The Leisure Box

I go ice skating every Saturday. I took lessons with Skate UK where you are taught in groups, but now I have private lessons. Between 9 and 12pm it’s quite quiet because this is lesson time, but after 12 it is open to everyone. Unfortunately it is undergoing some refurbishment I believe, which is why part of the rink has been sectioned off, of course making it smaller, but it is still soooo much fun. I took my cousin who has never skated before during the Christmas holidays and he’s been back twice already because he loved it so much — he’s 18. Bowling is downstairs but that’s not my thing and they also have a canteen.

I remember going ice-​skating for the first time when I was in primary school. It was such a daunting experience that I avoided going again for years! Until recently when I was forced to go by friends. And that’s when I realised it’s now changed and called The Leisure Box.
As you could imagine, it gets very busy during the holidays and weekends. But it’s not just children and teenagers. You get a mix of adults too, and it was comforting to see that they tend to be amateurs just like me!
Of course it’s frustrating to see the experts gliding away, making ice-​skating look so easy while you hold on to the edge for dear life before landing on your bum! But regardless of this it’s a great day out with friends and you’re guaranteed a laugh — even if your bum is bruised the following morning!

I hate ice skating but I was made to go to Birmingham’s local ice ring, The Leisure Box. This may be a biased review because I really don’t like ice skating anyway but I don’t really think I enjoyed it. Half of the ice skating ring was blocked off, giving not a very large amount of room to skate around, and for the amount of time that I was there I probably skated around the ice ring about three hundred times. It was cold, the music was rubbish and they didn’t even supply a café or a mini restaurant! But maybe I’m just ranting? I may have enjoyed myself a little bit but perhaps that was because I wasn’t falling all over myself like Bambi on Ice. The staff members there are all really friendly and bubbly which was great and they were very fast and efficient with their service.