On Sunday I was going to take it easy for a change, taking advantage of the Knights' final bye for the season to have a complete Sunday off the ice (!), when I was asked to get my skates on and spend an hour or so on the rink with the A (5). 'A pretty cool thing to do on a 37C day,' I thought, and so headed down to join up with Jess, Craig and the A.
Started on the small rink, where was soon skating at a moderate pace around amongst the falling beginners, hand in hand with A and chatting away. He was pretty alert to what he was about, dodging around stumbling skater a couple times and avoiding being stumbled on a couple of others. It wasn't long and it was time to head on to the big ice.
We spent the next hour skating around at a moderate pace, occasionally Jess giving me a spell so I could sprint off for a quick trip around forwards or backwards as the whim took me. He's come so far in such a short time that it's almost scary, less than a handful of lessons and maybe that many further hours since December last year and he's already up to learning to stop and moving backwards (I reckon).
I'm so glad I didn't keep my resolution.
Ice 16
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