Comments on: Skater Quotes http://currentskateofmind.com It's a cold job, but somebody's gotta do it. Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:06:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kathy Collings http://currentskateofmind.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-3588 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:12:08 +0000 http://jocelynjanecox.wordpress.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-3588 At a Learn to Skate session, some fellow coaches and I saw a little girl on her hands and knees pretending to lick the ice. When we asked her what she was doing, she said, “I’m a Zamboni!”

]]> By: Roberta Dunn http://currentskateofmind.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-1032 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:05:36 +0000 http://jocelynjanecox.wordpress.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-1032 When teaching snowplow sam classes, I tell kids how important it is to fall correctly, bend knees, curl up in a ball, etc. Sometimes they don’t get it, so I say “if someone came running up to you and went to punch you in the tummie, what would you do?” Well the answers were not exactly what I was looking for. One 5 year old boy said “punch him back”, another said “run away”, another little girl said “call my Daddy.”

]]> By: Kimberly http://currentskateofmind.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-508 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:14:17 +0000 http://jocelynjanecox.wordpress.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-508 I was at a public skating session a couple of weeks ago when this little boy, who couldn’t have been more than four, came whizzing by me in full hockey gear at full speed from center ice. I myself was just a few feet from the boards and stopped to watch him. He skidded across the ice and slammed into the boards with the requisite WHACK. Concerned (I’m a registered nurse), I skated up to him and, once I assured myself he was OK (he had this huge smile on his face and looked very excited), I told him, “Wow! You looked just like a pro!” All smiles, he looked up at me and excitedly answered, “I KNOW, I KNOW!! It’s my new pads!”

]]> By: Jill http://currentskateofmind.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-460 Thu, 22 May 2008 05:34:03 +0000 http://jocelynjanecox.wordpress.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-460 I had a teenage student who was having trouble landing any jumps that day.
Her excuse…..”I can’t jump today, because my mom made me take out the garbage!”

4 year old boy in learn to play hockey class (We were teaching in the hockey class, because apparently, the hockey coaches were incapable of teaching anyone how to skate, and so the figure skating coaches got the job)
“I play hockey, I’m a boy, I wear a cup. Girls can play hockey too, but they don’t wear a cup. I don’t know why. “

]]> By: Jessica http://currentskateofmind.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-134 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:31:25 +0000 http://jocelynjanecox.wordpress.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-134 Another classic child skater quote: I was explaining to a seven-year-old girl that she could not put her foot down on her forward edges because the judges would consider it a “touchdown” and she’d be asked to reskate the element.

After a few seconds, this little girl looks up at me confused and says, “I thought touchdown were only in football…”

]]> By: Jessica http://currentskateofmind.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-132 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:30:13 +0000 http://jocelynjanecox.wordpress.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-132 Oh, boy. I get those unrelated remarks all the time during my lessons, especially from skaters in the Tot level. I think the most memorable random statement I’ve ever heard from a student was from a four-year-old girl who told me, “My cat had an ear infection and my mom has to put drops in his ear.” Out of the mouths of babes…

]]> By: Alyssa http://currentskateofmind.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-76 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:14:32 +0000 http://jocelynjanecox.wordpress.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-76 My 7-year old student, (who was adopted by a single mom,) turned to me and said, “I don’t have a daddy. Daddies are hairy – like bears.”

]]> By: Head Smells Like Fish http://currentskateofmind.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-74 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:09:40 +0000 http://jocelynjanecox.wordpress.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-74 Regarding the “random” quote of the week, I once taught a 4 year old who volunteered that her “Daddy can’t eat broccoli beacause it gives him gallstones”. I thanked her for sharing and moved on.

]]> By: Alyssa http://currentskateofmind.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-65 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:35:44 +0000 http://jocelynjanecox.wordpress.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-65 While teaching axels in a group lesson (why ISI does that is TOTALLY beyond me, but I digress…) A desperate 16 year old girl turns to me and says, “You could offer me a brand new car, and I STILL couldn’t land my axel.”

]]> By: Martina http://currentskateofmind.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:10:13 +0000 http://jocelynjanecox.wordpress.com/skater-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51 Yesterday I was giving lesson to two small 5 year old boys. When getting off the ice one turns to me a says ” I have not breathed the entire lesson.”

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