Crosbyfan
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Mark Recchi, with his choppy little "stuck in quicksand" stride, would lap her.
Recchi learned that from his boyhood idol:
Fred Flintstone
Mark Recchi, with his choppy little "stuck in quicksand" stride, would lap her.
I took figure skating with power skating while playing in my first few years of hockey and it made a huge difference. Half of the tryouts for MTHL teams involved skating drills and when you could out skate everyone it was definitely positive. When I have a son he's going to take figure skating along with power skating.
I feel bad for your son. Not because it would be bad to have him learn how to skate like that, but in today's society, if anyone finds out about that, wow!
I can punch harder than Mike Tyson because I took Tae Kwon Do. Disprove me. That's about the equivalent of what this girl's saying.
Just call her on it and say that if she had to use hockey skates, she couldn't outskate the worst NHL skater on her best day. Worst-case scenario: she gets flustered, and you laugh.
I feel bad for your son. Not because it would be bad to have him learn how to skate like that, but in today's society, if anyone finds out about that, wow!
Don't know why it's even called figure skating anymore. Figures used to be the ice tracing that were variations on the shape of a figure 8. The skater had to push off and balance on one skate on an inside edge creating a half circle and then rotate coming out going forward on the same edge or backwards on the same or outside edge. Figures were discontinued in about 1997 and are only remembered by the oldtimers who had their own scribes-an instrument for tracing the figure on the ice that was then traced freestyle by the skater. In competition the skater had to freestyle the tracing and the judges would actually get on their knees to see the quality of the edges and the tightness of the transitions.
I think why there is the belief so many hockey player took "figure skating" is that many Figure Skating clubs even to this day have a Learn to skate program for skaters. Both hockey and figure skates are acceptable at this stage. Many beginner skaters wear helmets some are hockey some are bicycle. To me you are not a "figure skater" unless you went into the "test" program. Usually this is the start of private lessons. You have to wear figure skates, you get tested on Test day by a trained judge on the specific ability to reproduce specific sequence of steps, dance, jumps or program.
The figure skating program has refined the techniques of skating. Teaching the correct use of edges, inside outside, how to get power from the edges and leg extensions, cross over techniques forward backward, "Neat" feet. Many of the better power skating coaches have a figure skating background. There's alot to recommend starting a youngster out in Can Skate program or whatever the sanctioned figure skating club in your neighbourhood is calls it.
Why be homophobic? Half my figure skating class were guys. It's not like we did crazy 360s in the air like Elvis Stoko, we worked on basics. It was good way to focus on form without picking up bad habits. I believe a lot of my power skating coaches were female too with a strong background in figure skating.