Ice Skating 103: Pain... All Sorts

We have finally conquered the blisters. I am not sure if it is the ezeefit booties + micropore tape credits or the fact that she has finally ran in her skates. It had afterall been 3 long months of battle with the blisters. Either way, I am loving the non blisters sessions.

While I thought that she could start flying in her new skates once the blister issue is resolved, Lil Shauna is testing my patience by throwing me another lemon - sore muscles.

Last Saturday we had no lesson but were in the rink for practice. In less than 10 mins, she complained of sore thighs, then sore calves, then sore whatever.. I had to push her so hard and she lasted only 1 hour in the rink. Yday, even before we started, she said that she had a headache. Win already. Then the sore muscles came back 10 mins after on the ice. Zzzzzz.

I told her to tell Coach Raymond that she wanted to do jumps for lessons bcos of the headache. They did jumps and I thought it was really bcos she told Coach Raymond so. Apparently, it was a coincident. Chey! Through the lessons, she looked half dead. Coach Raymond worked on her loop and flip jumps. Towards the end, I though she did her waltz and loop jump combi alright and she gave me a loop and loop jump combi as a bonus.

Coach Raymond remarked that she is still lazy to push at the end of the session. After Caoch Raymond left, Lil Shauna whispered to me that it wasn't her being lazy but her legs got no strength. Ok lor, win already. To help her train her "muscles", I made her go back to the ice after resurfacing to simply stroke. Hahaha.

We were back on ice this afternoon after church. After much pushing, Lil Shauna actually did alright. She gave me some nice scratch spins and a few nice jumps. How I wish she is motivated to do these herself without having me to do much! Ice skating is hard work.

Mummy Lim