Feeling lumpish

[jespirals]

Well now that I've got a teacher and am learning how to skate like the "real" skaters do, I can go into the rink in the early hours before the mere public have their chance and only the 'serious' skaters are allowed.

Today I ventured up to the rink for the 8:45 am session (takes 15 minutes to run the Zamboni).

Ok, all I'm up to is skating in a series of sweeping curves, doing circles of forward and backward cross overs, and linked 3 turns. But hey, I'm uh, older than most of them and I've not had much time to practice since I started taking lessons last year so I really need the practice time.

I now know how a toad feels attempting to cross a motorway.

Comments

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

I really can't skate worth a darn so this is quite impressive! I took lessons when I was ten but never got the least bit good at it.

[flyyak.livejournal.com]

This is the result of going skating with my son & the home ed crowd for several years and watching the fancy skaters whilst thinking "I want to do that!"