New Skating RInk: Awesome!
Feb. 13th, 2019 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeMy right hip: less awesome!
So I went to this place because it's the only rink I could find with weekday evening public skate and it turns out that it's an outdoor rink with a roof! I've never been to one before! It was colder than a normal rink because there was a bit of a breeze but not bad at all.
And it was not busy at all.
The busiest the rink got was like 7 people and that was including the staff of teenage hockey boys on the ice. At more than one point, I was the only person on the ice.
It was awesome.
I did better at my left crossovers and after I'd been alone on the ice a little bit, I decided to change direction (sidenote, why do rinks only go counter clockwise????) and after about five minutes my right hip cramped up, which I wasn't expecting at all. I'd been having issues with my right skate skidding and couldn't figure out if it was the skate or if it was how I was skating, my right hip wasn't doing that at all. I suspect it's my hip, not doing the pushoff correctly because of a lack of developed muscle. Crossovers were done but not great because I had no flexibility in that hip.
I skated with long johns on and I don't think it made a difference. I also need to pick up some thin gloves because I don't have any.
I'm definitely going to go back, with so few people, I can work in the other direction to build those muscles up.
Two weeks until lessons!
So I went to this place because it's the only rink I could find with weekday evening public skate and it turns out that it's an outdoor rink with a roof! I've never been to one before! It was colder than a normal rink because there was a bit of a breeze but not bad at all.
And it was not busy at all.
The busiest the rink got was like 7 people and that was including the staff of teenage hockey boys on the ice. At more than one point, I was the only person on the ice.
It was awesome.
I did better at my left crossovers and after I'd been alone on the ice a little bit, I decided to change direction (sidenote, why do rinks only go counter clockwise????) and after about five minutes my right hip cramped up, which I wasn't expecting at all. I'd been having issues with my right skate skidding and couldn't figure out if it was the skate or if it was how I was skating, my right hip wasn't doing that at all. I suspect it's my hip, not doing the pushoff correctly because of a lack of developed muscle. Crossovers were done but not great because I had no flexibility in that hip.
I skated with long johns on and I don't think it made a difference. I also need to pick up some thin gloves because I don't have any.
I'm definitely going to go back, with so few people, I can work in the other direction to build those muscles up.
Two weeks until lessons!
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Date: 2019-02-14 03:17 pm (UTC)ughhhhh working out sucks but fine. I should be doing those anyway to help with hip stuff too.
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Date: 2019-02-14 04:31 pm (UTC)Important to have something to hold and good traction for your toes! Plus the usual "don't bounce" and "slowly" caveats.
One of the tricky bits with anything whole-body is that the ow usually winds up wherever the muscles have to manage the strain, but that isn't necessarily where the muscles are weakest; that can be where the compensating behaviour goes. So it can be effective to work the bits that aren't aching some.