40 blades with aggressive edges. Synchronized Skating is a straight heart shooter. Yet with plenty of international recognition in a sport 30 years in the making, and the Olympic committee has yet to turn a sharp head towards this challenging and entertaining ice sport.
Synchronized skating is fun. It's art. It's discipline. It's like being in a band...On ice. You often rise before the sun, throw back an earl grey, and sweat the ice to shreds with 20 of your favourite people. But it takes a lot more than friendship and discipline to succeed in this sport, you need heart, be driven by risk, and train yourself to make 20 bodies skate as one.
Synchro is the only place in the world you're encouraged to blend in. An arena where individuality is thrown by the way side. As a skater, you're as strong as your weakest link, you do your job, nothing less, nothing more. Coaches strives sleeplessly to reach perfection day in and day out, only to lose every ounce of carefully orchestrated control the second you set foot on the ice alone. And as a parent, despite your better judgment, choose another thankless job.
From a skater, and as a young coach, I want to thank you. All of you.
"If there was no change, there'd be no butterflies at all."
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