Skating is a term used loosely; it could mean rollerblading, skateboarding, or quad skating. In my case I am talking about quad skating, the meaning of quad skating really is explanatory, Quad is four wheels and then just put skating at the end of that. There are also many different types of quad skating like, jam skating, roller derby, speed skating, skating for pleasure, of one of my favorites roller hockey, I do all of the above. Quad skates are all different, but usually made with four wheels, a plate, a boot, and a stopper about the size of a crushed soda can. Mine are a little different they include, double wide wheels for more grip, a jump bar for when I do stunts so my plates don’t take the impact fully and break, and lastly a diamond …show more content…
Practice ended and it was about time for the open skate session to start, about 15 minutes into the session the song ‘Welcome to the jungle’ by Guns and Roses came on over the speakers, it’s almost a trigger song for me, like as if something just clicks in my head and I start to get pumped and skate really fast dancing and weaving in and out of people. I started speed skating and usually everyone sees me, so they move out of the way. Except that night there was one person who didn’t, but I knew it was unintentional. I was skating and a little boy fell in front of me, he was probably no older than 8. My reaction time is usually accurate, anyway he had fallen in front of me, and so my first instinct was to jump over him. I jumped successfully, but when I landed I bent my axel from the impact and I fell. Not realizing it, when I got up a pain shot through my right ankle, I had to be escorted off the floor in a wheel chair because I couldn’t skate or walk. The next day I went into urgent care but then they sent me to an actual doctor for an X-ray and CT-scan. Turns out I sprained my ankle and strained a ligament in my foot on impact, they gave me a boot to wear, some pain medicine and sent me home. When I found out that I had done all of that I was more worried about the fact that I couldn’t
B. To skate on RollerBlades takes a lot of effort. First thing you have to do is to maintain balance on the skates. Find a solid wall or something else to hang on to. Bend your knees and hold on to the wall, then hold up one leg. When you can do this properly, let go of the wall and try it without hanging to the wall. When you complete that you need to learn how to start rolling. When you wan to roll you need to make your legs a 90 degrees angle than push with the
He was getting closer to the goal than I was comfortable with, so I stepped in front of him and cut him off. When I did this, he made a 180 degree turn up the field and so did I. I tried to at least. There was a gaping hole in the field, one much too big than there should have been. I planted my right foot to make the cut and it all went downhill from there. My ankle twisted and I heard all sorts of disgusting noises. It snapped, it cracked and it popped. As soon as my back hit the pitch I tried to get back up, but I couldn’t. At this point, I knew that my senior soccer season was over and my last chance at beating those people who were so mean to me had slipped right through my
Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most often referred to as a skateboarder, or colloquially within the skateboarding community, a skater. Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. Skateboarding is relatively modern.
Skateboarding has been around since 1944. Initially, created as a crate with wheels and a bar used as a handle bar, the idea was slowly being more refined. Woman’s Army Corps Betty Magnuson, reported seeing French children riding on wooden boards with rollerblade wheels attached to them which would imply that the idea has been played around with but never capitalized upon. From crate boxes with handle bars, to popsicle shaped boards with specialty made wheels backed with a massive culture, skateboarding has become a popular industry.
Why did I come here? I was shaking when I looked at the ice cold floor but I wasn’t excited. Finally I took my first step onto it and I slipped. So one of the guys who worked there gave me a mini hockey goal thing to hold onto and skate with. I still slipped. I remember we had to rent a bunch of gear so we could skate. I was so nervous to step into the rink I tried to hide from my parents. My cousins told me it was easy I didn’t believe them. It felt like walking for the first time again. I felt like a sloth slowly sliding with a hockey goal. My dad immediately got the hang of it. My sister was slipping but she was doing really good. My younger sister wasn’t old enough yet and had to sit with my mom. About 30 minutes later I let go of the thing
Stepping on to the scratched up ice, however still gleaming in all the light. I remember shaking of fright and of the cold atmosphere surrounding me. Not knowing what was coming next. Will I fall?, Miss a step? Forget my program? Soon enough my music would start and I would be off. Thinking about my program, hoping I wouldn't mess anything up. It was all a big blur, nothing was clear to me. The audience was filled with parents and skaters from all parts of the COS (Central Ontario Section). The judges seemed to be staring me down, trying not to look at their mean, cold eyes, I stepped on the ice. Everyone staring at me, it made me very uncomfortable, and I felt pretty awkward being there. I tried not to show my fear, however I don't think I did that very well. There was this little girl at her first skating competition, and the first one to go, how will she do?
