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Give it a go - Ice Skating
by Alex Heron
Ever since I went to see the Nottingham Panthers’ first game at the National Ice Centre in Nottingham, I fell in love with ice hockey. The skill, speed and (albeit not a family-friendly aspect of the game) the fighting – I was locked in.
I remember that game, as the second period was shortened because the goalies started to scrap as well. The refs had had enough!
The National Ice Centre is very accessible to us so, when my
eldest was old enough, we were there in the hope that he’d be a natural and
take the world by storm.
Having only ice skated once, on one skate, on a
frozen lake in Norway when I was 3, I was confident that I could handle it!