I loved the puns!

You go, gurl!

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If you have problems with your thighs fitting into pants, defintiely don't take up hockey. I started playing a year ago and the explosive start and push on hockey skates work a totally different set of muscles, namely the ones at the bottom of your butt/top of your thighs in a the back, and the quadriceps. After my first scrimmage I could barely make it up and down stairs for two days, and I've been (figure) skating five days a week for the last seven years.

Here's my problem with clothes- I have a size 2 waist and a size 4/6 butt and thighs. It's a problem I've had since puberty (if you could see my mom and grandma you'd understand) but it's continually gotten worse. To compound it all, I'm 5'1", so anything not from the petite department is out of the question. The only sizes I've found that work on me at all is a 2 Short or a 4 Short, depending on the cut, from the Gap and Old Navy. So much stuff in petite departments like JC Penney and Macy's is too, um, mature for me I will not wear elastic-waist pants, comfy as they look, at 25 years old.

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Shae-Lynn and Victor: We knew you were champions, and on 3/28/03 the whole WORLD found out! Thank you for twelve wonderful years!

I kinda have the same problem. I'm a guy so it isn't as bad for me but I have to wear baggy jeans because of how I'm shaped now. My waist is a 31 but I have to get size 36 just to get them around my posterior. I slap a belt on to keep my pants up. I can't have my jeans fitting me like my figure skating pants. That wouldn't be cool at all. And I'm short too. I'm only 5' 7". It's not my fault that almost every ambercrombie and fitch model is tall and shaped like a lego.

BlackManSkating

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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

This one is good too!

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Hahaha!!! I must've missed that one.

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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, dear, and if you're fat, what does that make me?????

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Mrs Redboots
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I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

Skating definitely tones the butt - no saggy butt cheeks despite encroaching middle age

But the last pair of skating trousers I bought were actually from the kids schoolwear department of the local supermarket. They are slightly stretchy plain black school trousers and I love them. Tough, comfortable and the age 14-15 ones fit perfectly!

The fashion for hipster trousers has been a godsend as my problem was always not having hips so most womens trousers that fit at the waist were huge on the hips. The new high waisted fashion is not good news.

Stop it you guys! You're distracting me from the thread

As a teen I figure skated in the winter, swam in the summer and spent a lot of time pitching sheaves (of grain, for you youngsters) and bales on the farm so I have had "thighs that could crush a bus" and broad shoulders since I was young. (In the 1960's you could tell which girls were skaters by their legs!) Thanks to my mother's genetics, I never had hips or a butt to speak of. When I decided to start skating again (about 15 months ago) I went to a Pilate's instructor to get some 'core exercises' and she couldn't keep her hands off my legs "Oh my! Look at the muscle development! Wow!" and that was BEFORE I started again I am afraid to go back now, after I have been skating for a year - LOL! Finding pants that fit well is nearly impossible! Anything that I can get my legs into is going to be baggy in the butt and loose at the waist. Thank gawd for stretch fabrics!

So, skating develops more butt? There may be hope for me yet

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Dianne
(A.O.S.S.? Got it BAD! )

Hah! I love doing spirals already, and now that I know where that 'lift' I've noticed is coming from, I'll be doing even more of them.

It makes you normal, when I am honest with myself I dont think I'm fat its just that, with the involuntary lack of exercise for the past year everything is going south, but I have the incentive of getting into that dress so am going to try harder, watch this space.

Yeah, just make sure you practice them on both feet, or else your butt will be higher on one side and you'll have to have two different leg lengths when you hem your pants!

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

But it's so much FUN!!!!

Rusty: I just got back pictures from my annual holiday party and it ain't pretty. My arms are big and muscular. The legs are strong and muscular and I'm wearing a very nice SKIRT and TOP!!! There is NO WAY in HADES I can look lithe and graceful in a skating dress looking like I'm coming back from Ms. Olympia here. I am fitting into the jeans that I bought a while back waist-wise, but the leg is still a bit tight b/c of the muscles in the thighs and upper legs. And yes, the "thighs that could crush a bus" describes me to a T.

