The Ice Doesn't Care

Miss Bianca is determined that I do a Christmas program. Why she wants to torture a poor audience filled with parents and children, I have n...

I'm a FO3 flinger. When I'm doing a LFO3, I fling my right hip around during the turn. Apparently, I do this going up stairs in just...

I stopped  at the boards while Madam Mim's working with another student, and take a stab at improving my checking. She wasn't even l...

 Madam Mim is determined in my post injury restart, to get me to use power. Backwards. So we spend about a third of the lesson in back c...

I started out skating wanting to do figures. For those of you who are too young to know what 'figures' was, it was a form of structu...

 Madam Mim is still in the stage of making assessments of my skills (those that I still have) while I'm trying to come to grips that I n...

"You don't toepick," Madam Mim said, "That's good." On our first lesson, Madam Mim had been running me through...

I have a new coach. She specializes in Basic Skills, although she's taken adults through Moves. I was tempted to give her the blog nic...