From: Kathy <kdr1961@...>

Hi Jayson,

I am finding that artistic inline skating seems to
have more popularity outside of the United States, or
at least outside of Texas as far as competing goes.

I am an adult who was very interested in competing on
inlines until I started looking for a coach/club, and
was met with a less than enthusiastic attitude.

One coach I spoke with said that inline skating was on
it's way out, it was keeping quad roller skating out
of the Olympics, and USARS judges "frowned upon"
artistic inline skating.

Another coach told me jumping and spinning was for the
younger athlete, and if I was interested in competing
I would need to do so on quads.

Oh well, their attitude has not affected
me, and I plan to purchase a pair of PIC skates very
soon, much to the dismay of my husband, who can't
understand why I need yet another pair of skates.

I hope your message gets a lot of response, as I too am
interested in what other skaters are doing artistically
on inlines, and personally feel that this sport is far from finished.

In the meantime, I will continue to ice skate.

By the way, nice website.

Ciao!

Kady

From: Kathy <kdr1961@...>





--- In EIFSA@y..., "eifsaweb" <eifsaweb@y...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am very interested to know of skaters who were intending on
> competing on Inline this year at World Level.
>
> I have a site that is very popular for Artistic skating and I would
> like to hear from people who skate inlines as I am planning a
feature
> about the Inline invasion in 2002.
>
> If any skaters who do Inline Artistic are competing, drop me a line
> or reply to this post. I would like to know the type of equipment
you
> are using, how you find spinning, what sort of technical items you
> are doing and how you find skating on inline and how you expect the
> sport to progress in the future.
>
> If you can answer any of the above, I would love to hear from you.
If
> you have pics, that would be great also to include in the feature.
>
> My site is found at http://www.jaysonsutcliffe.com
>
> I look forward to hearing from you!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jayson, Australia
> info@j...
> http://www.jaysonsutcliffe.com