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You Know You're A Skater When:
- All of your friends are eating dinner while your at practice.
- When your boyfriend/girlfriend tells you you'll have to choose between him/her and skating, you tell him/her you'll miss him/her.
- You hear your free music on the radio and you brake out in dance moves.
- You get up in the summer/weekends at 8 am because of practice.
- Your friends are all skaters too.
- You know that the quote "one more time" never means one more time.
- You can change into your practice wear/competition outfit anywhere, including in a moving car or even in a hallway.
- People ask about the bruises that you never new you had.
- Your coach has seen you un-dressed more than twice.
- When watching a competition you cringe if the motions are sloppy.
- "Practice makes Perfect" isn't just a saying to you, its a way of life
- You know that you win the trophy at practice you just go to the competition to pick it up.
- Your music will be your ringtone at least once during the year.
- You have bobby pins scattered around your house, your car, and in your bags.
- You are washing glitter off your face and out of your hair for weeks after a competition.
- You can never have too much make-up or use too much hairspray.
- Your team is family, you laugh together, you cry together and you win together!
- You perform like a rockstar on the floor, but your friends consider you as shy.
- You spend most of your weekends in the year inside a hall/sports centre.
- Your an expert at doing hair and make up.
- Your stuff is permantly covered in glitter spray.
- Your email address/screen name as your team name in or the word "skate".
- You've been caught practicing your dance in your bedroom.
- You've stayed in enough hotels that you could write a guidebook.
- You could open a boutique with the amount of skating gear you have.
- You've written a school paper/essay on skating.
- You can't help but visualize your dance during school/work.
- You have a favourite jump.
- You have a friend/friendly rival on atleast 3 other teams.
- You burst out your dance in public places.
- You live 15 minutes away from a club but you chose to go to the one an hour away because you think that one is better.
- When you see someone of the opposite sex you don't think "DATE!" you think "DANCE PARTNER!"
- You realize that in order to win an international event you must be from a communist country (Austrailia or Italy).
- When you walk past a dress in the shopping centre, you try to imagine it in a skating dress form.
- Your used to hearing the phrases "Look up", "Just one more time", "Point your toe", "Sharper", "Head up", "Lean towards the middle" and "Cheak your shoulders"
- People often mistake your skate tights for a tan.
- You end up missing family/friends events because your skating.
- You know all the rink's/centre emplyoees personally.
- People are generally stunned when they find out how much your skates cost.
- You know the difference between an inside and an outside edge.
- You're happy about getting new skates, but secretly are deading the thought of breaking them in.
- People stare at you when you go out in public with your skating clothes on. (What haven't they seen people in tights and skirts!?)
- People always ask you how you get the boot-cover tights on.
- You know your a hardcore skater when you friends STOP asking you why your always tired.