National Champions
Originally published at Soft Spoken. Please leave any comments there.
Those of you who know me personally, know that I used to figure skate. I started when I was 4. I quit when I was 15. It’s so weird to say it, but I can officially say that I have skated with national champion figure skaters!!
I skated with Cody Hay (from Grande Prairie, Alberta) in Sexsmith, Alberta for a couple dance tests. I passed them by the way lol. He came up to Sexsmith one year to skate with us for our tests. He also skated in our carnival that year with his old pairs partner, Daelyn something-or-other. Now he’s skating with Annabelle Langlois. She’s gone through a few partners in the last few years. How Cody ended up with her, I have no idea. The first time I heard of them together, was last year. But this year, they won the National Championships!!
Going back even farther, I used to skate in Ilderton, Ontario with Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue! Before I moved to Alberta, that is. I remember every year at the carnivals, they always performed, along with Danny and Sherry Moir who also competed in the National Senior dance competition a few years ago, but they didn’t do as well as Scott and Tessa have. I haven’t heard anything about them in a few years. But Scott and Tessa are close to my age and I used to see them all the time, although they probably never knew who I was. I have been on the ice at the same time as them though. I actually tripped over Scott at my last carnival in Ilderton (2001). The theme was The Little Mermaid. He did a solo right before my group went on, and when we went out he was standing in an awkward spot so that none of us had much room to get by him, and I tripped over him. I didn’t fall, I just stumbled, but still. Now when I think about it, it was funny, but at the time I was embarrassed because I thought he was really cute. I’ve been trying to keep track of them over the last few years to find out how they’re doing. I haven’t watched figure skating in a while but I’ve been trying to watch the nationals this year and I got to see most of it. I’ve been watching it all weekend. It was so exciting seeing Scott and Tessa skate today, even though it wasn’t live and I already knew they had won. They were also the Junior World Champions in 2006.
It’s kind of weird how right after I quit figure skating I didn’t miss it at all, and I stopped watching it as well. But in the last year or so I’ve started to miss it a little bit. It’s worse when I’m watching it too. I’m missing it quite a bit right now because it’s on the TV as I’m typing this. Plus, on top of that, and not helping at all, when my grandparents were down here my Nana kept talking about skating and how I should get back into it and stuff and it was making me angry. The worst part is though, that I know if I was to try to get back into it I wouldn’t get very far. I got to a point where I wasn’t getting any better and it wasn’t fun anymore. That’s why I quit. Before I quit I was getting so frustrated with it, and I remember one day, well more than one day, I was so determined to land a certain jump that I went to one end of the ice by myself and just did that jump over and over and over. I wanted it so bad. I was having such a hard time with it and I don’t even know why. All the kids that I skated with were all younger than me, except for one, and a lot of them were way better than me. They were landing more difficult jumps, their spins were way better than mine, and some were on higher level dances than me. Although, with dance I was doing pretty well, although all my dances, I just barely passed. I got satisfactory on everything. That’s all I’ve ever gotten. The only thing I ever failed was my skills test, the second one, whatever level that is. I don’t even know why I took it. I knew I wasn’t ready for it. I think I probably felt pressure to take it. I think the only good thing I got out of skating in Sexsmith was that I improved my spins a fair bit. They weren’t great, but they were a lot better than when I left Ilderton.
If I was to go back into it, I would have some physical things to over come. First, I have knee and joint problems. Mainly my right knee, but I have had issues with other joints. But I think the thing that would help me the most would be to lose some weight, ok, a fair bit of weight. I really hate though how when I tell someone that I need to lose weight, they always tell me that I don’t. It’s only the people who don’t know how much I weight that say that. Not many people actually know how much I weigh though. I really hate how much I weigh. It’s a fair bit more than I look. I would have to really start working out or something to get there. I do want to start working out but I don’t know how to start. And I’m very lazy. Especially with school; when I’m not in class I just feel like doing nothing.
Anyways, I keep getting distracted by the TV so I’m just going to stop typing now. I should make something to eat, and eventually do the dishes, if Katelyn doesn’t get to them first. It’s kind of impossible to use the sink or the stove right now. I hate it. I hate this stupid apartment thing. It’s so crappy!!
Anyways…yeah…