*Gasp* Tallen doesn’t know something?!?!
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Topic: *Gasp* Tallen doesn’t know something?!?!
Posted By: tallen702
Subject: *Gasp* Tallen doesn’t know something?!?!
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:19am
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So, here it is, your earth-shattering revelation. There IS indeed something I don't know. Are you ready? Are you sure you want your world to be rocked? Are you absolutely certain that life as you have come to know it won't end if you see what it is??????
Then scroll: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - So, the missus and I are going ice skating for the first time in 15 years. I never skated much as a kid, but add in 15 years of not doing it and I seem to have forgotten one very important thing. How do you stop? Aside from falling on your ass, running into someone/thing, and I'm not even going to try a hockey-stop thankyouverymuch. Simple, easy to use instructions would be nice. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
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Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:22am
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Hockey stop is how you stop. ------------- 
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Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:22am
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i just go intill i run into sompthing. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:25am
And I used to wonder why people hated ginger kids so much.
Yeah, that ain't gonna work well here bub. They tend to kick you out if you do that too much. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Skillet42565 wrote:Posted By: .636
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:26am
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balance on one skate and put your other foot horizontally at the back of the foot with your weight on it making a T. Just make sure to have the blade you drag behind your foot with the weight on it. Drag the back blade across the ice ------------- |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:26am
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I think I always just made a T Kinda like this http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-on-Ice-Skates - http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-on-Ice-Skates -------------  |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:27am
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Outdoor or indoor?
If it's indoor, it's easy, just hit the wall. If outdoor, do the V thing. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:30am
Thank you!!!! That's how I used to do it. I couldn't remember if I dragged the whole blade or just the tip with the little saw-edged portions. And all my American friends told me it was dumb to have Canadian buddies online....  ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Tolgak
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:33am
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I do a few really tight turns until I HAVE to lift my foot. By the time I gain my balance, I am stopped.
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Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:37am
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:38am
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hahaha ------------- 
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: .636
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:56am
Saw edged portion? Like on figure skates? You SISSY! Please hand over your balls and firearms, you dont deserve them anymore. ------------- |
Posted By: unvolution
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 1:05am
| i expected more zombies in the apocalypse when tallen didnt know something.... |
Posted By: JohnnyHopper
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 1:07am
Cue the skating zombies! ------------- My shoes of peace have steel toes. |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 1:14am
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You can make the T style stop, or you can do a very similar thing and just run the nose of the rear skate behind you.
It doesn't stop you quite as fast, but there is less chance of it ending up in a splits. While it does obviously work better with figure style skates with the teeth on the front, there is nothing stopping you doing it with hockey style skates. Good luck, and remember to enjoy falling over. It is part of the fun :) KBK |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 2:06am
| i do a little 360 to stop. im not really sure how i do it, i think i just put one skate slight in front of the other then turn really sharp with it and turn not so sharp with my rear skate. maybe. all i know is that i do a 360, and then i am not moving anymore. ive only skated like twice so thats the best i can do. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 2:51am
When I was growing up, hockey skates were rare in my town. All they rented at the rink were figure-skate style skates. I had my dad's old pair from the 1960's. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 4:14am
| last time i went ice skating i dislocated my knee to come to a full and complete stop. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 4:27am
Exactly what I was going to say. I used to have a skating rink in my yard when I was a kid, good times. |
Posted By: Zata
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 7:20am
| T stopping is soooo lame. |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 7:46am
| agreed, and hockey stops really arent that hard to do... |
Posted By: Glassjaw
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 7:46am
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Drag your back foot. ------------- |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 9:52am
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For the last 4 years, my wife and I have gone skating at a rink near her every now and again. I've never, ever stopped properly. I always used a wall. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Zata
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:25pm
Oh come on, you can't say that. Hockey stops require a sense of balance that you don't just lace up your skates and acquire. It takes quite a bit of practice and time on the ice to get a feel for. |
Posted By: Mr.Awesome
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:40pm
| ive never seen a guy where figure skates before in real life |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 12:54pm
.... go play in traffic. (i was giving tallen a hard time, yes i know they arent that easy, it took me a while to learn how...) |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 3:01pm
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Well, turn out that I won't get to go skating until tomorrow night. Apparently the local rec-center resembles a frikken kindergarten class from hell on Sundays. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Enmity
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 3:38pm
Fixed. I vote we sticky this topic since it is the first and most likely the last time we will see one of the sort. ------------- 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 3:46pm
| You were using girl skates? What's wrong with you man? |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 4:32pm
Listen, not all of us were forced grow up drinking Moose-head while shooting at abandoned campers and eating mayonnaise on our french-fries instead of ketchup. Some of us got the chance to grow up where breakfast isn't just for breakfast, moonshine isn't something you look up in the sky for, and there was little to no chance to play hockey, let alone find some hockey skates. I'll take the moonshine and biscuits and gravy over growing up with hockey skates any day.... ya hoser! ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 4:40pm
Mayo on fries is way more euro than canadian, and I'm from the Yukon, I have most certainly encountered home made moonshine in a mason jar. Also, Denny's is a great after bar restaurant for some 3am waffles. Other than that....true..... |
Posted By: Mr.Awesome
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 4:58pm
| i put jam on my perogies |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 5:10pm
You know about Moose-head? Hah they made that not 30 minutes from where I used to live. Good times, good times. |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 6:48pm
i grew up in the missouri and i've never worn figure skates. i do own 2 pairs of hockey skates though. you cant blame it on not being from canadia. :) |
Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 8:44pm
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 8:51pm
That honestly made me feel funny in the pants for a second. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 8:51pm
moose head is a pretty widely distributed beer. I also use figure skates, they are way more comfortable. that could just be because the hockey skates for rent are trashed. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 January 2009 at 9:05pm
Do you wear womens underwear for comfort reasons too? 
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