Ok fellow skaters!! It's time to get to know all of us all around. Some of the questionare I'll leave optional. As some of you might not feel comtable answering it. But if you do. Please feel free to. So here's what I want you to tell me today....

Name = (Optional)

Were your from = (Optional)

Years Skating altogether =

Years doing your Discipline. If you do more then one Discipline,please say the amount of years you've been doing all.

Outside of Skating = Please tell what interest you have off Ice.


For me it's...

Name = Dana

Were I'm from = Connecticut in the US.

Years Skating = About 4.

Years doing my Discipline (Learn to Skate) = about 4

Outside of Skating = I enjoy reading, making friends,surfing the web,swimming (really getting wet LOL.),going on Picnics,and going to the Park.


Ok fellow Skaters......GO!!!!

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FSWer

Name-Laney

Where From-A small city about four hours from NYC

Years Skating Altogether-About four on and off

Years in DIsapline-Well I do freestyle...but it's more artistic/showcasy...I've been doing that for four years as well.

Outside of Skating-Music, theater, dance, writing, massage therapy(job), singing, walking throught the woods, aromatherapy baths, reading, choreographing, and CHOCOLATE...hehe

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[i]Beauty May Be in the Eye of the Beholder
But passion is in the heart of a skater.[/I]

Name: Marvin
Where From: Mars
Years Skating: Martian years?
Years doing discipline: 5 years hunting rabbits
Outside of skating: Galactic domination

Feeling a bit silly today. Ok, here's my real one

Name: Kevin
Where from: Half Moon Bay, California
Years skating: Since 1970, on and off. Yikes, nearly 40 years!
Years doing discipline: I've been a freestyler all the way
Outside of skating: I don't have a life outside of skating and work (unless you count the occasional trip to Vegas). I work in aerospace on civilian spacecraft.

Name: Sarah
Where from: Southern California
Years Skating: I only do freestyle and I've been doing it about 4 years, total.
Outside interests: I'm a full time student and am interested in going into medicine. I take a springboard diving class at school and really hope to join the team. I have 2 dogs and they pretty much take up all of my free time

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Name = Kat

Where you're from = Metro Detroit

Years Skating altogether = < 1; since this past spring

Years doing your Discipline. All singles freestyle, all the time

Outside of Skating = Writing, music (vocal, instrumental [violin, viola, handbells], composition), Highland dance, not necessarily in that order.

Ummm...all interesting. BTW. what's artistic/showcasy?

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FSWer

Name = Bill Schneider

Where your from = Athens, OH, USA

Years Skating altogether = umm, 10 years serious skating if you don't count the years playing around on frozen ponds in the '60s and 70's.

Years doing your Discipline = I'd say 10 years freestyle.

Outside of Skating = Currently: photography, music/audio, woodworking, astronomy. In the past: some fairly serious motorcycle racing, and flying.





Don't laugh too hard!

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Bill Schneider

Name = Meagan

Were your from = Ontario Canada

Years Skating altogether = 14 years

Years doing your Discipline. I have done dance and skills for 5 years, interpretive for 7 years and freeskate for 14 years.

Outside of Skating = Dance, Track and Field, Soccer, Shopping, School, part time job, teaching the little ones to skate and reading.

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Goal:
Pass Gold solo
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Very passionate canadian skating fan && skater <3*

It's basicly freestyle, but geared towards performance, music interpretation, audience appeal, projecting an overall theme...I guess you can say like theatrical skating.

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[i]Beauty May Be in the Eye of the Beholder
But passion is in the heart of a skater.[/I]

Name= Eunice

Were you from: Singapore (originally born in Hong Kong, but have lived in London in the past 10 years. Just settled down in Singapore recently.)

Years skating altogether: more than 10 years. However, have 4 years break in between, thus the slow progress.

Years doing my discipline: 10 years freestyle skating, just started doing program in the last 3 months. Coach wanted me to have something to work on, rather than the random jumps and spins.

My life outside of skating: 10 months work experience in London, now waiting to be called to the Bar (graduation ceremony) on 26 November, hoping to find a decent job when I come back. I love watching movies, tv, socialising with people, reading books, catching up with friends and having church activities. I am now in leadership training in church.

londonicechamp

Name: Kristin
Where from: Waterford, MI (Metro Detroit)
Years Skating: 10 months
Years Doing Discipline: 10 months - Freestyle. Absolutely addicted to the ice, spinning, and jumping! Passed Pre-Bronze, but will be competing Bronze this January at Wyandote. Look out here I come!!!
Outside of Skating: Flash/Web Application Developer. Ballet/jazz hip hop , reading, running (on occasion when I am super antsy), lifting free weights, water skiing the course (during the summer...sad that its over for now..very..but hoping to be competing late next year in slalom skiing) and playing on my ski boat, swimming, listening to music (trance/progressive/dance). Synthetic hair rocks my world (dread wise) and I go out to a goth club every once in a great while when I get the itch to go cut loose on the dance floor.

Me too!!! (Well, the born in Hong Kong part. I was on the slum side (Kowloon) of Hong Kong.)

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Cheers,
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!!!

Name: morgail
Where from: Kentucky
Years Skating: 18...with a 9 year break between years 14 and 15
Years Doing Discipline: Freestyle - since forever; Dance - 3 years
Outside of Skating: I pay for skating by practicing law. I also write children's/young adult fiction, entertain my 4 cats and 1 husband, listen to music, attempt to garden, follow competitive skating, watch too much tv, and dream about all the places I want to travel.