I was 15 years old when I was at the north field skatepark trying to land a trick that me and my friend learned recently at a different skatepark, it was called a front foot impossible it wraps around your front foot but it normally goes around your left foot that's why it is a difficult trick, so when I was skating around we decided to start tying the trick and it was going pretty good until I randomly just started falling a lot which made me start to sweat and get mad, it was like the skatepark could feel the heat from my feet and was moving my board so I didn't land it, so about ten minutes later my friend that was trying it landed it, so I was trying to get his back and land it too but once I popped my board off the ground
To others, the definition of figure skating is “the comprehensive sport of ice skating in prescribed patterns (figures) and choreographed free skating.”
On a Tuesday afternoon I decided to take the golf cart out for a spin while my mom was home for lunch. Having a great time wind through my hair and listening to music then seeing my life flash before my eyes I go rolling out of the golf cart and on to the cement. I hit a curb and the golf cart goes rolling over and over again finally landing on my left ankle. I was stuck underneath the golf cart and could not get it off me while I'm trying not to get battery acid on me. Thankfully a cable van drove and he jumped out of the van and came got the cart off my ankle. I pulled my sock down to look at my ankle and all you see is a puddle of blood and bone. It was like someone took an ice cream scooper and took a chunk of my skin out. The cable guy called for an ambulance, the time they got there I couldn't feel my ankle anymore. All of the nerves were gone and it was numb. Someone got in touch with my mom and she rushed to the wreck in total shock and didn’t know what to say. Then the paramedics finally got there and they thought it would just be a
Everything went well, I didn’t have another injury, my toe felt fine again, I breezed through all the tests and became a 2nd kup red and black belt. The time had come for me to perform, test, and receive my black belt. Because it was a black belt test, the routine and required board tests were much longer than what I was used to. I had only completed half of the test but I was already all out of breath. Finally, I was nearing the end of the test, “only two more board tests to go and you’re going to be a black belt”, I kept telling myself. I was almost done, I could taste it. As the instructor made his way towards me with five fresh boards, I was visualizing myself perform the perfect roundhouse kick to split the five boards in half. The instructor got in position holding the boards up as I gathered the last bit of energy I had left. “Black belt, black belt, black belt”, I kept repeating to myself when the required adrenaline I needed finally kicked in as I made the turn. But something felt off. During the midst of my turn about twenty questions flew by, “Did I turn a little off angle? Is my foot coming in a little late? Oh no.” All of a sudden this sharp pain shoots from my foot all the way up my body and it’s a familiar pain too. My foot did indeed come in a little late causing my toe to bend backwards and hit the boards at the wrong angle. I was down. My left knee was on the
As a student am I am always on time to class and also when I get to class I like to learn right away. Another thing is that I never get into trouble with any teacher. I don’t like to slack off during class or not pay attention. Also I am a student who helps out other students when they need help. Finally, I am a student who likes to likes to do extra work for a class.
Figure skating has been a major part of my life since I can remember. It all started when I was in pre-school and my mom enrolled me in Learn to Skate classes at my local ice rink. Although I started out my skating career constantly falling over like some kind of toddler sized domino, I loved it from the beginning. That all ended when I reached level four. I was struggling with mastering an important move called the “three turn”. When test day came and I had to perform the skill in front of my coach, I was so nervous. At the end of class I received my evaluation letter and saw that I had failed the class because of the three turn. This failure meant I would have to repeat the class, which was devastating. While my friends were moving on to
Ice Skating Ice skating may be hard at first, but if you know the basics, then you’ll realize it’s not very hard after all. For materials, you will need warm clothes, ice skates, and you must be at an ice skating rink. You can wear a jacket, but that is optional.
I’m a klutz or an accident prone,is was my brother calls me, and this summer I proved it. I have hurt myself so many times, but never on purpose, even though the way one looks at it, it would seem on purpose like who would jump on the rocks? Or broken their toe on a door, maybe punch a gym floor. who knows ,but I did all of this on one more. The week before school, I went up north for the day at my cousin’s cabin. They have a pond in the front of their cabin and a river behind it. We went swimming in the pond before lunch, then everyone is going to the rope swing. Everyone was already in the water so when I come out, they all started screaming jump on, come on what's taking so long get onto. When I jump on the opposite side of everyone else,to
Ice dancing is a beautiful sport but it requires a number of sacrifices. For young dancers, most days are composed of skating,school and homework. Competitive dancers need to practise for five to six hours every day. Dancers usually skate early in the morning, so they always need to go to bed early. A dancer who do not get enough sleeps will not performs well. In addition, ice dancing cost a lot of money. Dancers must pay for lessons, ice time and costumes, which can be thousands of dollars. This makes the sport very expensive. Ice dancing is also diffivult on the body. If dancers do not skate carefully, they can get hurt. Many dancers get injuries from falling on the ice or reoeating the same motions too many times. It is not easy