new shoes

These are my brand, spankin’ new skates! Words do not express the excitement! Only exclamation points will do!!!!!

It still takes me a little while at the beginning of each practice to get my legs acclimated to rolling, instead of walking, but these made it much easier. They’re well balanced, they roll properly, and are not at all like a shopping cart (you know, where one of the wheels decides it would really rather be turning right, when you’re obviously trying to go left). I spent way more time at this practice actually maneuvering, instead of spending most of my energy just trying to stay up on my feet.

I still fell a helluva lot, but not because of the skates, more like because I’m not that good at steering around people when they fall right in front of me in the pack (during falling drills). (Click through to see a picture of my first big bruise.)

Well, I’m certainly invested now, since I dropped about $300 on gear, so I suppose I’d better go through with this. Not that I need much convincing. I heart my new skates. They are the rocking.