Last session our rink's "adult only" group class was eliminated so I spent 8 weeks with the "jump & spin" kids (one of which was my 8 y.o. DS!) . . . this session the "adult" group class is back - and the first class is tonight!

Can't wait to see everyone again (most everyone else decided to forego the class with the kids) . . . but the environment will definitely be different - hope I remember to skate like an adult!! (or then again, maybe not!)

I had lots of fun with the kids though, and though perhaps a coincidence, I came a loooong way in the last 8 weeks . . . finally managed a salchow and one foot spin . . .can't complain!

I don't want to grow up - don't want to grow up
I just wanna be a kid - jus wanna be a kid
enjoy your age appropriate play group
Lyle

Strange thing, skating ... I don't think being surrounded by kids particularly bothers me - if they can skate ... I certainly don't act my 51 years when I am on the ice - only today a young girl told me my skating was 'wicked' !!! Hee hee, perhaps I just enjoy teasing people, they see this old bloke and expect me to wobble around the rink. Gives me an excuse to dance to the disco music as well !!!

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I skate with kids 3 mornings a week and I would miss them. When I've skated with adults, they tend to want to chat and I feel rude skating away, but I don't pay $12-$15 an hour to chat! The kids inspire me.

A couple times I've skated less crowded public free style (I usually skate club ice) and been the only one and instead of being grateful for having all that ice to myself, I just cannot motivate myself. I need the kids!

j

I usually skate with kids and I much prefer it. It pushes me to skate better as I want to skate like they do!

I too would much rather skate with the teenagers. I'm much more motivated skating with others than alone...After 20 min or so, I get bored having the whole ice to myself. Besides, I'm only 24, and am much more active and fit now than I ever was in HS. I feel I fit in pretty well. Get this: At my PB moves test, one judge asked me if I was 21, then afterwards told me I could pass for 16! Don't know whether that is a compliment or not...I don't think I look that young!

Have to say I prefer to skate with the grown ups. Our rink is tiny, and the kids are mostly not very high level. They whizz all over the place, and I am worried I will smack into one, fall on them and squash them flat

And the teenagers! They seem to intersperse their skating with socialising, standing in really annoying places where you want to jump or spin to have their group chats. Also the squealing drives me nuts. Not to mention the unsavoury collection of youths that come to watch them.

Call me a grumpy old woman, but I much prefer the quieter, more civilised adult sessions when I can get to them.

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I skate - therefore I am

That is more true of the adults I've skated with. No squealing though.


j

I agree with SOC about the kiddies. One of my sessions is with the youngsters and I get tired of breaking off my moves 'cause they skate right into my path like they expect the right of way.

My favorite is my 7 to 9 a.m. slot with the SERIOUS competitive skaters (late teens, early 20's). Despite my low level of proficiency they recognize WHY I am there and accept me as an equal member. We make room for each other, root for each other, and applaud for each other.

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What's an adult?? After all, one of the first things you learn when you grow up is that there aren't any grown-ups..... We might be middle-aged (well, I am!), but do we really feel any different inside than when we were 16? Or even 6?

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Yick - it was not a very good lesson - mostly because they didn't even bother to zam the ice after having HOCKEY on the ice before us!! ruts, holes, it was not pretty. I need to get my blades sharpened too, so it was total skidding frustration for me, considering the combination of the two. Plus they opened the public session at the same time - we coned off one end of the rink for our lesson but as it turned out, we had about 7-8 skaters in lesson and maybe 2-3 on public. hmmm. Something wrong with that picture!!

Hopefully this was an isolated incident as they get back into the swing of having Monday night lessons again - if not, I'm going back to skate with the kiddos - no kidding!!

P.S. but, my former classmates were quite impressed with my "new & improved" one foot spin . . . ! So that was cool!

Yes.... fersure! I am far LESS mature and have WAY more "brass" than when I was young (even if it is a bit tarnished!)

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I have to skate in the early mornings since work gets in the way of any other time. I LOOOOOVVVVEEE skating with the kids! Yesterday, I had a very bad change foot, and must have looked upset. One of my favorites, a 13 year old, came over and asked me if my spin was troubling me, and offered to help me. I think she channeled my coach - she demonstrated what I needed to do and talked through it, and watched my next attempt, which was great! And it was great for coach this morning too! The kids get a kick out of helping me, and I love it!

I could not skate with the kids! Or teenagers. There are a few at my rink who really wind me up, plus they have no awareness of what is going on, and they are so loud and shreeky!

Give me my fellow adults any day. I am actually one of the youngest in my group, I am 25, and that is much preferable.

Laura H I hope next week is a better lesson for you.

I don't like taking lessons with kids because when I do, I feel like the instructor is sort of overlooking me and not giving me as much attention because they are so concerned with trying to get the kids to understand/pay attention.

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I've had the same problems even with ADULTS ONLY classes!!! I think after a while I gave up on group lessons b/c I wasn't getting the attention needed in group classes. (i.e. I didn't get much attention b/c I already had a primary coach and the group coaches focused on the ones least likely to have a private coach (or at least the ones that comes off as needing the most help.) Can't blame them though. )

Of course, this is LOOOOONG time ago... and my (now 18 years old) "skating niece" is now a group coach!!!

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

That's how I ended up in the Artistry in Motion class...I decided to take Learn to Skate thinking I could get some cheap freestyle instruction. Well this was my instruction from a teenage girl on how to do a salchow - "just do a 3 turn and jump" Yea that might work for kids, but not me. I was getting so frustrated and the AIM class was next door and they skated by me to music waving their arms around and so I joined them...and never looked back.

j

It gives new meaning to the words "You get what you pay for..."

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

No kidding, however, the coach who teaches AIM is my expensive freestyle coach...so sometimes you get a good deal

j

Yes, I lucked out too since DS' coach (mine by proxy too, I suppose) is our group instructor!