Not creative at all I live in Colorado, CO--I am a skater, and I was born in 64. Currently it should be changed to CO, walker and XX since I am at the point in my life where I no longer like to reveal my age.

Leslie

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Who me? Couldn't be....
http://www.youtube.com/bouldersk8r

my username is my real name with an "e" at the end. No special story behind.

In the 1970's and 1980's, New York State had a tourism campaign with the slogan "I LOVE NEW YORK." Catchy jingle - they still use the tune around this time of the year.

I sk8 NYC = "I SKATE NYC" (What a great adventure.)
I think that, with the exception of Chelsea Piers, I've skated in every rink in New York City. Then again, I skated at the "real" Sky Rink - when it was actually in the sky....

Our very-generous board owner had put up an announcement some time ago, saying that he couldn't do anymore name changes.

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Hmmm. I wonder if mine is self expainatory ????
On a few other forums I am 1mouse1muffin1monkey which are my kids nicknames. I am happy that I am not the only mom on here that has her kids as part of their user name !

Tre is one of my many nicknames, but one I prefer.

Sk8s, well, I'm a skater

AZ b/c that's where I'm living now, and I truly do skate just about everywhere there is a rink in AZ (I regularly skate at 3, test at a 4th, skate at a 5th when I'm visiting my parents, etc.)

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"Without a struggle, there can be no progress" ~ Frederick Douglass

. . . and even now, it's still a work in progress

I have done a little more since this picture was taken, but this is the last one I took. Some of her wings have been done and a little more beading than is on the pic.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...6091229&size=l

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Amanda

"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance . . . "

My Skating Journal

Wow! That's beautiful. You must have such patience!

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Thank you.

Hasn't been so much patience that has been required, as a magnifying glass to do her arms and face, as the stitches are so tiny! Of course, the pattern has regular size stitches, but me being me, decided that I wanted to do the tiny stitches to get nice skintone . . . Still, the overall effect was worth it.

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Amanda

"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance . . . "

My Skating Journal

I was away from figure skating for 36 years and started my "come-back" at the ripe old age of 56. The handle just seemed SO appropriate!

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

I always thought it came from your surname!

Oh, Leslie, you're only a baby - you're only a year older than my baby sister! Well, I suppose you could be 18 months older if your birthday's in January, but that's the most it could be.

As for me, when I first started skating I bought a pair of red boot-covers, because I reckoned that it might take awhile before people knew my name, and I wanted them to think of me as "The woman with the red boot-covers", rather than "The fat woman who can't skate".

One of the coaches, who knew that story, started to call me "Mrs Boots", and one day, not sure where from, I said "That's Mrs Redboots to you, dear!" and liked it, and have used it as a screen name ever since. At first just for skating, and now everywhere.

Incidentally I no longer have that pair of boot covers, they having fallen out of my skate bag on a trip to the hair-dressers, but kind DBNY replaced them for me, and I value those ones even more!

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I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

Oh! "vesperholly" is for the Lloyd Alexander character, Vesper Holly. I loved the books as a kid and still do, and especially I idolized her feisty, resourseful and beautiful character. Plus, it's not commonly used, so I can be "vesperholly" at almost any site.

Gee - can anyone figure out mine?

Actually, I was using my real first name on the first message board I ever posted on, which was US Figure Skating's. Someone else started posting some nasty things about a skater using the same name (this was before they had unique names), so I changed mine because I didn't want to be associated with that other person. Unfortunatly, I was not at all creative.

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"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." -- Unknown

Wow, that's gorgeous! The tiny stitches were worth it.

I think my user name is pretty self explanatory. LOL I would like to see more of us out on the ice but I'm proud to be one of the few of us trying this skating thing out!!!



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

Thanks for all the great stories, everybody!

Maybe we SHOULD all change our usernames at once and see who can guess the most new usernames correctly!

AiryFairy, your cross-stitching is beautiful!

And Jskater49, how conveeeeeenient that you decided not to update the number the following year, heh heh.

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

Well, I've been a lurker up 'til now, but this seems like a good thread on which to introduce myself.

R D Lite was the Jockey Club name of my wonderful horse, Reuben. I'm new to skating, but I have been riding dressage for about 12 years. Last Christmas, I made the difficult decision to put Reuben down at the age of 9, after a year-long battle with a rare autoimmune disease. I'm recently out of college and don't have the resources to get another horse yet, and I haven't been able to ride much since losing Reuben. I needed something else to keep busy, and on little more than a whim I decided to sign up for figure skating lessons. Lo and behold (and no surprise to anyone here, I bet), I was hooked. I've been surprised by how similar dressage and figure skating are, in some ways--though I'm much more graceful on a horse than on the ice, though hopefully that will change with time--and I have already met some wonderful people in my new sport.

Like Bill S, mine is pretty self-explanatory. Although, I was threatening to change it to "Iceless in SC" when our rink closed earlier this year . . fortunately it has since reopened under new management!

Mine started as kind of a joke, because I started skating and it started to take over my blog and I said "hope this doesn't turn into Gordon's Sk8er boi blog!" and then I decided that was slightly clever and went with it.

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School figures are skating's equivalent of the Latin Mass.

Welcome to the forum! I am so sorry about your horse. I can only imagine how difficult that must have been. Looking forward to a lot more posts from you!

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

Welcome I'm sorry about your horse. That couldn't have been an easy decision to make

My screen name is a combination of my first name and the name Morgan (I've always had an interest in Arthurian legend). I use it a lot on forums...it never seems to be taken by anyone else

Nothing terribly creative here: I grew up in Montana, and Montana Rose was a country rock band of more than a few (cough, cough) years back.


Ellen

My name is Muskoka Skater because I live in Muskoka which is in Northern Ontario and I'm a Skater so put it together Muskoka + Skater = Muskoka Skater!!!!

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2014 and 2018 Olympics here I come!

Skating, skating all day long, skating, skating all night long! May seem tiring to some people but not me, it's my life!!

Goals: Triple Loop, Novice Competitive, Sr.Silver Dances, Gold Artistic, and top 3 at Sectionals

Kayskate

Nickname is Kay on my web site and I skate.

Kay

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http://www.skatejournal.com/

Well my name is Katherine and Kate is from Katherine and Kate is in the word Skate - and of course I love to skate so we get kateskate (sometimes I have kateskate80 if kateskate is taken - 80 being year of birth)

People often therefore think my name is Kate when actually I am a Katherine or a Kath.

(My other username on other sites is KatieScarlett as my dad used to call me that when I was little and I love Scarlett O Hara.)

Needed a name - saw the Miraclegro bag near my computer, thought it was a good fit; it is a MIRACLE when i grow in this sport! And it feels great when i actually have something miraculous happen!