How long did it take you to feel comfortable on the most basic things?
I just properly started skating last week for the first time at age 33. So far, I've skated for about 5 hours total on 5 different days, including one LTS class.
The first class we learned forward and backward swizzles, two foot glide, snowplow stop, one foot glide, dip, little hop thing. Class was great...but I am still soooo shaky and wobbly feeling every time I skate. I feel like I'm getting worse not better. I can barely lift my foot for a couple seconds on the one foot glide before I feel like I'm going to fall over, and I barely pick my foot up on the forward stroking for the same reason.
I don't know if I just have really unrealistic expectations, but I thought I would at least feel comfortable making my (slow) way around the rink by now, but I still feel so shaky the whole time. I'm not holding onto the boards or anything...but then I wasn't doing that on day one either. I'm starting to feel like I'm going to be useless at this! lol
So help me...do I just need to give it some more time or what? How long did it take from when you first started until you felt comfortable just skating around?