I'm 19, looking into buying my first skates soon, and I hope someday I can learn to figure skate. Stuff like this gives me hope it's not too late! Congrats on winning gold
im 14 turning 15 in november, i might be getting my own skates this weekend after asking to skate for 3 years, i live kinda far away from all the rinks, about 30-45 mins away and both my parents are full time. I will only be able to skate once a week. How long has it been since you first started?
@@cathydingg Ive got my own skates and im going once a week, might be starting private lessons this term, if not ive got my dad on the side telling me what todo (He was a pro skater when he was young), starting group lessons next term! Thank you for your lovely words i binge your videos haha xoxo
Hey I'm in Buffalo New York and 41 and I just started figure skating 2 weeks ago just wanted to say thank you you give me inspiration I always wanted to get on ice rollerblade and played roller hockey growing up and as an adult but never ice and after the last 3 or 4 years of a watching Olympics and figure skaters I figured why wait any longer it's so much fun I have another week to wait I have a fitting can't wait to get my own pair of skates
Congratulations! I am also 25 starting skating as an adult and so happy that a community of adult figure skaters exists! That after party looks so fun!
Hey Cathy, I started skating at 37 and now at 39 been pushing myself to get consistent with the elements and get a program together, watching you for a while and this was so inspirational , perfect timing as I am feeling like I am hitting a wall but I will keep pushing! (The thought of being too old always comes to mind during these times) Congrats, super well deserved! So exciting to see your progression! ❤
You got this!! It's totally normal to hit a wall sometimes! Just 2 days ago, I had one the worst practices I've ever had and it felt so demoralizing but you just have to push through and keep going and believe that you can do it. Good luck on your journey and keep us all updated on how things go!
I started skating 2 years ago at 43 and I think it's an excellent age to start. Well, I don't have the stamina of a 20 y.o. but I don't have to hurry anywhere and can enjoy every minute of skating even at those hitting the wall feeling moments.😀
Hello to @@TT-ce9sm, @chaoticgrrl :) I am about to start with my lessons this coming weekend to improve my technique and I am 36!! Glad to find older adults starting out and pursuing skating. Huuuugsss!!! Thanks for the work that you do, @cathydingg 🎉 learning so much fromm your videos!
Im inspired by all of you. I started to lear to skate last month and i am in love with it. I joined learn to skate program last month, i just passed basic 1. Now on to learn basic 2. And by the way I'm 41 n half old 😅
You got this!! Congrats on starting your skating journey again- you still have some much time! It's hard to not compare but you just have to focus on your own goals and I know you can do it!
Hi Cathy, I have been following for over a year now, and you have inspired me to keep going as an adult skater (I’m 35 and just starting on my journey). So happy for your 1st place at nationals!! You deserve it!! Thanks for your content, your honesty, and not being afraid of being out there😊 PS. I loved finding out you play volleyball as well (another passion of mine). Hope to see some of that content too!
Hi there! Thank you so much for the kind note! Excited for you to start your journey and certainly keep us updated on how it goes! Love hearing from another fellow volleyball player as well! Hope to put more content around that as well in the future! (:
Wow! This gives me hope! I skated recreationally when I was younger, but never joined a skate club (I had bad experiences with other sports clubs). Now I want to take skating seriously and accomplish far beyond what I've ever done. By the way, congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉
I started learning figure skating mid-last year; I became more intensive to train myself in the rink from Oct last year on. I skate just for fun and physical well being, no ambition to win anything.
Ahhhhhhh CATHY YOU DID IT!!! And SO WELL DESERVED!!! That lutz was :chef-kiss: and those spin entries made me star struck 🤩 Congratulations again, and thanks for editing another full vlog!
@@cathydingg You are very welcome! I wished that I had seen your two performances in Cleveland. Those two rinks were just to cold to sit around in except for the lobby.
