Townsman, 1992-01, Page 12heartening."
Eisler thinks he might have tried his
hand at being a golfer if the figure
skating hadn't worked out. The skill,
mental and individual aspects of that
sport attract him. He won the Huron -
Perth high school golf championship
two years running way back when. He
still has a handicap of five. "I'm really
not a team player," Eisler says. "I
enjoy recreational teams and things
like that but teams just aren't my style
because I can have a great game and
give the best I've got and we can still
lose." Coaching somewhere down the
line also doesn't intrigue him, but who
knows what might happen? "I really
don't like coaching. It's very demand-
ing," he says. "I love to teach little
kids and I love to teach elite skaters.
The middle of the road skaters, the
ones that really don't know and
haven't decided, they're very difficult
to teach. When I do coach people say
that I would be good because of how I
get along with people but unfortunate-
ly I think I would be very, very hard
on my skaters. Because I've never
been hard on myself and 1 expect peo-
ple to put in what I put in."
Considering the pounding a body
takes in 20 plus years of this kind of
activity, Lloyd has remained remark-
ably free of serious injury although it
would have been difficult to convince
him of that last summer when he had
two knee operations, which cut into
his golf time. At last year's world
championships in Munich he skated
with a large and conspicuous brace on
his knee because of cartilage prob-
lems. It happened playing pick up
hockey but the doctor said the joint
was just waiting to go, the hockey just
pushed it over the edge. He doesn't
regret the way the mishap happened.
"I still try to spend a lot of time
away from the skating doing other
stuff that I enjoy," he says, "and that's
one of the reasons I think I've been
able to continue so long ... so that I'm
not living and eating and breathing
skating 24 hours a day. You need
those outlets to keep your sanity so
that you don't go crazy skating or
thinking about it all the time."
Lloyd is healthy, except for a minor
problem with a finger, as he gets set
for Albertville. So is Isabelle. After
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the Olympics there will be world
championships in March, then, who
can say? Instead of an Olympics every
four years the winter and summer
Olympics will be staggered from now
on, which means there will be another
Wintcr Olympics in Norway in 1994.
It cannot be ruled out. Lloyd and
Isabelle say they will make those kind
of decisions later this year. They've
got other things on their minds right
now. "I think you can continue as
long as you are mentally fit," Lloyd
says. "Just by keeping active you can
stay in shape and physically fit. Men-
tally it is a lot more difficult to stay fit
because every year is just a little bit
harder, a little bit more demanding. At
this level your improvement becomes
very, very small. Little things
improve. At the bottom level you take
improvements in leaps and bounds so
then it is easy to keep skating."
Right now it is just a matter of stay-
ing focused, going on back out there
and keeping that edge.
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