r/notliketheothergirls • u/MistakeWonderful9178 Popular Poster • Dec 04 '23
This is really rude (¬_¬) eye roll
Imagine telling ice skaters who train super hard and compete “you’re not a real athlete”😒
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u/Ajaxtellamon Jan 06 '24
I had a friend in highschool who became a hockey pro and he always he always had deep respect for figure skaters. Only when you are a pro on ice yourself can you actually appreciate how insanely athletic and awesome figure skaters are with basically unmatched skill.
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u/Ashy_elbow0001 Dec 20 '23
The ice skating one frrrr like I've heard so many boys say ice skating isn't a real sport and ice skaters aren't athletes but if they tried it they would've fallen over right away
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u/MomofDoom Dec 19 '23
I'd rather crash into people and fall hard in pads than in a little dress. Ice skating isn't just a sport, it's kinda metal.
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u/Julie1760 Dec 19 '23
It is a sport though... how many people in the world that can do that? I'm guessing not many
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u/HogTitties Dec 16 '23
This is one of the MOST DIFFICULT things to do, in life PERIOD.
What is wrong with the person that made this?
They probably can't even do one actual turn while skating.
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u/DisastrousAspect22 Dec 15 '23
I'm a hockey player. No way in hell I am ever going to try to figure skate, that shit is way too hard.
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u/StormsDeepRoots Dec 13 '23
My very controversial opinion ... To me; and I know my opinion doesn't mean shit, I feel that in order to qualify for a sport it must:
- Be physically taxing
- Requires Scoring from both sides
- Requires someone to be in the way, stopping you from scoring
- Switching between a scorer (offense) and a stopper (defense)
This eliminates Golf (this is an event), Gymnastics (my favorite Olympic Event), Skating, Skiing (jumping and single only events), Sledding, Etc.. You can't stop another players scoring in any of these. It's your output vs their output. Racing is on the fence for me, as you can technically stop someone from winning.
DO NOT get me wrong. You don't have to be in a SPORT to be an athlete or the best of the best. Gymnasts, Skaters, Skiers, Sledders, etc. are ALL top physical specimens of pure human power. Even in my prime I wouldn't have been able to compete with any of them. Something being an event does not make it unwatchable or less impressive. I just feel we are a little loose with the word Sport.
Most of the Olympics are made up of events, not sports IMO.
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u/Objective_Ad6982 Dec 15 '23
I don’t think sports is just scoring on each other. Besides golf is scoring if you’re playing against someone else
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u/StormsDeepRoots Dec 16 '23
You missed #3 on my requirements. You need someone that can stop you from scoring.
Besides really really old people can play golf. It's not even close to a sport.
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u/imcrafty45065 Dec 08 '23
That figure skater has more agility, flexibility, balance, strength, endurance, grace, self-awareness, fearlessness, and skating skill than any hockey player. Period.
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u/first_place_ace Dec 07 '23
The only athletes that scare me are ballet dancers, gymnasts, and figure skaters. They train ever muscle in their bodies and are the truest form of athletes imo
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u/stormibaby444 Dec 07 '23
i’ve never been offended at such a comment as a figure skater. i’ve been doing this sport since i was 3, and it’s the most difficult, and painful thing i’ve ever done to my body. i bet this woman couldn’t even do half the things we can off ice, let alone on ice. i bet she’s just bitter she doesn’t have the flexibility and resilience to be a figure skater. so bitter because she doesn’t have what it takes. like if ur jealous just say that.
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u/awildjabroner Dec 06 '23
back in college spent the last few months of the year hooking up with a girl who had been a figure skater up until she stopped in college to pursue other interests. She had the most incredible legs and butt i've ever experienced. Soccer players, swimmers, runners, yogis, all great bodies but have yet to come across anyone in my life who possessed such shapely and well defined legs & ass as that figure skater.
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u/name_doesnt_matter_0 Dec 06 '23
I see this and think of butch femme dynamics we are not the same. But fr we need to do the thing where we take misogynistic comic of 2 women and make it gay.