Wow just looking at the clips of your competition compared to when I started watching your videos around a year ago, looks like you upgraded a lot of your elements. Congrats on your hard work paying off
Hey Cathy, I am SO GLAD I got to meet you formally at nationals this year!!! I got to watch both your showcase performance and your freeskate in person and both were absolutely STUNNING!! I love the passion and precision in your performance!! Watching you skate inspires me to push my performance more in the next season!! Overall, I love the aesthetic of this video!! It’s always fun to re-live the nationals experience through this video and I love how you made it a super personal reflection of how far you have come in the sport! We put so much money, time and effort in this sport and hope in the end it all works out! I am SO HAPPY all the hard work, time, money and energy you put in to this event paid off for you with a NATIONAL GOLD MEDAL 🥇! You deserve it for all you have done and all you have shown us we can do as adults! Finally thank you for normalizing that skating is for everybody! The work you are doing to normalize that adults can have careers and still pursue their goals and dreams outside their career is very powerful! Congratulations again on all your achievements this season and I look forward to following your journey for next season and seeing you next year at nationals 😃❤️💪🎉⛸️
Thank you so much Ashley and it was so nice to meet you at Nationals and look forward to seeing you again next year!! Congrats on your skates as well (:
Amazing progress! 💜💜 I know it’s literally your job on the ice and on Zoom to appear composed, primed, and consistent but It was nice to see you be even a little more candid in this video!
Ahhh HUGE congratulations on your gold medal!!! This made me really emotional actually - I've been watching your videos for a while and I've seen how much effort you put in, and it has so paid off. I'm so delighted for you!! I started skating last year too and your journey is hugely inspirational to me - thank you for your wonderful videos, and can't wait to see where you go next
Thank you so much for watching! It means a lot to me and I'm so happy that you started your own skating journey as well! Keep us updated on how things go and best of luck on your journey! (:
goodness... when you put the hours into perspective it really makes me realise i need to do something with my life. i've got over 2.8k hours divided on different video games 😭
Cathy, I am so happy for you!!! Thanks for filming and putting together such a beautiful video. Start to finish, I enjoyed every part of it. You are a such a beautiful skater! I have future goals to test and compete and this gives me inspiration!
I got comments. Imagine if there was decent pho served at every rink and high speed internet with little office spaces. Also, I did see your programs in-person here in CLE and the knee spin choreo definitely stood out. I really enjoyed seeing this behind the scenes perspective of the whole arc of your journey, because it gives me an idea of how far I could be in 4 - 5 years. I'm currently at that point where my brain just isn't ready to allow me to really go for the loop.
Thank you so much! There's a rink called City Ice Pavilion but it's Long Island City, and there's Sky Rink in Manhattan . Most rinks in Brooklyn are seasonable so much ice there in the summer unfortunately!
You worked so hard!! But just to clarify, this isn’t National nationals, it’s a local event at a certain level right? Or is it National showcase and if so, which level? Just curious! I’m at Adult gold level now and I probably won’t consider myself a gold medalist till I pass senior/gold moves! (I don’t think I’ll ever get senior freeskate lol; I don’t have double double combos, just double sal and loop!) but I’m definitely impressed by the artistry you have gained already
Thank you so much! Appreciate the kind note! No, this is a national level competition sanctioned by the USFSA! It's not a local competition! It's just the US Adult Nationals! They offer the adult gold event at the US national level if you wish to compete in it in the future!
Congrats! You mention that in final preparations for the end of season that you practiced 2 hours a day, 7 days a week. How did you manage that with a full time job? Do you get in the ice super early in the morning?
I just assume she trained later in the day. I’m a an elite rhythmic gymnast that goes to school full time and I have practice 4h-ish a day but later in the day from 5pm-8:30/9pm. I just assume she goes to work in the morning and in the afternoon she goes to practice
Where I skate, late afternoons and evenings are reserved for hockey. So you have to get in early or during the work/school day to get any figure skating ice. But maybe her rink has more availability
Hi Janet! Yes that is correct! I do skate super early in the morning as you are correct (I get up around 6 AM), my rink also doesn't really have freestyle sessions after work. Also the nature of my job is a bit unpredictable from day to day so some days I get off at a reasonable time like 6 PM but other times I may be working until 10/11 PM so skating later would be hard even if I could! If helpful I plan on doing a video soon about how I balance my corporate job and skating!
@@cathydinggI would love to see that video! I’m not a morning person at all, and am just getting back into skating this year. Finding a good practice schedule is rough!
