Hockey Skates!
I took Monkey ice skating this weekend, the first day the ice rink was open for the season. We traded in her old skates at the re-use sports store for a credit, and I bought her the pink hockey skates she wanted so much last year. New because they didn’t have them used, and after the credit and a coupon, it wasn’t really much more than the used ones would have been.
At the ice rink the guy did the usual double take when I specified that I wanted to rent hockey skates for myself. I feel like I’m pretending to be someone who is actually a good skater by asking for them, when in fact they were just so much easier for me to use because I kept getting stuck in the toepick of figure skates when I started learning last winter.
And then he asked if I wanted “real skates or rental ones”? So I got to try some very used but nicely sharpened and not broken down hockey skates. Only problem is that I want my own pair now. And I really don’t need to be spending several hundred on skates that I use about 20x a year. But apparently the increased ankle support does make a major difference. A bunch of maneuvers I failed to learn last year seemed like they would be possible the better skates. Of course, I didn’t actually try to do them, I wasn’t prepared to do the level of falling required just yet.
At the ice rink the guy did the usual double take when I specified that I wanted to rent hockey skates for myself. I feel like I’m pretending to be someone who is actually a good skater by asking for them, when in fact they were just so much easier for me to use because I kept getting stuck in the toepick of figure skates when I started learning last winter.
And then he asked if I wanted “real skates or rental ones”? So I got to try some very used but nicely sharpened and not broken down hockey skates. Only problem is that I want my own pair now. And I really don’t need to be spending several hundred on skates that I use about 20x a year. But apparently the increased ankle support does make a major difference. A bunch of maneuvers I failed to learn last year seemed like they would be possible the better skates. Of course, I didn’t actually try to do them, I wasn’t prepared to do the level of falling required just yet.