ice skating
suddenly when i wake up this morning, i looked at the mirror and my eye caught the medal i hung there.
The medal with words carved there, “Bandung ISI Competition”.
When i was in my senior high school, there was this one sport extracurricular that caught my attention. The name was TIIS, it stood for Three Incredible Ice Skating, and in Sundanese it means cold. Maybe it was the first ice skating club/unit in a senior high school in Bandung. And so, i joined them, and i fell in love (with ice skating lol). =)
In Bandung, there was only one ice skating rink, lied in Istana Plaza. Every Friday after school the club practice there. Me and my friends didnt have the ice skates shoe, so we rented it -the TIIS unit back then is an expensive club for high school level- i remember i would rented number 26,5 -it sounds pretty big,eh :P-.
We practiced with the coach from the Arena Ice Istana Plaza. For real, in the unit we could choose our track, whether it is figure or hockey, but since in Bandung there was no such hockey club or a place to practice, all of us automatically went in the figure skating track. -figure skating often reffered as an artistic skating-
The coach divide the lesson into several stages, but it wasnt according to common stages in skating school. The coach made lesson that would match with our time in the unit, which is only three year tops and we unlikely would proceed seriously to figure skater or hockey or anything, and those stages was pretty basic. I dont remember clearly, but the stages were called turtle, and we start from turtle 1, on to turtle 2, and so on. At turtle 1, we learned how to stand correctly, how to avoid falling, and how to fall correctly -pretty interesting, isnt it? =D-. Then we moved on skate forward, glide, wiggle backward and forward, swizzle backward and forward, various number of stops, lunge, crossover, mohawk, spin, and i cant remember the rest…
Oh, lunge, and mohawk were two of my favourite movement..
Lunge looks like this :
and Mohawk -the motion- looks like this one :
At my second year,or else, the coach offered us to change our lesson and proceed to common lesson in skating school. We agreed, and the stages changed. The stages were pre-alpha, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, after that freestyle 1, 2, 3, and so on till 10. I dont remember in which stage I was when I stopped practice, but Im pretty sure Im not in any freestyle level =P.
But, before I stopped,
There was an event ISI Competition, of course its an ice skating competition. The participant skaters here come from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Once it was held in Bandung, my unit, TIIS, attend the competition, i forgot in what category. We performed dancing on ice consist of 9 skaters. We practiced for the competition almost every day -from H-10-. We arrived at the arena as soon as it opened -yes, we skipped school-, and practiced at midnight when we did final rehearsal -the mall was all dark-. We bought some cute uniforms, wear make up, did some dance and formation on ice. At the competition, since we were the only one participants on the category, we won the first place and brought home the medal. =D
fyi, from my recource here it seems like the category that TIIS attended is synchronized team.
Since then, TIIS took part in almost every ISI Competition -even fly to Malaysia- and surely brought the winner title and medal or trophy. =D
and here comes the sad part,
at my second year in college, 5 years since i first joined TIIS, the one and only ice skating rink in Bandung was closed. =(
i havent play ice skating for a while now, and i missed it. I dont really know about TIIS now, where they are practising and when, or whether it is become inactive. hopefully Bandung will soon have an ice skating rink!
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UPDATE :
i just have been told that soon there will be an ICE SKATING RINK open in Paris Van Java (PVJ), Bandung. It will be open around JUNE 10th 2010, and it is located in the UPPER GROUND of SOGO in PVJ. You can call it, GARDEN ICE RINK -or GARDENICE RINK, i dont know which type is right, but they still have the same pronunciation-. and for more information about the GARDEN ICE RINK : here or here
CANT WAIT!
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for more information about :
figure skating : here
arena ice Sky Rink in Jakarta, Indonesia : here
ISI : here
extreme skating : here
lunge : here
and mohawk : here