@@Bunnyplans Hi! I just released a new video today talking about how I balance my corporate job with skating and providing some practical tips there! Hope it’s helpful! 🫶🏼
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i literally came from another video if you cant tell but seriously how do you do your lutz, like sometimes i land it (like 30% of the time) but only 5% of the time its clean 😭😭 like what i mean is that when i land it, i dont have much height, (well i probably need to get my knee higher) but i js want tips be harsh or not i need themm
Hi! Happy to provide advice- I spent all of last year trying to fix my lutz- I think for me what really helped was fixing my pick, I used to pick too far out from my body while a lutz pick should actually be almost a cross underneath to the left side. Because I was picking so far, it was impossible for me to stay on a clean outside edge. I would say fixing this was the key fixing my flutz!
Haha indeed I did not just start learning sit spins at day 1!! I never thought I would be making videos about skating so unfortunately I didn't take videos of myself skating until about 1/2 year into my journey so all those upfront clips were about 6 months into my skating journey!
Age is just a number, but among every other numbers, the one I never see is "how much did it cost". because Figure skating is an elitist sport and it's a reality. If you don't live near an ice rink, if you can't afford or have parents who can afford private and intensive lessons, if you can't spend hours on the ice, if you don't have the best equipment, you can skate for years and never improve meaningfully. I'd wish people spend less time on the "if you want it, you can do it, motivation is the key" and more on the "how to manage your work-skating time schedules, how much improvements really cost and how to make the sport more accessible". People love talking about the physical and mental struggles and never about the practical (financial) struggles that prevent a lot of people from improving or even starting figure skating. Especially as an adult where you will mostly assume all these costs yourself :) Are intermediary and advanced figure skaters so wealthy they wouldn't even bother talking, or even thinking about it ?
Hi there! 100% valid and 100% agree- I spent a lot of time talking about this aspect of skating in my "How to Start Figure Skating Video" about the financial aspect of this sport and how difficult it can be to manage. I talk a bit about how I budget for it there but especially when I started in college as someone who still today has a lot of loans to pay off, I worked multiple part-jobs to be able to afford skating. And money is definitely a factor that makes it a lot harder to skate (when I was in college, I had to travel 2-hours on public transport just to be able to find a rink with coaching). Even today, there's sacrifices that I make financially to make skating possible, so ultimately agree that I too also wish the sport was less expensive and more accessible.
@@cathydingg you should do a video where you speak openly about it ! It would be so interesting to learn your background and how you came here. You should explain the financial and practical struggles you had, I’m sure a lot of people would relate about it. It would put light on this aspect of figure skating, because advanced figure skaters never talk about it (obviously because they never had to assume these costs themselves). You have a significant fanbase, it would be very useful if you talked openly about it 🙏 money remains the main hindrance in figure skating for me.
I’m figure skater but, still learning toward my goal My question is how much spend and paid to coaching fee so far Because, coaching fee is most difficult to invest obstacles for me .. Can I ask your case? How much you paid so far? Please respond back 😊
Hi there!! I just released a video on my channel all about how much it costs to start figure skating and how I personally budget for it! Let me know if it’s helpful and answers all your questions! 🫶🏼
@@Athervól is never too late to start! 14 is still so young and you have so many years to get really great! Keep working hard - there’s nothing you can do about your age, the only thing you have in your control is your ability to work hard towards your current goal! Best of luck and I believe in you!
realistically yes, it is too late to be an olympian but you can still compete and work to improve. i started late as well and i skate for myself and to make my own personal goals. but you shouldn’t skate with the expectation of making the olympics.
Story now, So when my mum was a young girl she started skating she did it for over 12 yrs, one day her Grandpa was on the roof working on some things we're not a 100% sure but from what we know, A gass had leaked and he had yelled for help but obviously no one could hear Him. a couple days later everyone was looking for Him, but unfortantly He had passed away because there was no fresh air, anyway My mum in memory of Him kept doing skating Her dad owned the rink at the time. anyway moving on tonwhen I was born (after my siblings). anyway, so a year or 2 later My nana had unfortantly passed away. Because She had got cancer, but then was cancer free for 19yrs but then it hit Her again and she unfortantly passed! Next story at 15 likes! Ty
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I'm 19, looking into buying my first skates soon, and I hope someday I can learn to figure skate. Stuff like this gives me hope it's not too late! Congrats on winning gold
i wish you luck with this and hope you decide to start skating!
Thank you so much! Good luck on your journey! Keep us updated on how it goes!
Have fun with it! I am 40 and yaking leasons for the first time. Its so fun!
