Perversely, my ice-skating memories are all from Southern California. (I lived near an ice-skating rink.)
I love ice-skating, cause it is the only sport I'm a natural at. Normally you can find me in the dictionary, next to klutz. (Really: they sloughed off the whole "alphabetical order" thing.) But put me on ice skates, and I'm klutzy for two minutes, and then I'm on the ice doing figure ones. (Hey I never said I was natural Olympic material. But I can ice skate without falling - for a really long period of time. I was able to do it the first time I ever ice skated. And I still can.)
I used to take figure skating lessons when I was much, much younger. I remember being a part of the drill team and having early morning practices. We had to clear the ice for the hockey team, but not before doing our kick line down the length of the rink. That kept the eager hockey boys from sneaking onto the ice too early. Weak ankles kept me from making progress in competitions and I finally quit.
I have taken the kids skating. K-Bug does pretty well and CJ is absolutely without finesse but also without fear.
I love both ice skating and roller skating in spite of the fact I haven't done either in well over 10 years. To pick one memorable time with either is nigh impossible. Like Cash, I took roller skating lessons for a number of years and, while I ice skated every winter, I only took one semester of lessons in high school. Still, I think my favorite thing to learn was the jumps. The first time I completed a salchow on roller skates was a thrill beyond belief. My favorite on ice skates was the split jump because it was the only thing I could do better than the chick in our PE class who had been skating in competition for years.
Roller skating screwed up my knees. I've never ice skated. The old four-wheeler skates may have been too heavy for my feet (see above re: knees), but at least you could stand on them, which is more than I ever thought about narrow pieces of metal.
Skating is something that I have only tried a couple of times and I really want to skate but my ankles are weak.
Hmmm, originally I was told that they weren't taking the radiators but guess what? They are taking the radiators and right now? Leaving holes in my floors.
Who knew so many of you took roller skating lessons? Is this a midwestern thing?
What's your favorite skating music?
I've never been ice skating. When we had a minor league hockey team here there was ice skating, just around Christmas. currently they have a tiny little ice skating area downtown but I don't think I'll try my hand.
And I wasn't much of a roller skater. I went on Friday nights (I think) because that's what everyone did. We'd skate to the songs and do the hokey pokey and some other things and drink "suicides" (which erika mentioned earlier -- you mix up two or more fountain drinks and try to make the most disgusting combinations and still drink them). I never learned how to skate backwards or do any tricks or anything. Just went round and round.
Mine is roller skating.
It was the 4th-6th grade roller skating party. My very first one. It was the "last skate" which is always a slow song, and I had no one to skate with. Mr. Ladany, one of THE best teachers ever in this world to have lived and taught, knew my uncles and my mom and saw I was alone and kind of mopey. He called over one of his students, a 6th grader, and asked him to skate with me. He smiled at me, said, "C'mon, Aimee. Let's shake it." He held my hand the ENTIRE time we skated and then pecked me on the cheek at the end.
I had a crush on him for YEARS after that. Still kinda do.
Journey!
JZ says that Jane's Addiction's "Been Caught Stealing" is just about ideal for ice skating.
