Ice skating?

Who here does ice skating?


Do you do it for fun? or are you taking lessons?


What grade are you at if you take lessons?


What makes you do it?


What do you like about it?


What do you think about it?





My thoughts:


I LOVE iceskating with a passion. I love it because it is so energetic and fun, and it looks so graceful and impressive. Ive been taking lessons for 6 weeks onw and about to start my grade 3/4.

Ice skating?
Who here does ice skating?


**I've been off the ice for almost 4 years now . . . but hey, I'm still a figure skater!!





Do you do it for fun? or are you taking lessons?


**I took lessons AND it was fun!!! Oh, but I was serious about it!





What grade are you at if you take lessons?


**I am at Adult Gold level (USFSA)





What makes you do it?


**Besides great exercise, and I love "dancing" on ice and entertaining an audience!! Where else am I (at my age) going to get center stage (ice) all too myself where people will actually watch and cheer me on - hee hee!!





What do you like about it?


**It is a sport, but I like to think more of it in terms of dance. I love interpreting music through body movements . . . and with skating you can move across the stage (ice) in ways you can't on the floor. I like to think of jumps and spins as choreographical elements rather than just athletic feats.





What do you think about it?


**I "think" about skating all the time as I don't actually get to skate these days - hee hee. Really, I think it's a great privilege to be a part of this sport. And it's addicting :P!





Best of luck to you and your skating! May your passion for skating take you a long way!!
Reply:I take private lessons 6 days a week! for about 4 hours at the rink





I am past all the basic and freestyle levels so I am not in a level.





I feel different and special doing it because i am the only one in my school that does it! nobody reallt recongnizes the sport cuz not many people do it.





I like feeling the wind in my face on a jump or fast spin. I like practicing becasue i have fun while training.





I dont really think anything except 'just dont fall' every time there is at least one person that i know there(a boy) and i dont want to make a fool out of myself by falling all the time.
Reply:I've been skating since I was 2, so 16 years now and I also coach.





I'm still in the competitive route, so during competition season there is no fun. But in the off season I enjoy it the most.





I don;t understand the USFSA Grades. But in Canada I'm a junior level skater. aka Consistent double axels and some triples





My mom started me in skating just as a way to get exercise and promote healthy living early on. Turns out I was a natural and just excelled





I love the sheer adrenaline form competition. I love the pressure and the thrill.





Skating is my life and I would be nothing without it. It;s going to be a sad sad day when I hang up my skates...
Reply:I skate! I've been skating since I was 12......wish I had a little more to show for all that time though!! :)





I skate for myself. It's my "guilty pleasure" or my place to escape to. I do take lessons and I also teach lessons.....but sometimes when I get bogged down with teaching so much, I have to remember the whole reason I'm skating is for me and I need to remember to make time for ME to skate!





Currently, I'm working on testing adult silver moves in the field (USFSA) and pre-juvenile moves. I'd like to take my adult gold moves soon too. I'm working on getting my doubles consistent!





I do it because I love it. I would never be able to get myself to the gym, so I have to be active doing things rather than chugging away on a treadmill or something. I love the music, in combination with the jumps, spins and artistry -- all wrapped up in a sport! I love the sense of accomplishment when I finally land a jump I have been working on or when I'm able to do a spin I wanted to try. Now that I'm older, I'm less competitive with the other *younger* skaters around me. I'm more focused on my goals and try to remember that they have younger bodies, so things are easier for them and their parents probably have more money to sink into their skating than I do!!!
Reply:I skate 3 or 4 times a week for recreation. I learned as a kid but then started to "relearn" everything a couple of years ago to get my kids on the ice. I do it for fun, it is my zen moving meditation. I'm just much happier after I've been at the rink.





I just started lessons last September to become more confident. It is working nicely and I've registered again. We are all just adults learning in my class. No grade. You ask for what you want to learn and the instructor will show you and anyone else who wants to learn. I'm trying to learn to do front crossovers properly and to skate backwards.





I like the freedom of movement. I like that I don't sweat in the cold rink, I don't like running or exercise where you sweat. I like feeling that I'm mastering my body.
Reply:i take lessons.


im in usfsa level fresskate 2/3 for group lessons n about 5/6 for private lessons.


i just love the feeling of skating, i know what im doing n it maks me feel free.


i think im gonna do this for a looooooooooooong time.
Reply:I did it for the money! ;-) I played pro hockey for years before injury dictated otherwise. I still train some people on occasion but the passion never leaves!





I bet even when you are walking you look at the cracks in the pavement and do cross overs to avoid them!





I do cross overs going roind corners sometimes!





Good luck with the skating!
Reply:Iam on bronze (Testing) can do everythink up to gold that i know of. have had lessons for arounf 4 months plus a coach change.


I do it for the passion, the love and the hard work you have to put in. and for the feel of aclompishment. I love everythink about it, the feeling of been free and no other sport gives the feeling off figure skating.
Reply:I figure skate. For fun, cause I love it. I am taking lessons. Basic 8 and I know some freestyle too


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