Just out of interest!
Me - I've only been skating for 12 months & I have private lessons
Me - I've only been skating for 12 months & I have private lessons
Following on from the ice boots thread - HOW MANY OF US ARE SKATERS?
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.
I envy all you ice-skaters.
Originally Posted by yellowlabbie:
“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.”
“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.
Originally Posted by icedragon:
“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.”
“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.
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).
Me!!! I've skated for years and years and always get my friends to go to the Ice Rink so I can show off. 
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.
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.
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
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
Originally Posted by Elphabatoo:
“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”
“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.
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
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!
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!
Same at our rink - I'm avoiding weekends as they are horrendously busy. Not too bad on weekday mornings but still busier than usual.
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.
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.
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.
