um, ok. i've also played basketball with a broken finger just taped up and worked out at the gym with a broken arm in a cast. skating with a broken toe is painful. it's squished in there, and your foot is pressured and moves even in a skating boot. plus, since it was my little toe it was pushed against the boot. whatever, i was just trying to relate to what the other person said about how skating makes us tougher, and how we'll skate anyway because we love it.

i've seen plenty of adults on here saying how they love being aggressive and how they love falling, and they don't have to defend themselves, so i don't know why i am.

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The skating may not sparkle, but my dress sure does!

Just passed: Pre-Bronze MIF & Freeskate. Next goal: Bronze tests in July.

As an adult, though, it's easy to say 'okay, I need a break, I'm going to take a month off and then come back.' I can imagine a teen feeling like that and taking a relatively minor injury as an excuse to do it, because taking a break 'just because' as a competitive athlete could cause people to stop taking you seriously.

Also I can see a doctor saying to an adult - "stay off the ice with your broken finger" and an adult saying "Hahaha, no way brother" ...a doctor telling a teenager's parents "She's off the ice" is another story.

j

You mean like when my physiotherapist said I needed to take two months off to let my sprained ankle heal and I asked "And if I don't?" (I went ahead and spent the next 3 months training for the Adult Championships ) Six months later, I know the answer to my question 'cause my ankle still bothers me from time to time. Have I taken time off? NO!

The only person I listen to (it seems) is my coach, and if she told me to take time off, I would ignore her to!

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(A.O.S.S.? Got it BAD! )

I wasn't talking about what's most painful, I was talking about what's risky and what isn't. But it's okay, I have no idea why I posted, because I'm getting attitude already from my first post in like 6+ months. I'm back out of here.

It's this strange phenomenon called a 'different opinion from your own' - quite prevalent on internet forums I understand...

S xxx

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There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"

See that's the reason I don't even go to doctors. I know I'm gonna ignore whatever they advise anyway, so what's the point?

Skating itself is risky. As adults, we get to decide how much risk we want to tolerate.

And if that little bit of a response is what you call attitude, sweetie, you must find real life excrutiatingly painful.

LOL! You are great, Sessy, I really love reading your posts

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The skating may not sparkle, but my dress sure does!

Just passed: Pre-Bronze MIF & Freeskate. Next goal: Bronze tests in July.

I went to the doctor to make sure it was only a broken toe and nothing else. If I had tore ligamnets or other things I would have taken his advice and cool it for awhile. But it was only a broken toe and he said you aren't going to make it any worse by skating so once you can get your foot in the skate...go for it.

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Keeping School Figures Alive!!

I would gladly tell you the name! It was Lynne Robertson from the Detroit area. She's tough but always gives credit where credit is due.

Another one of the judges I had on my Silver FM test was Charles Cope, a Gold-level FS & Dance judge. He also wrote on my test paper "Nice test, Kristin!"

Yes, I like to nit-pick my Field Moves and it really reflected on that test! I worked very hard to make things as correct & powerful as possible & I guess the judges appreciated it.

I love doing this too with the kids at my rink! It's amazing what you can do if you just TRY it....

That's how I learned how to do an outside spread eagle! A couple of the kids were trying them, so I gave it a go and was really surprised to find myself moving on an outside edge on both feet!

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I've got mad salchow disease!

I play "SHOW ME!" as my usual last class for my group students during each 10-wk session. By that point, they've mastered everything that they're going to master during the session, I've recorded the test results/next class levels, and we all want to have some fun. Some of them look forward to it so much they rehearse their "Show Me!" in advance!

I also have them do "weird skating" - strange positions, unusual spins and jumps. Once, a skater scared the *&^% out of me by doing a fwd crossover and jumping off the CROSSED foot in a strange forward picking maneuver. I shudder every time I think of that move - I was sure she would go down face-first.

Just to clarify: the skater I mentioned in my original post wasn't talking to or having fun with anyone. I got the distinct feeling she was trying to "show up" the other skaters.

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I think that may happen to me, too. I have to be the oldest student in LTS for the longest (over five years, minus the time I took off for the broken ankle) I may die in LTS. As long as I keep learning, it's worth it to me. Plus, since I've been coming for so long, the rink gives me freestyle rather than public punch cards. I come out way ahead financially!