

BLADE RUNNER PLAAYING NEAR DEERFIELD MOVIE
A 10-week package of clinics at Johnny's costs $225 the eight-week season in Franklin Park costs $165.In another welcoming sign of an uptick in the local leisure economy, two South Florida movie theaters that closed last March are reopening over Memorial Day weekend. Bought new, such gear can easily run into the four figures. Fisher bought her pads and gloves from a neighbor for $125. "We bought it on Amazon and we got the biggest one - it's ginormous." "It was sort of a trick to get him to do more of the cooking," Ms. Fisher's Father's Day present: a backyard smoker that can cook 30 pounds of meat at a time. They recently have enjoyed a lot of protein courtesy of Mr. As a result, the Fishers almost never go out to eat. The rest of the family's meals are a bit more challenging, as one of the Fisher children has a serious allergy to corn - which is found in everything from table salt to toothpaste. "Whoever's up earliest in the morning can get their own hot breakfast," she says. She buys a 50-pound sack of oats at Whole Foods that lasts for two months. Breakfast usually is steel-cut oats made the night before in a huge crockpot and served with fresh fruit. Fisher is all about efficiency and cost savings when it comes to feeding her family of eight. During the summers, "if you see a crazy lady Rollerblading down Randolph on Saturday mornings, that's me," she says.


Fisher often will skate before breakfast and after dinner. Fisher says, but it also helps newer players become comfortable making complete stops and turns.ĭuring her backyard rink season - roughly November through early March - Ms. One recent clinic consisted of passing drills along with suicides: skating as fast as possible down a third of the rink, racing back to the start, turning around and doing it all over to the two-thirds line and back, and then the enter length of the rink and back. The Saturday clinics at Johnny's take place year-round but focus on practice rather than play. Fisher plays two games a week for eight weeks. You always have to keep moving forward."ĭuring the summer league season, Ms. "I felt amazing, but I also felt this little sense of loss, like, what do I do next? I realized very quickly that when you set one goal, you have to get on board very quickly and set the next one.

"I set a goal for myself last year of scoring one goal in a game – and I scored three," she says. The lessons in the rink translate to the startup life, too. Fisher, 42, has continued playing in the Franklin Park hockey league, as well as starting Hockey 101 and 102 clinics on Saturday mornings at Johnny's Ice House, where thousands of Chicagoans, from toddlers to elite youth players to middle-aged attorneys, hit the ice. Since then, she's used the tech world's favored method – iteration – to continuously build both her business and her hockey skills.Įven as her business has grown, Ms. “I was absolutely terrible, but it was so much fun,” she says. That changed two summers ago, when a friend needed a substitute for a women's hockey league that met in west suburban Franklin Park. But for most of that time, “I was always content to goof off and do pirouettes on my figure skates as the kids were playing,” she says. Her husband and the company's co-founder, Mike, grew up playing pond hockey near Detroit and built a backyard rink for their West Loop home more than a decade ago.
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Through she grew up minutes from the New York Islanders' practice facility on Long Island, the co-founder and creative director of Storymix Media - an online video company that lets users upload event footage for professional editing - never picked up a stick until two years ago. Whether she's launching a business, home-schooling her six kids aged 2 to 13 or taking up hockey at age 40 - Ariane Fisher jumps in and figures it out.
