Bows & Blades

Raelynn’s first time on the fishing pole 🎣 harness!! It won’t be long before she’s waltzing and learning all of her single jumps, but I just wanted to give her a little intro to flying on ice to get her motivated for the future. Thanks to Coach John John Kanicka for all of your help! 💃🏼💫🩵⛸️

I just love their creativity, friendship, and passion for ice skating! 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼🩵⛸️

“I saw Avery do it and I said I wanna try” - Lara on teaching herself how to do a backward lunge. 💃🏼💫💝⛸️

Way to go, Raelynn!! She’s doing lunges on both legs!!! (And some knee slides, too!) She’s going to progress SO quickly in this sport! 💃🏼🩵💫⛸️



Catrina Goode Jeremy Drum

THE TIME HAS COME FOR AVERY TO START LEARNING HER AXEL!!! 🤗🤗🤗 Here Coach John John Kanicka is demonstrating the 7 positions of an Axel jump before Avery gives it a try for the first time on the 🎣 harness. Avery, her parents, myself, and everyone following along have been patiently waiting for this moment… Stay tuned😎💃🏼🌪️💫⛸️

Lara loves flying on the fishing pole🎣 harness! The Salchow may be new to her, but she’s tackling this jump with everything she has!! Thanks Coach John John Kanicka for all your help!!! 💚💝⛸️

Yes, even coaches fall, too…🤦🏻‍♀️😅 (Left side of screen.) This one totally caught me off guard, as I was demonstrating crossrolls to Raelynn while Lara skated ahead. As I leaned into my edges more and more to listen to that perfectly beautiful grinding sound, I guess I leaned a little bit too much and wiped out. Thank you to Coaches Anya and Marina for being genuinely concerned and for checking to see if I was okay. Also, thank you to Lara for getting the snow off of my t***y (but only AFTER announcing to the entire rink that “DIANA FELL!”🤣🤣)

Sweet Lara training her spins with, and without, the 5 lb. arm weights. She’s done this with me enough times to know the routine😆. Way to go, Lara, on wanting to improve rotation & spin speed by using the concept: “Conservation of Angular Momentum.” So excited for your spins to get better and faster, with more rotations in time! 💃🏼🌪️💫💝⛸️

Way to go, Avery!!!🤗🤗 Slightly under-rotated, but you still landed it!!! Once we work on the technicals a bit more (straight picking leg and correct arms), I know you’ll have a full rotation lutz in no time!! Next up - THE AXEL!!! 💃🏼💫🩵⛸️