figure skating every winter olympics. I'm amazed by the beauty and grace. Elite athletes showcase, inspiring skaters around the globe. I watched the olympics. I watched yuna kim. I'm really excited to watch Mariah bell Karen Chen, Nathan Chen and it looks so fun. I wanted to give it a try after all. I've played hockey nearly my whole life. Hey, scar from the corner. So how hard could a little dancing on ice B I enlisted the help of coach Nicole Gabor, who has been the director of figure skating at the Greensboro Icehouse for two decades. First I need to trade in my hockey skates for a pair of figure skating boots. There's less surface on the hockey blade, which lends to hockey players being able to skate fast and do those quick changes from forward to backward and backward to forward, figure skating blade, much more surface on the ice. And of course that telltale topic. Okay, so the blades are different, but still the basics are the same, right? Like stopping. Oh boy, I could be in for a long day, a graceful faller if nothing else. And those falls without the protection of equipment can hurt, especially when you're competing, you fall and you, you hop up like a barber out of the water. I mean you're just onto the next thing, you don't have time to sit there and go, oh gosh, that hurt. I need to pick the brains of some of the elite skaters already on the ice before going much further. We do not to punch the ice. We do not. That topics are only for jumping and spinning, so you don't need to use them, you can just march and waddle, march and waddle, got it. Coach cabaret and I go back to basics starting with c cuts and swivels, then move on to crossovers, perfect. Oh my gosh! And not a toe push in any of them and even a leg extension. That was really nice. I start to feel like I'm getting the hang of this and having a blast. It's a feeling, it seems every skater gets when I skate here, it's like my mind goes blank and it just, it's a place where I can be free and I can just skate my program. There's nothing more I'd rather do like getting up each and every single morning and coming here and skating even if it's a bad day. So with my confidence restored coach cabaret and I work on adding a spin to my arsenal. We want to really perfect rotation in one direction, so we jump and spin one way, that's it. Spoiler alert, My spin won't look anything like this little twist. There you go, wow, look at that. And a little bit of a, after the spin, we work on a jump first, holding onto the wall up and over. Perfect, good job, wonderful. And then moving into open ice, good, that's okay, that's okay and you know, if you're going to finish like this, you should have a little, yeah, little jazz hands, needless to say the olympians make things look a lot easier. You know, I think one of the great things why people are so drawn to figure skating is because it does look so effortless and they're able to do these mind boggling triple and quad jumps and the spins that are so fast and just look like, hey, this is nothing. And while my olympic dreams may be shattered after my spill earlier, I'll count just being able to stop as a win in Greensboro Ford Hatchet, WX II 12 News.