Friday, August 27, 2021

"A Brief History Of My Figure Skating To Date"

As a young figure skater, I was often compared to Kristi Yamaguchi and my style was described as "hauntingly feminine." However, when high school rolled around, I was kind of in and out of the sport, often seen as a dilettante and a manchild who could soar through the air on his way to completing a triple axel. But it was in college that I really got back into it, redefining the sport as I simultaneously fed my brain with knowledge and wore spandex shorts year-round. Yet then I graduated and it was "Time for a real job. And take off those spandex shorts!" Well, here I am, sixteen years down the pike, and it's time to frighten people with leotards and the kind of aggressive, yet feminine, figure skating that made people believe anything was possible.