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[quote=Anonymous]My DD is a competitive skater and she loves it and has no desire to stop anytime soon but it is such a time suck I wonder if she is going to look back on her childhood and wonder if she should have made other choices.  She is on the ice 2 mornings before school after school 2-3 times a week all weekend in addition to ballet lessons.  Then you have to factor in competitions which out of town can be 2-3 days or more test sessions for MITF, freestyle and dance if she is testing dance as well.  There are parties she has had to miss once she gets home from the rink she has very little time to eat get her homework done and practice her instrument before going to bed only to wake up before 6 to be back at the rink.  Once a moth 1 have to take her skates to the 1 of 2 skate sharpeners that her coach trusts and get them sharpened.

As far as costs my DD has a primary coach ($48/30) , jump coach ($50/30) and an ice dance coach ($42/30). Competition dresses (around $500 each), test dresses ($100) and skates and blades ($1200).  Then you have entry fees for competitions and test fees.  Off ice training and ballet and this summer she will be at skate camp for 3 weeks. I suspect we are coming in just under 30K this year.   My daughter will most likely breakdown her skates before she outgrows them.  She is lucky if she can get a year out of her skates.

You also have to be willing to give control to the pro we are lucky that my DD and her coach have such a great relationship but it is hard when she falls really hard and you can't run out of the ice to comfort them.

Best of luck to you DD.[/quote]

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