For myself I have 4 - 5 Lessons a week
4 of them Individual and 1 for an hour as a group lessons on Advance footwork and edges. Just wondering what you guys do? or how many lessons you get for an adult

Wow - that's a lot! I have one 30 minute private lesson and then a 15 minute lesson that I share with 2 other adults who are around my level. Occasionally I add in a private 15 minute lesson just to focus on dance, but that depends on my finances

Wow! How do you fit that in with the rest of your life? I take one, sometimes 2 lessons a week. If I am lucky, I can fit in 3 days of skating a week. Frequently, my schedule is so packed I can only skate once a week.

Started with 1 group lesson (30 minutes instruction + 30 Minutes practice time) a week... a couple months later added a 30 minute private lesson to prepare for a competition... ended up keeping that private lesson and did this for a year and a half. Then I switched rinks to follow my coach. The new rink didn't offer adult group lessons so instead I just continued with the 30 minute private lesson per week and added three 2 hour (or was it 1 1/2 hours, can't remember) practice sessions to that... kept that schedule for about half a year.
After that we moved out of state and once I found a rink here I started my new schedule of 1 1/2 hour practice sessions twice a week. Would love to add lessons again as I'm getting bored just practicing what I already know (and miss having someone check to see if I'm doing it right) but coaches that are familiar with the ISI program aren't available at the rink and at this point I'm not willing to make the switch to USFSA yet.

once every 3 months

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Usually I just have 1 lesson a week. Sometimes I have an additional lesson with the coach who choreographed my program if a competition is coming up. I try to skate 3 times a week, so I try to schedule the lessons (if I'm having 2) on different days; recently, though, I had to have them back to back on the same session - that was interesting - lol. One was 20 minutes of FS elements and run-throughs, and the next was 20 minutes of moves - I had quite a workout!

At one point, when I was with a different coach, I had 2 lessons a week - 1 on FS and 1 on moves with a secondary coach. I've thought about adding an additional lesson but I decided that, at least for now, I'd rather not spend any more money on skating than I currently do, but that might change at some point.

I think you can be fine with just one lesson a week as long as you remember to incorporate your coach's corrections when you practice elements and are diligent about going through everything. Much of my "block" to acquiring new skills is mental, anyway, so for me, it's important to just practice, practice, practice.

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How do you manage to practice, though? We were taught, when we were starting out, that in an ideal world you do two hours' practice for every 15 minutes' worth of lesson. Not that we can do that much, but we do probably manage an hour's worth most weeks. Or at worst, an hour's worth per 30 minute lesson.

We each have two lessons, one solo and one joint, although his solo lesson is only 15 minutes.

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I'd love to do more, but time/finances usually limit me to 1 group lesson per week (with 3 other skaters who are about the same level as me) plus 1 to 1 1/2 hours of practice . . . if I'm really lucky I get to skate 1-2 more times during the week - but that's more the exception then the norm!!

Wow rf3ray - that must cost lol!

[When my foot isn't playing up], I have one 15 minute ice dance and one 15 minute free skate lessson per week

S xxx

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2 lessons per week, 2 coaches, 30 minutes per lesson. One for moves, one for freestyle.

I skate about 3 hours per week or a bit less, so I don't have the perfect ratio. But adult skaters are used to dealing with less than ideal training circumstances.

Generally, it's 1 20-min. figures/Moves lesson and one 40-min. free skating lesson a week. I skate between four and six hours a week total.

2 lessons a week, totalling 1 hour. I'd like to try & add another 15 minutes this winter, but don't know if I can afford it.

Currently, I get 1, 10-15 min FS/moves lesson a week and I skate 2 days a week.

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I've got mad salchow disease!

Last year I took ice dance also AND had a 30-minute group lesson. This year I'm ditching the ice dance and group and contemplating power skating instead (it's a 45 minute class). I will also have a 30-minute private lesson for moves/freestyle elements.

Last year I practiced about 10-15 hours or so but it was for freestyle, moves, ice dance, competition routine, and show stuff.

This year I should be able to cut it down to 8-10 hours a week for freestyle, power, testing moves, and show stuff (plus competition routines).

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Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

1 lesson a week sometimes 2 if our schedules work out, each lesson is 30 min. i skate 3-4x/week around 2 hours each time.

I have 3 - 20 minutes lessons per week and only skate 4-5 hours per week.

I like breaking it up in smaller time slots so that I can practice after my lesson. My work schedule prohibits me from skating more than 1 hour at a time...and lately my body does too!

I have two 30-minute freestyle lessons per week and I also have a 20-minute MIF lesson every other week. I skate 6-7 hours per week, total.

I have 2 half an hour free skating lessons a week and 2 half an hour dance lessons a week (if my teacher come in! I don't always get 2 lessons a week).

But that is only during term time - my free skating teacher especially isn't always around in the school holidays

I do a stroking class for 30mins every week.

I also do synchro once a week for 45mins (although not my fave thing to do!)

On top of that I practise for about 4/5 hrs a week

I think I have a bit of an imbalance - too many lessons not enough practice. But the problem is at our rink you are often not allowed on patch ice unless you are actually physically having a lesson at that time. So its lessons or don't skate.

I skate 4 times a week usually.

2x 1/2 hour small group lessons per week + 15 mins private lesson- would like more if i could afford it!

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I have two 30 minute lessons. One with primary coach and one with secondary coach! And that's all I can afford. ($ and bandwidth wise.)

I skate 4-5 (usually 5) times a week. An hour on the two days I have lessons and about 1.5-2 hrs I have on weekends and Monday nights... so about 7.5 hours a week.

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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Not skating right now, but my usual schedule is:

Four 1-hr. sessions per week, which include a 30 min. freestyle / moves lesson and a 30 min. spin lesson. My parnter and I would try to get together to work lifts off-ice 3 times a week.

If possible, one 1/2 hour with dance coach and one or two 15-minute figures/Moves/dance/technique lessons with primary coach.

It doesn't usually work that way due to time and finances, but in an ideal world, this is how it would be.

I usually skate about6-7 hours/week and I won't take a lesson if I haven't had at least one practice session since the last lesson -- it just doesn't work for anyone if I haven't practiced.

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3-4 30 minute lessons per week. Sometimes I have both coaches at once, when I'm in dance test prep mode. Because coach #2 can watch from a neutral observer what coach #1 (who usually takes me through tests) might not be able to see or feel, since he (#1) would be skating with me.

3 lessons with coach #1 and 1 lesson with coach #2.

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Q: How many coaches does it take to fix Jen's Dance Intro-3 Problems
A: 5 and counting...

Unfortunately I can only afford one half hour lesson per week. We go through many skills and then i use the other 3 sessions that I attend to practice what I have learned

Right now, with my summer coach, I skate 6 hours a week and have about 1.5 hours coaching. Last week, when she didn't have any other skaters in that session, I was getting 45 minutes per hour - that's INTENSE!

In Fall School, I expect to be getting 15 minutes every two hours (six hours/week) and that will ramp up in the winter season as I get ready for competition.

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