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About Boot and Blade Contact Me Boot and Blade A Figure Skating Blog The Next-Generation Skate Guard The Joy of Adult Figure Skating What a great time to be an adult figure skater When time allows , I head down to my local figure skating club on Saturday mornings and try my hand at some basic jumps , spins and spirals . Sounds pretty straightforward , but it’s actually quite extraordinary . When I was skating competitively in the 80’s , the thought that a skating club would dedicate a session to adult figure skaters would have seemed kind of weird . The best an adult with an itch to try some loop jumps could do was brave a public skating session . How times have changed Adult figure skating hasn’t just become popular as a fitness activity . Since the mid-90’s it’s been a passion for

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