I’ll be giving a lesson, working closely with a student who is making good progress. I’m beaming with pride, thinking to myself, “She’s almost got it!” But I can’t leave well enough alone: I love to watch what happens after I call out, “Now pretend you’re relaxed!” In an instant and without much thought, her spine and arms soften and she looks like she just added on a year’s worth of skating experience. What just happened? It’s not my powers of suggestion (don’t I wish!).  Read more... (561 words, 1 image, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

I\u2019ll be giving a lesson, working closely with a student who is making good progress. I’m beaming with pride, thinking to myself, “She\u2019s almost got it!” But I can’t leave well enough alone: I love to watch what happens after I call out, \u201cNow pretend you\u2019re relaxed!\u201d\u00a0In an instant and without much thought, her spine and arms soften and she looks like she just added on a year’s worth of skating experience. What just happened? It\u2019s not my powers of suggestion (don’t I wish!).  Read more...<\/a> (561 words, 1 image, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-skating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}