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- Feb 18, 2012
As an adult your bones have finally hardened, and when you fall you are often hurt. Hence, adult skaters like me tend to have a bit more anxiety on the ice and tend not to progress to the adult freestyle levels, but do more work on the flat than jumps. If you see an adult on the ice with a jerky marionette type motion when they skate that means that are an adult skater who learned to skate as an adult, not a child. Something gets hardwired in your brain, my guess anyway, if you skate by age 11, and that stays with you. When you watch the adult classes you almost always see one or two people who do this. That's the way it stays for them! About the hurt and bones question: as a child your bones are a bit more like greensticks and take falls a bit better. It hurts less than as an adult.
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