..you sit on one butt cheek because the other is sore from falling.
..you never get cold in movie theaters.
..you do spirals and axels in family-size restrooms.
..you look at a shirt you want and calculate how many hours of skating lessons it'll cost you.
..you spend lots of money on/own many things which are made of gel
..you own a pair of boots that are more expensive than any pair of shoes you'll ever look at buying
..you watch programmes like the Winter Olympics and you analyse every move and try to figure out how to replicate it
..you're addicted to skatingforums.com :D
...when someone sets you up with a man the first thing you ask is "can he skate?"
...if he can, you ask "does he have his own boots?"
.. everything in your wardrobe is lycra, or cotton stretch, or fleecy - or all three at once.
.. when you're invited out somewhere nice and have "nothing to wear", you wonder if your ice dance dress would do.
Quote from: kiwiskater on October 31, 2010, 08:04:30 PM
..you own a pair of boots that are more expensive than any pair of shoes you'll ever look at buying
...but on a cost per wear basis, they're cheap!!
... you actually LISTEN to the movies' background music, hoping to find a new skating song
... listening to music often involves imagining skating to the song.
... you have an backpack of skating clothes in your car trunk, just in case you decide to go skating.
... you can get up at 4am for a freestyle more easily than 7am for the school bus.
- You go to the store or run errands in your skating clothes after practice and think nothing of it.
- you are THAT person wearing uggs and leggings after skating practice because you were cold and people give you a crazy look (bonus points if you're in florida)
- every conversation ultimately turns into figure skating
- your friends at the rink are either much older than you or much younger than you
- you work at the ice rink to support your skating a la ice princess
~ more than 90% of your friends on Facebook are skaters (or skating-related)
~ the first thing you think of when deciding where to go on vacation is: :is there a rink there?"
~ you bring your skates everywhere you travel ...
... failing which, you end up buying a new pair of skates just so that you can skate
~ when you go shopping you think, "can I wear that to skate?"
... you have playlists on your music device for various skating workouts/listening.
... you know for whom most of the wackier jumps were named.
... you win a Scrabble word challenge of the word "dasher" by explaining it's another name for the rink walls, not the proper name of Santa's Reindeer.
Quote from: Isk8NYC on November 07, 2010, 10:53:25 PM
... you win a Scrabble word challenge of the word "dasher" by explaining it's another name for the rink walls, not the proper name of Santa's Reindeer.
I didn't know dasher was another name for rink walls, lol!
..you skip happily to the store to buy ankle weights, anticipating that night's sit spin workout.
(ok, maybe not everyone skips happily at the thought of off ice. but still. ;D)
All of these are precious ways to know you are skaters!
Well, I know I am a grandmother of a skater, because I have not bought myself a pair of shoes or clothes in over a year because I pay for:
lessons for two girls
skates for two girls
skate dresses and tights for two girls
skills competitions for two girls
skills competition photos for two girls
snacks, drinks and lunches out every Saturday because skating makes them hungry
And, I spend ALL day every Saturday at the rink, with my laptop, while they take lessons and skate in the public skate. Plus I take them to skate almost whenever they ask! :D
Fun! Here's some more
You know when you're a skater when;
* whenever you have to stand around, you're on one leg, practising spin positions, changes of edge, step sequences etc
* when you hear someone on tv mention choctaws or mohawks you assume the program is about skating
* you decline social invitations because; "sorry, I have synchro practice that day"
* you have shelves of fabric that you bought cos it might work for a costume one day
* the floor of your spare room sparkles from glittery fabric, dropped hotfix crystals etc from making costumes(the vacuum just can't get every bit up)
* your make up bag carries some unusual coloured eyeshadows, lipstick colours & glitter
* all recent photos are of you in a skating dress holding a trophy or medal
- You buy an iPod shuffle just for skating
- You're making backups of all your computer data and the first thing you put on the disk is your programme music
- You're disappointed by not bruising easily enough lately :laugh:
- You don't think in terms of standing on the inside or outside of your foot but in terms of "outside edge and inside edge" whenever you find yourself aware of your feet outside the rink
Quote from: Crabcakes on November 24, 2010, 12:55:31 AM
All of these are precious ways to know you are skaters!
(...)
And, I spend ALL day every Saturday at the rink, with my laptop, while they take lessons and skate in the public skate. Plus I take them to skate almost whenever they ask! :D
Wish I had you for grandma when I was a kid...!
*you look at all items of clothing wondering, "could my partner skate in that?" - even the women's clothes
*you walk through footwork sequences at the bus stop
*you get odd looks on the train as your notebook is full of stick men ideas for lifts (for the uninitiated it looks like extracts from the Karma Sutra)
*99% of your Facebook statuses relate to skating
*you visit Skatingforums on your cellphone
*you'd rather have [insert element here] for your birthday than... just about anything
...When unable to find your parents after the skating show, you momentarily consider just staying at the rink and skating all night.