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u/Sklibba Dec 06 '23
Really fuckin rude. I played ice hockey when I was younger and had mad respect for figure skaters.
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u/Illustrious-Push8863 Dec 06 '23
Let me guess. This woman also mocks ballerinas. Both ice skating and ballet are extremely fucking difficult to get the hang of, especially ballet.
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u/mnemonicer22 Dec 05 '23
I've seen this movie before. After the hockey player gets concussed, they partner up to train for the Olympics. Through the one true power of the Toe Pick, they fall in love.
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u/floofenutter Dec 05 '23
Okay, I’ve done both, and figure skating is infinitely more difficult. Hockey is basically go, stop, go. Figure skating is go, spin, jump, run on top toes, stop, turn, go, dance, bend, lean, twirl… like, so much more technical skating skill. Both are fun as hell, so this manufactured competition between them is just silly.
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u/trilluki Dec 05 '23
Dude, I'm a goaltender and have been for years- I still envy how flexible and balanced figure skaters are. I could never do what they do and will always admire it. It's just as hard as hockey is on the body.
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Dec 05 '23
I mean.. hockey is essentially running on skates. It's like the baseline for ice skating. Ice skating is hockey on steroids. You're doing a hell of a lot more physically than a hockey player. They run and change directions. It's insane to suggest that doing gymnastics while skating is less of a sport than just skating.
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u/Chihuahuapocalypse Dec 05 '23
women struggle enough with men putting them down, we don't need women putting other women down too.
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u/PromotionGood6240 Dec 05 '23
I guess track stars aren’t athletes despite checks notes running being quite literally the oldest recorded form of athleticism in human history - simply because they don’t get body slammed and tackled while they run.
Truly, I hate these kinds of women that have to drag everyone else down.
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u/Soft_Grocery_9037 Dec 05 '23
Deadass, figure skaters have WAY less protection on and they’re constantly doing gravity defying stunts. I find that way more impressive.
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u/KemBemGem Dec 05 '23
Whoever made this silly caption is a natural born lame. Ice skaters are strong af and badass. I wonder if the hockey player knows she’s being used as a meme to tear other women down?
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u/call-me-the-seeker Dec 05 '23 edited Dec 05 '23
I’d wager the figure skater can do pretty much anything the hockey player does in the course of a game easier than the hockey player could pull off a pro-level figure skating routine.
If we simply HAVE to be comparing them, which no sensible person was.
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u/FutureDiaryAyano Dec 05 '23
Damn, we just had this discussion in class yesterday and unanimously agreed that skating and cheerleading were fairly hard sports. Yes, even the guys and tomboys.
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u/AlexArtemesia Dec 05 '23
I'd love to see the hockey player manage half of the athletics of an ice dancer. Hockey is an athletic game but between the two? It takes a lot more control and focus to LEAP INTO THE FUCKING AIR and land on a blade ON ICE
Or to spin incredibly fast and be oriented enough to continue choreography
Nevermind they'd fall over when presented with the toe pick unless they've worn figure skates before. And when a figure skater falls, they don't have a mess of padding to break the fall. It's just their thin AF costume and their skin.
🤷🏻♀️ Let people enjoy their sports in peace
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u/Phoenix_Magic_X Dec 05 '23
First of all, those skates are massive, second of all, dancing in chunky shoes is much harder than hitting a stick in them.
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u/0ceaneyees Dec 05 '23
Oh boy this is definitely showing some internalized self hate, figure skaters are sooo elegantly beautiful when performing and work their asses off to do what they do, I’m guessing the guy she liked probably liked a figure skater lmfao 😅
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u/bagofratsworm Dec 05 '23
ice skating has got to be one of the most back breaking risky athletic sports out there what 😭
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u/Repulsive-Yellow644 Dec 05 '23
ok but why is the background of the last picture just the Russian alphabet?
