Skating On Ice II
18 May 2010 Leave a Comment
in Entertainment, Ice Skating Tags: class, Glide, Ice skating
After having a fun time skating, falling, tripping hurting the butt on ice, now even more I wished to learn it so I could enjoy what i love 
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Went to the counter and found out , that some classes are conducted for different levels of skaters Beginner, professional . Without any second thought enrolled myself in for 8 sessions of beginners level which included Adult lesson for 30 minutes with 30 minutes of practice time. The fee for the class was $135 fro beginners Adult which doesn’t include price for skate rentals. so every time you go for a class if you don’t have your own skates you need to rent them. Rental skates are not so comfy to skate in, but manageable.
My first class was on a Thursday evening.We were about three beginner students. Our teacher was very sweet to make us feel comfortable knowing that we were a little 
tensed. Before getting onto the ice she showed us how to get up when we have a fall, well the trial was out side the rink, so it was not so scary hehehe…. it was fun..
Now the time to roll in..I was so glad to see so many fellow students of different levels learning around as i was thinking i might be the only one who do not know how to skate. But it was nice to see people around so what I’m in the first level hehe.. well as my teacher says, to walk first you need to learn crawling
The first two classes was cool, she thought us how to walk baby steps and feel comfortable on ice. She says we need to make friends with ice to skate on ice..Once you are comfortable with baby steps the next was to do glide, hmm that was a little difficult in the beginning every time you take four steps the next step you try to glide , you see you are standing at one place now that was so not done..
Well as they say you got to work hard to get to the place where you wana be.. after the two classes i wasn’t so comfortable with the skating shoes i rented, so i decided to buy one for myself.. since i was student in the rink , the shop at the rink gave me 10% off and i got my new skates for $60 cooll.. my new shoes i love it..
They say when you buy new skates and try on for the first time you tend to fall .. and taada as soon as i kept my first step i went down hehehe ( im just kidding ) nothing as such happened.. it was a little spooky but i got the hang of it..
After 6 classes at the end of my last class i was able to glide and skate front and backwards, on my own. Wow that was some accomplishment for some one like me who thought it would be a dream to skate on ice with so much fear. But at the end it was all fun.
I shall say just one thing no matter what don’t give up on your dream. Give a try at least once.
Skating On Ice!!!
16 May 2010 Leave a Comment
in Entertainment, Ice Skating Tags: Ice skating
From the place where I come from, we don’t get to experience this sport. Its just through movies imagining how lovely this sport must be. 
“Skating” when we hear this word we always get the picture of Roller Skates, most of us don’t know if we can do skating on ice. Fascinated by Disney movies, was very much moved by this sport from a very young age. Had a dream to experience once in this life time. Hoping someday will skate on ice…
Last winter, this dream of mine came true. My loving better half took me to ice-skating. I was thrilled with the surprise and was so happy jumping all around.. {yaa you can imagine that i was doing that } (Blushing!! )
This place has its own indoor ice-skating rink. It was so cool. A little far from our place. Here they allow you to use their ring during public sessions and also provide skates on rentals.
It was Sunday morning, public session were on.. $7 for using the ring and $4 for the rental. Well worth it.
When we got the skates, seeing the blades attached to the boots of the skates, I was thinking OMG.. how will i stand on these and walk and skate on ice…
My heart beating so fast with all anxitey, fear and happiness { ya it was a sceen to be captured} , i said to my honey – “ I don’t think i will be able to get into those shoes and stand, i agree its me who was all excited about ice-skating but i m in no mood of breaking my bones..So what we will do is you try on first. if you don’t fall and yet able to stand, than i will try hehehe “ Yeah i know im so wicked (smiling wickedly )
Well as always my honey bunny tried it on as a sweet boy, showing to be all courageous and saying to me – “ See its so easy and i can stand and walk” hmm seeing him and all other people including little kids..i said to myself- why not let me try..
Guess what it is.. when you put on the shoes , just one thought will be running – I’m going to fall when I stand.. but nothing as such will happen take my word 
from experience. hehehe
Now the time was to get into ring … wow what shall i say.. my heart running at a speed of 365 degrees.. ( you must be thinking degrees well duhhh.. it was chilly tooo ) ..i kept my first step in holding the railing and than the second.. it was like landing on the moon just that i was on earth .
my first steps on ice wow… so afraid from inside the whole time i dint leave the railing. I was walking all the time just holding on to it. But it was awesome. Tried to leave the rail but bang i fell , it was coool just that i hurt my butt hehehhe..
It was so much of fun that how the one hour of time flew dint even knew. I was so happy to skate on ice.. i wanted to learn it well so i could enjoy it. Found out , that some classes are conducted for different levels of skaters Beginner, professional etc..
If you like to try out ice-skating you can check out this place Veterans Memorial Ice Skating Rink.This place is in West Hartford. To check if you have any ice-skating rinks near by your place than just search in Google by giving the key word Ice-skating ring with the area name you looking for.
Want to read more about what happened did I take up the class or I just gave up my dream..than check out my Ice Skating part 2
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