figure skating

  • Skating is skating

    Byallezmegan

    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,…

  • After the Shaxel

    Byallezmegan

    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….