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Figure Skating is For Boys Too!!!
A good board.
Fearless speed.
Set your feet.
Compress for some pop.
Fly
Put your
feet in the catch position.
Extend your legs.
Center yourself.
Roll away.
Aaaahhhhhh....
Now
do it again. Except this time the concrete under your board is ice -
and the board is melted onto your feet.
Ice? If this sounds like a deal, think two words: figure skating.
Yeah, we know - say "figure skating" and most people think of happy
twirly gurlz - but the truth is, guys have always had a totally equal
place in skating history:
o Kurt
Browning, from Alberta, used western music and goofy cowboy comedy
to make everybody laugh - and won a raft of World titles doing it
o Canadian
Elvis Stojko took martial-arts-on-ice all the way to the Olympic
Games
o 3-time
world champion Alexi Yagudin is right now skating a wild Russian
exhibition thing with a dagger in each hand!
Even if you're not a dagger kind of guy, there's room in figure skating
for you. Current World Pairs Champion David Pelletier and
Canadian Ice Dance Champion Victor Kraatz are two Canadian
guys who've found their thing expressing themselves on the ice with
a partner. (Gotta love those gurlz.)
There's one
catch, though - figure skating isn't an easy sport these days. The
difficulty level at competitions is awesome. A guy's got to be
fearless. (Not that the gurlz aren't fearless too, but you get our
point.) And when the "board" is strapped to your feet, you can't bail
when things go wrong.
But if you
really want to tear apart the course, there's no thrill like figure
skating. And if you stick with it, you can pull tricks that will make
your boarder friends drool with envy....The "other" kind of skating.
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