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Offline skategeek

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Re: The essences of figure skating?
« Reply #25 on: December 15, 2015, 11:07:33 AM »
"There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that provides the difficulties."
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Skating is the art of letting yourself fall toward the ice and miss.  Therefore, skating is flying. 

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Re: The essences of figure skating?
« Reply #26 on: December 15, 2015, 12:01:47 PM »
Love THHGTG!  One of my (very-young) skaters interrupted a lesson to point out that someone was doing something wrong on the ice last week.  My response was: "(1) You should be working on your spin entry not looking at others; and (2) That's a SEP: Someone Else's Problem!  MYOB!"

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Re: The essences of figure skating?
« Reply #27 on: January 10, 2016, 07:11:50 PM »
Didn't Peter Pan, in one of the common retellings, say something like, "the secret to flying is to forget to fall?" (I can't find the exact quote.)

But, quite a few skaters remember to fall. :)