cassarilda
04-23-2006, 04:10 AM
I have uni holidays coming up soon... about a month...
I have two choices.
1) I can stay in Melbourne and skate at our crap rink as much as possible by myself, and/or getting trained by hubby. Probably only one session a day and only 3-5 days a week (our rink is closed Monday and Tuesdays, and weekends are too crowded)... $14 per session, for me and hubby so = $28 per session x 4 days x 4 weeks = $448 + fuel
2) We can do a trip to Sydney, stay with my grandparents for 2 weeks, and train at a really good rink up there... and hopefully get some good coaching sessions with my hubby's old dance coaches. I would LOVE to do this. But the cost is substantially more...
Fuel = approx $300 just to get to Sydney and back (possibly more cos of stupid fuel prices).
Rink = possible to do the early morning figure sessions (6-8.30am), and public sessions (from 9am - 5.30pm) most days...
Cost- Im sure we could figure something out with the rink (its $15pp per session, but its $300 per quarter, so thats about 20 sessions, which I could easily enough fill up in 2 weeks)...
+ Coach costs - $50 per half hour... so kinda exxy if I wanted to do a lot.
I would REALLY love to go to Sydney, but the costs are a bit steep ($300 over 3 months I can justify, but over 2 weeks?)... but Ive hit a rut, I dont really have confidence in the coaches here, plus there is just not enough time/ice to get anything good out of them, and my group classes are a bit bleurgh/boring and I really want to be able to push myself for a bit and just skate and leap up to the next level... I feel like I can do that in Sydney...
I am really hanging out to our move back to Perth, where we will be living close to the rink (about 20mins), and be able to skate in the early morning with not many people on the ice (on GOOD ice), and have good regular hard workouts... BUT thats another 8months away and I really want to do well before then, and not stay in one learning spot.
SO... its just a general thinking post, but any comments are welcome...
sorry, its kinda long.
I have two choices.
1) I can stay in Melbourne and skate at our crap rink as much as possible by myself, and/or getting trained by hubby. Probably only one session a day and only 3-5 days a week (our rink is closed Monday and Tuesdays, and weekends are too crowded)... $14 per session, for me and hubby so = $28 per session x 4 days x 4 weeks = $448 + fuel
2) We can do a trip to Sydney, stay with my grandparents for 2 weeks, and train at a really good rink up there... and hopefully get some good coaching sessions with my hubby's old dance coaches. I would LOVE to do this. But the cost is substantially more...
Fuel = approx $300 just to get to Sydney and back (possibly more cos of stupid fuel prices).
Rink = possible to do the early morning figure sessions (6-8.30am), and public sessions (from 9am - 5.30pm) most days...
Cost- Im sure we could figure something out with the rink (its $15pp per session, but its $300 per quarter, so thats about 20 sessions, which I could easily enough fill up in 2 weeks)...
+ Coach costs - $50 per half hour... so kinda exxy if I wanted to do a lot.
I would REALLY love to go to Sydney, but the costs are a bit steep ($300 over 3 months I can justify, but over 2 weeks?)... but Ive hit a rut, I dont really have confidence in the coaches here, plus there is just not enough time/ice to get anything good out of them, and my group classes are a bit bleurgh/boring and I really want to be able to push myself for a bit and just skate and leap up to the next level... I feel like I can do that in Sydney...
I am really hanging out to our move back to Perth, where we will be living close to the rink (about 20mins), and be able to skate in the early morning with not many people on the ice (on GOOD ice), and have good regular hard workouts... BUT thats another 8months away and I really want to do well before then, and not stay in one learning spot.
SO... its just a general thinking post, but any comments are welcome...
sorry, its kinda long.