At last night’s ice skating event, I actually learned a lot more than I expected to. I thought it would just be fun to go skating, but I learned a bunch about how to use hockey skates. I didn’t actually use them myself (from prior experience I know that is a bad idea), but GRF Sam was teaching the brave souls who decided to try them how to not fall over. Suffice to say, they did far better under his tutelage than I did when I tried hockey skates. Turns out that with hockey skates you want to angle your feet outward and push off almost to the side to go forward because the blades have edges on both sides. Even though I now know how to use hockey skates, I think I’ll leave the hockey skating to the professionals. I’ll stick to my figure skates and not getting in the way of those who can skate well, like the people skating on one foot and that guy who was confident enough to text and skate at the same time.