Journeys allow us to travel from one place to another. Either that be physically across terrains or mentally through our imagination, nevertheless the type of journey, it is what the journey does to us that is the most important of all***June, 1999, overseas trials - Blacktown Ice Arena, Sydney. The seats are packed, the change rooms full with ice skating teams checking last minute checkups ÃÂ Hair, make up, tights, costumes, and skates! And as the tope NSW junior team the ÃÂIce crystalsÃÂ stand in a huddle five minutes before we skate, I remember back to when we first skated as a synchronized ice skating team.
I remember learning the routines, those early morning practices with the on ÃÂ ice fights over the smallest things. Where the coaches are yelling at us to skate faster, bend your knees, use those edges, heads up, ultimately to bring us to our goal, to skate as one.
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I want to skate too
Touring skate with cross country ski bindings and ...Oh and offcourse to win gold at nationals to get the opportunity to skate overseas in Italy.
But it is not about just winning gold and going overseas, it is more than that. ItÃÂs that feeling that you get just before an exam or a really important job interview, where your stomach clenches up and everything squirms inside. You feel like you are going to be sick and then just before you have time to react. Before all that food you didnÃÂt eat that morning can come out, you step on that ice, or start that exam or begin that interview, and all the anxiety begins to disappear. ItÃÂs like something inside of you has flicked the on switch and your body is doing what it is meant to do, as if you had practices it a hundred times. Then, just as quickly as it all...