Any ice skaters out there?

[noo noo]

I've just started taking lessons - have been going for four weeks now and I absolutely LOVE it! We are following the Skate UK syllabus and I'm currently working on grade 5 and 6. Bought my own skates this week too.

Unfortunately my chum who I went with fell the first week and fractured her elbow, and another girl broke her leg last week. Hope it doesn't come in threes!

I'm gutted as I'll miss my lesson this week as Iona has something on at school that I really should go to. However its outdoors so I'm praying it might get rained off!!!

So any other Jane Torville's out there??

[Flicky]

Meeee! Started because they run kids & adult classes simultaneously and I thought why not. Kids are loving it & me too, but I can't believe you are on 5& 6 already, have you done it before? I still have to do 1! That's a bit of a formality, but still, you have progressed really fast.

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[RedTiger]

That sounds fab noo noo, I'd love to do that. Our local rink is closed for refurbishment atm. I used to skate as a kid and it'd be great to get back into it, good exercise too!

[Elvisola]

I skate. Have done since I was about 12 when I seriously got into it and started lessons and later on competed. Now I just do it for fun and as some me time.

I keep meaning to take Ella more regulary, she has only been a few times and has quite good balance already. The local rink is a bit far away for after school lessons or anything though.

Enjoy! It's such great exercise.

[LibertyGal72]

AM DEAD JEALOUS OF You!! Loved skating. Took it up when I was 12 or 13. Haven't been able to since I damaged my ankle in 1997. Enjoy watching others do it now and love the smell of the ice.

[Duckie]

We had lessons about 18m ago but haven't been since. It worked out quite expensive for both of us at £60 each per course of six lessons plus the cost of fuel and eating out each week so we've put it on hold for now. We did two courses and were about to start on level 6 I think. I'd done a couple of course when I was about 13 though and passed level two and DH had some private lessons to get him to the same standard as me roughly so we could do the same course. I would love to do it again but it's just the cost putting us off at the moment.

[noo noo]

I'm £7.15 for two hours skating (inc skate hire if needed) of which there is 30 minutes of tuition. I'm lucky that I can make a weekday daytime lesson as the evening and weekend ones have huge waiting lists.

I had skated before but never anything more than round and round the rink! The coach asked me the first week if I'd had lessons as I was either a natural of had done it before. Perhaps I missed my vocation?!

As for it being good exercise - I've certainly found muscles in places that I never knew existed!

My initial ambition was to be able to skate backwards and I accomplished that the first week so now its to be as good as Todd Carty!

[Minky]

Wow ladies, that is so cool!

I started skating at about 3 and was quite reasonable when I left school. Now I'm rubbish, I've lost it all! Can't do a hockey stop in the middle of the rink and can only just do a figure 3 let alone an 8! . Spose it's due to only skating once every one or two years .

One thing I would say, is buy your own skates. Those hire ones are absolutely criminal , and there is no way I could skate in them, so I got a pair from eBay for about £20. Well worth every penny.

Here's a pair of size 7 (is that your size Noo Noo?) for only £20 so far:



And a size 8 pair which look gorgeous:

[Bop]

I used to skate as a teen....

...the kids are always impressed I can skate backwards, but that is about the limit nowadays!!

I got rid of my skates not long before we got the kids - so wish I'd kept them as hired ones are so uncomfortable and the kids love going.

Bop

[Skipping Girl]

Wow, noo noo, that's fab! I skated occasionally as a kid but it's one of the first thing on my list of things to do in Canada!

Kat
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