Goth on Ice: Progress on Two Foot Spins

I'm making slow progress on beginning Two-Foot spins. A lot of videos on learning them start with stepping around (kind of like the "forward marching" in the very first classes, only pivoting in place rather than marching across the ice). The class I'm in doesn't donit.that way. Instead, they use a half circle pump "in place" to get going.

This set is better than my previous set. I managed to keep my body straighter, which helped.

There's a "sweet spot" at the front of the blade, just behind the toe picks, that you want to be on. When you're there, you spin more freely with less friction slowing you down. Keeping your contact point there while trying to control everything else involved can be a bit of a challenge. I suspect it will be like learning to ride a bike. You get it wrong, get it wrong, get it wrong, and then it's just there. At least I hope so.

This is one technique where I fall a lot more, not so much in this video, but with fair regularity. And at my age falls hurt a lot more than when I was 18.