Hello! I'm also an adult figure skater. I live and train in Tokyo, Japan (but I'm not Japanese). I just found your channel. I enjoy following other skaters. I think tips of how to smartly spend money skating will vary depending on which country the person lives and what the rules of the rink the person trains are. Here there's no such thing as buying ice practice time in bulk. You practice, you pay. I pay a monthly salary to my private skating coach. In normal times, she coaches me twice a week, one hour each day. Or one hour and a half each day if she has time. I practice on my own about 3 hours per day 5 days a week (sometimes 6) I practice 1 hour, then 6 minutes break, 1 more hour, then 5 minutes break, then 1 more hour . I also attend a technique group coaching session once per week. For important occasions, then I am coached everyday prior to it. Given the rules of my home rink, I would only see three ways to spend less. One would be less private coaching, so the coach's salary will be less. I wouldn't recommend, since private coaching is really important. Another would be skipping any special technique group coaching lesson (we pay for these per month as well). And less but not least, just analyze overall expenses and not spend money on unnecessary things, if like me, skating is a priority. Off ice as you say, is also important and I wouldn't skip it. I train with an off ice private coach as well ( he wants to be paid every 5 sessions), and I am a member of a gym near my home and near the rink (I live very close to the rink), so I go there as often as possible to practice on my home the exercises my off ice coach gives me. Regarding videos. Coaches around here highly frown at the use of any kind of videos for learning skills so that would be a no around here.

@AmandaTheAdultSkater

3 ай бұрын

These are great tips, and that is amazing you put so much work into it! Thank you for some more insight! Where I live I am able to buy ice time in bulk so that is very interesting and I never thought that it wasnt an option.

@LolaSkates

3 ай бұрын

@@AmandaTheAdultSkaterI really really wish they let us pay the ice time per month. There are other rinks in the Kanto region (the region where Tokyo is located) where they do sell monthly passes for ice time, but my home rink won't do it for whatever reason :( More than the financial savings it would really be convenient to pay once per month and then just go.