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flippet
05-30-2002, 05:17 PM
ok, this is gross, but, why is it that you can sniff and sniff, or go blow your nose, and there's nothing really forthcoming, but go into a spin, and suddenly you're flinging snot everywhere?? 8O
Sigh....the crosses we skaters have to bear!
Figureskates
05-30-2002, 05:24 PM
a switch on the toepick that as son as you spin, opens the snot valve....
Added feature, I get nosebleeds, I mean car wreck nosebleeds. I was practicing my spins when one of these puppies let loose.....lucky I am a good friend of the Zamboni driver!!
Trif Fan
05-30-2002, 05:42 PM
:lol: No kidding! Or when you land a jump!
Kelli
05-30-2002, 06:46 PM
[quote:486c559a7b="Figureskates"]a switch on the toepick that as son as you spin, opens the snot valve....
Added feature, I get nosebleeds, I mean car wreck nosebleeds. I was practicing my spins when one of these puppies let loose.....lucky I am a good friend of the Zamboni driver!![/quote:486c559a7b]
ew, EW, [size=18:486c559a7b][/size:486c559a7b]EW![size=12:486c559a7b][/size:486c559a7b] Remind me never to skate anywhere near you ever again!
Figureskates
05-30-2002, 06:52 PM
Kelli:
This happened mostly the year before. For some reason I have been very, very lucky this year!!!!
Mrs Redboots
05-31-2002, 09:54 AM
I don't yet spin fast enough for this to be a problem, but one friend has perfected a method whereby she exits her spin, at the same time wiping the back of her hand gracefully across her nose...... :P
backspin
06-03-2002, 03:42 PM
Anybody ever fall really REALLY hard on their butt & have a bit of an "accident?" Only happened to me once or twice, but yikes! Just call me Puddles.... :oops:
Mariposa
06-03-2002, 07:11 PM
ok, this is gross, but, why is it that you can sniff and sniff, or go blow your nose, and there's nothing really forthcoming, but go into a spin, and suddenly you're flinging snot everywhere?? 8O
Sigh....the crosses we skaters have to bear!
Not just flinging, but have you ever had one that just hangs there in suspended animation for the duration of your spin?
eeeeeeeeeeeew. I hate it when that happens.
Mel On Ice
06-03-2002, 10:41 PM
I luckily don't get snotty nose, but the humidity in the rink gives me a nice afro.
Elsy2
06-10-2002, 12:39 PM
This thread cracked me up today, hee, hee.....I was watching my daughter at competition going through her lovely program, then all of a sudden I see her wipe her nose with the back of her hand right in front of the judges! It was a huge swipe that you just couldn't miss. She was terribly embarassed that she did this, but her coach and I were just cracking up!
TashaKat
06-10-2002, 01:49 PM
[quote:968175c75a="flippet"]ok, this is gross, but, why is it that you can sniff and sniff, or go blow your nose, and there's nothing really forthcoming, but go into a spin, and suddenly you're flinging snot everywhere?? 8O
Sigh....the crosses we skaters have to bear![/quote:968175c75a]
LOL, and don't you find that the sit spin is THE worst spin ...... the kids that I skate with often call it the 'snot spin' ..... and what about when you can actually SEE the string of snot circling around you like a lasso? :twisted:
Hee hee ......
L x
My daughter has been miserable with a sore throat and congestion for the past week. Today she finally felt somewhat better, and found that a nice, fast scratch spin worked wonders for her sinuses :roll: She asked for a tissue, held it to her nose, and did another one to really clear herself up :lol:
Ice T
06-11-2002, 08:11 AM
My standard equipment for a practice session: music tape, water bottle, and full package of tissues! :)
melanieuk
06-11-2002, 02:51 PM
I wonder why it's the sit spin that produces the most flying snot? 8O
icenut84
06-11-2002, 04:02 PM
LOL! I also don't do the spins where this has been a problem yet, but EW! :mrgreen:
(BTW - flippet, I love your siggie! One question - huh? ;) )
flippet
06-11-2002, 04:24 PM
[quote:dbdbdf806b="icenut84"]
(BTW - flippet, I love your siggie! One question - huh? ;) )[/quote:dbdbdf806b]
What, you don't get it? ;)
It's half of a line from my favorite TV show, Sports Night, written by Aaron Sorkin. The guys are discussing their day:
Casey: I gather it went well?
Dan: You know, sometimes it's worth it, taking all the pies in the face -- sometimes you come through it feeling good.
Casey: Yes.
Dan: And how was your day?
Casey: Sometimes you just stand there, hip deep in pie.
