This post is the second in a two-part review of three-time US National Ladies Figure Skating Champion and Olympic bronze medalist Ashley Wagner’s Skate & Sculpt, an adults-only on-ice figure skating fitness class. In Part 2, I share a handful of key takeaways from the Skate & Sculpt class I took. I write about theContinue reading “Review of Ashley Wagner’s Skate & Sculpt Fitness Class (Part 2)”
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Review of Ashley Wagner’s Skate & Sculpt Fitness Class (Part 1)
Recently, I had the pleasure of attending three-time US National Ladies Figure Skating Champion and Olympic bronze medalist Ashley Wagner’s Skate & Sculpt, an adults-only on-ice figure skating fitness class. Ashley Wagner tours around the USA leading Skate & Sculpt for skaters aged 18 and up. Image featured above: My friends and I with AshleyContinue reading “Review of Ashley Wagner’s Skate & Sculpt Fitness Class (Part 1)”
A Dream Takes Flight: Aspen Bound!
Soon graduation was upon me and I earned my Bachelor of Arts degree. Having decided that this new, post-graduation chapter of my life would be focused on formal training in figure skating, I commenced a search for a new figure skating coach. Once I found the right coach, I planned to pack up and moveContinue reading “A Dream Takes Flight: Aspen Bound!”
A Dream Takes Off
After ten months of successful treatment for my illness, I was able to return to my university for my final semester of college. Ironically, even more exciting to me than being healthy enough to resume my life as a student was the fact that I was returning to school with a pair of figure skatesContinue reading “A Dream Takes Off”
A Dream Reawakens
Several years after the visit to the Broadmoor Skating Club,* I sat in a hospital as my parents filled out paperwork to admit me for inpatient treatment. I had just withdrawn from college to seek treatment for an illness. Life was no longer recognizable to me, devoid of all structure, definition, and predictability. A fewContinue reading “A Dream Reawakens”
A Dream Awakens (and then goes dormant)
It was the winter of 1984 and I was transfixed by the Sarajevo Olympics. The figure skating events enthralled me more than any of the others, in particular Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean’s ice dance performance to Maurice Ravel’s Bolero. I watched in awe as Torvill and Dean began their program in a kneeling positionContinue reading “A Dream Awakens (and then goes dormant)”
Finding Balance on the Edge: Figure Skating & Travel Journeys by Carolyn Tir 