What age did you start playing...

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.............and how fast have you picked your game up?

Got me thinking as most players are on skates at 3 - 4 whilst I didnt start til I was 10, but managed to get to the level team mates were at who had been playing from an earlier age fairly quickly...........

Also on makin the cut theres a guy who gets to the final 5 - cant remember if he gets drafted or not but his names Daniel jacob an he says he couldnt skate at all until he was 17 - but is a damn fine player!!! ........... so it's never to late either folks!!!

get ya skates on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[charlish2099]

im starting at 23 ;D

[Louisa]

I started skating at 5 or 6 (figure skating) then started playing hockey around 15. I must confess that my skating is one of my stronger aspects of my game!

[Rich]

I was 9 which meant i had sometime in u10s before 12s and was never far off the standard until i stopped playing when i left 16s, i started back at 19 and never quite got it back

[heja]

started at 18, and dunno what level i am

[Rich]

heja said:

started at 18, and dunno what level i am

10s/12s id say

[kilner]

Started ice hockey at 7, then quit at the age of 14. Started roller hockey pretty much straight after n still playing now at 18 (on friday ;D)

[Cooke#19]

Started skating when I was 3, and did figure skating. Have been playing ice hockey since I was 12 and started roller last year.

Happy Birthday for Friday Kilner even though it means you miss training!!

[ted]

21... about 3 months ago, the transition from rollerblading to ice skating was easy enough as ive been blading for a very long time... but its mixing it with a new way of stopping and they whole 'hockey' aspect thats confusing me!

[dicky]

I started playing when I was 21, but that was only shinny for the first 6 months or so before I played with any kit. Still playing now 1 1/2 years later. I think I picked it up fairly quickly considering I didn't really skate much before I started playing, but then I seem to be one of those people who will pick anything up fast but never become particularly great at anything either. If that makes sense...

And yeah Daniel Jacob is an ace player on making the cut

[Andy C #69]

Started skating at 24, started playing Hockey 2 months later, have been doing it now for 6 months and I'm not falling on my arse as much now. lol aiming to improve loads this year though, so watch this space. hehe

[dicky]

andycunningham said:

aiming to improve loads this year though, so watch this space. hehe

I'd best keep my head up then!

[nt26ix]

Started playing at 17 with some of the Nottm Juniors on a Satruday Morning.. Then as soon as i was 18 i joined Ashfield Avalanche and a month after that also joined the Sheffield Ice Tigers....

Been playing about 2 years on & off... Starting back hopefully tonight or next week back in Sheffield...

[Bretters]

I started skating at the age of 16, then when i was 18 i started training on a Saturday morning with the Nottingham Juniors, the same as Tomo #26, and then also moved onto the Ashfield Avalanche at the same time as him and have been playing ever since.

[RBR97]

i started skating when i was about 16 only for a short while, then watched panthers and got me into wanting to play so went do to the avs the week i was 18, p[layed for about a year, then had nearly a year off from playing and now just getting back into the swing of things

[ted]

tims set me back a year by smashing my knee.

[David]

I'd love to start, but i'm 30. and can only skate VERY basically. Not even skated for 14 years or so

[lukethomas]

I started skating pretty much straight after i learnt to walk! Aparently i had a stick in my hand by the age of 18months! First competitive game when i was about 4 i think. played until the age of 8 then became a netminder. played between the pipes until i was 17, and then due to politics at my club went back to playing in Defence. Probably not the best decision i ever made, as i was never far behind the likes of Wooley and Davey from shuff at England and Conference trials. Could of been backing up an Elite league club by now! But thats life! lol

[heja]

ted said:

tims set me back a year by smashing my knee.

yeah, teach ya to keep your head up and never call me too physical again

[Helen B]

madkenstalin2 said:

I'd love to start, but i'm 30. and can only skate VERY basically. Not even skated for 14 years or so

Oh it's never too late, Jono had never been skating before January this year and he now plays on a Thursday night in Sheffield, btw he's 3 years older.

I myself started playing as a result of volunteering for this Rink Rush match, so about 3 months ago when I was 23, I played for 6 weeks to the RR game and then had enforced stoppage for 6 weeks for a shoulder 'op' and, now 24, I have been back playing for 2 weeks on Thursday nights at IS. So total 8 weeks. Week 1 I didn't have a clue but since then I've improved greatly, and joining the Sheffield Shadows has been mentioned but I already do something else on a Friday night however, should it get mentioned again then maybe I would consider it.

I could skate before I started playing, not right well but enough to get me by, lol. And I absolutely love it, I love the challenge, I love playing against better players as it makes me strive to be better... must be my competitive edge. I only wonder why I didn't start playing sooner.

[Kai]

I started playing after I signed up to play the Rink Rush game aged 19. I'd been skating for about 8 or 9 years before I began playing, sometimes skating around 10hrs a weekend.

I now play on a Thursday night at Ice Sheff and am a part of the Sheffield Shadows development team.

[kilner]

helenb said:

madkenstalin2 said:

I'd love to start, but i'm 30. and can only skate VERY basically. Not even skated for 14 years or so

I love playing against better players as it makes me strive to be better

One of the best ways to improve IMO

[ted]

heja said:

ted said:

tims set me back a year by smashing my knee.

yeah, teach ya to keep your head up and never call me too physical again

I didnt call you TOO physical... i said all your euro hooking and pushing was winding me up! Youll not survive ZT like that timbo!

Oh and it just got better this week then Link Gaetz let a massive ripping slapshot i foolishly blocked. Now it hurts again

[heja]

lol, fool ted fool, when i have to play ZT i will play ZT, TBH i can't see the refs in rec hockey playing out and out ZT and they will actully have to hall you down or stop your forward movement big time for them to call it, moght be wrong but doubt it

[Rich]

heja said:

lol, fool ted fool, when i have to play ZT i will play ZT, TBH i can't see the refs in rec hockey playing out and out ZT and they will actully have to hall you down or stop your forward movement big time for them to call it, moght be wrong but doubt it

Tim...wrong!? surely not

you wudnt admit it if u were!