5. Figure Skating and Ice Dancing
Go to a public skate tonight. Rent a pair of skates. Try to jump a little bit and land on one foot. Don’t spin or do anything crazy – just a little hop. Did you totally eat the ice? Yea probably.
Figure skating and ice dancing continue to leave me in awe as I watch. It just looks so impossible yet so easy. Especially on the pairs/dancing side where you have all of these crazy lifts and treating the partner like a hula hoop of some sort. Not only does each element seem borderline impossible, but these programs can last up to 4 ½ minutes. In hockey after 1 minute I’m pretty winded. So going a full 4 minutes and still doing a 1080 or throwing a girl into a 1440 is crazy talk.
Marketing tip for this sport – how about we start calling these jumps 1080s and 1440s? Maybe get Jonny Moseley to do color? Would make it a lot more EXTREME!
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