Another just 4 fun: Top 10 Annoying Skating Things - Page 2

Team Arthritis · #26 11-02-2006, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by doubletoe

A freestyle session where there are beginners (with mothers or coaches) parked at both ends of the rink--either in the hockey circles or on the red end lines--because they think they are "out of the way" there. Meanwhile, the two or three things you desperately need to practice are patterns that have to go around the ends of the rink! I'll try to do the pattern around the end of the rink 10 times and have to abort halfway through each time because they somehow can't figure out that I'm trying to go around the end of the rink and they are right in my path. Aaauuughhh!!!!

yeh that was our rink this AM, along with 5 coaches giving lessons simultaneously, sheesh. I spent a lot of time on the blue lines as 2 kids were working the slide chasse pattern.

To help, I went to one of the kids in the FLip corner and kept congratulating her on how far she'd come with her scratch spin and pointing out that it was so good now that she deserved to practice it in the center! all I got was the "you must be nuts" look, sigh

Lyle

NCSkater02 · #27 11-03-2006, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by doubletoe

I wish people just wouldn't "camp out"--period--on freestyle sessions, KWIM?!

You mean the five or six kids that always stand in the corners and don't watch the other skaters doing patterns so that you have to abort repeatedly until you finally just get rude and tell them to move?? Their coaches are starting to tell them to skate and not socialize.

Mrs Redboots · #28 11-04-2006, 05:50 AM

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Originally Posted by NCSkater02

You mean the five or six kids that always stand in the corners and don't watch the other skaters doing patterns so that you have to abort repeatedly until you finally just get rude and tell them to move?? Their coaches are starting to tell them to skate and not socialize.

Actually, it's the coaches that will always teach from the same place on the ice, so when you are looking for a circle to do crossovers round, even, you can't find one, and when you are doing a lap of whatever Moves you happen to be practising, you end up either having to abort while someone does a triple jump seriously close to you, or else he, poor lad, has to abort his triple! (It's usually the same lad!).

On the other hand, it's also awkward when you think that a certain coach is safely ensconced in one corner, and don't realise the quarter-hour has struck so he now has a different pupil - and is teaching her somewhere else!

On the other hand, with two Senior, one Junior and three Adult dance couples, plus any number of solo dancers all using the same ice (not, normally, all on the same session, but it has happened!), the first thing you learn is how to keep your eyes open!

Rusty Blades · #29 11-04-2006, 07:34 AM

Pet peeve 1 thru 10 (inclusive!): people who don't watch where they are going, primarily coaches who drift backward while watching their skater and have no idea who they are about to cut off, and the skaters who dart out from the boards without even looking.

Ok, add #11 - Zamboni drivers who don't know how to (or are too much in a hurry to) shave the ice to remove the hockey ruts!

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