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Old 03-03-2010, 13:39
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Just out of interest!

Me - I've only been skating for 12 months & I have private lessons
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Old 03-03-2010, 14:51
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Me! Adult skater who learnt as an adult and loves it!
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Old 03-03-2010, 14:55
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I can skate round and round in circles. I never went skating as a child but used to take my kids to Solihull occasionally and I would go on the ice with them, then to Coventry when they built our lovely new rink. I was about 45 then but I loved it. All my friends thought I was really brave, now I am definitely too old but I have loved ice-skating for as long as I can remember.
I envy all you ice-skaters.
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Old 03-03-2010, 15:00
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I can skate round and round in circles. I never went skating as a child but used to take my kids to Solihull occasionally and I would go on the ice with them, then to Coventry when they built our lovely new rink. I was about 45 then but I loved it. All my friends thought I was really brave, now I am definitely too old but I have loved ice-skating for as long as I can remember.
I envy all you ice-skaters.
You're never too old
At a recent gala there was an 86 year old who had started to learn to skate at 76!

And I know lots of adults who have started in mid to late 40's and older and progressed enough to compete in adult competitions.

I saw Art on Ice at Coventry rink and know a few adults who skate there.
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Old 03-03-2010, 15:10
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You're never too old
At a recent gala there was an 86 year old who had started to learn to skate at 76!

And I know lots of adults who have started in mid to late 40's and older and progressed enough to compete in adult competitions.

I saw Art on Ice at Coventry rink and know a few adults who skate there.
Our Jenna trains there too.
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Old 03-03-2010, 15:22
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I started skating in January last year and had private lessons until our rink shut in July. It opened again at Christmas and I started again. I'm doing my SkateUK Gold level (just stuck a bit on my Salchow from silver its not consistant yet).
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Old 03-03-2010, 16:20
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I skate. I'm on Skate UK Bronze.
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Old 03-03-2010, 16:36
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Me!!! I've skated for years and years and always get my friends to go to the Ice Rink so I can show off.
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Old 03-03-2010, 17:56
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I been skating for about a year, and love it, almost past my Skate UK Gold, but can't do my routine and I skate on a saturday and its too busy, so I been on gold for 6 months.

So glad I took it up, its just the best sport, very challenging, I've taking it up at 25, but you can learn at any age.
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Old 03-03-2010, 18:47
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Me! I recently passed NISA level 1, hoping to do level 2 soon.
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Old 03-03-2010, 19:59
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Ooh hello fellow skaters!

I'm not going through the levels in strict order and I don't really do the badges but at the moment I'm doing things that are on Skate UK level 8, 9 and 10 and then I think a couple of things on Bronze adn Silver (or so I'm told). I've done the waltz jump anyway and that's not on the skate UK 1-10.

I started learning at 36 (had only been ice skating once when I was 12 before that!) and I'm now 37 (but someone guessed my age at the ice rink the other day at 25 )

I started off having lessons with my husband and he was slower than me to pick things up but since I've been having the lessons on my own I'm moving quicker.

I also only used to do the one lesson a week but now I try and do the lesson plus 2 other sessions for practice but it's hard to fit in with work and at the moment Sundays are impossibly busy and you can't practice anything.

I LOVE it though - am totally addicted
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Old 03-03-2010, 20:16
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Ooh hello fellow skaters!

I'm not going through the levels in strict order and I don't really do the badges but at the moment I'm doing things that are on Skate UK level 8, 9 and 10 and then I think a couple of things on Bronze adn Silver (or so I'm told). I've done the waltz jump anyway and that's not on the skate UK 1-10.

I started learning at 36 (had only been ice skating once when I was 12 before that!) and I'm now 37 (but someone guessed my age at the ice rink the other day at 25 )

I started off having lessons with my husband and he was slower than me to pick things up but since I've been having the lessons on my own I'm moving quicker.

I also only used to do the one lesson a week but now I try and do the lesson plus 2 other sessions for practice but it's hard to fit in with work and at the moment Sundays are impossibly busy and you can't practice anything.

I LOVE it though - am totally addicted
That's about the same age I started and I'd only been once before at the age of 14 in Bristol! I remember how Bristol ice rink looked totally decrepit then and it has only got worse! Not that I skate there now but have competed there.
Good to meet some more AOSS sufferers.
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Old 03-03-2010, 21:20
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I do some, but only a few times a week during the christmas and easter holidays, so it takes rather longer to progress! I'm currently working on stuff ranging from level 7 to silver, and even gold, so it's not a strict thing! I'd like to start doing more at some point though, I really love skating
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Old 03-03-2010, 23:21
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I am a skater! Just got back from the rink actually...
I'm working towards my NISA level 1. I learned to skate as a kid although was more interested in playing ice hockey at that age...I was such a fool!
I've been figure skating properly for a year, being taught at Bracknell, which is awesome. Although Bracknell rink is impossibly busy at the mo...the only downside to DOI!
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Old 04-03-2010, 09:30
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Same at our rink - I'm avoiding weekends as they are horrendously busy. Not too bad on weekday mornings but still busier than usual.
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Old 04-03-2010, 11:55
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I started learning in the mid 90s (in my eaerly 30s) but quit owing to a few things getting in the way including a middle ear infection which has left me with problems with my balance.
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Old 04-03-2010, 12:15
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I used to go as a child, like 5/6 a lot with my nana etc. But stopped for a few years.

Then about 13/14 I started again, got a pair of skates, just normal (as I hated hired!). MOre of a thing when I went when I wanted and done as I felt. No formal lessons or stuff. I feel I was ok, could skate etc. But yeah, growing started... skates didn't fit(sold them then)... didn't bother anymore.

I would love to go and take lessons or just go for a skate about etc. Although just a bit busy atm.
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Old 04-03-2010, 18:42
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I used to skate a lot but haven't in recent years.
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Old 04-03-2010, 19:52
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I couldn't ice skate, but after I've been on the ice for about 5-10mins I'm fine but then panic and 'skate' to the edge,
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