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….