I am 25 and starting next winter! In the meantime i do off ice 😏😏😏
If you want to you should! Its so fun
I started at 14 and this gave me so much hope for my skating future as I thought I'd never be able to participate in big comps!
im 14 turning 15 in november, i might be getting my own skates this weekend after asking to skate for 3 years, i live kinda far away from all the rinks, about 30-45 mins away and both my parents are full time. I will only be able to skate once a week. How long has it been since you first started?
You definitely can! I believe in you- keep going and best of luck on your skating journey. Definitely keep us all updated!
@@cathydingg Ive got my own skates and im going once a week, might be starting private lessons this term, if not ive got my dad on the side telling me what todo (He was a pro skater when he was young), starting group lessons next term! Thank you for your lovely words i binge your videos haha xoxo
I'm sure you will be able do it!!!!
Hey I'm in Buffalo New York and 41 and I just started figure skating 2 weeks ago just wanted to say thank you you give me inspiration I always wanted to get on ice rollerblade and played roller hockey growing up and as an adult but never ice and after the last 3 or 4 years of a watching Olympics and figure skaters I figured why wait any longer it's so much fun I have another week to wait I have a fitting can't wait to get my own pair of skates
@@deliverancenow100 you got this!! Keep us all updated on your journey and best of luck and so excited for you!
THE LUTZ THOOO GET IT GIRLLL WHAT A BOOTYFUL EDGE
WE REALLY TRIED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN THIS SEASON🥺
Congratulations! I am also 25 starting skating as an adult and so happy that a community of adult figure skaters exists! That after party looks so fun!
Thank you!! So excited to have you join the community!
Hey Cathy, I started skating at 37 and now at 39 been pushing myself to get consistent with the elements and get a program together, watching you for a while and this was so inspirational , perfect timing as I am feeling like I am hitting a wall but I will keep pushing! (The thought of being too old always comes to mind during these times)
Congrats, super well deserved! So exciting to see your progression! ❤
You got this!! It's totally normal to hit a wall sometimes! Just 2 days ago, I had one the worst practices I've ever had and it felt so demoralizing but you just have to push through and keep going and believe that you can do it. Good luck on your journey and keep us all updated on how things go!
I started skating 2 years ago at 43 and I think it's an excellent age to start. Well, I don't have the stamina of a 20 y.o. but I don't have to hurry anywhere and can enjoy every minute of skating even at those hitting the wall feeling moments.😀
Hello to @@TT-ce9sm, @chaoticgrrl :) I am about to start with my lessons this coming weekend to improve my technique and I am 36!! Glad to find older adults starting out and pursuing skating. Huuuugsss!!!
Thanks for the work that you do, @cathydingg 🎉 learning so much fromm your videos!
Im inspired by all of you. I started to lear to skate last month and i am in love with it. I joined learn to skate program last month, i just passed basic 1. Now on to learn basic 2. And by the way I'm 41 n half old 😅
OK MISS GOLD MEDALIST!!!! SO SOO PROUD OF U
THANK YOU I AM SO PROUD OF YOU TOO
That’s so inspiring! I just started 2 months ago. I’m 9, but there are 9 year olds at my rink who’ve been skating since they were 2
You got this!! Congrats on starting your skating journey again- you still have some much time! It's hard to not compare but you just have to focus on your own goals and I know you can do it!
Hi Cathy, I have been following for over a year now, and you have inspired me to keep going as an adult skater (I’m 35 and just starting on my journey). So happy for your 1st place at nationals!! You deserve it!!
Thanks for your content, your honesty, and not being afraid of being out there😊
PS. I loved finding out you play volleyball as well (another passion of mine). Hope to see some of that content too!
Hi there! Thank you so much for the kind note! Excited for you to start your journey and certainly keep us updated on how it goes! Love hearing from another fellow volleyball player as well! Hope to put more content around that as well in the future! (:
I’m 21 now and in may I’m gonna have my first freestyle figure skating competition, trying to make it more easy by watching your videos 💗
You got this! Believe in you! Keep us updated on how your journey goes! (:
Wow! This gives me hope! I skated recreationally when I was younger, but never joined a skate club (I had bad experiences with other sports clubs). Now I want to take skating seriously and accomplish far beyond what I've ever done.
By the way, congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉
Yes!! So happy to hear that! You can do it! Thank you so much and keep us updated on your journey!
