Hockey kidWhen I was young I had always loved to watch sports on tv but never reallytried any. My uncle was telling a story about how he used to play hockey back in high school but had stopped not long after he graduated. So I asked him whyhe doesn’t start it up again, he told me that he was afraid that he might notknow how to anymore and that he might fall and hurt himself . Well I believedthat he could still do it , so one day I convinced him that if he tries it again Iwill skate with him.So the next weekend we went to the local skate rink, having never been onskates I was extremely nervous and I assumed he was Just as nervous as me. We put on our skates and hopped on the ice. As soon as we started he was justgliding around like he had never stopped , though I was clutching the boardstrying not to fall. It made my ankles hurt at first but my uncle said that wentaway with time.After about 10 trips out to the ice rink I was becoming a farley good skater,and my uncle had started to play a couple of hockey games with some people heknew. For my Birthday my uncle had bought me a new pair of skates and I wasthrilled, when I put them on they had felt great and I was very eager to go trythem out . After a couple more weeks I had become a great skater and thoughtmaybe I could try hockey for my self. Not being able to afford all newequipment we went to a second hand sports store and we bought all theequipment I needed, I was so happy I could of burst. The first time I went out and played hockey I was very uncomfortable, my pads were hard to move in. But after a few practices it was becomingcomfortable, and I was getting a lot better at hockey. So my uncle had enrolledmy in IP (Instructional Program), and after that I tried out for a hockey team.The first time I tried out I didn’t make It , but that inspired me to try harder, soI just kept playing and playing. The second time I tried I had made the team. Itwas the best day of my life and that day I had my first practice, turns out withall that practice before I had become better than most of the kids on my team.Well the day came for my first game and I was excited as ever. In the firstthree minutes of the game I scored my first goal . It was one on the greatestfeelings I ever had. The outcome of the game was 3 to 5 In favor of out team.Ever since then I’ve been playing hockey and loving it. I was so happy my uncle hadtold me that story of him laying hockey back in high school, it lead to one of the biggest accomplishments in my life.
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