most of Freeskate 2 except Back 3's and Back spins (and the jumps--you probably know why). Three and Four I have a couple of onsie skills. It's not until Freeskate 5 that I can't do any skill at all in a section.

So over the next few months, what do I want to work on? Honestly, I could care less about jumps. I'm not going to master them unless I have a knee replacement. I want to do foot work. I really don't care about spins, but if I don't get a couple of spins, and spirals my programs will just look like a ship sailing on the silver sea. BORRING.

Let's get the easy selections out of the way--easy because my coach is going to make me do them no matter what:

1. Back 3's
2. Back spins
3. Completely switch over (again) to my wrong side spin direction. I now have 4, maybe 5 coaches, telling me to switch. I might as well make a commitment.
4. Back inside edges (one of those "I need to practice this 4 or 5 times with a coach to pull it together since the outside version is going so well" edge skills.)

And the harder selections--harder because I believe there are so many things to pick from it's hard to make one:

1.  Waltz 3. Because that will force me to get my 3 turn checking in line. 
2.  Back edge pulls...because every coach I work with is determined to get me to do this, I might as well just suffer and take one for the team
3. Outside mohawks---because it will make my coach so happy to teach me, and then I can do mohawk rolls. My coach loves mohawk cute little elements.

Except for back inside edges, and outside mohawks, this is fraught with suffering. I think I'll suffer through the back three and back spins for months to come, because I'm terrified to do them without a coach. But I noticed everything else in those 2 lists I'm willing to practice on my own and only need lessons on them to solve technical issues.

The next few months aren't going to be the cesspool of suffering I thought they were!

You know, I feel much much better. 

Until I think of Back Threes...