We'll see what happens after I've reach my weight goal.... maybe it will help the look a bit once I lose the excess baggage...

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

And we won't even talk about skirt hems, ugh! I promise to practice RFO, no matter how much traffic is coming at me the other way!

Seriously, I do these in the living room in my socks all the time. Whenever I come in from running or biking I stretch all over, then liiiifffffft those spirals. Both sides, a few times each.

I secretly try them out in the ladies room at work, because I can check out my leg position in the huge mirror <blush>

Jazzpants and I must be on the same wavelength, because the first thing that came to my mind was "Baby's Got Back" (and how many of us now have that song going through our heads?) I've had the big butt/big thigh thing from Alpine skiing from age 3 on and racing for like 10 years, until I was through high school. So the no clothes fitting is sooooooo old to me.

FallDown, it just means it's time for you to create an interpretive program to "Baby's Got Back." Have fun!

If you really don't want to think of "Baby Got Back," you can also think of this other "oldie but...ummm....goody"

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

I'm sorry!!!! That made me grin a little bit. I'm just tired of buying Levi's loose fit jeans. Those are the only ones that work for me.

BlackManSkating

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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

I confess, I admit it! Male figure skaters are VERY distracting (I may be "old", but I'm not DEAD!)

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Dianne
(A.O.S.S.? Got it BAD! )

Speaking of Levi's... do they still make those "Custom Fit" jeans???

Oh, wait!!! I found something!!!

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Cheers,
jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

This is a HOOT!


Every now and then I get a glimpse of an 11-year-old doing a quadruple toe loop/quintuple axel/triple flip/sextuplet salchow and I can't help but think, "That's right, missy-poo. Enjoy it now. Because it will all go down the tubes once the chest and hips make an appearance. AND YOU WILL BE BITTER, BITTER, BITTER."

Ain't that the truth!

A month or so back I was standing with a coach watching her 10 year old student who was just a natural on the ice - beautiful flow, high clean jumps, spins that were just a blur, tremendous flexibility, and just oozed elegance and grace. I said to the coach "I hope her skating survives puberty....." The coach said "It probably wont; I just hope she can handle the let-down."

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Dianne
(A.O.S.S.? Got it BAD! )

I only know 1 male figure skater my age and he smokes. And that's just a turn off to be honest. Though, if mr. Plushenko was to turn up on my doorstep tomorrow night, I'd be hard-pressed to say no.

By the way on a large (like 30 000 members) Dutch forum there's right now a discussion going on about that all the chicks either have a flat bum, or are fat. I'm guessing that's because there's only about a thausand figure skaters in the Netherlands. Else they'd know there's a whole different type of girl

There's this one girl at the rink who's like 11 years old and she does doubles maybe a fourth of a foot off the ice - so basically the only reason she does doubles is because she's TINY. Seriously she has less height on them than I do on my singles. Anyway she was all conceived a while ago, telling me I should have started earlier if I wanted to amount to anything and stuff, that she's landed a 2Axel etc. She's kind of shut up after the coaches got me started on an Axel, but still I can't help but wonder whether her 2A will survive the estrogen. My guess is that none of her doubles will.

My 15 year old niece had most of her doubles until she suddenly grew large breasts. Unfortunately all the jumps went bye bye since she could not adjust to the body shape change....

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Keeping School Figures Alive!!

At least I'm not the only one... I'm also 5'0 and have slim hips, so my skater's booty looks even bigger!!

I usually wear stretch pants...

sessy - how rude of the girl to say that!! did she actually say that you can't amount to anything now??
congrats on starting the axel. but some people just stay pretty tiny their whole life. especially if she diets heavily, she'll stop the maturing process (some elite skaters who were like anorexic/bulimic didn't start maturing or growing properly until they quit)

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