Ice skating is gay

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[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Or, maybe, it has more to do with the fact that the number of people who are gay and ice skate on a level sufficient to qualify it as a "sport" instead of a hobby are infinitesimally small compared to either group on its own?

[–]Dontcaretoday 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Male and female pairings just make more sense with all those lifts and stuff they do also. To make a gay couple work you would have to find a tiny man and an extra strong one out of that already very small demographic of gay skaters, and I doubt 2 women could pull it off at all.

[–]artetolife 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is what gay pro dancers usually say when they get asked about this. And really why should they care? It is not necessary to be sexually attracted to your dancing/skating partner.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

There is nothing stopping skaters from developing male-male pairs and/or female-female pairs competition leagues if the interest is there. But they and male-female pairs would be three different sports. And male-female is just likely to always be more popular as part of the point of the sport is for male and female athlethic attributes to come together and compliment each other.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's ice dancing is what it is. Calling it a sport is like calling flower arrangement a sport.

It's an art. Not a sport.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's beyond ignorant. It's an artistic sport. But it's a sport. It takes extreme athleticism to be able to carry out most of the required elements. Look how proud of themselves people who manage to do a fucking pistol squat are? Because pistol squats are hard. But a basic sit spin, is a pistol squat entered and held while creating and controlling rotational force that is increasing your weight. Then raised out of in a way that vastly increases the rotational force and will throw you off your axis if every muscle in your body isn't actively working. I was able to be able to do weighted pistol squats, Nordics, reverse Nordics, Bulgarian, ATG spilt squat and deadlift 125% of my bw before I could hold form on a sit spin.

And that's just the spins. Spins are used as training for jumps from single axel up. Getting the height, rotational force, control of the rotation, to make multiple rotations in the air and land on one leg, on a blade travelling backwards at speed on ice, at multiples of your body weight is an athlethic feat most people can't even begin to get close to. And pairs skating requires throws and throw assisted jumps and catches. Meaning the male skater has to skate and catch his partner at multiple times her body weight when she has rotated in the air.

The fact that the skaters are also judged on artistry makes it harder because they don't just have to complete often dangerous elements. They have to do it while looking great. You'd honestly have to be immensely stupid to think that just because skaters train to make what the do look easy, that it actually is.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Never said it was easy nor did I claim it wasn't athletic. It is difficult and athletic, but it still isn't a sport. It's an art.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You haven't the first clue what you are on about.

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

the Iron Lotus is not "gay"