It’s that time of year again. Where the spirit of giving sneaks up behind you and throttles you unexpectedly. There are so many reminders of what’s wonderful and magical about…
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Plateaus are the pits, amirite? Let’s forget the fact that in order to GET to a plateau you likely just had a season of massive improvement. Because really that just…
The off-season is here. After an exciting post-season where the Hydra left the United States for the FIRST TIME EVER (props to VRDL), a lot of skaters are waking up…
Sometimes, when something isn’t working quite right, you can render a miracle upon it by getting violent with it. You see this trope in sitcoms across the ages: TV malfunctioning?…
Imagine this (absolutely horrific) scenario: Your washer is broken. The laundry in the house is piling up and it’s starting to bug you. You reach into your toolbox, grab a…
A few nights ago, I looked into the gleaming eager eyes of the skaters in our newest cycle. These are the ones that have been on their skates for only…
As a great philosopher once said… SKATERS SKATE. Okay. So. That’s not strictly accurate. One of my favorite Stoic philosophers, Epictetus, ACTUALLY said, “Writers write.” His meaning was not that if you wrote you…
I rarely open my messages to find something quite as baffling as what I found that day: “She had everyone doing wall sits on skates.” Oy. “To help us work…
“If you never do anything but the basics, you’ll never BE anything but basic.” This very cogent argument came to my attention after I shared the following image across social…
From the second I stepped into my teacher education classes in college, I heard the same refrain over and over and over again: “You can’t hit a target that you…