skatingforums.com  

Go Back   skatingforums.com > Figure Skating > On Ice - Skaters

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 09-10-2002, 06:31 AM
kayskate kayskate is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 888
my inline freestyle photos

I posted a set of artistic inline skating photos on my web site in the photo
gallery. They are not the best quality but the rink was dark. I did whatever I could to lighten them, but they are still not as good as I would have liked. However, there they are. I am skating on rockered inlines (picskates) in a small roller rink. The extent of my inline skating right now is basic skating skills and MITF, which I find translates nicely to improvement on ice.
http://www.skatejournal.com/gallery.html

Kay
__________________
Visit my figure skating journal
http://www.skatejournal.com/
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 09-10-2002, 10:09 AM
Mrs Redboots Mrs Redboots is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 1,452
Very nice! Lovely photos and an interesting journal entry. As for the duct tape - have you never had to skate round an ice rink picking up sweet papers - would you call them candy wrappers? - that other people have dropped?
__________________
Mrs Redboots
~~~~~~~~
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!



Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 09-10-2002, 01:00 PM
dbny dbny is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 0
I wouldn't have stepped onto that surface in roller skates for anything. Bravo to you!!! As a former roller dancer, I want a properly finished maple floor before I would risk it, but then, I am 55 and 37 years from my roller skating life.

I thought you did a great job on the pix. Loved your comments on the rink decor. Every rink I skated in as a kid had that "disco" ball.
__________________
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers." Barak Obama, 44th President of the United States of America
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 09-10-2002, 10:08 PM
wannask8 wannask8 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 135
These pix are great -- you look so graceful, it's hard to believe that you're on concrete/duct tape instead of ice!

-- wannask8
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 09-11-2002, 05:53 AM
kayskate kayskate is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 888
Actually I did not see the duct tape until I was skating. Then I wiped out when I hit it. It was actually so comical that I fell from hitting a duct tape patch that I just sat there on my butt and laughed. Then I went over to my husband and asked if he took a pic of the fall. Too bad he didn't.

Anybody here watch the Red Green Show? It'a a Canadian comedy about a guy who tries to be a handyman. He makes things like a zamboni out of an old K Car, a 55 gallon drum and a lot of duct tape. All I could think of was Red Green when I was at that rink.

I was actually amazed how much those wheels felt like blades on a smooth surface! I could have easily gotten carried away and tried something stupid. The whole time, I had to consciously think "these are roller skates". When I tried to spin, the entrance felt the same but the rocker was not in the same place. It was a lot of fun. i wish I had a roller rink nearby, I would definitely use it once in a while.

Kay
__________________
Visit my figure skating journal
http://www.skatejournal.com/
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:55 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2010, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © 2002 - 2005 skatingforums.com. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2002 Graphics by Dustin. May not be used without permission.
Posts may not be reproduced without the first obtaining the written consent of the poster.