How long

[Dutch Skater]

Are you skating now, and how old are you?

Just wondering!

 

[backspin]

Have been skating 10.5 years, am now 38 years old!

 

[dlkksk8fan]

I've been skating for 2yrs and am 46 years old. I just recently passed my first skating test!

I did skate when I was a teenager (12-16yrs).

 

[CDMM1991]

I've been skating since I was six and I'm going to be fourteen on monday I'm pre-novice

 

[nicole_l]

I skated competitively for 10 years, and now it's just for fun and whenever I can pick up some cheap ice. I'm 19 now.

 

[julietvalcouer]

Ignoring one semester's worth of lessons at age 7 or so (neither Mom nor I can remember clearly how old I was-I do vaguely remember doing what in retrospect I know is the first basic figures) I've been skating since January, and I'll take my first USFSA dance test on Monday (Dutch Waltz and Canasta Tango) and hopefully will take Rythym Blues and pre-pre MIF in November. I actually have practiced about half of the Preliminary MIF, too, but the back edges have been keeping me back from testing any. Weirdly I seem to have had a breakthrough with them in the past couple weeks. Possibly because my MIF coach started me on back crossovers and suddenly they didnt' seem nearly as hard! I picked up back crosses my "good" way quickly, then we turned around and tried it the bad way and I nearly took us both out. It's taken me about three weeks to really get comfortable doing the back figure eights.

 

[WeirsAngel]

I belive I started skating when I was 10. Now I'm 14

 

[sk8er1964]

I started when I was knee-high to a grasshopper and quit when I was 15. I started again at 37, and have been at it again for the past three years.

 

[icesk8ter56]

I started skating when i was 7 and i stopped when i was about 12. Im now 14 ( 15 in a month) and i have my first lesson next wednesday.

 

[Skate@Delaware]

I'm 43 and have been skating for about 2 years (only skated off and on as a teen about 20 times-now I'm making up for lost time).

 

[princess-ice]

I decided I wanted to be a competitive skater when I was 6 1/2 at which time I acquired my current coach. I've been with her for 3 years -- through "no test" level, pre-preliminary and preliminary. I started the Learn to Skate program when I was just turning 3 years old, and began private lessons two years later.:agree:

 

[IcyBallerina]

I'm sixteen (as of yesterday!) and I've been skating for... holy moly... twelve years now!

 

[spongebobsk8r]

I have been skating for 7 years. I love skating!