one clumsy girl

When I moved to Seattle in late 2001, my dad emailed me a link to the Seattle Women’s Hockey Club. At the time I didn’t have the budget to invest in all of the equipment, but I kept it in the back of my mind. I moved back to the DC area in 2003. In [...]

A handful of firsts from class this week: first goal that made it through a real, actual goalie (in a drill, so it doesn’t really count). It went in 5-hole off of his skate. first scrimmage (wow, I was HORRIBLE) first face-off. I went out for the first shift on the ice and everyone had [...]

Wednesday’s class ended with everyone taking turns going one-on-one against the goalie. If we didn’t beat him, we had to do push ups. My first shot was weak, went off the goalie’s left leg. Pushups for me! I couldn’t get the tip of my skate into the ice well enough to stay still enough to [...]

I’ve had two weeks off of hockey class due to the July 4th holiday last week and Caps development camp this week. I took some time today after work to watch the prospect kids scrimmage. hey! that’s the sheet I skate on! They were fast, incredibly fast. I’m not sure if I thought they were [...]

Last night was my first Learn to Play class. I was a little concerned going in because the class had accidentally been listed as an advanced class. I spoke to the instructor and knew he was planning to run it as a beginner class, but I also knew a few advanced people who signed up [...]

I have been buying my pads in a piecemeal sort of way in order to lessen the impact on my bank account. After three months of this, I had a birthday coming up and everything except shoulder pads and elbow pads. So I asked the lovely hubby for shoulder pads for my birthday, knowing that [...]