One of the activities that makes living in cold environments actually worth it is ice skating.
In Prince George, Canada the weather conditions just the right weather conditions turned the into a perfect skating rink after the plow cleared o…
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How to understand the figure skating scoring system
As the women’s free skate Thursday night begins to wrap up the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, all eyes will be on Russians Alina Zagitova and Yevgenia Medvedeva from the OAR Team.
The skaters sit in the top two slots with 82.92 and 81.61 points, respec…
Someone recorded the sound of skating on thin ice and it’s super creepy
With the winter Olympics in full swing, here’s a video of what skating on a frozen lake sounds like.
Fresh ice sounds really spooky, it turns out. Henrik Trygg recorded the sound of someone skating on 45mm of ice on Lissma Kvarnsjö, a …
Canada got so cold, this man could ice skated down his own street
I never thought I would have to say this, but I’m glad I live in a place that doesn’t get so cold that you can ice skate down your own street.
After the recent winter storm in Saskatchewan, Canada though, Twitter user Kip Simon watched his neighbor d…
It’s so damn cold someone went ice skating at the beach
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Temperatures dipped so low in Maine this weekend that a man was spotted ice skating — at the beach.
Peter and Sandra Lekousi were out for a chilly stroll on Long Sands Beach in York on Sunday when they spotted the odd scene, according to the Boston Globe. The ocean water had froze in such a way that it left a relatively flat and smooth surface for the man to skate on, so that’s exactly what he did.
“It was freezing cold — too cold for us to be on the beach — and he was skating on the beach,” Sandra told the Globe.
Peter later uploaded the clip to his Facebook page, jokingly writing that “every day is a beach day in Maine.” Read more…
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Everyone can relate a little too well to this insane ice skating fail
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Two Japanese teenagers just unintentionally gave us the perfect viral video that epitomizes life itself.
After not having ice skated in four years, Madoka Takayama’s first moment back on an ice rink was filmed by her friend Kyoka Tanaka. And well, you’ve just got to see for yourself what happens next. It’s 37 seconds of pure chaos and unadulterated hilarity.
滑れんのに最初からいく勇気✋ pic.twitter.com/kUHC8fS6hB
— きょうか (@ruu__2331) December 9, 2017
According to their interview with Buzzfeed, thankfully no one was hurt in the video. Since being posted last week, it’s been seen over 10 million times, accumulating over 310,000 likes on Twitter so far and eliciting the same sort of relatable response from so many folks. Basically, it’s the perfect visual metaphor for life, finals, 2018 and so much more. Read more…
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