Cathy!! It was such a pleasure meeting you, you have worked so freaking hard for this and thank you for bringing us along your journey
Hi!! It was so great meeting you at Nationals and congrats again on your win as well! Hope to see you again next season!
A huge congratulations gorgeous!!!!
Thank you so so much!! (:
I started learning figure skating mid-last year; I became more intensive to train myself in the rink from Oct last year on. I skate just for fun and physical well being, no ambition to win anything.
That’s still an amazing reason to skate!! What’s truly best is doing what makes you happiest
Congratulations! You worked so hard 💚
Thank you so much!! (:
Congrats on the win, Cathy! You SO deserve this for all the hard work you have put into this sport!
Thank you so much Elena!!
Ahhhhhhh CATHY YOU DID IT!!! And SO WELL DESERVED!!! That lutz was :chef-kiss: and those spin entries made me star struck 🤩 Congratulations again, and thanks for editing another full vlog!
Thank you so much!!! Hope to see you soon again!!
Cathy, congratulations! Your figure skating is so beautiful! 🙂
Thank you so much Paula!
@@cathydingg You are very welcome! I wished that I had seen your two performances in Cleveland. Those two rinks were just to cold to sit around in except for the lobby.
Wow just looking at the clips of your competition compared to when I started watching your videos around a year ago, looks like you upgraded a lot of your elements. Congrats on your hard work paying off
Thank you so much!! Really appreciate the kind note!
Hey Cathy,
I am SO GLAD I got to meet you formally at nationals this year!!!
I got to watch both your showcase performance and your freeskate in person and both were absolutely STUNNING!! I love the passion and precision in your performance!! Watching you skate inspires me to push my performance more in the next season!!
Overall, I love the aesthetic of this video!! It’s always fun to re-live the nationals experience through this video and I love how you made it a super personal reflection of how far you have come in the sport! We put so much money, time and effort in this sport and hope in the end it all works out! I am SO HAPPY all the hard work, time, money and energy you put in to this event paid off for you with a NATIONAL GOLD MEDAL 🥇! You deserve it for all you have done and all you have shown us we can do as adults!
Finally thank you for normalizing that skating is for everybody! The work you are doing to normalize that adults can have careers and still pursue their goals and dreams outside their career is very powerful!
Congratulations again on all your achievements this season and I look forward to following your journey for next season and seeing you next year at nationals 😃❤️💪🎉⛸️
Thank you so much Ashley and it was so nice to meet you at Nationals and look forward to seeing you again next year!! Congrats on your skates as well (:
When you won nationals did you win money as well? Or only a medal and exposure
wow it’s crazy how you have come! congrats!! 🎉😊
Thank you so much!!
Amazing progress! 💜💜 I know it’s literally your job on the ice and on Zoom to appear composed, primed, and consistent but It was nice to see you be even a little more candid in this video!
Ahhh HUGE congratulations on your gold medal!!! This made me really emotional actually - I've been watching your videos for a while and I've seen how much effort you put in, and it has so paid off. I'm so delighted for you!! I started skating last year too and your journey is hugely inspirational to me - thank you for your wonderful videos, and can't wait to see where you go next
Thank you so much for watching! It means a lot to me and I'm so happy that you started your own skating journey as well! Keep us updated on how things go and best of luck on your journey! (:
@@cathydingg thank you so much 🥰 I will do!!!
goodness... when you put the hours into perspective it really makes me realise i need to do something with my life. i've got over 2.8k hours divided on different video games 😭
I also met you at Adult Nationals. I was wearing the yellow dress, and I even made it in this video! Congratulations on your accomplishments! 💛
Yes!! I remember and your makeup was stunning! It was so good to meet you! Congrats on your skate as well!
Cathy, I am so happy for you!!! Thanks for filming and putting together such a beautiful video. Start to finish, I enjoyed every part of it. You are a such a beautiful skater! I have future goals to test and compete and this gives me inspiration!
Thank you so much Sophia for your kind words! You can 100% do it! Look forward to hearing updates on your journey!
I love watching your videos please keep doing them congratulations and you look beautiful
@@deliverancenow100 dawww thank you so much! Appreciate your kind note and support 🫶🏼💕
Huge congrats!!
Thank you so much!
Outstanding work!! Congrats Cathy!!
