Wow. I am convinced that skating really is addictive. I've only been off ice one of the prescribed four weeks so far and I feel that I am having cravings to go practice. I just read the waltz jump thread and since I finally got the hang of a good high waltz jump (oh, you jump OUT of the circle!) now I am having an intense waltz jump craving

Hope I don't need surgery because I am skating July 8 and that's just that!

Heck if I need surgery I might as well go have a good intense practice the day before and do every jump and spin I know

--pouty and watching from the bleachers

Well Loop, I have been off the ice only 3 weeks (come Saturday) and I just COULDN'T do it! I am supposed to be "a responsible adult" but I went out and rented a WHOLE RINK - 1 hour tomorrow and 2 hours next Friday 'cause there's no other skating. I refuse to admit what it costs to rent a rink!

It's going to be fun though - looks like there will only be 3 of us tomorrow, maybe 4 next week. I am very much looking forward to not having to stay out of the way of the hot-shot young ladies and worrying about stepping on a little one.

I'd invite you to join me but it would be quite a trip to Manitoba!

It's MY party! I invite who I want

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

I agree, skating is addictive.

Chico

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"I truly believe, when God created skating, he patted himself on the back."

Yeah, I've been off ice for 3 weeks, and hating every minute of it. What makes it worse is that I still have to take my daughter to skate, so I get to watch everyone else working on things. It is interesting spending time as a skating mum, but it is frustrating.

When I asked my physiotherapist if it would be a bad thing for me to skate "just around and around" he said not for at least another week. How long that means it's going to take for my injury to recover enough to skate properly, who knows.

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Karen

I skate - therefore I am

Definitelly addictive. I can't stay off the ice for more then a couple of days, and when I'm not skating on ice I am thinking about it!

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The hardest thing about ice skating is the ice.

Our rink offers to rent the rink out for an hour at a time, and it was way more affordable than I thought it would be (although this is city resident rates- I'm not sure what non-resident rates- which I pay- would be). Problem is, if you rent in the summer you get a concrete floor. So it doesn't solve my problem at all.
http://www.ketteringoh.org/newweb/de...rental_ice.php

But I found an alternate summer rink and am skating 1x per week in a 1 hour group lesson.


As for being forced off ice- because I was forced out of dance for months, on multiple occasions, I know how it feels. Injuries suck. But they need time to heal.

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-Jessi
What I need is a montage...
Visit my skating journal or my Youtube videos (updated with 2 new videos Sept 26, 2009)

That's not bad Skitt! I paid $135/hour (Canadian) for 4:40-5:40 time slot and got a second one "for free" (June special ) and the 5:40-6:40 slot was $165 - 3 hours for $300

Oh, I said I wasn't going to admit what I paid Oh well. . .

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

Dianne that sounds like a great rate.

And the whole rink to yourself! (well with friends...)

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-Jessi
What I need is a montage...
Visit my skating journal or my Youtube videos (updated with 2 new videos Sept 26, 2009)

I go to a summer rink, drive about 1.5 hours to get there. With gas at $3 a gallon, and tolls, I'm only going about 2-4 times a month. My rink shut down for the summer in April so it's a pretty long off-ice. It won't re-open until September.

I will have another alternative rink, same drive time but my coach will be there, beginning in August.

I just got new blades (which rock!) and now I want to skate all the time again.......life is soooo unfair sometimes! Well, at least i can kick up my off-ice and jump on my trampoline!

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Skate@Delaware
Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

Hiya

Yeah I understand fully. For me ice skating is more than an addiction it is an obsession. If I could skate all day every day it still wouldnt be enough. At the moment Im only managing 4-6 hours skating per week and its just not nearly enough. I go crazy those days I cant skate. Its getting so rediculous I find im sulking and almost pining to skate.

Andrea

When it gets really really bad, i pop in a skating movie or a competition dvd...sappy I know, but it helps. If I can't skate, i watch it on tv.

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Skate@Delaware
Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

Ain't that the TRUTH!

There MUST be some reason why I bulldozed my south yard this spring to have a 45 x85 foot rink next fall! (Do "sane" people take a bulldozer to their yard?)

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

Dianne - Thanks for the coffee-splattering laugh this morning!

* Isk8NYC wanders off thinking about someone having room for a seasonal ice rink bigger than her own home's LOT SIZE! *

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It's totally addictive. You'll know it when you take a second mortgage on your house, so that you can continue skating. That's when you will have clear evidence that you are an ice addict!

it's as addictive as anything else you love. and it's even worse when someone takes it away from you!

oh i feel the same exact way i have been of the ice for about 3 weeks i hate it

I've actually come to enjoy my breaks from skating. When I was a beginner I had withdrawl if I was away from the ice more than a day, but now it's different. I do like to take a short break right after each nationals (let things heal) and get all the things done that I've pushed aside for skating, as well as do all the other things I enjoy - like working on my house. After a break I go back so much stronger. And I don't really feel I'm 'away" from skating at all. I paint fabric for new dresses, cut music, work on other skaters' costumes, and so on.

I've been on our club board and VP for a few years now. I've loved it, but it does take up an amazing amount of time. This year I declined the board nomination and am volunteering for the local dog rescue and Habitat for Humanity.

I've not skated since Mountain Cup, and my feet are finally healed from the killer boots! Now it's back to the ice to try the old ones again. It's nice having a balance.

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I have 5 acres, 466 x 466 feet and had to decide how much time I wanted to spend clearing snow. 45x85 is about 1/4 of an NHL rink and that fit in the yard RIGHT outside my back door - put my skates on in the kitchen, step outside and on to the ice I am going to put 8 50' strings of Christmas lights across the ice and outdoor speakers on the four corner poles. I think it will be GEORGEOUS on a nice winter evening! (And with my luck, we will have the warmest winter on record!!!! )

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

My backyard rink would be a postage stamp. I live in the city. I did once skate in the parking lot of a former apartment building when it froze over for a week.

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Here here

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Tim David's Website

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Tim David's Website

Um, WOW?

I wonder how you dribble the ball for ice basketball

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-Jessi
What I need is a montage...
Visit my skating journal or my Youtube videos (updated with 2 new videos Sept 26, 2009)

I have to agree on the addictive aspects. Being in the fairly new category myself (at two years and a bit) I hate every day off, but at least try to do something constructive in the exercise line to make it feel like I'm progressing.

As for the home rink, there's a neat little book called Home Ice by Jack Falla that I bought after seeing a recommendation on line. He's a hockey player rather than a figure skater, but there's some good material there--including practical directions and trouble-shooting on building your own rink.

It's one of my "skating lit" books I read when I can't skate, along with _White Boots_, _Hans Brinker_, and Arthur Ransome's _Winter Holiday_.

Rob Dean

You mean something like this? = OHMYGOD!

What IS THAT? actually WHERE IS THAT?

I want one.

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