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Another reason to love skating

That’s the best feeling. When you’re hooking up with the floor, gripping. You’re on your edges just right as centrifugal force pulls you through the turn. Arms are swinging, body is low, and crossovers are in the power box. Legs are pumping out serious power with each push lurching the body forward like a super-charged muscle car. All the work mental and physical coalesces to make moments like this happen. It’s one of many reasons I love this sport.

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Skating As Composition

Skating is lot like creating something- art, writing, music, what have you (and many other sports no doubt).

The end goal is speed, but it isn’t complete without form, mechanics. My art teacher said the other week, “art is about seeing”. Skating is about seeing, feeling and listening- all around awareness. Learning the nuances in form how small changes effect outcome in how the body- unified with skates handles is fascinating. Like shading can produce an effect on a picture, tweaking a part in the overall form can feel like a turbo charger kicking in out there on the floor. The feeling of getting it right is exhilarating and the craving to make it happen more only gets more intense and intriguing.

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Good practice

Love a good hard practice, the kind that’s hard and kicks your butt real good, but you’re kinda sad it’s over.

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Sitting out backward skate @ session

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Its amazing how one practice experience can completely humble you, disassembling what you thought you had supposedly “gotten down”.p>Then what? Back to the drawing board, the wood shed, what have you.

Look at the pieces and reassemble. This can be an ego crusher at times. However sometimes it is not, especially if getting better has morphed into appreciation of the process.

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The body provides constant feedback through its total awareness system. What feels right what doesn’t. Perhaps an adjustment here or there will make that corner entry sweet thus setting up the other body parts to move as they should.

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Intervals- hard! Stuck with it and kept pushing even though my body said “oh hell no!”.

It's quite a feeling to give a little more when this happens. The mind sometimes projects the experience to be worse than it really is.

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