Utter IMBECILES on skates!

I went down to the LIttlest Rink this evening to practice all those lovely things from yesterday. Wednesday is normally practically dead - it has been at times just me on the ice.

Not today. Today I was surrounded by idiots. Not only that, but the idiots weren't the usual little hockey munchkins. THEY WERE ADULTS!! Physically at least. So, I'm going to have a rant and lay out everything that had me fuming. Please skip if you do not want to read the writings of a truly fuming woman. I will try and keep my language under control . . .

• The ice was a state. Not because of the Zamboni, but because of being ripped up by hockey skates. There was so much snow on it by the time I left, you could have stuck it on a piece of paper and called it a Christmas card.
• Two adults who think they are God's Gifts on hockey skates. Undaunted even when one realised (during their routinely skating around the rink at an insane speed) that they couldn't weave round someone, fell over and did a full-body skid, crashing into the back of some poor guy's legs.
• The skate wardens who were keeping up with said two adults, deliberately spraying snow over people, and at one stage throwing snow at people. THE WARDENS!!!
• A group of other imbeciles (isn't that a wonderful word?) that couldn't skate all that well, but decided to race each other full length down the centre of the rink. Towards me quietly doing my 3-turns. One fell over his toepicks at full throttle, and did a full body slide/crash into the barrier. About two inches from my feet (and I was standing still at this point). If he had been a couple of inches over to the right, I reckon I would have been seriously injured this evening. The force of collision was astounding.
• The other God's Gift doing a headstand in the middle of the rink.
  

Okay, you get the idea. I don't know why they don't do a special session for these prats, so they can hare around injuring themselves and each other, and the general public doesn't have to be witness to their pathetic, juvenile behaviour.

Back to me, and as you probably have realised, a somewhat curtailed practice session. In fact, the only three things I managed to do was forward stroking, 3-turns and a bit of BO edge practice..

Strange experience with 3-turns this evening. My LFI3's have been awful - in fact, only managing one before tonight, with my RFI3's being much better.

Tonight, I finally "got it" on my left ones. I even managed to do about six in a row! And then when I went back to a RFI3, I couldn't do them!!! How strange is that?! But I am chuffed that the LFI3's are catching up now. One pointer given to me yesterday that really helped was that I should come out of the turn on as straight a blade as possible, thus reducing that scary backward steep curve that at this stage can throw me off balance.

The last thing I did was a few BO edges, starting at the barrier, pushing away and doing a semi-circle coming back to the barrier. I am trying to remember to keep the extended foot not too wide, and pushing that inside hip into the circle. I'm hoping that if I work these out, then BXO's might follow on!

Well, that was it. A few positives, but a generally dire environment. Oh well, it's bound to happen at times . . .