by Elizabeth Ryan | Jan 7, 2021 | Skaters |
This may have been one of the hardest training years of your life. Nobody could have foreseen a situation where rinks would be shut, schoolwork would be carried out almost entirely from home, and socialising with friends would pose a risk to you, your family and loved...
by Elizabeth Ryan | Jul 23, 2020 | Adult Skaters, Parents, Skaters |
It’s been a long time and the waiting is nearly over – rinks will be starting to open up soon and that means all the hard work you’ve been doing off-ice will pay dividends when you step back on to that lovely smooth cold sheet of ice… or will it? Everyone’s been in...
by Elizabeth Ryan | Jan 29, 2019 | Skaters |
Injuries are the constant bugbear of skaters and it is always hard to cope with being off ice for any length of time, undergoing physio and taking things much more slowly than you would like. And the return to training can be fraught with self-doubt and anxiety that...
by Rhiannon Parker-Nicholls | Aug 8, 2018 | Skaters |
(Rhiannon’s story was selected as runner-up in the 2017 competition to provide a short story for publication in the 2018 SkaterPlanner™) It’s been 213 days. That’s seven months, 5,112 hours. That’s a long time. As I pushed open the door, the familiar...
by Elizabeth Ryan | Aug 2, 2018 | Adult Skaters, other sports, Skaters |
Listen on the Podcast: What does that even mean? Do you have to be brave and courageous to achieve your dream of making it to the nationals/world championships/Olympics? You love what you do – it makes your heart sing (when everything’s going well) so what does...
by Elizabeth Ryan | Jul 20, 2018 | other sports, Skaters |
Sometimes when you’re at the top of your game it can be pretty hard to stay there. Or when you’re that big fish in a small pond and suddenly you move up a level and become the small fish. At times like these your negative self-talk may start to kick in a bit louder...
