Monday, March 1, 2021

STOP!!!!!

Coaches out there, please stop. If your student can't hold a back edge, please don't have them work on back three turns! I don't want to see the carnage. On Friday, I watched a skater in lesson fall so many times MY body began to ache. She could barely hold a forward edge, and had no back edges at all, but her coach was having her work on back three turns, After the third fall, I could no longer look in her direction. I've witnessed too many accidents while skating (such as someone stabbing their shin with the back of their blade while doing a double lutz) that I don't want to see any more. If you're going to have your students go above and beyond what they are qualified to do, please wait until it's on a session I am NOT on. I have not taken a first aid class this year and I prefer not to be forced to rely on what I remember from 2019.