No one in Montreal learns how to skate. You're just born that way.
Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.
I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.
I do very scientific-based training. However, for skating, that's a little bit out of the ordinary. Many skaters base their off-ice training around plyometrics, whereas mine is very strength- and power-based.
Largely, I began skating because I wanted stuff to do outside of school. My mom decided to put me into figure skating.
I've been skating since I was 10 years old.
Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.
I was a natural skater, but I also took private lessons to enhance my skills.
Triples are hard. Triple axel is just not my jump. Quads are really my thing.
I like to skate on the other side of the ice.
My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
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.
I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.
While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated! When my mom picked me up, I began a campaign for skating lessons.
I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.
I definitely still work on my skating a lot.
I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.
I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.
I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.
The skating world is a very small world.
I love ice-skating but I'm not very good at it.
I used to ice skate at parties when I was eight, but that was sort of the extent of roller skating, ice skating, that kind of sport.
In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.
I'm a show pony, and I don't get to skate with girls doing triple Axels every single day. I skate with little babies who are working on their single Axels while trying not to hit them on the ice.
I got a pair of roller skates for Christmas when I was 4 or 5 or something, so I had a pair as kid. But I also lived on a gravel road so I wasn't really skating up and down the street.
