TLK and I went ice skating. I haven’t been on ice skates in 30 years. In fact, I thought my ankles were too weak to ice skate, but now I know different.
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Ice Skating 101
Today, The Little Kid and I headed out to the ice rink. Since I haven’t been in ice skates in probably 30 years, I asked her if she could give me a couple of pointers.
Getting out on the ice was easier than I thought. For 30 years, I’ve been thinking I couldn’t ice skate, but I did really well after the first couple of laps.
I guess some of that hockey watching is paying off. 🙂
Also, do you know there are tricks to doing spins? “Hold your hand out flat beside you and look at it,” TLK said. I thought, “Right. Whatever.” but did it anyway. Guess what? Even if you are really standing relatively still, it works. God forbid you are going fast and do that. 🙂
I only had two falls, which didn’t hurt much at all. I did pay, muscle-wise, later, but it was nothing a long, hot bath and a good night’s rest couldn’t resolve.
Overall, a LOT of fun and an amazing workout! I’ll go again.
First Ice Skating Purchase
I made my first ice skating-related purchase today. $17 for a pair of warm tights. The Little Kid was using her regular winter tights, but the color cream can only take so much of a beating before they look dirty and ragged.
She did very good during her skating lesson tonight. The snowplow is pretty much mastered, and they’re off to gliding now.
During the free skate, the Russian expert skating guy had to come out to the floor because she was trying to spin and fell down.. wouldn’t get back up. It was pretty much the art of drama. She’s perfectly fine.
We’re thinking about used skates now. The rink skates are in pretty bad shape.
I know.
Run for your life! 🙂
Little Ice Skater-ina
The Little Kid had her first skating lesson today.
I don’t recall being in an ice rink before. It’s cold there. I showed up in my capris and summer sweater, and flip-flops. Nice one. Next time, it will be a sweatshirt coat and perhaps some socks, in addition to all that other stuff.
Anyway, she did really well. The first thing they teach is how to fall, and get back up. She learned the front and back (what I call..) snowplow. She went back and forth across the ice with her group about 20 times. There was no holding onto the wall today. 🙂
The last 1/2 hour of the skate time is free skate. The instructors skate with all of the kids, and the kids follow them around and try to do circles and whatever the instructors are doing. She only fell down a few times, which I thought was amazing.
I can’t even stand on ice skates. Something about tossing my foot into some bicycle spokes when I was younger… no ankle strength to speak of.
It was a lot of fun to watch, and some good exercise for her.
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