How incredibly rude! I've seen kids like this too - they barely jump, but they can spin around in the air so quickly! Of course I've seen older, pre-teen or young teens that get pretty high off the ice as well. I've heard coaches talk about girls losing jumps after they hit puberty, if they get hips (some don't - lucky!). I've talked to another tall adult lady, and we've had similar problems with spinning. We're both working on the axel, and I know I have to jump as high as I can and pull my arms in really hard to even have a chance of getting around. I'm jealous of tiny people

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The skating may not sparkle, but my dress sure does!

Just passed: Pre-Bronze MIF & Freeskate. Next goal: Bronze tests in July.

Well implicidly she did, didn't she? If you say that you should've started earlyer to be good, that means you presume you can't achieve anything now.
Literally, in Dutch, she said "Als je er goed in had willen worden, had je veel eerder moeten beginnen."

Which is where I intend to prove her wrong. All my life people have been telling me one or other thing can't be done and so far I've always gotten it done, in fact, that's about the only things I get done since I need a challenge to stay interested. Besides I skate better when I'm angry anyway. She's done me a favour without even knowing.

I feel the same way you do - last night a teenager told me I look like a "crappy adult skater." I don't know if she was kidding or not, but it made me feel even more determined to get better!

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The skating may not sparkle, but my dress sure does!

Just passed: Pre-Bronze MIF & Freeskate. Next goal: Bronze tests in July.

Thanks for showing us this jazzpants!!! I may actually get pants from them!!! Maybe there's hope for me yet. :LOL:

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Proud to be one of the few black men out on the ice

Goals
Pass my Silver Moves Test
Finish Choreography for Silver Program
Land a Clean Double Toe and Double Lutz
Work on Double Axel and Rockers
Speed up back Camel

ok that one with the two women standing in the jeans is disgusting. whoever is that size should seriously DIET!!!

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Hahaha!!!! LOL I agree!!! I wasn't going to say anything though!! Great minds think alike???

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Proud to be one of the few black men out on the ice

Goals
Pass my Silver Moves Test
Finish Choreography for Silver Program
Land a Clean Double Toe and Double Lutz
Work on Double Axel and Rockers
Speed up back Camel

Yes, they do!

and let me just say that those 2 women aren't exactly anorexics... so it's not like 2 really thin women... it's more like 2 quite curvy women...

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LOL ! Am I the only person whose butt has gotten smaller from skating?

Okay, so I was pretty fat to start with, but it has seriously reduced in size and improved in shape.

As I say to my husband when he comments how much smaller it has gotten, it's because I have literally been skating my butt off !

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Karen

I skate - therefore I am

lol... good one karen

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The intention of the ad with the two women that are quite ummm... curvy... is to show that the company doesn't make jeans just for rail-thin model types. But yeah, those two DEFINITELY come off as having a big 'ol BUTT!!!

Karen: I envy you! I wish I could skate off my big 'ol butt... but instead of getting smaller and slimmer for me, I've become BULKY and more solid!!! *sigh*

Cheers,
jazzpants, whose diet helped make her ponch significantly smaller, but it's still not catching up to the boobs b/c THEY are shrinking too!!!

SPANDEX...and that's all I have to say about that. Skaters, both men and women, have the best butts in the business!

OMG, This thread made my monday LOL. I can totally relate to having a skaters body. Im a 4'8 Former pairs skater and i am built more like a gymnast with very muscular legs, arms, and butt (which is my boyfriends fav part). I am also a recovered anorexic so now i have a womans body but the height of an 8yr old girl which makes clothes shopping and shoe shopping most difficult. Every pair of pants i buy has to be altered which is a pain so i know what everyone here is going through. Im just SOOO glad im not the only one.