Thank you very much! (:
I got comments. Imagine if there was decent pho served at every rink and high speed internet with little office spaces. Also, I did see your programs in-person here in CLE and the knee spin choreo definitely stood out. I really enjoyed seeing this behind the scenes perspective of the whole arc of your journey, because it gives me an idea of how far I could be in 4 - 5 years. I'm currently at that point where my brain just isn't ready to allow me to really go for the loop.
Haha that would be the dream- thanks for catching my skates at Nationals! Appreciate it a lot and good luck on your skating journey as well!
Omg congrats!!🥹🥹💖
Thank you love! 💕
First?? Congrats on winning nationals❤❤
Thank you so much!! (:
This is my inspiration!! Started figure skating at the age of 23 a few days ago😂..got a long way to go I guess
yasss u slay and always will!
Thank you!!
I love this!! What music did you skate to? Your outfit is amazing!
Thank you! I will post my freeskate program soon but I skated to a mix of Yearning by Raul Ferrando and Layali Al Sharq by Al-Ahram Orchestra!
the buckling down for the lutz is too real. it literally took me 6 months to fix my lutz edge
A real Ice Princess 💗
Congrats on winning nationals! I'm travelling to NYC in 2 months, which rink would be the best to go practice in Manhattan/Brooklyn?
Thank you so much! There's a rink called City Ice Pavilion but it's Long Island City, and there's Sky Rink in Manhattan . Most rinks in Brooklyn are seasonable so much ice there in the summer unfortunately!
You worked so hard!! But just to clarify, this isn’t National nationals, it’s a local event at a certain level right? Or is it National showcase and if so, which level? Just curious! I’m at Adult gold level now and I probably won’t consider myself a gold medalist till I pass senior/gold moves! (I don’t think I’ll ever get senior freeskate lol; I don’t have double double combos, just double sal and loop!) but I’m definitely impressed by the artistry you have gained already
Thank you so much! Appreciate the kind note! No, this is a national level competition sanctioned by the USFSA! It's not a local competition! It's just the US Adult Nationals! They offer the adult gold event at the US national level if you wish to compete in it in the future!
i love that the world got to see me as i truly am (unhinged)
omg hi Liz
Congrats! You mention that in final preparations for the end of season that you practiced 2 hours a day, 7 days a week. How did you manage that with a full time job? Do you get in the ice super early in the morning?
I just assume she trained later in the day. I’m a an elite rhythmic gymnast that goes to school full time and I have practice 4h-ish a day but later in the day from 5pm-8:30/9pm. I just assume she goes to work in the morning and in the afternoon she goes to practice
Where I skate, late afternoons and evenings are reserved for hockey. So you have to get in early or during the work/school day to get any figure skating ice. But maybe her rink has more availability
Hi Janet! Yes that is correct! I do skate super early in the morning as you are correct (I get up around 6 AM), my rink also doesn't really have freestyle sessions after work. Also the nature of my job is a bit unpredictable from day to day so some days I get off at a reasonable time like 6 PM but other times I may be working until 10/11 PM so skating later would be hard even if I could! If helpful I plan on doing a video soon about how I balance my corporate job and skating!
@@cathydinggI would love to see that video! I’m not a morning person at all, and am just getting back into skating this year. Finding a good practice schedule is rough!
@@Bunnyplans Hi! I just released a new video today talking about how I balance my corporate job with skating and providing some practical tips there! Hope it’s helpful! 🫶🏼
i literally came from another video if you cant tell but seriously how do you do your lutz, like sometimes i land it (like 30% of the time) but only 5% of the time its clean 😭😭 like what i mean is that when i land it, i dont have much height, (well i probably need to get my knee higher) but i js want tips be harsh or not i need themm
Hi! Happy to provide advice- I spent all of last year trying to fix my lutz- I think for me what really helped was fixing my pick, I used to pick too far out from my body while a lutz pick should actually be almost a cross underneath to the left side. Because I was picking so far, it was impossible for me to stay on a clean outside edge. I would say fixing this was the key fixing my flutz!
the first video is from your start of ice skating? and you were learning how to do backwards doing crossover and sitspin?;p
Haha indeed I did not just start learning sit spins at day 1!! I never thought I would be making videos about skating so unfortunately I didn't take videos of myself skating until about 1/2 year into my journey so all those upfront clips were about 6 months into my skating journey!