Name: Sarah

From: London and Oxford, UK

Years Skating: Less than one seriously. I skated occasionally many years ago about once every couple of weeks for about an hour each time.

Years doing discipline: No particular discipline yet, I'm still learning

Outside of Skating: Travel (Europe and USA/Canada mostly), cooking and eating out, going to art galleries and museums, watching theatre, ballet, opera and musicals. Listening to classical music. I love driving both in the UK and overseas.

Name: Rhonda

From: New York

Years Skating: About 15 years. (With a big break between 17-30). Started at age 6.

Years doing dicipline: (Freestyle)
On Roller (quad/inline): 12 (alltogether)
On Ice: 3

Outside of Skating: There's something outside of skating????!!

Name: Marcia

From: Seminole, Florida

Years Skating: 12 years, started at age 43

Years doing dicipline: Freestyle all 12 years

Outside of Skating: Reading, cooking, rescuing dogs - currently have an 18+ year old Persian cat, 14 year old schnauzer mutt, 13 year old pekeapoo, 12 year old shih tzu, 10 year old cockapoo, 5 year old sheltie, and 18 month old sheltie, also a husband of 28 years. Workwise, in IT for 28 years, currently doing SQA

Name: Terry

Were your from: Delaware (probably one of the few natives left)

Years Skating altogether: almost 7 years

Years doing your Discipline: almost 7 years freestyle most of it (with a smattering of dance, pairs, synchro) and I've only missed on year's worth of shows.

Outside of Skating: I returned to college to become an RN, (enter clinicals in January 2010), I also hunt (pistol, archery, & shotgun), fish, belly dance, play the flute, sew, knit, crochet, cook, exercise, shuttle my son around to all his scouting activities, volunteer for the local hospice center, and care for my mother. Somewhere in there my husband tags along (he is waiting for me to finish my degree so he can retire but he doesn't skate anymore)

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

Name = Sharon

Where you're from = Minneapolis, Minnesota

Years Skating altogether = about 2. Took an intro to figure skating class in college, but don't seem to have retained much (it was almost 40 years ago!). Started taking lessons and skating regularly in Dec 2007 and I'm still at it.

Years doing your Discipline = I'm still trying to master the 3-turn.

Outside of Skating = Biking, science fiction, playing games on my iTouch.

Hi, Dreamshark/Sharon - we're neighbors!

Name = Renee

Were your from = Minneapolis area, Minnesota

Years Skating altogether = 9 total, ages 10-18 with a big 20 year break. I just started again a year ago at 40.

Years doing your Discipline = Freestyle, but just started ice dance 2 months ago.

Outside of Skating = Hmmmm....most of my life is at the rink, because my DD skates. Hence, starting skating again, because we mostly live at the rink. I am also our club's test chair and am a board member at large. I love to travel (mostly US, Europe, and Caribbean). I also love doing artsy craftsy stuff like card making, scrapbooking, and making Christmas Ornaments. We are also season ticket holders to the local NFL team.

Hi jazzpants

So nice to know that you were born in Hong Kong too, so where are you settled now in?

Hi Morgail

You still managed to learn ice skating, after you practise law. That is wonderful!!!!! When do you have your lessons? I shall be called to the Bar, in London, at Lincolns Inn, on 26 November. I will get my Call certificate during the call day, and come back to Singapore on 1 December. The trouble is once I start practising law, no regular schedule of when I will be off work, and so will not know when to book in for lessons, as in my rink in Singapore, lessons have to be booked in advance. Also, my home rink in Singapore said that no lessons to be conducted on the ice in the weekends, though my coach said that now I can have lessons with her as to when and what time I want the lessons (that is: after I have got myself a permanent job).

londonicechamp

It's not easy to fit the time in, but I'm lucky in that I work for a small firm that's flexible with my hours. So I take a 2 hour lunch once a week and have a lesson then. I try to come in early to make up the time. If I have something to do at work during my normal lesson time, my coach moves my lesson to another day. Your situation sounds tougher with having to book everything ahead of time. Does your rink have any evening times? I hope you can work something out!

Name = C

Were your from = Baltimore, MD

Years Skating altogether = 3 Years

Years doing your Discipline = I only do Freestyle even though my coach is encouraging me to do dance. I'm scared to skate so close to someone for fear of injury. Besides, I like jumping too much.

Outside of Skating = Working!!! LOL I play 3 instruments(Piano, Alto Sax, Flute), sing , Bowling, Racquetball, and the occasional video game.



BlackManSkating

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Proud to be one of the few black men out on the ice

Goals
Pass my Silver Moves Test
Finish Choreography for Silver Program
Land a Clean Double Toe and Double Lutz
Work on Double Axel and Rockers
Speed up back Camel

San Francisco Bay Area. Been there for over 30 years!!!

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Cheers,
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!!!

name: Ross
Skated : 27 years
6 years ( Disney on ice ) .
Age : 50
From Australia : resident of the World. ( currently living in PA)
Highest jump landed double lutz ( Years ago )
Highest jump attempted triple toe ( close but no cigar )
Lousy spinner .
skating Adult Gold ( When i can get there ) .
Job : Travel the World and take what i can find. ( part time Airline Pilot ).

Im off to kazakhstan for a contract job this time. See you all at nationals or Oberstdorf I hope.