Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.
When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating.
It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I’m still a huge fan.
Once I retired from skating, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have the chance to come back to the Olympics.
I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y’know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn’t even hear my music.
L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating.
Not only would my parents work full hours, my parents both woke up at 5 A.M. My dad left the house at 5 A.M. to go to the fish market to pick out his own fish, and my mom woke up at 5 A.M. to wake me up in order to get me ready for skating before school.
I was into skateboarding, so through skating I kind of got into hip hop by discovering it through skate videos.
I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games. I made paper medals and wore them the whole night. I didn’t start skating until 2000, but I was so inspired by their skating that it was why I wanted to start.
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
I always loved music, to dance, and to be really active. When I started skating, it was the first time all of these things came together. It felt like magic, and I always wanted to be at the rink.
Skating in itself is a difficult sport, and the amazing athletes within the sport are very challenging.
I begged my mom to let me start skating.
I’m trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we’re riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.
I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association – my older sister passed away from diabetes – and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.
I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.
I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California.
I’ve never been ice skating, ever. I’m traumatized by the idea of it.
If you are going to be ice skating for three or potentially six months you are probably going to get injured a lot.
Skating is a sport that I found a lot of interest in from a very, very young age. Ultimately, I think that being on the ice, being in the cold, and trying things and challenging myself in different ways is something that made me really interested in skating.
I definitely still work on my skating a lot.
I’d say street skating is the most fun of the six skateboarding events for me personally. It’s also because you can do it anywhere. You don’t need a specific ramp or competition; you can just go shred anywhere around your hometown and have a blast with it. That’s the best part about street skating.
In ramp skating, there’s this guy Alex Perelson who’s really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we haven’t seen before. Just different types of spin.
I’ve got this thing with skating and school – to see how much I can accomplish.
I don’t think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.
I’m excited to watch slope style and halfpipe. And then, of course, when my events are done, I get to go to hockey, which is always entertaining. I also like figure skating. I think every girl grew up watching figure skating.
Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we’re not America’s sweetheart.
As an audience member, I like to watch what they’re doing, and that’s one of the reasons I love skating: because it’s a performance, and I love to perform. That’s my favorite aspect of skating.
My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don’t see that changing. When I’m not skating, I love to surf. I’m open to the new experiences and opportunities.
Learning a new trick will just happen randomly when I’m skating and if I feel good doing it, I take it to a street spot. If I’m really confident in it I practice it a lot, so I can do it in a contest.
I was an ambidextrous child, and the symmetry of roller skating was a welcome respite from my awkwardness with physical activities that involved a ball or a racket.
I don’t even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that’s what it comes down to in speed skating.
I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you’re young, it’s considered a huge advantage because you’re fearless, and you also don’t have bad past experiences. But with age comes experience, and I have found that my experience is a huge advantage to me as a competitor.
Skating is much more of an individual sport, and then there is a team event once the team is picked.
My mom is really dedicated to me. She drives me to school and skating, wakes up for me, and I’m just really appreciative.
This is something I’ve always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating.
I’ve never been invited to do ‘Stars on Ice’ before, which is the only figure skating tour in the U.S., and it’s disappointing that I can’t perform for my American fans… all because I’m not ‘family friendly’ enough.
I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn’t know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.
America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.
Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
I’ve never really had a first date! Well, I had kind of a first date. I went out with this kid. We went ice skating, but it was not fun. It was so terrible that I told him my curfew was a lot earlier than it really was.
I am a skateboarder, and to stay fit for skating I have to stay away from a lot of things. I go to parties and that’s fun for me, but between skating and lifting and everything, I know what I have to do the next day, so I’m very conscious about my schedule and keeping it.
I usually just write down what I’m doing and how I felt. How I felt if I’m skating fast, compared to if I’m skating slow or if I’m tired. I can always go back and look as a reference and see what I was doing. It’s pretty much my life on ice.
I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn’t quite doing it for me. I wasn’t totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can’t be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.
When I broke my leg, I never thought I’d ever be skating again let alone be standing on a world podium. I had to relearn how to skate, relearn how to even stand on one foot again. I had to relearn all my technique.
My skating brought me to a level of being well known in Canada, but I’ve grown up having trained in the U.S. I haven’t lost my roots in Canada thanks to the little rpminders again when I come home: People thanking me for what I do and for representing Canada in the world stage.
I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn’t grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.
The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal.
The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily on what you’re doing but if you’re doing it well.
Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
I don’t think the demographic for skating really entails a lot of basketball watching.
Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.
In Japan, skating is like NHL hockey in Canada or baseball in the U.S., so pushing the limit is very enticing. Skating is their lives.
I love figure skating. It’s what I’m good at.
