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- Jan 14, 2008
Me, I just logged on here to ask if anyone knows what Rafael meant at the very end when he said, "You did it again!" What was he referring to?
But since I'm here, let me express my bewilderment at the story about Ashley and Adam having nowhere to train. In addition to their home rink, there are two full-sized rinks within a 10-minute drive, another two rinks within a half hour drive, and another 6-8 rinks within an hour's drive. Their home rink and several of the other nearby rinks also have elite freestyle sessions that are limited to high level competitive skaters so they are never crowded. They do what all L.A. area figure skaters do: Know the freestyle schedules for each of the nearby rinks and go where there is ice at the time they want to skate. It's nothing like Japan (or Korea, if I understand correctly), where skaters need to buy an expensive annual membership to the rink just to skate on a freestyle session there at all, and there is so little freestyle ice available that many skaters end up having to practice triples on crowded public sessions.
But since I'm here, let me express my bewilderment at the story about Ashley and Adam having nowhere to train. In addition to their home rink, there are two full-sized rinks within a 10-minute drive, another two rinks within a half hour drive, and another 6-8 rinks within an hour's drive. Their home rink and several of the other nearby rinks also have elite freestyle sessions that are limited to high level competitive skaters so they are never crowded. They do what all L.A. area figure skaters do: Know the freestyle schedules for each of the nearby rinks and go where there is ice at the time they want to skate. It's nothing like Japan (or Korea, if I understand correctly), where skaters need to buy an expensive annual membership to the rink just to skate on a freestyle session there at all, and there is so little freestyle ice available that many skaters end up having to practice triples on crowded public sessions.