I have so many things to do to get ready to skate! I sold my skates while out last year, they were almost new and I really didn't want to use them again. No, I know they weren't responsible for my accident. I just wanted a fresh start when I finally went back. I called the other rink and ordered a new pair of Jackson Artistes and I went up a half size. (I don't like my skates really tight at the toe.) They're in and I can pick them up any time.
I was thinking about going back in May, but as the year wore on I still had episodic pain in my wrist and I was thinking that when I fell on it, remember it's not if you fall in ice skating it's when, I might hurt it more and I should wait a full year to get back on the ice. What did I miss? The Spring Fling competition, the ice show, this year it's Cirque du Soleil. I made a fatal mistake last year of withdrawing from the show and going back to lessons. I promise that I will never go back on my ice skating word again, never as long as I live!
I don't want to skate until after Thanksgiving, and I think I might go to the rink tomorrow afternoon to see who is doing the ice show. The adults practice then, and I want to chit chat with them.The show runs in early December and they've just started working on it. This is a hard sport to leave, especially as an older person, my skills get rusty too easily! So there is no way I could have participated in the show this year. I would have been unable to do anything.
I am hoping for a nice surprise when I get back to skating, hoping that I get back in the groove easily. But I was struggling to learn each new skill even then. The other adult students who'd made it to Adult 3 and 4 also said that they'd found there were things they simply could not do. My own coach tried to get me to risk more, and I felt that I couldn't. I clearly was not strong enough for things like forward crossovers. Of course, I'd been in and out of fracture boots for two years which made my legs weaker than they'd ever been before. I'm hoping to get back and get strong again and skate again!
Being an adult skater means you are your own skate mom, and things like costumes loom large on the horizon when it comes to holiday skating, or even spotlights or competitions. I would like to do Solo Dance at the beginning level this spring. I need to get a good grasp of what happens while on the ice. I saw a competition this spring and the judges were telling the skaters to stop and start and suddenly I was back again at age 12 doing my Best Appearing practices! There is a formula and to miss a beat is to fail. Ouch! So much to do that I don't know where to start!
I was thinking about going back in May, but as the year wore on I still had episodic pain in my wrist and I was thinking that when I fell on it, remember it's not if you fall in ice skating it's when, I might hurt it more and I should wait a full year to get back on the ice. What did I miss? The Spring Fling competition, the ice show, this year it's Cirque du Soleil. I made a fatal mistake last year of withdrawing from the show and going back to lessons. I promise that I will never go back on my ice skating word again, never as long as I live!
I don't want to skate until after Thanksgiving, and I think I might go to the rink tomorrow afternoon to see who is doing the ice show. The adults practice then, and I want to chit chat with them.The show runs in early December and they've just started working on it. This is a hard sport to leave, especially as an older person, my skills get rusty too easily! So there is no way I could have participated in the show this year. I would have been unable to do anything.
I am hoping for a nice surprise when I get back to skating, hoping that I get back in the groove easily. But I was struggling to learn each new skill even then. The other adult students who'd made it to Adult 3 and 4 also said that they'd found there were things they simply could not do. My own coach tried to get me to risk more, and I felt that I couldn't. I clearly was not strong enough for things like forward crossovers. Of course, I'd been in and out of fracture boots for two years which made my legs weaker than they'd ever been before. I'm hoping to get back and get strong again and skate again!
Being an adult skater means you are your own skate mom, and things like costumes loom large on the horizon when it comes to holiday skating, or even spotlights or competitions. I would like to do Solo Dance at the beginning level this spring. I need to get a good grasp of what happens while on the ice. I saw a competition this spring and the judges were telling the skaters to stop and start and suddenly I was back again at age 12 doing my Best Appearing practices! There is a formula and to miss a beat is to fail. Ouch! So much to do that I don't know where to start!
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