Skating! And Medals!
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przedI don't know if I've ever mentioned in here, but this year Ros badgered me into signing her up for figure skating lessons. (At this stage, it's really more just foundational skill skating lessons, with a bit of fancy stuff thrown in for fun.) She's really thrown herself into it, and has got me to take her skating once or twice beyond her lessons every week.
This week was the end of season competition, and Ros decided to sign up for the three categories in her age and skill level: one foot gliding, the obstacle course race, and figure skating elements. She ended up doing really well!
She came in fourth in the race out of a field of seven, which is really great. She frequently overthinks stuff like this, and takes things really slow, so it was a fantastic result for her.
She did even better in the other two events. In the one foot glide she came in second out of ten, and right behind a friend of hers who's turned out to be a bit of a prodigy. (She and the friend she goes skating with on Saturday night are always having mini-competitions for how long they can glide on one foot, so I suspect that helped.) And she also came in second in the elements, out of a field of three. (In my entirely biased opinion, her forward and backward turns completely rocked.)
Here she is on the podium for the gliding competition. Awww.
This week was the end of season competition, and Ros decided to sign up for the three categories in her age and skill level: one foot gliding, the obstacle course race, and figure skating elements. She ended up doing really well!
She came in fourth in the race out of a field of seven, which is really great. She frequently overthinks stuff like this, and takes things really slow, so it was a fantastic result for her.
She did even better in the other two events. In the one foot glide she came in second out of ten, and right behind a friend of hers who's turned out to be a bit of a prodigy. (She and the friend she goes skating with on Saturday night are always having mini-competitions for how long they can glide on one foot, so I suspect that helped.) And she also came in second in the elements, out of a field of three. (In my entirely biased opinion, her forward and backward turns completely rocked.)
Here she is on the podium for the gliding competition. Awww.
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Date: 2014-04-02 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-02 07:11 pm (UTC)As for the Olympics, Ros has already told me that if she goes to the Olympics it will be as a figure skater. I'm doing my best to manager her expectations without squelching her dreams entirely. (The kids who do make the Olympics are already doing a crazy amount of training by Ros' age, and there's no way we're doing that. But I'm all for doing an activity you enjoy without expecting to be a champion.)