One Hundred Bits of Skating-Related Crap About Me
1. I never had a good axel.
2. One of my cats is named “Lexie”.
3. My beloved cat, Surya, passed away in 2007.
4. I have watched every skating movie ever made including the one with the Three Stooges.
5. I still have the Ice Castles paperback I read in the seventies.
6. My skates are custom made.
7. I took Learn to Skate classes as a kid.
8. I took my first private lesson at the age of 24.
9. I thought roller disco would be around when I grew up.
10. I wanted to be a roller skating waitress.
11. My skating motto: Faster, higher, stronger…than last week.
12. My best skating spin is the layback.
13. Closely followed by the back camel.
14. Peggy Fleming inspired me to skate.
15. I broke my ankle doing a right backward outside three turn in July 2006.
16. I rotate clockwise and land on my left foot.
17. I can spin in both directions.
18. One winter I froze my patio.
19. My best jump is the loop.
20. I still flutz.
21. I don’t allow Beillmann spirals in my freestyle classes.
22. I have been a coach since 2004.
23. I quit a coaching job because the skating director was an ass.
24. My favorite song to skate to is “Come on Eileen” by Dexie’s Midnight Runners.
25. Closely followed by “I Love Men” by Eartha Kitt.
26. I still limp sometimes.
27. I could do a flying camel before I could do a flip jump.
28. When I was a teenager, I taught myself to spin on roller skates.
29. I could do a gorgeous Ina Bauer on roller skates but never on ice.
30. As a kid, I hoped we would move someplace cold so I could skate on a pond.
31. This offended my best friend.
32. I love to make skating dresses but never wear them.
33. I have a plastic storage tub filled with wrap-around skating skirts.
34. I am addicted to Lycra.
35. My favorite female skater is Dorothy Hamill.
36. My favorite male skater is Ilia Klimkin.
37. I am too big to skate pairs.
38. After the breast reduction, I got my camel.
39. I honestly thought artistic roller skating would be an Olympic sport.
40. The only thing I liked about Nancy Kerrigan was her spiral.
41. I have skated in Wales.
42. My honeymoon was a skating trip to Ottawa.
43. We skated the Rideau Canal.
44. I never skated school figures on ice.
45. I took roller figure lessons in 2005.
46. My ankle still pops.
47. I need to warm up for twenty minutes to loosen up my ankle.
48. I have made career decisions based on skating.
49. I took a company car to an outdoor skating rink and got it all muddy.
50. I have only stepped on the ice once with my blade guards on.
51. Wiped out but managed to save most of my coffee.
52. I took a business trip to Holland and was disappointed the canals were not frozen.
53. I have never skated on synthetic ice.
54. My mazurka sucks.
55. My husband took me skating on our first date.
56. The rest is history.
57. My first skates had metal wheels.
58. I owned a pair of tennis shoe roller skates as a teenager.
59. I bought a pair of inline speed skates but have never tried them.
60. I also own a pair of off-road inlines and have never tried them either.
61. I think I will buy any kind of skate known to man.
62. I have never worn hockey skates. This might be the exception.
63. My husband wants me to join a roller derby team.
64. I might actually do it.
65. My nickname will be Ox Anna.
66. My nose runs when I spin.
67. Three of my water bottles have been stolen in ice rinks.
68. Once I forgot to bring my skates to the rink.
69. I have only fallen once while giving lessons.
70. I own an Ice Castles photo novel, DVD, VHS and two paperbacks.
71. My first real coach was a former World Professional Champion.
72. I can do one-foot slaloms into the wind.
73. I can blur a scratch spin.
74. Burst blood vessels are a badge of honor.
75. I taught statistics to middle school students using a skate spinner.
76. One kid fell on his ass.
77. I have never competed and have no plans to.
78. I learned to do a layback by accident.
79. I could pass the spin component of the senior test.
80. Too bad about the jumps.
81. Skating is the only thing I have stuck with.
82. I love compulsory ice dances. To do and to watch.
83. Toe pick scratching makes my teeth itch.
84. My elementary school teachers thought I was uncoordinated.
85. I love the smell of an ice rink.
86. I can still do the splits on both legs.
87. But not in the air.
88. I would kill to drive a Zamboni.
89. I messed up my salchow on the Adult Pre-Bronze test.
90. My coach said: “What the f*** was that?”
91. I could do a double at the time.
92. I haven’t taken a lesson since spring 2005.
93. I plan to get back to training once I get a real job…again.
94. Donald Jackson signed my copy of his autobiography.
95. I saw Stars on Ice in Lake Placid.
96. I own a boatload of skating books and biographies.
97. A kid crashed into me and I thought I had been bitten by a mosquito.
98. An adult pair team crashed into me. That was a little different.
99. I learned proper loop technique by watching a teenager do a double.
100. When all is said and done, skating is still cheaper than therapy.
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