Zoe hasn't been to derby practice for a number of weeks, so when Cheryl asked if she wanted to go skating at The Palace, Zoe was super excited for the opportunity. Since my body is not made to be put on wheels, I brought along the camera to take a few pictures. It started off slow, but after a couple laps around the rink they were doing patty cake on skates!
Next they transitioned to moves like squats and skating like Egyptians, shout out to The Bangles.
After that there was a brief practicing of jumps. You can tell Cheryl wasn't entirely sure she was up to it based on these faces she made while landing.
From there they transitioned over to the one leg skating. It appeared that both of them were pretty confident in rolling on one foot.
When that was done they moved on to the pure joy section of the skating. That's not to say that they didn't enjoy every moment of this, but this really seemed to be the part where the smiles kicked into high gear.
This moved quickly to the part where Cheryl demonstrated a skill for Zoe, but didn't really emphasize how much fun it was, so Zoe wasn't too sure about it.
So instead, Zoe moved right into the skating forward, spin around to skating backward thing. Zoe did it multiple times and I caught Cheryl marveling at how well Zoe does it, before I caught Zoe in the backward position.
Since there is an arcade at the skating rink, there was a brief interlude there to acquire some tickets. Once we had enough, Zoe traded them in for not one, but two pairs of fishnet gloves. She then removed her wrist guards to sport the longer, blue version around the rink.
As we were leaving we were presented with two free passes to come back, so I'm sure there will be more skating in the future. Also, when I said I took a few pictures, I may have been off by a couple hundred. The Flickr album has the exact number, if you'd like to check for yourself.
Next they transitioned to moves like squats and skating like Egyptians, shout out to The Bangles.
After that there was a brief practicing of jumps. You can tell Cheryl wasn't entirely sure she was up to it based on these faces she made while landing.
From there they transitioned over to the one leg skating. It appeared that both of them were pretty confident in rolling on one foot.
When that was done they moved on to the pure joy section of the skating. That's not to say that they didn't enjoy every moment of this, but this really seemed to be the part where the smiles kicked into high gear.
This moved quickly to the part where Cheryl demonstrated a skill for Zoe, but didn't really emphasize how much fun it was, so Zoe wasn't too sure about it.
So instead, Zoe moved right into the skating forward, spin around to skating backward thing. Zoe did it multiple times and I caught Cheryl marveling at how well Zoe does it, before I caught Zoe in the backward position.
Since there is an arcade at the skating rink, there was a brief interlude there to acquire some tickets. Once we had enough, Zoe traded them in for not one, but two pairs of fishnet gloves. She then removed her wrist guards to sport the longer, blue version around the rink.
As we were leaving we were presented with two free passes to come back, so I'm sure there will be more skating in the future. Also, when I said I took a few pictures, I may have been off by a couple hundred. The Flickr album has the exact number, if you'd like to check for yourself.
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