I just love that quote....some days, it says it all! ;)
Trif Fan
06-11-2002, 07:11 PM
[quote:bf933df0c7="TashaKat"]
LOL, and don't you find that the sit spin is THE worst spin ...... the kids that I skate with often call it the 'snot spin' ..... and what about when you can actually SEE the string of snot circling around you like a lasso? :twisted:
Hee hee ......
L x[/quote:bf933df0c7]
:D Good thing I wasn't drinking anything! I'd have spewed all over my keyboard! :lol:
Mrs Redboots
06-12-2002, 11:23 AM
[quote:d849e0b997="db"]My daughter has been miserable with a sore throat and congestion for the past week. Today she finally felt somewhat better, and found that a nice, fast scratch spin worked wonders for her sinuses :roll: She asked for a tissue, held it to her nose, and did another one to really clear herself up :lol:[/quote:d849e0b997] :lol: Are we totally crazy, or only partially? Still, at least your daughter had a tissue with her - one of my coach's pupils invariably needs to "blow" half-way through her lesson, and never has a tissue, so has to rush to the ladies' to get some loo paper. I think she forgets on purpose to give herself a breather - it's not for nothing we call my coach "The Sadist" or "The Slave-driver"!
Hope your daughter is quite better now.
alexaandra
07-05-2004, 08:31 PM
I only do scratch spin so I don't have that problem , but I remember Kevin van der Perren in the 2002 olympics in salt lake long program in the kiss and cry had a very big white snot in the nose(it looked white in the tv)! anybody else saw that? at least he skated very well
NoVa Sk8r
07-05-2004, 08:39 PM
why is it that you can sniff and sniff, or go blow your nose, and there's nothing really forthcoming, but go into a spin, and suddenly you're flinging snot everywhere
Yes yes yes!
But, oh no ... just wait till Loops and I do the pair sit spin. We'll be dodging each other (more than normal). Just another reason not to learn this spin!
flippet
07-05-2004, 09:40 PM
Holy Cow!! 8O 8O 8O
Nothing like having a two-year-old thread pop back up out of the grave. No wonder I didn't recognize the title in the thread list! :lol:
NickiT
07-06-2004, 03:20 AM
LOL!!! Yep I have to say I suffer with this problem when I do a sit spin. Thing is I've been worse lately and my coach keeps asking if I'm suffering from hayfever. I'm not, it's just the dreaded snot spin syndrome!
Nicki
johnfisher
07-06-2004, 04:10 AM
With regards to the nosebleed thing, I went through a phase of getting nosebleeds on sitspins. Really pleasant for everyone as I splattered a circle of blood spots across the ice :roll: Anyway I went to see the doctor and it took all of about 10 seconds to cauterise (painlessly) the offending blood vessel and I have never had any problem since.
John
Holy Cow!! 8O 8O 8O
Nothing like having a two-year-old thread pop back up out of the grave. No wonder I didn't recognize the title in the thread list! :lol:
I didn't exactly remember the earlier thread, but I was thinking, This must be one of those threads that just comes around every so often ;-)
CanuckSk8r
07-06-2004, 08:52 AM
Sit spins definately are the worst!!! My friend mastered the art of snuffing it back in....... digusting, yet so much cleaner for those of us training around him!!!
PattyP
07-06-2004, 02:58 PM
LOL! It is so funny because it is so true!
I have mastered the sit-catch the snot string in your glove-change sit spin :oops:
TashaKat
07-06-2004, 03:28 PM
.......... and then there was the time when I was slowing down my sit spin because I could feel my nose going. From across the other side of the rink came the dulcet tones of Madame Coach "for ******* sake just CUFF IT!"
Chico
07-06-2004, 10:33 PM
I find that my nose runs the most during lessons. Figures eh? I think my "favorite" line is, "Excuse me, I need to blow my nose." =-/ It's hard to look beautiful when your nose is running down your face. My coach used to tell me to ignore it and look pretty. Yep, right.
Chico
ok, this is gross, but, why is it that you can sniff and sniff, or go blow your nose, and there's nothing really forthcoming, but go into a spin, and suddenly you're flinging snot everywhere?? 8O
Sigh....the crosses we skaters have to bear!
That is so true. I have watched my child's skating tapes and you can actually see it "flinging" during a spin or whatever. Not my child of course, but others. Seriously. 8O
96.23??
07-07-2004, 04:53 PM
Added feature, I get nosebleeds, I mean car wreck nosebleeds. I was practicing my spins when one of these puppies let loose.....lucky I am a good friend of the Zamboni driver!!
This happened to me before , I was in a lesson and I didn't want to tell my coach because I didn't want to stop the lesson so by the end of the lesson there were little splats of blood in random spots on the ice.
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