I used to skate years ago at Queens Ice rink in London - great times. Managed to do a couple of dances when they used to have breaks in the public skating.

I take my hat off to all the celebrities to have achieved what they have but I must say that I find Kelly's skating very "rigid" - she just doesn't look relaxed on the ice.

Good luck to all thats left.

I skated competitively, as a 'junior' until my mid-teens when an accident (not on the ice) put me in hospital for a few months. When I was patched up I could only walk backwards (not funny when you are a sensitive teenager and it really makes your neck ache if you want to see where you are going!) so I spent a while learning to walk forwards again, then went back to skating but only as a hobby.

My parents were secretly quite pleased as the treck to the rink at Derby St. in Manchester was horrendous and involved hours of travelling. It was also populated by some of the most up-their-own-backsides people imaginable, there was one girl, a couple of years older than me, who was really good and was obviously the one who would 'make it' if any of us did. She was like royalty and if you weren't in her entourage you were OUT! I wasn't and I was, but as a perverse little soul who really didn't care for elitist groups I wasn't at all upset.

My life revolved round skating and ballet, both of which I did from a very young age so easily overcame the problems of different centre of balance etc. but they are two quite different disciplines, requiring different skills. Wayne Sleep gave a good explanation on 'Extra' one evening this week.

Didn't skate from around 21, when having a career got in the way. Tried it again about 10 years later, at a rink far far away, forget which one. I thought it would be like riding a bike, i.e. a skill once acquired never forgotten. How wrong I was. I couldn't even stand up, never mind skate.

One day I will do it again, I live only a few miles from a rink so the opportunity is there. If anything will stop me it's the knees, they're not as good as they used to be - thanks to all those leaps and twists from the age of 3.

My discipline was solo figure skating and I loved to jump but I can't remember much about the technical things now, so I can't be your expert. Which really means this posting is a bit of a waste of time, but I've had a few minutes meandering happily down memory lane, which has probably done me some good.

Started skating when I was about 13 (am now 26).

Got to a standard where I could skate pretty well, then started to play Ice Hockey. I then got a job at the local Ice Rink in Plymouth as an "Ice Steward" - so basically picking people up when they had fallen over and giving first aid etc.!!!!

Haven't skated now for about 3 years as work etc get in the way......but must take my son as he is always asking to go!!!!!!

I skated through my childhood and teens at a club level but in my late teens became much more involved in skating through my then boyfriend who was a British Champion, we travelled to California for a couple of months while he trained with Robin Cousins and he also was involved in a number of iceshows which Nicky Slater organised. When the relationship broke up I still had a lot of friends who have kept me in touch with skating but real life tended to get in the way and 5am starts weren't so enjoyable.

I still enjoy skating occasionally and would have loved my children to have taken up the sport but am actually glad we live too far from a rink to make it viable as I would hate to turn into a skating mother!