Don't Underestimate Your Special Sauce! · Learn Roller Skating

Don't Underestimate Your Special Sauce!

I was at the rink yesterday during one of the early sessions when there are always birthday parties and bystander parents who don't see much skating on a regular basis.

One of the parents took time to stop me as I was leaving to say I was a really great skater and asked if I did figure skating.

While I thanked him, all that was going through my head was " I'm a solid beginner/intermediate skater, you have no idea what you're talking about, there was nothing spectacular about what I did out there".

But it got me thinking about one of the IG reels of a skater that I found so inspiring when I first started skating, how cool and smooth he looked rolling down the street and such joy in his face and movements.

After I had been on my skating journey for a bit, I came across that video again and now that I knew better, I saw that he wasn't doing anything particularly difficult... He was basically just doing bubbles/braids the whole time as he jammed out! 😅

It made me realize how much adding your own special sauce, your own joy in the movement and flow can make ANY move spectacular and can be an inspiration to others.

I had to remind myself of that after the conversation I had when I realized I had that negative self talk running through my head.

So I'm reminding you all too, fam.

In case you need it 💜

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