I never intended to dedicate years of my life to in-line skating. In-line skating just slowly escalated into an everyday and all day thing. The tiny nuances of edge control, body control/body English that changed my skating where more apparent after each of the previous nuances became part of my skating repertoire. I took up weight lifting, swimming and cycling all for the sole purpose of improving my in-line skating. I discovered by absolute fluke when studying a form of kung fu that has no kicking and required an hour of tai chi 3 times per week that tai chi was a critically important game changer for my in-line skating development. My entire life evolved to improve the skating experience. I had to learn about diet, the matters of hypertrophy and the difference in training that would bulk me up or tone me up, strength training versus fitness training and many other subjects to support the in-line skating development. I became so fit from my toes to my ears and so edgy about in-line skating that I looked like a cross between a professional boxer, a world class sprinter and a professional basketball player. It was known at the 11km park loop in Vancouver that the Vancouver Canucks professional hockey players chased me around the park. I was skating around the 11km park loop one day and a passenger coach bus was parked beside the 11km path, many young males being address by what appeared to be a leader and as I skated by I easily and clearly listened to them being pepped talked about me and my in-line skating, about my dedication and that I do it all without pay and they do it with pay etc. It was very life changing. Of course it was asphalt and concrete in-line skating and not figure skating but the investment, the fitness, the performance, the need, the commitment, the intention was all there and it was the vehicle in my life for everything going on for some years. There is no way that a computer could analyze that. There is no software or even sensors that can realize what is required in so many tiny microscopic details that are skating. Every single matter of skating is of critical importance at a high level of skill, athletic performance and the entertainment performance that is figure skating. Everything and I mean every single tiny microscopic micro-managing little thing that is required to skate at the high level is occurring from the tiny edges one stands upon all the way up through the bones and joints controlled by musculature that the overall majority of the entire population on Earth does not even know it has the ability to control with high accuracy and the fantastically absurd balance required to perform high level skating. After skating everyday and some days for up to 11 hours per day at the very high level of fitness that I was operating at I was walking down railroad tracks for miles at a time with no real effort required for balancing upon the railroad tracks. It was so absurdly easy, it required so little concentration and was effortless mile after mile. The only way these matters can be analyzed and judged is by fellow humans that understand everything about skating.
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