My Skating Experience

Hi everybody! I'm back with another one of my random thoughts blogs. Today, I'm going to be talking about my experiment with roller skating in the past. It all started when my mom found this place called Skateland when she was driving around the area it was located. She went inside and saw that it was a roller skating rink. She came home then told me to try it out as a fun activity so I can get busy. I tried a few open sessions then got a personal coach for about 5 months. After I got really good at it and started skating extremely fast and not falling, my coach told me to join their team and be apart of it. I obviously said yes but didn't think of how much work and stress it would be. If I was going to be on the team I would have to go and practice about 4 times a week and go on the weekends very early in the morning like at 6 am. I was excited to meet new people and make new friends. After 3 months of warming up with the team, my personal coach started teaching me how to go backwards and do jumps, spinning, and do all these tough things. Everyday I would go home really late with a bunch of bruises on my legs. When I got really professional, I went to all these competitions at different skating rinks and would compete with other people. When I got medals, I got so happy but when I got last place or didn't place at all, I would be devastated. It was a tough sport because I had to always buy dresses and make sure I had good, comfortable skates. It got to the point after 2 years, when I was in 6th grade and I stopped because I got a lot of homework and didn't have time for it at all. I was so sad that I had to quit, but I was thinking to myself that I'm not going to quit, I'm still going to go sometimes for the open sessions and just skate around and have fun. I didn't want to be involved with all the stress that being on the team gave me. Now, I go sometimes and have fun without being so stressed out about it. So, that's the story of my skating experience.

xoxo, debs