Slalom!

Today, within the first 10 minutes of my skating lesson, I was skating, as my instructor put it, "as if I knew what I was doing."
I skated slaloms! What fun, fun, fun!
All of a sudden, I got it: it's all about weight distribution, using your hips and thighs, not about working your blades.
I didn't want to stop, even after an hour. I leaned right, left, and used both edges of my blades. For the first time, I didn't feel as if I could fall any minute-- my blades both remained on, and never left, the ice.
Funny, how a couple of pointers can make such a world of difference.