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During the hockey off-season, June/July/August, I and other players maintained and vastly improved our skating abilities and strength through Figure Skating.

Stop starts and power turning into reverse mode with loosely tied skates made monsters of us and when season fired back up it's like we never left the ice, we were fresh on our feet and legs with oversized football thighs.

I hated the twirls because of my weight and size and wasn't all that classy at it but when it came time to hurling myself at the "Herculite" glass in the end zone, for whatever the situation demanded, I always landed in the position that I had to skate in, and sometimes often a 2minute charging penalty.

Figure skating is actually something I enjoy watching and I did like it for the shape it kept me in.

And our instructor was no faggot, he was a vicious skater with style and strength in his movements.

In hockey, a guy barreling after a puck at 25MPH into the end zone has one objective, get the puck and fuck the boards, without physical confidence in the ability to crank hard to left or right behind the net with the puck or to push the puck into the direction of a teammate and then hitting the boards, without that confidence one cannot be good at the game of hockey.

Hockey players were no slouches...anyone who knew Bob Probert knew that he was tough as rail spikes and feared nothing, he was a great guy with good character but played a hard game, on or off the ice. Probert backed down from nobody, except for the true friends that stood between him and the "situation at hand". A teammate of mine was like a brother to him and I shook my head at so many of the episodes...a very serious episode that I may one day post about.

Figure skating is not for fags.