ebuilding Your Coaching Career in a Post-COVID-19 World
By Terri Milner Tarquini
T
he mantra of figure skating is as old as the sport itself: Fall down, get back up.
But to stop there is to miss the crux of what really defines the soul of figure skating. “If you fall down, you get back up—and then you keep going,” said Denise Viera, a registered PSA coach with the NV-Ice Skating Group, who has coached skaters in Connecticut, Virginia, and Florida for over 20 years. “The most important aspect is the ‘keep going’ part. There is no regroup time in skating. Not only do you have
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to get right back up, but you also have to move ahead and act like the fall didn’t even happen.” The keep going aspect is the very fabric of what skating is- and now that some ice rinks have reopened it will be at the heart of the rebuilding process for figure skating coaches everywhere.
