I, for years, have skated using Dutch ice skates that I bought while I lived in the Netherlands. They are great in that you strap them on to whatever shoes you are wearing (I use hiking boots for ankle support and they are way more comfortable than if I used “regular” ice skates). The blades are really thin so that bumpy ice is less of an issue.
I have 2 pairs - one like the picture below and one with longer blades at the front end of the skate. The ones with the longer blades are used for racing and are harder to turn in (I don’t race but used them when I lived in the Netherlands and skated outside there.
@Kidsandliz OMG! As i was whining about below, i have short (41) but wide (4E) feet… i haven’t been able to find skates that fit me in decades (since i had kids). THIS might just the the answer to my prayers. Wonder if they allow them in public rinks… well, when any of us are again allowed in public rinks.
@yakkoTDI I take it you live in FL for GA to be “up north”? You do know there are such things as indoor rinks. Right? We even had one here (got sold for indoor soccer) in a borders the gulf of mexico state.
@Kidsandliz I actually have to drive past an indoor rink between work and home. Also, my nephew plays on an amateur hockey league on the other side of Florida.
When I was much, much younger, my family and I used to go snow skiing in Keystone, Colorado. The area had (has?) a large ice skating lake, as well. As a kid, I got quite good at it. One day I was skating with a group of kids while the skid-steer loader was clearing snow off the ice, and we all got the brilliant idea to get on our hands and knees and push the snow into piles, so it was easier for the loader operator to clear it away. This worked well until the girl in front of me backed up and gouged my face with one of her skate blades. I didn’t feel pain until someone showed me a mirror. I now have a permanent scar in that spot on my face, some 20 years later…though I consider myself very lucky, as had that blade hit me just an inch northwest, I’d have lost my left eye! That said, I’d healed up quick enough to get back on the ice by the end of that trip, and I was none the worse for the wear. I’d love to go skating again at some point in my life.
A thing that requires ice, which requires cold. This Florida Man can’t stand anything below 70, and will not subject himself to that kind of temperature for “fun.”
i grew up in Alaska and pond skating was one of my favorite wintertime activities. One day i got sent to the nurse while in primary school because i was running a 101F fever… it was the end of the day, so i just went home… but didn’t tell my dad ANYTHING about it because i so wanted to go skating that day after school… so yup, 2 hours of skating in sub-freezing temperatures with a 101+ fever… i ended up missing almost a week of school. Totally worth it.
But, as i’ve gotten older, my wide width feet have gotten even wider - especially after 2 pregnancies. Finding ice skates in size 41 (8.5 women?) in 4E width is almost impossible in the ‘off the rack’ stores (i’ve never found them, but they may be there somewhere) and i can’t afford custom skates… so, i have not been able to ice skate for decades now.
I took an ice skating class in undergrad. One day while trying to do a Mohawk I fell and smacked my cheek bone on the ice. As I stood there sobbing as a bruise formed one of my classmates told me I should put some ice on it. I responded with “I just did.” I got a few laughs.
Growing up in South Florida, we only saw ice skating on TV. After they put a hockey team in Ft. Lauderdale, there were a few indoor rinks built, but I never had the urge to see them. Just like we only ski on water, ice skating is not a thing.
I did that once some 20 years ago maybe, at some hockey rink. I remember it being fun once you got the hang of it. And they had an arcade machine with robot tanks, controlled by two sticks!
hate it & am bad at it…presumably. i’ve never tried and have no desire to, based on my inability to rollerskate/rollerblade. not interested in skiing either. prefer to just move my legs and feet on the ground the regular way. and even then when there’s ice i have enough anxiety as it is
I, for years, have skated using Dutch ice skates that I bought while I lived in the Netherlands. They are great in that you strap them on to whatever shoes you are wearing (I use hiking boots for ankle support and they are way more comfortable than if I used “regular” ice skates). The blades are really thin so that bumpy ice is less of an issue.
I have 2 pairs - one like the picture below and one with longer blades at the front end of the skate. The ones with the longer blades are used for racing and are harder to turn in (I don’t race but used them when I lived in the Netherlands and skated outside there.
@Kidsandliz those look very cool! They remind be of dual-blade ones I had as a kid. You’re much more stable and closer to the ground.
@Kidsandliz OMG! As i was whining about below, i have short (41) but wide (4E) feet… i haven’t been able to find skates that fit me in decades (since i had kids). THIS might just the the answer to my prayers. Wonder if they allow them in public rinks… well, when any of us are again allowed in public rinks.
