The weather last Saturday was beeeeee-au-ti-ful! Who can complain with +2 degrees celsius? Well, it was nice in the morning. My apartment has a balcony that overlooks the river and after seeing people having fun skating along, I figure I’d to go ice skating one of these days. Who else wants to come? Unfortunately, no one until last Saturday!
My first memories of going ice skating is ironically in the Philippines years ago. “A filipino ice skating in the Philippines?” you ask. Yes, at Mega Mall. Again, I will say years ago and I must stress on the word years. I figured ice skating would be a breeze. Well, not quite but simple enough for me to take my camera along so I can kill two stones with one low fat diet (you know what I mean!). Boy was I wrong! I was skating very cautiously to protect my camera from my big ol’ bum. My skating ablities were probably worse than a 4 year old. I needed a walker! Well, maybe not that bad but maybe that bad.
Anyway, last summer YouTube cured my case with my swimless ability. I can now officially say I can swim! Thanks, YouTube! Just don’t ask me to save someone if they were drowning. Yes, I had a test run with a friend and I couldn’t save her haha. So if YouTube helped me then I’m sure he can help me now! Without further ado (I had to look that one up. I thought it was adieu. Could still be adieu. The internet sometimes isn’t a very reliable place.) my YouTube Skating Class 101.
This is a series of 9 ice skating lessons for beginners. The reason why I chose this video is because I initially found it a little funny but I still soaked in everything he was pointing out. The first lesson is how to skate. I was like, “So the left foot moves are called steps and the right foot moves are called skates.” Very descriptive hahaha. I know I’m being a bastard and I’m sure he can be much more descriptive in Hungarian but it was a little funny. I’m sure my intro ice skating video in Hungarian would be worse. I’m sure I’d get tons of hilarious looks if people saw me slowly going down the river crouching and standing (one of the exercises). If you do see me doing these exercises though, don’t laugh. That’s the way my buddy does it in Budapest!