...When you move an arm, clouds of sparkles come flying off your costume.
Quote from: Sierra on November 29, 2010, 04:28:50 PM
...When you move an arm, clouds of sparkles come flying off your costume.
...or off your regular clothes from secondary transfer!
-the car seems to drive to the rink by itself =-)
-that you need to explain your bruises to your doctor
-gifts from friends and family tend to be skating related
-getting up at 4:00 a.m. seems normal until you tell a nonskater (The look of horror clues you in.)
-you have RINK, car and home music
-that your skate bag looks like a vacation bag (It contains everything just in case.)
...you give up going to your favourite xmas party because it clashes with a lesson
...you go to xe.com to calculate how much that skating item costs in NZ$ and how much it will costs to get through customs and if it would be cheaper to take a holiday in a country that stocks skate gear and bring it home with you :)
... you schedule your vacations around trips to the skate fitter
... you can debate the relative merits of different types of hair glitter
... you can get intensely caught up in discussions over the benefits of lacing OVER rather than UNDER
... you carry fleece and UnderArmour in your trunk year round
...your fingers are too cold to untie your skate laces.
Quote from: Sk8tmum on December 01, 2010, 07:55:54 PM
... you can get intensely caught up in discussions over the benefits of lacing OVER rather than UNDER
And non-skaters have absolutely no idea what you're talking about and why it's so important, at which point you look blankly at the non-skater.
... you'll take a snow day from work, but not from skating
Quote from: Sk8tmum on December 01, 2010, 07:55:54 PM
... you can get intensely caught up in discussions over the benefits of lacing OVER rather than UNDER
I do both. Under on the bottom two hooks, over on the top. It works for me.
... you choose "Choctaw" when testing a new system's Ethnicity and Race section.
... since "Mohawk" wasn't an option, I chose "other" and wrote it in!
... for "first language," I wrote in "Figure Skating."
- You buy a portable DVD player for the training and technique videos you keep buying (because you don't have a laptop with DVD player or own a DVD player anymore)
- Your feet become ugly and deformed in spots
- Almost all of your Internet activity is skating related: Icenetwork, eBay for dresses, skating shops, custom dress designers, YouTube, Skating Forums, Facebook skating groups, USFSA, boot and blade manufacturers, etc.
- You could spend hours on iTunes searching for music for future programs. Programs that are years away from even being considered!
- You hobble off the ice in pain thinking "I don't know if I can test in 3 weeks. My foot is KILLING me. And it's looking really bad!" but by the time you get home, you know you will go back to the rink the next day and practice more and test in 3 weeks regardless.
- You realize all you talk about is skating so you try to keep in more on the down low but you can't!
- You change your standard workout routines to "off-ice training". If it doesn't benefit skating, why bother?
- All of your pants are tight in the thighs.
- When a hockey camp comes and invades your rink for a week, you get depressed and antsy because your typical sessions aren't available.
- You've gone to the grocery store in full synchro competition make up and only realized when you got home and looked in the mirror why people were staring at you
- You can do full compo make up and synchro bun in about 5 minutes
- You look at the latest crop of prom dresses and think, that would be a great skating dress
- You can pick out a rink anywhere by just the look of a building
- You drop skating related things into conversations and wonder why the person you are conversing with is looking at you oddly and they eventually ask for an explanation
- You sometimes downplay your involvement in skating to avoid the whole, "do you know how to X", or "do you know X" convos...and usually you will know the person
Quote from: SynchKat on June 28, 2013, 10:31:29 AM
- You've gone to the grocery store in full synchro competition make up and only realized when you got home and looked in the mirror why people were staring at you
I've not done the store in synchro competition make up, but I have stopped at the services on the freeway at close to midnight in synchro makeup and tracksuit. If it wasn't looking identical to the other person ordering coffee, I'm sure they'd think I was a hooker.
But I think the best conversation I had was when ordering food in Panera. I was wearing work pants over my skating dress. I hadn't thought about what I was wearing until the woman at the soda fountain asked me if my 4 year old had dressed me that morning. I was slightly taken aback.
I have however stopped driving in a skating dress, just to avoid any embarrassment in case I have an accident. I don't want to have to explain to the police why I'm wearing one.
You do 3 turns in your dreams.
"- you go to the store or run errands in your skating clothes after practice and think nothing of it.
- you are THAT person wearing uggs and leggings after skating practice because you were cold and people give you a crazy look (bonus points if you're in florida)" :psychic Guilty with bonus points, Florida & Costco in my tights and dresses.
I'll add . . .
- Your neighbor's peer out their window to watch you relgiously practicing off-ice axels for 10 minutes in your back yard every night.