@inanna If you get them don’t get the racing version. I had to argue with rinks that I wasn’t going to race.
Ice whating? Is that one of those things they do up north in states like New York, Georgia or Oregon?
@yakkoTDI I take it you live in FL for GA to be “up north”? You do know there are such things as indoor rinks. Right? We even had one here (got sold for indoor soccer) in a borders the gulf of mexico state.
@Kidsandliz I actually have to drive past an indoor rink between work and home. Also, my nephew plays on an amateur hockey league on the other side of Florida.
Where’s the “Never tried it, (but would like to, and have no interest) to try it” options?
you must try it before the end of the day!
@hchavers If you would like to try it, doesn’t that mean you have an interest in trying it? O_o
/giphy does not compute
@hchavers @Weboh, I think they meant those as 2 separate options.
I’m bad at it and have only been a few times. I no longer live near an ice rink.
Not as good as roller skating. With quad skates. Not inline. Real roller skates. With disco ball spinning and Bay City Rollers on the sound system.
@katbyter Sound system…pfft. Huge Wurlitzer organ, FTW!!
When I was much, much younger, my family and I used to go snow skiing in Keystone, Colorado. The area had (has?) a large ice skating lake, as well. As a kid, I got quite good at it. One day I was skating with a group of kids while the skid-steer loader was clearing snow off the ice, and we all got the brilliant idea to get on our hands and knees and push the snow into piles, so it was easier for the loader operator to clear it away. This worked well until the girl in front of me backed up and gouged my face with one of her skate blades. I didn’t feel pain until someone showed me a mirror. I now have a permanent scar in that spot on my face, some 20 years later…though I consider myself very lucky, as had that blade hit me just an inch northwest, I’d have lost my left eye! That said, I’d healed up quick enough to get back on the ice by the end of that trip, and I was none the worse for the wear. I’d love to go skating again at some point in my life.
@PooltoyWolf
@PooltoyWolf yowch
@PooltoyWolf just tell people you got it in a hockey fight.
@tweezak That might be believable if I had the body for hockey! (I’m a twig)
@PooltoyWolf That’s why you ended up with the scars!
@tweezak I figure in another five years or so, it will vanish into my handsome visage
A thing that requires ice, which requires cold. This Florida Man can’t stand anything below 70, and will not subject himself to that kind of temperature for “fun.”
@Weboh 22 out. 70… Gross
i grew up in Alaska and pond skating was one of my favorite wintertime activities. One day i got sent to the nurse while in primary school because i was running a 101F fever… it was the end of the day, so i just went home… but didn’t tell my dad ANYTHING about it because i so wanted to go skating that day after school… so yup, 2 hours of skating in sub-freezing temperatures with a 101+ fever… i ended up missing almost a week of school. Totally worth it.
But, as i’ve gotten older, my wide width feet have gotten even wider - especially after 2 pregnancies. Finding ice skates in size 41 (8.5 women?) in 4E width is almost impossible in the ‘off the rack’ stores (i’ve never found them, but they may be there somewhere) and i can’t afford custom skates… so, i have not been able to ice skate for decades now.
i miss ice skating.
@inanna 41 is a size 10 in USA woman’s, and 8.5 in USA Men’s and possibly (can’t remember for sure anymore also the unisex UK size).
Yeah? No, this is south Texas. But we do have frozen daiquiris, margaritas, and icees
@phendrick Actually, I know there’s a rink near San Antonio because my son broke his leg in one while enjoying his weekend off base.
I play beer league ice hockey year round, so I hope I know how to skate!!
I took an ice skating class in undergrad. One day while trying to do a Mohawk I fell and smacked my cheek bone on the ice. As I stood there sobbing as a bruise formed one of my classmates told me I should put some ice on it. I responded with “I just did.” I got a few laughs.
Growing up in South Florida, we only saw ice skating on TV. After they put a hockey team in Ft. Lauderdale, there were a few indoor rinks built, but I never had the urge to see them. Just like we only ski on water, ice skating is not a thing.
I did that once some 20 years ago maybe, at some hockey rink. I remember it being fun once you got the hang of it. And they had an arcade machine with robot tanks, controlled by two sticks!
If only I’d had more quarters.
hate it & am bad at it…presumably. i’ve never tried and have no desire to, based on my inability to rollerskate/rollerblade. not interested in skiing either. prefer to just move my legs and feet on the ground the regular way. and even then when there’s ice i have enough anxiety as it is
Broke a tooth in half ice skating, never again
What about an option for I don’t love it but do enjoy it?