masthead #50 – skating
I cannot skate very well at all. We went skating last year with one of my good friends, and as she pirouetted her way around like a lithe figure skater, Jason took a solitary bone-cracking fall on the ice and then skated the rest of the evening without incident, while I shuffled and fell my way around the ice feeling as though both my ankles were about to snap in half, and tiny tots speed-skated around me. We still had a blast though and plan on doing it again this year.
How about you? Can you skate?
I can’t really stop when I skate. Which wouldn’t be such a big deal, except for the fact that I played ice hockey for college and you kind of NEED to know how to stop when you skate. I got really good at running into the boards when needed.
Even worse, is that I wasn’t the worst player/skater on the team!
Comment by sarah — December 1, 2010 @ 2:20 pm
I am a TERRIBLE skater and as a result I really don’t enjoy it. I just don’t find it fun to take scary little baby steps while clinging to a railing and waiting for my feet to slide out from under me. And if I try anything more ambitious, I end up flat on my ass.
Comment by Jess — December 1, 2010 @ 2:29 pm
I’m not a very good skater. I get the same ankle burn and feel like I will surely die. I take my kids to outdoor rinks so I can just go around with them in my boots. The masthead is really cute.
Comment by LoriD — December 1, 2010 @ 4:09 pm
I can skate (I grew up in a town where kids were playing hockey by the time they could walk, and we lived on a river – ready-made skating rink!), but I have the same problem as Sarah. I can’t stop. I kind of spin in a circle. I tried teaching myself how to do a “hockey stop,” like where you turn your feet sideways, but I’m too chicken. And I never figured out how to do a t-stop; that’s how I end up going in circles. Unfortunately, Ryan doesn’t skate, so if James is going to learn how I’ll have to be the one to teach him. Poor kid.
Comment by Becky — December 1, 2010 @ 5:29 pm
I can skate a bit. Don’t get to do it much now living in Seattle. There is a picture of me from when we lived in upstate New York in our iced over front yard with skates on my feet, I was 3 and a half at the time. See my dad played NCAA Division 1 hockey so we were all practically born with skates on our feet. I wish I had more opportunity to skate, I always enjoy it so much when I get to.
Comment by Emily — December 1, 2010 @ 6:46 pm