antmanb
08-31-2007, 04:22 AM
Hey i've finally found where all the folk over at RSSIR have come thanks to a post over there from an old regular!
Much swankier posting over here...and smilies!
Well my skating hasn't been that great - too much time not on the ice or in the gym has meant i've put a lot of weight on and makes everthing even more difficult! Good news is that the Altrincham Ice rink has finally been opened...bad news is it's mostly hockey and the patch ice is the usual early morning or tea time sessions, neither of which fit in with work.
My coach of 4 or so years (who started out in altrincham but moved to Deeside when it closed) ha decided the journey is too much and has returned to Altrincham leaving me coachless. I approached one of the other coaches at Deeside who i knew quite well and we've been working together for three weeks now.
After the initial depression of starting everything from scratch again i've got a new found pleasure from skating again. It seems that my old coach and I had become friends and that he really was not pushing me any more and not correcting mistakes that i was making. All of my jumps have been done with very bent free legs instead of straight free legs and my horrendously double footed take off on the flip has been left uncorrected for well over a year, to the point that i just can't unlearn it now! Taking a break from it and concentrating on the other jumps to see where i get to.
Glad to have found this place though! Hopefully will get into more converstaions with some of the old crowd, and of course the new!
Ant
Much swankier posting over here...and smilies!
Well my skating hasn't been that great - too much time not on the ice or in the gym has meant i've put a lot of weight on and makes everthing even more difficult! Good news is that the Altrincham Ice rink has finally been opened...bad news is it's mostly hockey and the patch ice is the usual early morning or tea time sessions, neither of which fit in with work.
My coach of 4 or so years (who started out in altrincham but moved to Deeside when it closed) ha decided the journey is too much and has returned to Altrincham leaving me coachless. I approached one of the other coaches at Deeside who i knew quite well and we've been working together for three weeks now.
After the initial depression of starting everything from scratch again i've got a new found pleasure from skating again. It seems that my old coach and I had become friends and that he really was not pushing me any more and not correcting mistakes that i was making. All of my jumps have been done with very bent free legs instead of straight free legs and my horrendously double footed take off on the flip has been left uncorrected for well over a year, to the point that i just can't unlearn it now! Taking a break from it and concentrating on the other jumps to see where i get to.
Glad to have found this place though! Hopefully will get into more converstaions with some of the old crowd, and of course the new!
Ant