slo’s THURSDAY 12/5 poll - Ice Skating ⛸️

[disneydreamer1980]

I don’t ice skate but my kids do. There’s an outdoor ice skating rink that opens during the holiday season that we go to a couple times a year as part of our holiday season tradition. DH and I watch the kids skate and we sit near the fire pits drinking hot chocolate. One of my DDs is really good, can do jumps and things, the other kids are ok but they enjoy themselves. The kids are always trying to get me to skate with them but Id probably kill myself if I tried lol

 

[MIGrandma]

I went ice skating when I was a child and teenager, always enjoyed it but haven’t done it in about 50 years. This brings to mind the best Christmas I ever had, I was about 14 or 15. The only thing I asked for was a new pair of ice skates. Christmas Eve came and we opened gifts. Me, my parents and maternal grandparents. I received lovely gifts but no skates. It was difficult to hide my disappointment, and I’m sure I didn’t do a good job of it. We took our traditional car ride around the area looking at Christmas lights, and when we got home my Mom called me into the living room saying there was one more gift under the tree with my name on it. It was the ice skates I wanted so much! My grandmother asked my mother how could she do that to me? But, it was the most memorable Christmas I have ever had as a child

 

[Imzadi]

I loved ice skating from childhood to young adult. I was rather good at figure skating, doing spins, twirls, a few jumps. But, later, after college, there was no place to skate.

Same for roller skating. It was really popular for a while. Anyone remember the movie Xanadu with Olivia Newton John? But, I only skated with the skates with 4 wheels configured like car tires. I had stopped skating way before Rollerblade inline skates were developed. I think I would have loved them, but by then, there was no place to skate or to rent skates to try them.

Now, I have osteoporosis and am afraid to fall if I skate, although I rarely fell once I learned how to skate. But, I can't risk getting a back injury now, especially if someone who can't stop plows into me. That happened once. A girl couldn't stop. She used ME to stop. And I went down.

 

[RedAngie]

Aren't Canadians born with ice skates on their feet and a hockey stick in their hands?

@ronandannette is one of those weird Canadians that was born with a curling broom in her hands.

 

[SM1992]

Skated alot when I was in my teens and twenties. There was a couple of ponds in my neighborhood that a bunch of us would go to when they froze and were safe enough to use. Played in some pick-up hockey leagues at a local rink for a few years. Haven't put on the skates in a while...

 

[design_mom]

I used to ice skate pretty regularly as a child and through college, either on ponds or indoor ice rinks. My daughter took figure skating lessons and my son played youth hockey (up to JV in high school, when he decided to switch to cross country and track). We went skating as a family pretty often back then but I haven’t been for probably 5-7 years. I think I could still do it but it doesn’t really sound appealing anymore.

 

[RedAngie]

I started ice skating when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I was going to be the next Peggy Fleming, Janet Lynn, or Dorothy Hamill.

I’ve kept up with skating and go two or three times per winter. There’s an indoor rink about 10 miles away. As was mentioned above, I went skating at Kings Dominion theme park a few years ago. Plus about 10 years ago by the Navy Pier in Chicago there was a rink with fake ice in the summer and I tried it.

 

[VandVsmama]

I've lived in areas that don't have snow in the winter, so only went ice skating a couple of times as a kid. Didn't like it at all. Didn't enjoy all of the falling down.

 

[Skippy918]

I skated as a kid and took lessons here and there. Got back into it as a young adult with more lessons. Took a long hiatus and went occasionally. Started taking lessons again a year and a half ago and worked up through Freeskate 5. I was able to get most of my single jumps and some spins (scratch, sit, and camel). Life got busy and so I have paused again. I really want to learn my axel. I’m in my mid 40s.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Red Angie and I went ice skating once. It didn't work out so well.

 

[soccerdad72]

I skated a few times in HS, as I dated a competitive figure skater. And skated a couple times with my kids when they were younger, but the last time I've probably been on skates was our last RCCL cruise (like 2019 or so).

 

[Micca]

Outdoors? Where it's cold and there's a sheet of ice???

 

[The Mayor]

I've been on skates since I was 3 years old when my father put a small rink in our back yard one winter. Over the years I've played (youth. high school, Juniors, college), coached and reffed hockey games. I still skate once or twice a week with my grandchildren and have taught all four of them to skate. My oldest grandaughter (7) is on a town youth hockey team and my oldest grandson (5) is in the learn to play clinic.

 

[georgina]

DD usually drags me out at least once a year to the sculpture garden rink at the National Gallery of Art. Last year the only rental skates they had in my size were figure skates, and not being used to the toe pick I had one spectacular fall on a turn before I got used to them. I enjoy skating, it is good exercise.

Lived near an indoor rink in Cleveland growing up, and a lot of kids were into speed skating. I always had issues with my ankles using their crappy rental skates though.

 

[jimmymc]

I play ice hockey about 3 times a week. I didn't learn to skate until college, and I only started really playing a few years ago, but I love it.

 

[Kitty 34]

Outdoors? Where it's cold and there's a sheet of ice???

Come to think of it Ron....I ice skate every time I head out to my car in very cold temps!!!

 

[Micca]

..I ice skate every time I head out to my car in very cold temps!!!

Good point, ice is no joke. Hibernation is a nice option

 

[MamaMermaid]

I'm a Florida girl -- not many opportunities for ice skating. I did break my elbow in high school ice skating. I feel like ice skating is the great equalizer... everyone looks goofy doing it unless they're a good skater, lol.

 

[RedAngie]

Red Angie and I went ice skating once. It didn't work out so well.

Tell them where I kicked you with my toe pick after you intentionally dropped me on my butt.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Done more roller skating than ice skating in life but ice skating was always a special event that required cold weather .

Skating at the Riverdale Rink at the top of Manhattan was a rite of passage for Bronx kids of a certain age. Throwing rocks in Spuyten Duyvil afterwards, screaming under the Jerome Avenue el as the train went by, we probably thought that was as good as it could get.

Also skated in Prospect Park with my baseball team of Brooklyn cousins when I visited with them. Eight boys and one girl. Their home was where I learned what a “boardhouse reach” meant
Good times, all.