[Sportsandrec] ice skating

[Nella Foster]

Hello Ashley:

I haven't ice skated in years, but used to be pretty good at it.  When I was a very small child we lived on a ranch in MT and I learned how to ice skate on ponds and lakes.  I had some sight then, but was low vision.  I guess because I was small I had no fear of falling.

After we moved back to AR I rarely got the opportunity to ice skate.   We used to roller skate some, but I've never liked it as much as ice skating.  I did take an ice skating class in college and we met in an indoor rink.  A friend took the class with me and I just followed him or he would skate beside me.  Sometimes the teacher would position my body in the correct way or sometimes he would have me feel what he was doing.  It was a beginning class, so everything was very basic.  

I was much more concerned about falling, but I guess that is just part of it.  Now I'm wanting to go ice skating again.

Nella



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From: SportsandRec [mailto:sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ashley Bramlett via SportsandRec
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Subject: [Sportsandrec] ice skating

Hi all,

Who likes ice skating? What adaptive techniques did you use?
I have had a sighted guide skate beside me. Its not the easiest to maintain balance on those ice blades so sometimes I’ve skated by the wall if indoors or the border of the rink if outdoors. There is  a huge outdoor rink in DC I’d someday might try.

Would love to hear any thoughts and if you had lessons in skating. I’ve never had them. If you had lessons, was it adaptive lessons in a group or privately? How did they teach you something that is so dynamic and something which you cannot exactly feel how to do it?

Thanks.
Ashley
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