@@cathydingg oh i see, well done!:D i hope to get to this point one day
22 is later ?in my country don't have ice rink .. what i need to do for become a ice skater? Ballet is good?and inline skates?
I wish there was an ice rink on my country
Keeping my fingers crossed that you will have a rink soon!
@@cathydingg thank you ♡♡♡
Age is just a number, but among every other numbers, the one I never see is "how much did it cost". because Figure skating is an elitist sport and it's a reality. If you don't live near an ice rink, if you can't afford or have parents who can afford private and intensive lessons, if you can't spend hours on the ice, if you don't have the best equipment, you can skate for years and never improve meaningfully. I'd wish people spend less time on the "if you want it, you can do it, motivation is the key" and more on the "how to manage your work-skating time schedules, how much improvements really cost and how to make the sport more accessible". People love talking about the physical and mental struggles and never about the practical (financial) struggles that prevent a lot of people from improving or even starting figure skating. Especially as an adult where you will mostly assume all these costs yourself :) Are intermediary and advanced figure skaters so wealthy they wouldn't even bother talking, or even thinking about it ?
Hi there! 100% valid and 100% agree- I spent a lot of time talking about this aspect of skating in my "How to Start Figure Skating Video" about the financial aspect of this sport and how difficult it can be to manage. I talk a bit about how I budget for it there but especially when I started in college as someone who still today has a lot of loans to pay off, I worked multiple part-jobs to be able to afford skating. And money is definitely a factor that makes it a lot harder to skate (when I was in college, I had to travel 2-hours on public transport just to be able to find a rink with coaching). Even today, there's sacrifices that I make financially to make skating possible, so ultimately agree that I too also wish the sport was less expensive and more accessible.
@@cathydingg you should do a video where you speak openly about it ! It would be so interesting to learn your background and how you came here. You should explain the financial and practical struggles you had, I’m sure a lot of people would relate about it. It would put light on this aspect of figure skating, because advanced figure skaters never talk about it (obviously because they never had to assume these costs themselves). You have a significant fanbase, it would be very useful if you talked openly about it 🙏 money remains the main hindrance in figure skating for me.
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I’m figure skater but, still learning toward my goal
My question is how much spend and paid to coaching fee so far
Because, coaching fee is most difficult to invest obstacles for me ..
Can I ask your case? How much you paid so far?
Please respond back 😊
Hi there!! I just released a video on my channel all about how much it costs to start figure skating and how I personally budget for it! Let me know if it’s helpful and answers all your questions! 🫶🏼
24.09!? I have doubles in my solo. Like 2 lutz. my season's best is 24.98! how are you so close to my score!?
Congrats on your doubles!! That’s amazing- I wish I will get mine someday!! I just scored high on my GOEs, my spins and my PCS! (:
@@cathydingg congrats! I already knew you were born for this!💪
I am 14, I started at 13. I know it is hard but I wanna be olimpian.. is it late?
@@Athervól is never too late to start! 14 is still so young and you have so many years to get really great! Keep working hard - there’s nothing you can do about your age, the only thing you have in your control is your ability to work hard towards your current goal! Best of luck and I believe in you!
realistically yes, it is too late to be an olympian but you can still compete and work to improve. i started late as well and i skate for myself and to make my own personal goals. but you shouldn’t skate with the expectation of making the olympics.
I won't make u wait anymore but, anyway this is my mums story, after mine!
Story now, So when my mum was a young girl she started skating she did it for over 12 yrs, one day her Grandpa was on the roof working on some things we're not a 100% sure but from what we know, A gass had leaked and he had yelled for help but obviously no one could hear Him. a couple days later everyone was looking for Him, but unfortantly He had passed away because there was no fresh air, anyway My mum in memory of Him kept doing skating Her dad owned the rink at the time. anyway moving on tonwhen I was born (after my siblings). anyway, so a year or 2 later My nana had unfortantly passed away. Because She had got cancer, but then was cancer free for 19yrs but then it hit Her again and she unfortantly passed!
Next story at 15 likes! Ty
Oh ye also about the story my Mums grandpa taught her piano so she played songs too, Ty!
Same girly, My mum does it with Me because.
full story at 5 likes!
You choreographer is Kaitlyn Weaver?🥹 I love her🫶🏻
Yes! Indeed- she is amazing! (: