Want to say Hi to everyone, whether we met somewhere in person when I was in the UK /Christmas skating at the Tower of London, Royal Skating Club in Guilford or meet up in Sheffield at Europeans or perhaps somewhere on the ice/ or met online here on the forum.
This forum gave me great start to figure skating and a chance to experience the friendly and welcoming community that adult skaters in the UK have. Being inspired I have worked on building something like this here in the Czech Republic and 11 years on I think I can say we have moved the iceberg. We now have 430 people in my facebook group, people manage to train with coaches to some degree, there are adult courses, we have adult sections at some competitions, we manage to organise ourselves and hire private ice for adult session. Its not as easy as it is in the UK, and its more expensive but still I am happy with the progress we made. I think back in 2010 most coaches here didnt even believe adult people can learn to figureskate. Well, we are proving them wrong!
Happy Skating!