i used to figure skate and so i revisited the rink with a friend (who also skated)!

for comparision:
friend : competitive skater for six years, quit in spring 2022, pretty advanced
me : non-competitive skater (only did recitals) for a little over a year, advanced back then but kind of suck now, quit in early 2015

i could do some basic skills like the spiral, sort of a waltz jump, two-foot spin, one foot spin, backwards + forward crossover while she did a bunch of weird spins i never saw in my life. she could also still do a single axel :0
she tried to teach me but i lowkey chickened out after i slipped and almost fell multiple times
so at the rink we go to there is a narwhal-shaped assist thingy that you can push someone on so me and her pushed each other for like an entire hour and we both fell like so many times from sharp turns + trying to avoid the little kids

two hockey boys who looked like 7 years old literally were wrestling each other on the ice and trying to kill each other...

flashback to when i used to skate and this old woman was square dancing on the ice with her husband and fell and hit the back of her head... she was crying and the ambulance came too

my friend also told me about a time where she accidentally cut a kid's finger (it was his fault for trying to push her) and the kid overreacted so much over a tiny scratch that his mom got mad at her

anyways the highlight of the day was when i tried to do that split-spiral where you grab your skate and glide and then i hit a rough patch of ice and fell really hard on my side... even worse was that my friend was taking a video LOL
i have bruises now and my left elbow and up is literally so sore. along with both legs of course.
we had fun doing butt spins and volleyball diving on the ice after the zamboni did its thing :-}

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after that we baked brownies at home while watching dance moms with her dog lol we found the most dramatic videos we could
also played mario-kart and got prank-called by some of our friends mimicking a british accent
btw for anyone wondering brownies made with oat milk are actually really good

anyways welcome to another bedsheet (you guys can probably interpret what i was really trying to say but had to cover up due to sheriff) post of me being unproductive during thanksgiving break haha

everyone who follows me on instagram prob saw the depressing fall video that my friend took :') okay but falling on the ice is like 6x more painful than falling on literally any other flat surface out there