How long did it take you to get to the level you are now??

Question

How long did it take you to get to the level you are in now? what level is it? did you get a coach when you first started skating. what age did you start figure skating?

Thanks

this is kinda a poll

Answer 1

IDK what level I am in, I just know that I am at senior level but I am 11 years old.

I started skating when I was 5, my mom started as my coach but now I have a different one because my mom got a better job and couldn't coach me anymore.

I love figure skating!!!!!!!! I have been doing it for 6 years!!!

Answer 2

I started when I was 5 I did the canskate but I had a different badge system then now, anyways I started coaching the kids at age 12 and was a senior doing triples by age 14 entering the BC games.  I did not have a private coach until I was out of the badges and as I recall I was about age 10.  I am 29 now and I still love it ( but I have been off for a number of years having children) and would love to get back into it I have a goal I have set for myself that in the 2010 olympics I will be a part of it competing and I really hope to achieve this but I guess well see ha ha.

~enjoyCP~  

Answer 3

it took me 6 years and now im intermediate ladies.

8

and i started in group lessons for about half a year.

Answer 4

Our daughter started at age 6. She's been skating for one year and nine months and just passed Freestyle 1. She did one pre-alpha competition a few months ago. We hired a coach on an "as-needed" basis to help her complete some of the moves in Beta and in Delta, so she could pass, and for her one competition but since she probably won't compete again we are sticking with group lessons.

Answer 5

I started skating when I was 12. I've been skating for two years. (i'm 14 now) The first year I took group lessons once a week, and I got to about basic 8. The second year I took two half hour private lessons a week and had an hour of practice time a week. I'm at freestyle 5/6. I've landed my axel and have passed my pre-juvenile MIF.  

Answer 6

i started skating when i was 10. i didn't have a coach, i just taught myself stuff. i got a coach a year later.  it took me almost 5 years to get to the level i am now. i don't know exactly what level it is because i haven't tested or competed in a while, but i can land my axel, double salchow, double toe loop, and double loop.

Answer 7

I started lessons in january (age 14)

Have 1 45-minute lesson every saturday

I am almost done with level 5 (equivalent to almost passing alpha)

Answer 8

1. a couple months (had to find a time to do a program)

2. freestyle 3 (but started working on fs4 while working on backspin)

3. no i got a coach when i was in fs1

4. 11/12 (6th grade)

(now 14)

Answer 9

1. 1 year and 11 months

2. Freestyle 5

3. No. I got a private coach after 2 months of skating.

4. 12 years

Answer 10

Let me see...

I started taking group lessons three years ago, when I was twelve, and only did it for a year. I started out in Pre-Alpha (ISI). In group lessons I went all the way up to the Freestyle class (It was a combination of FS1-FS3). But then I decided to become serious about skating, so I found a Out of this world coach that I have had for two years now. By the way, I'm fourteen. Now I am in Freestyle five, since I landed my axel, after the first day of actually doing them! (I had been doing axel exercises for about two months but never really worked on them.) I don't intend on going to the Olympics, but maybe, just maybe, nationals.

Answer 11

All of these strange levels mean absolutely nothing to me. I'm in Australia, I'm in pre-primary, please tell me that happens to mean something consequential to you. I also used to skate in a synchronised team, we were senior and we we're the Aussie National Champions in 2000 I think it was. Ive been skating for 8 years, I skated for about 1 year with a club, and then I changed to a club where I was with a Russian man and his French wife as coaches for about 3/4 years in synchro and solo, only competing synchro though, until I decided to move from there because I was sick of them and started training seriously as a solo competitor.  

Answer 12

My daughter started skating at age 8 in October of 2006. At the time, she took 1 group lesson a week from October '06 until April '07. She advanced to Basic 4 and then we were gone all summer and she didn't step on the ice once during that time.

She started taking group lessons again in September '07. She also began skating 2-3 days a week and started taking private lessons 2 1/2 months later.  She now skates 3-4 days a week(some weeks more!. She has 2 private lessons a week and is also taking a Learn to Skate class. She's in the Freestyle 1 Class(USFSA) and will test Wednesday. I'm pretty sure she will advance to  Freestye 2.  She is working on her single jumps(she's landing some!) and her sit and scratch spins with her coach.  She's also currently working on her competition program. The total amount of time she's been on the ice for is about 18 months(I've deducted the months she didn't skate due to being out of town and rink closures).

Answer 13

My daughter got to USFS INT Ladies 7 years after she first stepped on the ice. She would have been around FS 8 if she stayed in ISI. She no longer skates.

Answer 14

As of August 2008, I'm in Freestyle 2. I started in January of '07, so I'd say it took me a year and a half to get where I am now. I don't have a private coach yet because at my rink, they're REALLY expensive. I started skating when I was about 10 1/2!

Hope this helps!