HOW DOES WISHING TO BE A FAMOUS SKATER SOMETIMES MAKE YOU FEEL?

[FSWer]

Say,maybe we talked about this before. But I just wanted to check-in... What I want to ask you guys (and I'm sure not everyone. But I would think some people here do) today is....How does wishing to be a famous Skater sometimes make you feel? Please include Skating Discipline,and use the following format. For example...
I must tell you all,as I'm sure you all know, that wishing to be a famous Ice-Dancer does INDEED sometimes make me release tears from my eyes like I'm crying. Anybody else?

 

[misskarne]

I don't wish for something that can never be, FSWer.

But I wish to be the best skater I can be.

 

[PeterG]

I've always wondered if any skater ever considered having success in singles and then doing another Olympic cycle in pairs or dance. I know some people have skated pairs and singles at the same time before usually choosing one of those two disciplines. And other skaters who weren't able to achieve the level of success they wanted in singles, so switches over to pairs (and sometimes dance). But I'm wondering about someone more like Sasha Cohen, who had great success in singles skating. Would someone like her ever have thought after their 2006 Olympic success to then try ice dance for a cycle (or two) to see what they could achieve?

I mention this because to answer your question, I'd have to pick a discipline. That's the place I get stuck. Well, the first place...there's also the time, the cost and the talent! And the only crying I do at this time is thinking about the pain I'd go through after having set records in the number of falls I'd achieve!

 

[overedge]

@PeterG Deanna Stellato was a pretty successful singles skater before taking up pairs - Junior GPF winner, world Junior silver, scored a 6.0 in a senior competition...

 

[Clarice]

If I thought about wanting to be a famous ice dancer, I would be very sad a lot of the time, because that is something that is never going to happen. I started skating way too late. But if I just think about becoming a better skater, I have a great time! It's so much fun learning new things and getting better at them!

 

[Scrufflet]

Actually, watching them takes me out of myself briefly and makes me feel 14 again. That's a gift from them.

 

[chapis]

Say,maybe we talked about this before. But I just wanted to check-in... What I want to ask you guys (and I'm sure not everyone. But I would think some people here do) today is....How does wishing to be a famous Skater sometimes make you feel? Please include Skating Discipline,and use the following format. For example...
I must tell you all,as I'm sure you all know, that wishing to be a famous Ice-Dancer does INDEED sometimes make me release tears from my eyes like I'm crying. Anybody else?

I've never wanted to be a skater, I guess I just enjoy seeing it. But I understand your sentiment, because when I was a little girl I really liked gymnastics and I wished to be gymnast so much. Curious now, I don´t care for gymnastics at all.

Maybe you can´t be famous ice dancer but you should try it anyway.

 

[Alilou]

I've said more than once that in my next life I want to come back as an Olympic Champion ice dancer in a long and healthy partnership like Papadakis/Cizeron, Virtue/Moir, Davis/White, etc. The idea of being able to dance like that thrills me and is probably the reason I love to watch skating so much.

 

[hanca]

I've always wondered if any skater ever considered having success in singles and then doing another Olympic cycle in pairs or dance. I know some people have skated pairs and singles at the same time before usually choosing one of those two disciplines. And other skaters who weren't able to achieve the level of success they wanted in singles, so switches over to pairs (and sometimes dance). But I'm wondering about someone more like Sasha Cohen, who had great success in singles skating. Would someone like her ever have thought after their 2006 Olympic success to then try ice dance for a cycle (or two) to see what they could achieve?

I mention this because to answer your question, I'd have to pick a discipline. That's the place I get stuck. Well, the first place...there's also the time, the cost and the talent! And the only crying I do at this time is thinking about the pain I'd go through after having set records in the number of falls I'd achieve!

Didn’t Valentina Marchei do that?

 

[Skittl1321]

I wanted to be a famous skater when I was young. I quickly moved passed it when I realized how much work it was. I have too many interests to focus on one thing. I'm so glad I've learned to skate (with so many injuries I've nearly had to stop and miss it so much), but I'd never be willing to make the sacrifices needed to be a famous skater.

 

[hanca]

If you do something at elite level, it stops being a hobby and becomes something like a job. A chore. I would worry that if I became an elite skater, I would lose the thing I love (skating for fun, or because I want to) and replace it with skating ‘because I have to’. (Even though strictly speaking I wouldn’t have to, on elite level a lot of money is spent on skating and you suddenly have the feelings of responsibility, you have to train hard because you know your parents spent their last penny on your skating and perhaps could not afford holidays for many years). So no, I definitely don’t wish I was an elite skater.

Have you ever noticed that you enjoy doing something, but if suddenly you HAD TO do this activity, it would stop being fun? I think a part of the enjoyment is that you have the freedom to choose whether you want to do it, and stop whenever you want to stop. Or take a week off. Have a break and restart when you want to. So then you do it only because you want to do it, and not because you feel you should do it. This is not something the elite athletes can do.

 

[PeterG]

Didn’t Valentina Marchei do that?

I was thinking along the lines of medal winners. But achieving top 10 at a world championships in two different disciplines is AMAZING.