Guest guest Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 Oh my goodness, something similar happened to me a couple of years ago. I went to an indoor rink for the second time in my life. The first time I was a little kid! I started the same way, and then got over confident. My toepick dragged on the ice and I launched into the air like superman, LOLOL. Fortunately, I landed entirely on my core (I had enough time to avoid hitting wrists and knees). Your fall sounded worse!!! I'm glad you're better. The tell me that hockey skates don't have toe picks. Maybe that would help me avoid that particular type of fall, but I'll probably come up with a new one, LOL.On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Festival City Concrete/ & Carolyn Visser wrote: Pink wrote: > Oh! Ice skating is a TOUGH workout! Are you going to a rink or is > there a place outside near you where you can do it? I've never done > it outside, only at a rink, but I'd love to try it outside someday. > Please report in! hi pinky! so sorry for this late reply... we did go skating as a family a week ago (on friday the 5th). it was ok, despite both dh and i not being on ice skates for, oh, 35 years! this was skating in an indoor rink... i like the indoor rink better than an outdoor one because the indoor rink has sides that you can hang on to, or smash in to, etc... lol anyway, dh gets his skates on, hops on the ice and skates around like he last did it yesterday....grrrr! i started out very rusty, clung to the sides for about 5 times around. then i found that it was coming back to me and i could skate on my own and i eventually got going really well !! i made it for 45 mins, and then, well, i guess that i got too over-confident, or i lost my concentration, i dont really know what happened... but i took a bad fall i actually hit the back of my head on the ice and i was out of commission for three days with a headache and a really sore neck and shoulders (normally these are sore spots for me, but i was surprised that my neck muscles hurt so much, and all around the front of my neck as well as the back). it seems that the extra padding that i have on my butt saved that area from injury. oh well... im all recovered now, but i will definitely skate alot slower and stick close to the walls from here on out! im kind of scared of falling again and really messing myself up. hopefully by the end of the winter, i will be good on my skates again. :*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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