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Essay On Skating

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Small town Napier girl Eva Ross-Grant, roller skates for Hasting’s club and has also represented New Zealand in this sport, Eva says “It's an amazing feeling being able you represent your country in a sport that you love”. Eva has shown great passion and love towards this sport for 10 years now “I like skating because it help me express my emotions and because I struggle at school, it's something a can focus on and make me want to achieve and do well in the sport.”

This sport is made up of three categories, Dance, Freestyle and Figures. They are all different styles of skating. Dance is more pretty and flowing, you are given a pattern and you follow it. Figures is when following a lined circle on the floor, you are judged on your technique …show more content…

She trains 3 times a week at the Centennial Hall up to 2-3 hours at a time. Because this sport is so demanding and is a huge part in Evas life we talked about how she is going to cope with having level one next year “I'm going to find it very hard as school is not my strongest point, I feel as though skating is going to pull me behind in school”. Eva's family are very involved in this sport, Her mother still continues skating and has represented at world level. Eva's mother is also a well known coach around New Zealand and has taught at a very high level. Her Grandmother, is on the committee of Artistic Roller skating and also judges at national competitions. We talked about how eva feels been brought out in a sport from such a young age “Um it difficult because there is a lot of pressure put on you to do well. Because my family have brought me up in this sport I have to do well, but in order to do well I have to train which I find boring”. I noticed that Eva has a lot of pressure put on her from her grandmother and other and I do feel as though she skates to keep her family happy. Eva enjoys competing and having lots of friendships within the

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