Tomorrow I have a figure skating competition. For as long as any of us choose to pursue this hobby, there will always come another day when tomorrow, there is a competition. And I’m sure I’m far from the only skater out there who has some FEELINGS about that. When I started figure skating again as…
I used to love Instagram. I used to enjoy social media. With a few exceptions, those days are no more. These days, I like my media in long form: excellently written television, movies, stories. So it’s not much of a surprise that this blog is forming the basis of Allez Skate’s Media Footprint (TM). But…
I have one rule and one rule only when it comes to my figure skating practice: if I’m not having fun, I pack it up and leave. In reality, I’ve not had to apply this rule more than a handful of times in the five years I have been figure skating. But when I have,…
So what if I don’t feel like skating? How many days in a row have to pass before I go from being a Very Serious, Positively Consumed by The Sport That Is My Passion™ Skater into just being a random middle-aged lady who still bristles with surprise when people call her “ma’am”? Invisible in my…
I love all kinds of skating. I’ve spent a good portion of my life chasing that flying feeling both on wheels and on the ice. Once I even found an abandoned skateboard in a ditch. I took it home and fooled around on it sometimes for a bit. I wasn’t even half bad at it,…
I used to think that I would be able to die happy if I could just jump an axel in figure skating. The axel: one-and-a-half elusive rotations in the air that are a benchmark of technical skill. Guess what? I can jump axels now, albeit so far with a negative grade of execution in competition….