- Your neighbor catches you coming home at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday morning wearing a super short dress. But, they don't bother asking where you've been. They know by now it wasn't a late night, rather an early morning. You're the neighborhood oddity.
- You don't buy long johns, figure skating tights, especially the old sweater ones, work better.
- Rink Eats, like pizza, popcorn, and pretzels, guiltily make up part of your diet. You reason that you need carbs.
- Boys names like 'Axel" and "Blade" seem like really cool baby names. For girls, "Sonia" comes to mind.
- You plan your wedding wearing your skates and guards down the isle. (or at least a cake topper like this)
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Quote from: SynchKat on June 28, 2013, 10:31:29 AM
- You can pick out a rink anywhere by just the look of a building
When going on a road trip I can literally be asleep in the passenger's seat, wake up suddenly and we are driving by a skating rink - it's like my subconscious mind can smell it or something!
On the way to Orlando or St. Petersburg, FL, I make a pit stop at that ice rink right off 95S when you get into Florida, lol.
... you navigate entire states' road systems based on ice rink locations. ("Washington Township, NJ...yep, I can give you directions...Fritz Dietl's rink is in that area. Just take the Parkway to exit ...")
-Your competition dresses are the same price as a nice house payment
-Your car smells like skates even though you don't leave them in there
-You have to explain to people why you have so many bruises on your legs
-You own more skating pants than you do other pants
-You'd rather buy ice time and lessons than that designer handbag/shoes
-"I can't, I have skating"
-Every other sentence out of your mouth starts with "My skating coach told me...."
Quote from: icedancer2 on June 28, 2013, 03:57:43 PM
When going on a road trip I can literally be asleep in the passenger's seat, wake up suddenly and we are driving by a skating rink - it's like my subconscious mind can smell it or something!
do you smell the ice quality too? :) :)
- you have your hand in a brace cause it's possibly fractured but keep thinking how you can smuggle your skates in and out of the house without getting caught 88)
You ask the doctor putting the cast on your wrist (the one you broke skating) if you can skate with said cast.
Quote from: ChristyRN on June 29, 2013, 10:28:47 AM
You ask the doctor putting the cast on your wrist (the one you broke skating) if you can skate with said cast.
You choose the color of the cast based on the dress you plan to wear at the competition two days before said cast comes off!
As the doctor is putting the cast on your broken ankle you ask, "How long til I can skate?" And when you have surgery for thyroid cancer 6 months later you ask the surgeon "How long til I can skate?"
Quote from: AgnesNitt on June 29, 2013, 02:12:03 PM
As the doctor is putting the cast on your broken ankle you ask, "How long til I can skate?" And when you have surgery for thyroid cancer 6 months later you ask the surgeon "How long til I can skate?"
As you are twisting your foot or ankle and knowing that it will be sprained/broken your first thought is - "Oh no!! I won't be able to skate!!!"
-You scare the bejesus out of the college kids at the university gym by practicing off-ice axels so many times they move out of the way when you get near the mats
-Everyone in town emails you when they want to know which rinks are open and what the times are
-You schedule all your meetings around ice time
I was in a shop looking at bags to see if there was one that I would like better than my present skate bag. Hey, I'm a bag junkie.
Anyway the woman asked if she could help me and I casually said I was looking for something to put my ice skates in on.
OH MY GOD.
It was like a flood. She asked me how I started. Was it hard. Where did I skate.
Well, I said, I skated at a rink a thousand miles away but then, I GAVE HER THE NAMES AND APPROXIMATE LOCATIONS OF EVERY ICE RINK IN THE TOWN I WAS IN. And I didn't even have my skates with me.
Quote from: AgnesNitt on June 30, 2013, 07:09:15 PM
Well, I said, I skated at a rink a thousand miles away but then, I GAVE HER THE NAMES AND APPROXIMATE LOCATIONS OF EVERY ICE RINK IN THE TOWN I WAS IN. And I didn't even have my skates with me.
Because you just know these things. Oh yeah!
Quote from: icedancer2 on June 30, 2013, 09:12:24 PM
Because you just know these things. Oh yeah!
;D I'd been planning to skate, but decided to not bring my skates after all. ;D
.. you're able to maintain balance on slippery surfaces
.. you instinctively do a Hockey Stop when the bus brakes hard while you're moving to the
front
.. you enjoy making turns & spinning around on smooth marble surfaces
.. you dissect the mechanics of a jump in your dreams
You have to have dental surgery and wonder if you can stand the pain because you've figure out how many sessions/lessons that money would pay for.
Your boss sends you news articles about rinks opening in the same state, even if you'll never skate there.
Your ASL sign name is similar to the sign for ice skating.
Your sister asks if she can borrow one of your dresses for a Halloween costume and you have to really think about it.
You look at the red carpet dresses on a fashion blog and try to redesign them so you can skate in them.