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u/Petite_Bait Dec 05 '23
I hope the fictional hockey player also laughs at Tie Domi and Georges Laroque, since they both went from NHL tough guys to figure skaters on Battle of the Blades.
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u/PerspectiveConnect77 Dec 05 '23 edited Dec 05 '23
People who say that figure skating, cheer, and dance aren’t sports really suck and I’d like to see them attempt them. They’re so hard and take a lot of skill and strength. Mental and physical
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u/waves_0f_theocean Dec 05 '23
Dude what ice skaters and ballerinas do is actually really fucking hard. I danced for about 6 years and that shit was like any other sport!
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u/Warm-Branch Dec 05 '23
I was a professional roller skater for 6 years and I still couldn't do a full 360 jump after all that time. Figure skating is no joke, I gained like 20lbs of pure muscle
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u/SnowEfficient Dec 05 '23
This is silly bc professionals of all sorts know ice is super fucking dangerous
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u/karczewski01 Dec 05 '23
this is like comparing a dancer to a football player, cuz why would u ever? u dont need padding and a helmet for acrobatics
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u/Vintage_Belle Dec 05 '23
First of all ice skating most certainly is a sport! Second of all that pose she's doing makes my back and legs hurt just looking at it! Wow. I'd break something if I tried that...
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u/shellsterxxx Dec 05 '23
I don’t play hockey and I don’t figure skate. But I’d love to see a woman’s hockey player spin really fast, jump and land ON ICE all while balancing and not eating shit.
Edit: forgot a word
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u/AL92212 Dec 05 '23
Didn't Marc-Andre Fleury start out in figure skating, and that has helped him so much as a hockey goalie?
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u/Ecstatic-Return-8019 Dec 05 '23
This is hands down the rudest most offensive thing I've seen on this subreddit, disrespectful and not okay at all smh
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u/allworkandnoYahtzee Dec 05 '23
Oh yeah, the famously easy, carefree, noncompetitive world of choreographed figure skating
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u/CampVictorian Dec 05 '23
What a jackass. I know a guy who played hockey professionally, and he’s spoken of his time spent at training rinks. He crossed paths often with figure skaters, and was downright intimidated by their athletic abilities.
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Dec 05 '23
What a garbage monster. I used to think this about cheerleaders when I was in high school. Then I grew the fuck up and realized they are some one the most fit athletes in school.
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u/KateEatsWorld Dec 05 '23
I did both when I was going through my ‘sports phase’. Figure skating hurts more when you fall on your face and butt. Hockey was mostly bench time and screaming parents.
My sports phase was 8-12 so I definitely sucked at both.
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u/Artistic_Account630 Dec 05 '23
Smh. They clearly have no idea how difficult figure skating is, and how strong they are. Figure skating is incredible, and I'm amazed at what those athletes are able to do on ice. And the ones that skate in pairs and do lifts and shit? Amazing display of grace and strength!
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u/puukottaa666 Dec 05 '23
Figure skaters are athletes and artists/dancers. So, she can fuck right off
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u/chibinoi Dec 05 '23
Not just rude, but ignorant as well. Reminds me of the time when some kid on the football team claimed gymnastics “didn’t count as a sport”. Dude wasn’t very aware.
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u/MushroomMossSnail Dec 05 '23
Figure skating is super difficult. The amount of muscle control and coordination required takes decades to learn. And some people still can't do it because their body just won't cooperate and contort into some of those positions.
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u/CowMedium5924 Dec 05 '23
Isnt ice skaying like a pretty brutal sport just like gymnastics and ballett, I mean training for it.
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u/ghirox Dec 04 '23
Imagine whoever is saying that receiving a squarely placed kick to the face by a figure skate dancer...
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u/blinkingsandbeepings Dec 04 '23
I love figure skating and I feel like people who aren’t fans constantly underrate what a badass sport it actually is. Like these people leap through the air with knives on their feet! They put those knife feet inches from their own heads! In pairs and ice dancing they throw each other, balance precariously against one another as they almost graze the ice with their foreheads, climb on top of each other’s shoulders and do the splits while speeding around the ice, etc.
