when you start listening to classical music regularly and even make a playlist on spotify with your favorite pieces.
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when you start listening to classical music regularly and even make a playlist on spotify with your favorite pieces.
When after rushing to a Pilates class immediately after watching Anna Pogorilaya’s FS Worlds 2017 you believe you are having a heart attack and end up spending all day in the ER. Diagnosis? Panic Attack :shocked:
... you ruin your sleep patterns for a month trying to keep up with the Olympics.
1. When you're hearing music and you wonder if it would work well for skating. You try to picture it. Every song I've been doing for a few years.
2. Sometimes your body wakes up automatically for skating competitions that are many time zones ahead or behind you to watch skating competitions.
3. You realize how much you know the sport when talking to a non-figure skating fan when explaining rules and skaters (Like I did back in February and/or March to my mom).
4. You're so used to a skater skating to a specific song, that it's so weird to see someone else skate to me (Like for me, Chambermaid Swing with Kevin Reynolds).
5. When you are constantly checking results from competitions when you're out and about.
6. Going back to #1, when you're CONSTANTLY looking for new songs that are so unique to skating.
7. When meeting a particular skater, seeing a skating competition, and/or the trip overall to see that competition made your year.
8. When you're trying to find livestreams that work and don't have so many pop-ups.
9. You're frustrated you can't find too many people in real life that are into skating as much as you are.
10. You pray that your school, work, or sports schedule will work where you can watch skating.
11. You can hum at the very least to the Russian National Anthem.
12. You are able to pronounce Russian names okay-ish.
13. You have to keep track of time zones so you know not to miss it.
14. In the case of the USA, it feels sort of weird when there's an international competition in your time zone.
15. You wish you could skate and choreograph programs even if you cannot skate and do basic steps on the ice.
... when you've gotten into a heated argument over the results of a figure skating competition...
from 40 years ago.
I'm still Team Linda.
The old "superstition" watching - I know it well!Me after watching Alina’s FS at worlds (actually I was such a nervous wreck I shut my computer when she came on and then I had a silent breakdown after I saw her scores) and today I still think it’s my fault that happened because I didn’t watch her performance [emoji24][emoji24][emoji23]
When at the end of your life, after you've forgotten everything else, you are still complaining "Michelle was robbed!"
... This is probably going to be me in the nursing home.
Yes, I get indignant when the people being paid to speak about skating can't even pronounce skater's names properly. I don't care of it's not their language.
When someone asks you your favorite season you instinctively reply "fall" because it's when skating starts
You’re triggered by the word fall :ddevil:
When you have the Russian keyboard on your phone and computer keyboards [emoji23] (I tried Japanese or Korean as well, but it got too complicated [emoji23])
....”I wonder where they buy their workout gear?? I should get some!!”
I actually thought about getting a new keyboard a year or so ago. But, I couldn't find one that did all 3 alphabets I wanted - Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. And anyway, I would miss the extra buttons at the top of my current keyboard (they are REALLY useful!)
I could find button stickers that did all 3 alphabets, but surely a sticker can't magically make a button work differently!
If you are serious about wanting to know, a lot of skaters are getting gear from the clothing company that Jenna McCorkell set up a year or so ago. I won't post any more details here, but let's just say that it's not hard to find info on her social media accounts.
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When you start listening to classical music regularly and even make a playlist on Spotify with your favorite pieces.
Not just classical. I've got an iPhone playlist called 'skaters'...