How far is too far to go skating?
Ok so basically, I'm in a pretty good position, when it comes to rinks around me. I'm moving in a few weeks, but I'll still only be 15 mins away by train, from the city with a rink. And there's more rinks under an hour.
The issue is finding a club, I spent the last season learning by myself, but I really want to improve. Almost 4 years ago, I first started, skated in a club for 2 seasons, but had to leave because of life circumstances.
Now I live in another place and it's incredibly difficult to find a club. I'm from Germany, 23, a student btw, if that matters.
I wrote a desperate email to the local club, how far I'm on their waitlist blabla kinda pointing out I really want to join haha.
But I can't count on it at all, it's a club focused very on high level skating, maybe training future olympians, but it's the closest lol and they do have adult lessons.
Anyways, I have to expand my search, I'm looking for other clubs now, but the one's I'm looking at are at least 1 hr 30 mins by train and then u have to add the route from rink to train station blabla. Really tedious to get there.
I don't expect someone explicitly telling me to do this or that, but I just maybe want to hear thoughts, maybe would like to hear about ur training situations/anything similar maybe?
How far would u personally travel to practice?
Some options are even 2 hrs away. I'll try to find a private coach who does lessons during public skates, if I can't find anything.
It is extremely frustrating since I started ~4 years ago and I still can't do more than Waltz jump/Salchow/not even proper one foot spin. I practice by myself, I know practice also takes time, but I'm ambitious to learn and want to develop, but I'm feeling very held back right now, which also makes me lose my motivation.