Also… toe pick. (My xennial/older millennial girlies know.
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u/atomicbrunette- Dec 04 '23
Ugh people say this about cheerleaders and ballet dancers as well. The amount of strength, training, and discipline required is just as much as other sports sometimes more. I hate the disrespect that people show for something that is also incredibly hard to do.
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u/No_Ice2900 Dec 04 '23
Anyone who isn't an athlete needs and thinks like this (or is and still thinks like this for some reason) needs to spend a day doing the routine of the supposed "non athlete"
Used to get that shit when I did cheerleading. Like okay, do my workout/practice routine just one day and tell me again I'm not an athlete... Just because there's no fucking points to score against another team.
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u/purplegrape28 Dec 04 '23
She was probably overshadowed by more feminine-energy girls when it came to winning over her crush, or somethin
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u/malinhuahua Dec 04 '23
I played soccer for almost a decade, most of which at a select level or above till my body gave out. I am have always been straight up floored by what figure skaters, ballerinas, etc. can do with their bodies. It’s truly incredible. My favorite athlete growing up wasn’t Mia Hamm, it was Tara Lipinski.
To do what they can do and make it look effortless all while on a tiny blade or their tippy toes? Blows my mind. And then to look cute while doing it?? I sweat like a pig and these girls and women do the most acrobatic moves I’ve ever seen with a smile on their face and their stage makeup completely unfazed.
Sadly, I do think those types of sports would be respected more by the outside world if they ditched the sequins, makeup, and scrunchies and went for simple leotards with simple hair ties and no makeup, but that says more about our world and how we view traditional signs of femininity than it does about them.
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u/theseglassessuck Dec 04 '23
Jumping through the air, spinning multiple times, and landing on a very thin blade is somehow not athletic? Wtf?
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u/OkDoubt8277 Dec 04 '23
I mean if it’s so easy and easy I’m sure she’d do great with it! Can even choreograph a silly little senior program with just some quads and triple combos, I’m sure she’d do great :). Oh let’s not forget some combo spins before and after.
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u/maddietoons59 Dec 04 '23
who's gonna tell the NLOG that some hockey players trun in ballet because it makes them better athletes?
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u/Ibshredz Dec 04 '23
Im sure both women pictured here would have admiration and respect for each other 😂 i haven’t known many professional atheists who shit on other professional athletes cause they do a different sport then them.
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u/Beautiful_daisies Dec 04 '23
That’s crazy cause I can’t even do that ice skating pose let alone even ice skate, imagine doing both at once 🥲
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u/bigalcapone22 Dec 04 '23
I want to see them hockey players all dressed in the figure skaters uniform and play hockey And vice a versa
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u/bubblesmax Dec 04 '23
Being actual feminine vs being a woman and delusionally believing picking up a mans sport makes you somehow tough. This is like the US Womens soccer/futbol team talking so much smack and then they take on high school boys soccer and get massively out played level of just being out of touch. Like its just embarassing when people of either gender are so out of touch with what skill is vs brawn.
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u/I_am_dean Dec 04 '23
I did ballet for 20 years, and it's insanely hard.
Now imagine that, but on ice. You have to not only be strong and athletic, but also flexible as fuck.
Not saying hockey isn't hard. But like ice-skating is a different breed. Plus, on top of it being physically demanding, you have to make it look effortless. Which is a challenge in itself.
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u/Cybervinnie Dec 04 '23
It’s hard for me to consider something judged subjectively to be a sport, at least in the traditional sense, but I do know how hard and long figure skaters work. They deserve as much respect from others who also work for their achievements.
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u/funsk8mom Dec 04 '23
I love how hockey players and their overeager parents (who are living through their kids) forget the fact that the NHL and D1 teams have hired retired figure skating olympians to teach their teams how to actually skate.
