On The Edge... Again

The last time I skated regularly, you needed 2 pair of skates, a scribe and skated patch. Triple jumps were almost unheard of, so were Bielman spins. Twizzles were only done by ice dancers and Ronald Regan was just elected into office.


Fast Forward 32 years. Starting January 2, 2012, I am back on the ice doing something else that was unheard of .... Adult Figure Skating. We had "coffee club", which was like adult swim, but there was no opportunity for testing or competition.


Update 2021. It has now been 9 years since I began adult skating. I have not competed since 2016 , but my blog is still going. My YouTube channel has over 1.76k subscribers. That’s just crazy!


Friday, March 6, 2020

Thursday in Scottsdale, Friday in Gilbert

Thursday I drove up to Scottsdale to attend an adult session called Ice Cafe.  It’s 90 minutes of ice time with a lesson included by a coach de jour ... This week it was Grant Rorvick.  Great fun.  Nothing but edges with extension and arms to help us look like REAL skaters!

After that was my first lesson with head coach for ice dance, Todd Gilles.  It was great having someone to hang onto!  I wish I had more footage of us partnering but we had to break it down and work on some issues.

Friday I also skated at Gilbert Ice without a lesson and did 1 run of each of the dances without a partner.  I feel like I am learning to skate all over again with ice dancing.








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