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You Know You're A Skater When:
  1. All of your friends are eating dinner while your at practice.
  2. 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.
  3. You hear your free music on the radio and you brake out in dance moves.
  4. You get up in the summer/weekends at 8 am because of practice.
  5. Your friends are all skaters too.
  6. You know that the quote "one more time" never means one more time.
  7. You can change into your practice wear/competition outfit anywhere, including in a moving car or even in a hallway.
  8. People ask about the bruises that you never new you had.
  9. Your coach has seen you un-dressed more than twice.
  10. When watching a competition you cringe if the motions are sloppy.
  11. "Practice makes Perfect" isn't just a saying to you, its a way of life
  12. You know that you win the trophy at practice you just go to the competition to pick it up.
  13. Your music will be your ringtone at least once during the year.
  14. You have bobby pins scattered around your house, your car, and in your bags.
  15. You are washing glitter off your face and out of your hair for weeks after a competition.
  16. You can never have too much make-up or use too much hairspray.
  17. Your team is family, you laugh together, you cry together and you win together!
  18. You perform like a rockstar on the floor, but your friends consider you as shy.
  19. You spend most of your weekends in the year inside a hall/sports centre.
  20. Your an expert at doing hair and make up.
  21. Your stuff is permantly covered in glitter spray.
  22. Your email address/screen name as your team name in or the word "skate".
  23. You've been caught practicing your dance in your bedroom.
  24. You've stayed in enough hotels that you could write a guidebook.
  25. You could open a boutique with the amount of skating gear you have.
  26. You've written a school paper/essay on skating.
  27. You can't help but visualize your dance during school/work.
  28. You have a favourite jump.
  29. You have a friend/friendly rival on atleast 3 other teams.
  30. You burst out your dance in public places.
  31. 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.
  32. When you see someone of the opposite sex you don't think "DATE!" you think "DANCE PARTNER!"
  33. You realize that in order to win an international event you must be from a communist country (Austrailia or Italy).
  34. When you walk past a dress in the shopping centre, you try to imagine it in a skating dress form.
  35. 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"
  36. People often mistake your skate tights for a tan.
  37. You end up missing family/friends events because your skating.
  38. You know all the rink's/centre emplyoees personally.
  39. People are generally stunned when they find out how much your skates cost.
  40. You know the difference between an inside and an outside edge.
  41. You're happy about getting new skates, but secretly are deading the thought of breaking them in.
  42. 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!?)
  43. People always ask you how you get the boot-cover tights on.
  44. You know your a hardcore skater when you friends STOP asking you why your always tired.




Chandler Skating Academy
Training At USA's Skateland Chandler, Arizona
info@chandlerskatingacademy.com
Headcoach: Larry Richardson