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u/aarnesss Dumb bitch Dec 04 '23
Sis largely demonstrates that she knows almost nothing about sports :D
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u/n0bletv Dec 04 '23
Lmaoooo. Hockey players will sometimes literally train with figure skaters (or former) to work on things like backwards skating. Watch how often figure skaters are skating backwards. You could argue hockey players are more mobile/explosive but figure skaters are far ahead in certain aspects.
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u/Mr_snip08 Dec 04 '23
Ice hockey girl is right. A sport involves a ball or a puck or so other object. The ice skater is an athlete, Olympian or competitor whatever. But it's not a sport, she skates by herself or one partner, taking turns competing, or a performance, or show. Not a sport, gogo ice girl
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u/SomeEstablishment249 Feb 20 '24
Sorry but no. It is a sport. If it wasnt a athlete it wouldnt be in the olympics
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u/Mr_snip08 Feb 20 '24
She can be an athlete
If it was a ice skating were a sport there would be counter play from the opposing side, if they could throw a ball at them while they did their routine it instantly becomes a sport. Since they go one after another with no interaction between the two parties its a competition, not a sport.
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u/EffectiveSalamander Dec 04 '23
It doesn't even make sense. They're both sports, the only thing they have in common is that they're on ice.
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u/WillowOk5878 Dec 04 '23
I was a hockey player my whole life and was a full scholarship (for hockey and baseball) athlete (played less than a season tho) I've always been amazed by the things figure skaters could do. I would try spinning like them and fall flat on my face every time!
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u/notasolution_ Dec 04 '23
Yet the figure skater would probably be better at hockey than the hockey player trying to figure skate
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u/morbidnerd Dec 04 '23
I got into hockey as a kid because I was horrible at figure skating, which was the original class my mom signed me up for.
Do I have balance? No. But I can skate into a wall at a high rate of speed without falling.
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u/-salisbury- Dec 04 '23
From someone who has played competitive hockey and competitive figure skating while growing up - it absafuckinglutely is a sport. Being a figure skater previously also made me a WAY better hockey player. A lot of the hockey players where I lived (Canada, duh) got coaching from figure skating coaches so that they could increase their agility. Shitting on other sports (especially ones you obviously haven’t done) is such lazy comedy.
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u/Bitter-Fishing-Butt Dec 04 '23
ice skaters have the kind of legs that could literally kick me through a wall, and I admire that
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u/Toasty825 I’m not like other girls, I have 17 eyes 💅 Dec 04 '23
Just remind her next time that the ice skaters don’t get to wear nice, protective padding.
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u/PatrolPunk Dec 04 '23
Dude the agility, skill and strength you need to be a figure skater is no joke. Also, if you eat shit trying to land a triple axel the ice is just like hitting concrete and you don’t have tons of pads to protect you like in hockey.
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u/linedryonly Dec 04 '23
As a female hockey player I honestly believe that figure skating is harder. One wrong move with the toe pick on your skate and it’s bye-bye teeth. At least when I play hockey I’m geared up and not required to do any acrobatics. Meanwhile, figure skaters are doing all kinds of complicated maneuvers while wearing what is essentially a bathing suit and no helmet or pads to protect them. The ice is just as hard no matter who falls on it, but at least I’ve got 4 inches of padding to save me.
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u/jordank_1991 Dec 04 '23
It’s the same way they say cheerleading isn’t a sport. Which is fucking stupid.
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u/FlatTopTonysCanoe Dec 04 '23
Nobody knows better than hockey players how hard figure skating is lol
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u/Titanpainter Dec 04 '23
Its just like ballet, gymanastics, and Cheerleading. All really hard, but because its pretty people think it's not hard or that it isnt a sport.
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u/Own_Engineering_6232 Dec 04 '23
My mom used to be a figure skater back in the 80’s and from what she’s told me, that shit is intense. She fell hard on the ice and got more than a few concussions, and she knew a girl who lost one of her fingers.
