Hi! I'm Dawn and a victim of Late Onset Adult Figure Skating! I skated on ponds as a kid, but never took lessons. When I signed my son up for the tots class I noticed they had an adult class during the same session so I signed up. I'm 44, I started skating at 39. I just passed the Adult Pre-Bronze Freestyle test and the Bronze moves.

Hey I'm Ashley...I'm a 22 year old competitive ice dancer and at this very moment I am in salt lake city competing at sectionals. My partner and I are from ny but we train in Connecticut. Lots if traveling and lots of driving but I love it!

hey i'm nikki!

i have my gold medal in moves in the field, my intermediate freestyle (then i had to quit), and i'm working on my pre-gold dances.

i've been skating since i was 3 and competing in both freestyle and synchro since i was 6. i competed in my first synchro nationals when i was 8, and since then i've competed at nationals for synchro 6 times. when i was 14 i fell on a double jump and got nerve damage at three levels in my spine, so my doctors made me quit freestyle. but i still do synchro, and i have for about 8 years. i'm currently a senior team and cross skating down to help out with the novice team as well.

Good luck to everyone at sectionals!

Hi! I just found this group on here today!

I'm Chris. I skated singles & synchro competitively since age 8 (have 4 Gold tests in Canada), turned pro/coach at 18 and worked until after the birth of my 2nd child at age 30. I moved to Cleveland 4 years ago and haven't been able to coach as I am a dependent on my husband's work visa. But I found a synchro team and am having a blast competing again. It's fun not being to one in charge! Ha! We skated Masters the past 3 years but this year we moved to Adult Open as we got some young, strong blood on the team. Its great but still a little sad we are not going to Nationals this year. At first we thought we would work on improving to eventually move to Adult but I think it maybe easier to wait until our young ones age and can go back to Masters. LOL!

Anyway, so glad to see skaters on here. I've been wearing my hrm monitor to practices and I'm amazed at how much it burns. If I have to choose between going for an hour run or going for an hour skate, I'll pick an hour skate any day!

Hi again! Haha, so I was really tired when I posted to this Roll Call but I was just so happy to find it I had to answer right away. So I thought I'd tell you a bit more on who I am.

I used to skate when I was younger, I have never been tiny, even when I used to practice a lot during high school. I quit when I was 15 and started to work as a coach and have worked as an adult coach for some years. (Love love loved it.) Nowadays, I'm 29 and in my final year of medical school, time sometimes run short! I decided to start skating again about 3 years ago and I skate about 3-4 times a week, do yoga once a week and TRY to get my lazy but to the gym for strength and cardio about 2 times a week. I don't always succeed.

The past month I have been struggling with an injury to my lower back (Really frustrating) and I also decided, after new years that I had to do something about my weight, being 180 lbs I just felt so heavy and unfit on the ice. And I really felt that the extra weight put so much more strain on my joints, especially when jumping, that I had to do something. So, here I am! I'm now at 170 lbs and I have a goal weight of 127lbs (Oh dear, fingers crossed).
Yes, that's about it. Skate carefully!

/Jo

Hi, all. I'm a 57-year old adult figure skater. I skated recreationally as a child; started my first private skating lessons at age 22. Got utterly and completely hooked, which is probably a good thing, as I'd otherwise have been a complete couch potato the past 35 years (low tolerance for 'boring' exercise). Ended up teaching/coaching for several years, and am now simply trying to get back to skating regularly after some recent health issues put a damper on things. Best exercise ever for getting in shape, no matter the age.

Hi!

My name is Anna and I am a semi-competitive figure skater. I skated competitively through USFSA from the age of 12-18 in the lower divisions then moved to Ohio for college. I now train at Miami University and compete for their Intercollegiate Figure Skating Team. I competed this year at Nationals for Intercollegiate Team Skating, skated a pretty strong Novice Short but the altitude started to get to me during the event at Colorado Springs. Even while i was half way through my weight loss goal, that's when i knew I needed to do something and make myself healthier.

My motivation for weight loss is to be a better competitor and skate stronger. I gained 20 lbs upon going to college and now am trying to make myself a better athlete both for my team and myself.

So glad I found this group and hope to get to know all of you!

Hello, My name is Lisa. I used to skate as a youngster and gave it up when I discovered boys. Now that I am an empty-nester and have lost 70 pounds I started looking for something fun to do for exercise. I remembered how much I loved ice skating, so I went out and got a pair of skates and hit the ice (not literally, thank god!). I was shaky but it felt really good. I signed up for lessons with a goal of doing some ice dancing.

I enjoyed my first lesson immensely! Look forward to chatting with you all!

Hey everyone!

I'm Vic, I'm 23 and been on the ice almost my entire life! Never been competitive, can barely land single jumps most days. I stopped skating for about a year and a half during university, and got myself a bad boyfriend and the whole bit... but I had to get back out on the ice. I found that one of the local clubs here has an Adult session, so I immediately joined that and haven't looked back to skating with kids since.

My current goals are to land an axel, compete at Adult Nationals and get my Skate Canada Gold level dances, all by the time I'm 30! The axel one could possibly happen this season, my fingers are crossed!! Nationals are a few years off yet, and the dances I'm still stuck on my Harris (hopefully testing it by the spring though!).

So nice to see so many adult skaters!!

Happy to find this group here! As my MFP name indicates, I love to skate! I took up skating as an adult, and my goal is to pass my Pre-Bronze tests in the first half of 2013, and Bronze before the end of the year. I skate competitively, in ISI competitions, USFS and Showcase. I try to get on the ice at least 4 times a week, but it's not always easy since I work full-time.

I skated as a kid. I got up to Freestyle 1 then I stopped skating once I hit high school. Now, at age 38, I am getting back into it again. I signed up for adult lessons. Started this past weekend and i LOVED it. I went out and bought a new pair of skates. Such a fin exercise. I feel like I'm flying when I'm out there

Hi fellow skaters and skate-lovers, I'm Robin. I've been skating for about 23-25 years in total (I'm 31 now). I took a year off here and there throughout that time, but I've never been away from the sport for a substantial amount of time. I competed when I was younger, but never had the mental toughness to really embrace that lifestyle. I stopped freestyle at the intermediate level (at 13), but continued ice dancing. I'm working on my international dances now. Also, now in my 30s, I've decided to get back into freestyle (why not?!) minus the jumps - my knees can't handle it anymore! Getting old sucks! On top of that, I've decided to finish my MIF tests after a 20 year hiatus. Again, why not?! I guess you could say that I've fallen madly in love with skating again, and I've become skate-obsessed!

Hello Figure Skaters past and present! Greg here, I am an adult figure skater and have been doing it for ten years. At 52 I am still learning new jumps, getting better positions in my spins and improving on edge quality. I have competed at a few Adult Nationals in Canada winning in 2013and realized the only way I was going to improve to where I want to be was to lose weight! So far 26 pounds and I gained a flip jump along with adding a loop to a salchow and waltz jump, all since I started fitnesspal the beginning of April this year. I still haven't tested, except for the Dutch Waltz, so I continue to skate in adult bronze until I can get a lutz and a solid back spin and will look at testing then. I am so grateful to have figure skating in my life for so many reasons but one of the main ones of course is keeping in general good health. I am not sure where I would be without it as it makes exercise easy! Train hard everyone and don't give up!!

If anyone is still here, please add me I am a competitive adult skater in both USFS and ISI, even though I am more active in ISI. I do mostly freestyle and synchro, but a little ice dance too I am also a proud Special Olympics coach