Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.
I was a natural skater, but I also took private lessons to enhance my skills.
I definitely still work on my skating a lot.
The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.
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.
If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range.
I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.
In skating there's always another jump or another spin variation or another thing to learn, and that's what I liked about it.