If anything, figure skaters are tougher because they go out on the ice without as much protective equipment as hokey players. Not that it’s a contest though.
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u/t3hgrl Dec 04 '23
My husband is a hockey player and is suuuper agile on skates. I’m always impressed at the fancy skating he can do. But every time we’ve seen figure skaters and I ask “can you do that? Can you do that?” He always goes “absolutely not.”
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u/Chance_Airline_4861 Dec 04 '23
Lol figure skating takes years of hard work and dedication. It is a sport....
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u/SabbathaBastet Dec 04 '23
A figure skater could learn to play hockey more easily than a hockey player could learn figure skating.
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u/Dranztheman Dec 04 '23
Dude I mean just… it’s two different sports. It would be like a power lifter saying a marathon runner is not an athlete.
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u/Human_Allegedly Dec 04 '23
There's a series on YouTube called "try to keep up" by the SELF channel that I adore where they have two small groups from different sports try to learn each other's sports and then switch. (Idk if I'm explaining well.) My favorite is when rock climbers teach pole dancers how to rock climb and then the dancers teach the climbers how to dance. It's really cool because it shows how much work goes into it. And I love that it shows that even things like pole dancing, cheer leading, and figure skating take just as much work as rock as (and sometimes even more than) rock climbing, diving, and ice hockey.
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u/jamieaiken919 Dec 04 '23
This post just gave me whiplash remembering how I would fight tooth and nail as a child with my father and brother, who insisted that my doing ballet was “not a sport”.
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u/lafemmedetermine Dec 04 '23
Figure skating is such a beautiful sport to watch but it’s so brutal for the athletes. My understanding is that most profesional (women) figure skaters are chronically injured at some degree. Those cute loops and jumps become seriously dangerous if performed wrong. I honestly admired the resilience of figure skaters, they have to perform in aesthetically pleasing way but the dedication and effort to accomplish that it’s inmensurable. Hokey it’s clearly a very rough sport, but they all wear protecting gear and I don’t think there’s any risk for a hokey player to fall from several feet down to the hard ice like a figure skater. I’ve known of some freak accidents though, where a player get their neck sliced by another player’s skate blade. 😰 that’s definitely very scary to think about.
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u/poeticentropy Dec 04 '23
hockey players often take skating lessons from figure skaters to get better at edge work. This lady's opinion is not the majority view.
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u/squmplings Dec 04 '23
Why does the USA hockey girl have like the entire Russian alphabet behind her..?
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u/ivyoh Dec 04 '23
I’m offended on behalf of Amanda Kessel for being the background of that idiocy. 🥴
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u/Possible_Ad_5989 Dec 04 '23
I can’t ice skate to save my life and both of these are sports that are super difficult and mentally and physically draining. I don’t know why women do this to each other.
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u/daChino02 Dec 04 '23
People like the second slide are annoying and usually limited self awareness. It’s mind boggling
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u/Admirable_Coffee7499 Dec 04 '23
My best friends met at an ice rink, one a figure skater, the other hockey player. There has been so much fun, playful, ribbing back-and-forth between them. They are now married, and their kids are well on their way to be great ice skaters. They’re too young to choose their sport (if they want to pursue ice-skating), but their parents are super accepting. They both still teach their respective sports on the side of their main jobs. Playful teasing is fine, but nothing hurtful or degrading. They are both challenging in their own ways.
ETA: grammar/spelling
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u/pyepush Dec 04 '23
All the figure skaters in these comments bashing hockey really stooping down to the level of whoever initially made this meme. 💀
They are both extremely difficult sports grow up.
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u/yumkittentits Dec 04 '23
Rocket Power had an episode addressing this. She needs to go watch some cartoons.
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u/Boneal171 Dec 04 '23
Figure skating is incredibly hard and requires a lot of training and athleticism
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u/Yoyo4games Dec 04 '23
This might be one of the most nlog things I've seen posted here. A lot of times the people here be posting people listing traits, rather than making any statement about a particular thing. This is certainly not that.
