Competitor – Coach – Judge – Fan
Welcome to Rochelle’s Figure Skating Weblog, where I will discuss my thoughts and experiences as a(n):
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current semi-competitive adult skater, who trained as a competitive skater as a teenager
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USFS (U.S. Figure Skating) Learn-to-Skate group instructor and beginner freestyle private lesson instructor/coach
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overall figure skating fan
Why?: I’ll be honest that my main motivation for keeping this blog is to fulfill a requirement for one of my senior journalism courses at Franklin College (JOU 435: Advanced Interactive Media Design). However, I have been toying with keeping a blog on such a topic for over a year now, since my involvement in figure skating transcends several layers of our sport and will only (hopefully) continue to grow.
How often will I be posting?: I’m required to post one entry at least once a week. However, it is likely that I will post brief entries more frequently when issues, thoughts, and experiences permit.
‘Where I’m coming from’: So that you can understand my perspective a little bit better before I fully launch into my blog, over the next week I will share individual posts about:
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my experiences as a teenage competitive skater
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my recent challenges as a skater (relatively) new to adult-track competitive levels who defies the stereotype by currently working on my Olympic-level Senior Moves-in-the-field test
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my recent experience, triumphs and trials as a skating group and private instructor
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my initial experiences working towards my first judging appointment (certification)
Thanks for stopping by so early in the life of this blog, and please feel free to comment and/or share your own thoughts and experiences once this blog begins to take off. 
Good luck to you! It’ll be fun to read about what you’ve been up to since our years of skating together. The adult skater’s perspective should be quite interesting–something I dealt with myself. Have fun with it!
~Melissa (I/WSA)
Thank you Melissa!!! Are you still skating at all these days?
Not much. I got out of shape. I’m working on that now. I hope to be able to get back to it someday. I’d love to get into it again, for fun. Maybe someday I’ll coach, even if it’s just for my own kids. I miss it a lot sometimes!