Any adult skaters experience this?

Question by princess_chunli81: Any adult skaters experience this?
I skated a bit when I was a kid and I went back two years ago just to stay in shape and have fun. I?m currently in FS2/3 (1 foot spin pending!) I just get frustrated whenever I tell someone ?yes i take figure skating lessons?. the reaction is always: ?Can you do a triple axel?? ?Are you going to the olympics?? or??aren?t you kind of old??

Whenever another adult says ?yes i?m taking golf/tennis lessons? or ?yes I play in a softball league the weekends? no one says ?Oh are you gonna be like tiger woods?? or ?hmm are you trying out for the white sox?? duh! and of course no one is apparently too old for golf or tennis but they are for figure skating? how do you deal?

My rink is pretty adult skater friendly, so it?s pretty good?i?ve heard of rinks where skating parents give adult skaters attitude.
The actual staff in our rink is pretty adult friendly, like we have an adult beginner/basics class where I actually first enrolled when I returned to skating, and then when I started learning waltz jumps that?s when they put me in regular FS1 with the kiddies. I can relate with the ice sharing situation though, I was on a freestyle session last summer where I finished my 1/2 lesson with my coach, and for the second half of the hour she wanted me to work on my spin. Back then I was only doing the spin from a T position so I situated myself by the corner where there was a hockey line as my guide. One of the young USFSA skaters was practicing her double lutz or something and she gave me a nasty look and told me if ?i could move over? because it was her ?corner? for her lutz. And we all paid the same price for that ice which pissed me off. And the other corners of the rink were unoccupied! Rather than create drama I just moved, because i wanted to be the bigger person

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Answer by Steve
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