{"id":188,"date":"2002-04-22T18:28:44","date_gmt":"2002-04-22T23:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/04\/22\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-22T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T18:40:19","slug":"champions-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/04\/22\/champions-on-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions on Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now, to continue the spammage for today, on Saturday Okina and I went to see the Champions on Ice show courtesy of the tickets my mom bought us for Easter.<\/p>\n

It was so cool! First off, I’m a total ice skating h0, but it was really cool anyway. Elvis Stojko, Michelle Kwan, Sarah Hughes and quite a lot of other people all skated. Something like this is better than a competition in that sense, because at a competition you only get to see one type of skating — women’s, men’s, pairs, dance — and if you were on the short program night, you even have to watch pretty much the same program over and over and over again. At an exhibition, you see all the best skaters all at once.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, they don’t have to really try as hard — in fact, they’d be stupid to do so and risk injuring themselves for a show — so it’s not quite as spectacular or nervewracking as a competition would be.<\/p>\n

But it wicked awesome. I’m going to have to start going in person more often I think. I wouldn’t have wanted to sit up in the balcony; about where we were is about as far away as I’d want to get, but I could see it all pretty well. And there really is something about actually being there… <\/p>\n

Some of the things that made it fun:
* Cartman: Yes, there was one guy who skated all dressed up like Cartman, to one of Cartman’s songs.
* The Philippe Candeloro stripshow.
* Leather Pants. I forget now who it was, but there was a guy who skated in tight leather pants. Why?! I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to do all those splits and things in such gear.
* Crossdressing pairs skaters. There were several.<\/p>\n

The thing that was most annoying:
The overblown “Tribute To America” at the end, where all the skaters wore red, white and blue outfits and skated to, among other things, the frikking Battle Hymn of the Republic. Some flags came down from the ceiling and fireworks went off. >_< Let's just say K was NOT pleased.\n\n

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Now, to continue the spammage for today, on Saturday Okina and I went to see the Champions on Ice show courtesy of the tickets my mom bought us for Easter. It was so cool! First off, I’m a total ice skating h0, but it was really cool anyway. Elvis Stojko, Michelle Kwan, Sarah Hughes and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}