I just want to mention that competing as an adult is no joke either - the top ‘championship’ levels as US adult nationals or international competitions in ice dance and freestyle are full of adult skaters who were ex competitors/elites and current coaches, there’s people who have been to worlds competing, it is certainly still a reach goal for most adult starters to be successful as an adult skater too. Not to discourage anyone since there are many lower levels to compete at as well, but tired of people saying adult track is less competitive to skating in tiny local youth competitions - they clearly haven’t skated at both.
