noobman
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- Nov 28, 2007
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And I mean the people who started after they've stuck to a sport for a while, so generally 17+. I'm just taking my skating lessons right now, and I'm 22. Was wondering how long it took you guys to become a competent skater? I try to practice skating whenever I can (about 2-3 times a week, 1.5 hour or so each time).
If you've just started at 22, I'd imagine that you can pick things up pretty quickly.
Once you can skate forwards and backwards, turn and do crossovers both ways, pivot, and STOP, you can start playing hockey. Of course, to become better you're going to have to learn new things... backwards crossovers, tight turns, etc etc. At some point you're going to want to start working on speed, acceleration, agility, balance, etc etc.
Skating is one of those aspects of your game that can *always* use improvement. You could always be a better skater.