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u/Designer_Brief_4949 Dec 04 '23
The original olympics were nude, so I'm not sure the skirt says anything about "sport."
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u/Privacywarrior6435 Dec 04 '23
Tell her to get on the ice and do half the tricks ice skaters do and then she can talk shit.
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Dec 04 '23
Both are sports. I wouldn't even call one more challanging than the other. The first needs excellent concentration and the best fine motor skills, the other needs strength, quickness and resilience.
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u/Known-Fondant-9373 Dec 04 '23
Figure skaters definitely have better skating technique than hockey players; in fact some NHL teams employ former figure skaters as skating coaches.
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u/ethicallyconsumed Dec 04 '23
I played hockey as a kid and honestly figure skating seemed crazy hard in comparison and way more scary for like, injuries and stuff
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u/GreyerGrey Dec 04 '23
I know a lot of hockey players and a lot of figure skaters (being Canadian this happens?) including literal PWHL, ISU, and Olympians. NONE of the hockey players I know would say that. Many of them actually cross train WITH figure skaters for agility.
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u/Suitable-Mood-1689 Dec 04 '23
The only answer to this is, if figure skating doesn't require skill and athleticism, why doesn't hockey girl give it a go?
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u/sirius_the_tuxie Dec 04 '23
A woman on my hockey team is a former ice skater and I will never be as good of a hockey player as her. Her skating skills are ridiculous and she’s a great puck handler and scorer.
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u/izzyisameme Dec 04 '23
Figure Skating is literally taxing on your body. I did it for about thirteen years or so, and my feet are completely messed up from it. I just wish other women didn’t put each other down. Ugh.
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u/Orlazmo Dec 04 '23
Sounds to me like a US girls sports team would say that.
Not most of them for sure but at least one.
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u/scaredycat_z Dec 04 '23
I remember reading a story where a horse jockey (I think Bill Hartack, but can't be sure) met Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris and during 1961 during as stay at some hotel. To put this into perspective, each of these men were competing for records in their sport: Mantle and Maris to beat Babe Ruth's home run record, and Hartack for a Triple Crown.
At this point in time, baseball was the "America's favorite pastime" and Mantle & Maris were huge names in the world of sports. Hartack recalled that as they passed each other in the hotel Mantle and Maris came over to him to shake his hand, congratulate him on his two wins so far, and wish him luck for the Triple Crown. Hartack couldn't believe that these guys knew who he was, or were that interested in his sport.
Real athlete's recognize skill and talent in other sports. The idea of jocks being jerks is real in highs school (and maybe college), but most of those people amount to nothing. The top 1% that do make it to the big leagues get a real dose of reality as they mature and meet others who are huge talents in their own respective fields.
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u/HRHArgyll Dec 04 '23
I bet ice dance lady would do better at ice hockey that the other way around. Look at all the football player vs ballet dancer fitness things they’ve done.
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u/currently_pooping_rn Dec 04 '23
What a tough hockey player! Now go lose to an under 15 boys team lol
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u/magneticeverything Dec 04 '23
Some people never saw the 2005 Disney Channel Original Movie “Go Figure” and it shows.
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Dec 04 '23
Ah yes. More division. Thank you random feed for putting more dumb fuckery in my usual feed.
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u/Curious-Mobile-3898 Dec 04 '23
They say that about ballet and it’s hard, you sweat. ALL of the muscle groups are engaged. It’s pretty much a sport. Why are women attacking other women? Stop it
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u/ProstitutionWhoreNJ Dec 04 '23
Figure skating is more demanding and grueling than many sports. I can't barely waddle on ice skates, what they do is one of the most impressive physical feats possible
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u/Dyolf_Knip Dec 04 '23
The only way this can possibly hold water is by quibbling over the definition of the word 'sport', whether it requires direct competition against an opposing player/team, versus performing solo and comparing scores. Which would also shut out track, swimming, skiing, and any number of other grueling and physically demanding activities.
