Clare Hodgson Para Ice Skater

17/06/2026

Keep watching to see my scoliosis 📺➡️

To my scoliosisters and brothers out there! And those who are just curious to know! 🤔💭

Welcome to the second installment of my mini series about how each of my conditions affects my skating/exercise in general ♿⛸️

The abnormal curvature and rotation of the spine or influences my athletic ability in a few specific ways: 👟🎽

Muscular Imbalance- muscles on one side of the spine may strain or become weaker than those on the opposite side which can cause a reduction in rotational power when skating. ⚖️♎

Decreased Mobility- my spinal curve slightly restricts my range of motion, impacting balance and body awareness when I'm skating, mainly during turns and spins. 🩼

The main takeaway from this post I want to be is despite it's effects, having scoliosis doesn't mean you can't take part in or 🫵🏻♿⛸️

Let me know what you think about this second installment below 👇🏻😁 and look out for the next one!



Music Rough and Twisted by 🎸

29/05/2026

When you're an ice skater, leaving the ice is the hardest part. ❄️ Stepping off the rink feels like leaving a piece of you behind 🧊💔

Removing your skates and tearing yourself away from your second home is always slightly gutting, but at least the endorphins from your skate linger for a while afterwards 😁⛸️

As a para ice skater who gets injured and has to miss out on skating for long periods at a time regularly, you cherish every glide 🧑🏻‍🩰🦢



If you're a fellow skater, would you agree?

19/05/2026

Another surprise this week I've been keeping from you! 📰☺️

Thank you to Barron Media for being very understanding and accommodating of my conditions during the interview and thank you to the for publishing my story especially on your front page 🙏🏻⛸️

I'll keep raising awareness if it kills me! 🦓♾️🌈

Hopefully recent publicity will help me find sponsorship to carry on my journey 🤞🏻🤞🏻

15/05/2026

30 next year… and life looks very different to what I planned.

I've achieved almost none of what I thought I'd achieve by this age.

But somehow, it’s also given me things I never even dreamed of at any age 💭✨



You can’t control the cards you’re dealt… but you can control what you make from them 🃏♠️ ♿⛸️

15/05/2026

It's finally here! 😀

You may have heard bits before but here's my full story in the form of a mini video documentary as the second installment of Tees Active 's Reflections YouTube series, aptly relating during the middle of 🎥🎬

The link to the piece on YouTube is in my bio 🔗

Enjoy! Let me know what you think! ☺️👇🏻

15/05/2026

Clare Hodgson, from North Yorkshire, has overcome multiple health issues to become a world champion at inclusive ice skating, using Billingham Forum Ice Arena as her training base. Her moving, inspirational story is told on my page in tomorrow's The Northern Echo

Tees Active Clare Hodgson Para Ice Skater

13/05/2026

12/05/2026

We may spend most of our lives with knives screwed to our boots but we're still giving good girl energy 👍🏻👩🏻‍🦰✨

We're max 2 takes only kind of gals 💁🏻‍♀️ hence the celebration at the end 😂

09/05/2026

Although I wasn't able to compete due to injury, I still had a fab couple of days at the Inclusive Skating British Opens at this week, being reunited with my Inclusive Skating family, watching a lot of fab skating, and if course making new friends along the way ☺️👯‍♀️ (who I don't have on here yet to tag but hopefully will do soon!)

Huge well done to everyone who did compete 👏🏻🏆

It was so lovely to be reunited with coach , friends , , , , , , ,.skateraccount25 and families to name but a few 💙❄️ It was great to catch up and to be able to cheer you all on and witness your brilliant performances🤍♿⛸️

I'm unfortunately not going to be ready to compete in Glasgow either 😩 (the next IS competition) but I will let you all know nearer the time if I'll still be there as a volunteer or not 💖🤗

Lots of love and missing you all already!

07/05/2026

Bloopers of my Netflix skating show review reel... aka an AuDHDer gets distracted and does not-the-best accents as she has the "mimicking" autistic trait 👌🏻♾️🌈🎶