You may be a Figure Skater IF...

To celebrate the (very delayed) beginning of figure skating season, the "you may be a figure skater if..." list is on! For those who don't follow figure skating as religiously as I do, the season begun about a month ago and goes on until March of next year (roughly). I hope the non-followers of the sport get the joke as well as the followers. :)

By the way, figure skating is that ice skating sports where you wear this shoes. Just so there's no confusion with that hockey shoes of terror.

1.  You hear a favorite song and starts to mentally map out the choreography...
2.  and design the costume inspired by the song.
3.  You love the smell of the ice.
4.  You love the chilly temperature setting at the rink, only if you're the one skating (otherwise it's just freakin' freezing in there).
5.  You dread skating on the same rink with 100+ other hockey shoes, because hockey blades create numerous ditches on ice, consequently trapping figure skating blades. argh.
6.  You don't think it counts when someone says "I can ice skate!" and promptly pulls out a hockey shoes, and can only skate forward. Here's the analogy...Hockey Blade: Figure Skate Blade = Cardboard: Notebook Paper.
7.  You get too worked up when figure skating don't get the TV coverage it deserves, and none of your friends get it.
8.  You have developed a secret crush on figure skaters more than once.
9.  You heard "Carmen," "Masquerade," "Concierto de Aranjuez" and Phantom of the Opera mashup one too many times.
10.  You would love to see someone bold enough pull off a "Single Ladies" program, complete with that Beyonce choreography. Any takers? It would be legendary!
11.  You come back with 10 or more bruises on your legs/other body parts and you just shrug it off.
12.  In the earlier days of skating, you have smacked your head on ice more than you should and wondered why people around you are so freaked out.
13.  You hear The Man In the Iron Mask soundtrack and immediate think of that fantastic program by Alexei Yagudin at Salt Lake City Olympics.
14.  For someone who plays sports, you have zero accumulated sun damage. Word.
15.  You love clothes that sparkles. Come on, it's the only kind that stands out on ice!
16.  Sometimes, you feel like Cinderella (minus Prince Charming) trying to find that perfect shoes that fits. Also...
17.  It irritates you when non-figure skaters don't understand that your skating skill drops exponentially when skating with the shoes that doesn't fit...
18.  or blades that aren't sharpened.
19.  You can't purely enjoy watching those figure skating flicks because chances are, there are about 20 things that are just blatantly incorrect.
20.  You read through this list and actually understood what I wrote. ;)

By the way, the Grand Prix Series is at its fourth competition, Skate America! Gotta go get my skates on!

xx-N

PS: I have nothing against hockey; in fact, I do enjoy watching the sports. Although, I may be slightly biased towards figure skating because I do figure skate. :)