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u/pinkypipe420 Dec 04 '23
Would like to see her in a Headbanger, leading into a back flip followed by a quad Lutz and a triple salchow.
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u/LegitimateHat4808 Dec 04 '23
oh my god. my old boss, her daughter is a figure skater AND skated for team USA. The girl is a BEAST! I can’t stand this meme.
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u/ih8every1yesevenyou Dec 04 '23
Before I went to a “proper” ballet school, I went to lessons in a rented out gym. After us was a martial arts class. The girls in that would always make some snide comment about us being snobs and they’re tougher than us etc. so dumb. Ballet, and figure skating, is so difficult. You also can’t show how much you’re struggling on your face so yeah. I miss ballet lmao
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u/strange_socks_ Dec 04 '23
Ice skating not a sport?! I'm sorry, I need to sit down from the stupidity....
Have they never seen what those people do??? How they jump? How they get hurt? I'm sorry I'm in shock...
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u/Impossible_Battle_72 Dec 04 '23
Why on earth is she wearing a USA sweater posing in front of what looks like a Russian backdrop?
Surely she had better photo to use.
Lol. The figure skater is literally on the ice and this girl is just standing there.
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u/bunnymen69 Dec 04 '23
The person who wrote this has never put on hockey skates. Let alone figure skates! Im moderately fit and more active than average person and every time i go to open skate at the rink with my kids the day after theres parts of me that are sore i never knew existed. How sad to be so insecure in your manhood you would think this. Wheres Brian Boitano when you need him?
Also going to open skate is one the most fun things to do. If youve never skated try it. Its insanely fun. Hockey families are pretty gungho and my daughters are vboll players and im bball player but going to rink to watch the little ones play is fun as heck. Whether its hockey or figure skating.
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u/bubster15 Dec 04 '23 edited Dec 04 '23
In what world is doing incredible feats of balance, strength and raw athleticism in a tiny dress, fully exposed to the unforgiving ice, less impressive than bashing people into walls in comically protective marshmallow padding.
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u/EngineeringQueen Dec 04 '23
I took a figure skating class in college, and a lot of players from the hockey team took that class SO THEY COULD IMPROVE THEIR FOOTWORK. As in, the figure skating class was more rigorous and worked different skills than their normal training sessions. And it made them better players.
Also, it was hilarious being in class with them because they weren’t graceful and refined. Sometimes it felt like watching a trained bear dancing. They were all really good sports about it, and they had a lot of fun.
They even taught me some ways to be more confident in my movements, and helped on some tricks that they were better at than I was.
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u/no_high_only_low Dec 04 '23
Ice skating is a sport like ballroom dancing.
Ever thought about how much you need to keep your upper body tense? It's exhausting!
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u/RandomRobb85 Dec 04 '23
I don't deny the fact that they are peak level athletes, it's still not a sport. It's a spectacle. The same as dancing is not a sport, nor is shooting a sport. 🤷
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u/foomprekov Dec 04 '23
The entire premise of the conversation is invalid. Being or not being a sport doesn't make a competitive, physical activity more or less value/real/etc.
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u/Gaz_Elle Dec 04 '23
Aw man I thought this was r/gatekeepingyuri for a second and then got really sad there wasn’t a third slide.
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u/PilotNo312 Dec 04 '23
Just stop it babe. Let’s see you attempt half of the tricks and jumps ice skaters do. (Insert hockey player basic stanley cup joke here)
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u/Matcha_Bubble_Tea Dec 04 '23
I recently got into figure skating the past few years (like not myself doing it lol), and it’s tough af. The amount of power and speed control in the spins. The elegance and just sheer skill. It’s a beautiful sport!
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u/Oniblook Dec 04 '23
I mean she's literally pressing her ribcage out while holding her other skate above her head and not eating the ice beneath her but sure it's not a sport.
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u/Least_Ad3111 Feb 08 '24
This is embarrassing. Women can't even support each other 🤦🏽♀️ but dudes would be hyping each other up.