That's what we need up here in North Queensland. Except, it should be 120 million dollars to give us really good insulation to stop the heat from getting inside the rink area.

Theyve been going on about building that thing for YEARS now...

True, this is a new development, and looks promising, but we're heading back to Perth next year, so its not going to do us any good

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My Progress Report!
"Did I mention there is only ONE rink in Melbourne?!"
"If you're not flying, you're obviously not trying!!!" - courtsey of the guy who helped me up off the ice after my last spectacular and sore fall

I can see how the Olympics bringing more people to the rink would be kind of annoying. My rink on the other hand, we could definitely use more skaters around. Not that that will happen because I didnt even get to see the Olympics on tv here. Not one single tv station played the olympics. Its too bad because my rink has maybe 15 people who actually figure skate, and only 3 people who really figure skate. Maybe 8 girls are all in the little stages of onefoot spins and toeloops. There are about 4 more who are up to the point where they are starting on their axels, but none of them understand the Practice Makes Perfect concept. They all believe that the coach will make everything happen for them, they show up at 3 oclock for a 3oclock lesson and leave at 3:30 when its over. Then there are the final 3 of us who actually bother getting up to go to the rink before school and have acutally made it to the doubles stage of skating. We have no adult skaters, one guy, and no new little kids starting. I actually wish that they had played the Olympics and brought us some new skaters!

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Hurrah for Desert Skaters! YAY for Jeff Buttle and Virtue and Moire!

Our rink here is less than half the size of a normal rink .... so one can imagine how messed up it would be when a whole bunch of people go there at the same time.

no..trust me...you don't wish that. want more skaters, take all the ones at my rink, pleeeeease I'd be glad to let you have them all. Just enjoy your situation b/c here you'll take every second of ice time you can get. You get to skate practically with the ice all to yourself. I've never been able to get more than 10 mins of actual ice time all to myself, unless you wanna pay like $300 for an hr. concider yourself very very lucky.

but it does suck they didn't show the olympics? or maybe you just do not have the sports channel pack

I reckon ours must be less than 1/4 size

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OMG ... you're kidding! hmm... 1/4 size is starting to get ridiculous. You're in Tasmania right? I will have to check up on rink size. 1/4 size is starting to get kind of too small maybe.

OMG ... you're kidding! hmm... 1/4 size is starting to get ridiculous. You're in Tasmania right? I will have to check up on rink size. 1/4 size is starting to get kind of too small maybe. I just checked on google.... glenorchy skate rink... but no dimensions given.

Being crowded is not the only problem either. Some new people, like some school kids, that just rock up to the rink just to mess around for one afternoon tend to not respect some of the rules, like not to drop candy wrappers and candy on the ice. And then, when some of them fall, they drop coins on the ice, and some drop hair pins. And some rental skates tend to drop little pieces of skate parts on the ice as well. These crazy things can be disastrous when a skate rolls over them. Not just for the skaters, but also not nice on the blade edge. Hair pins getting caught under the blade can be really nasty.

Well I have to admit I am not sure what an Olympic size rink actually measures. I know ours is pretty small though. Heck, I'm just grateful there is a rink here.

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I skate - therefore I am

Not sure...a hockey rink is supposed to be around 61 x 26 metres.

Our ice rink here is ... ok....don't laugh.... 32 x 22 metres.

Ours is an Olympic size rink and it measures 60m by 30m. The problem is you get used to that size and when you go and compete elsewhere on a smaller rink you run the risk of running into the barrier!

Nicki

As I understand it, Olympic-size is 60x30 and "National" or hockey rinks are 56x26. Our rink manages to be 60x26, which has some advantages and some disadvantages.

This year the British Adult Championships, like the European Championships, will be on the smaller size.... sigh! Mind you, given the state of our step sequence right now, that's perhaps just as well.....

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Lately, when I teach on the public sessions, I wait impatiently for the birthday party announcements calling the skaters for pizza and party! I know the on-ice crowd will thin out substantially.

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