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What age were you when you started taking lessons?

0-4 years old
2 (3.6%)
5-11yrs old
10 (18.2%)
12-15 yrs old
9 (16.4%)
16-25 yrs old
9 (16.4%)
26-40 yrs old
12 (21.8%)
41-59 yrs old
12 (21.8%)
60+ yrs old
1 (1.8%)

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Offline skatingbeast

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Re: What age were you when you started taking lessons?
« Reply #25 on: February 21, 2016, 03:34:14 PM »
Started LTS group classes when I was 24 and started private lessons last year at 26.
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Re: What age were you when you started taking lessons?
« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2016, 03:06:47 PM »
I was 38 when I started taking skating lessons and was placed in the level for learn to skate/CanSkate for 3 months and then was placed on the ice with the Junior level skaters PrePre to Junior Bronze. Let me say I was at the PrePre level for a long time. I was just about ready to test my Preliminary FS 3 times. First time, I injured my knee avoiding hitting a child in the path of one of my jumps during my lesson. 2nd time, I came down with a very bad case of food poisoning and I could have tested this winter had I not broken my foot off ice in a store parking lot snow covered pothole. When I go back I have to get back into skating slowly but this time it's a blessing because I will be forced to get my darn backspin to go past 1 1/2 to 2 revs and I will get my loop solid enough to do a loop+loop combo.

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Offline Gabby on Ice

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Re: What age were you when you started taking lessons?
« Reply #27 on: February 27, 2016, 06:14:00 PM »
I started in LTS when I was 20, and I started taking privates when I was 21. I have been skating 3-4 times a week for 4 years now :)

Offline twokidsskatemom

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Re: What age were you when you started taking lessons?
« Reply #28 on: February 27, 2016, 08:36:26 PM »
My daughter was 3 3/4 and my son was a week before his 3rd birthday. She is 16 3/4 now and he is 15 and they still skate 5 days a week.

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Re: What age were you when you started taking lessons?
« Reply #29 on: February 29, 2016, 08:18:44 AM »
I started skating (seasonally) when I was around 16.  The first check I every wrote (at 18) was for my first skating lesson.  Skated seasonally for two years, then went to year-round rinks and really started skating.
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Re: What age were you when you started taking lessons?
« Reply #30 on: February 29, 2016, 01:05:21 PM »
Began group classes at 29 after having tooled around on publics once every 3-4 years since childhood.  Began private lessons nine months later, age 30.