I FNHate…Ice Skating

Posted by Richard on February 24th, 2010

Ice skating is by far the most boring activity that you can do, that people choose to do for fun (with the notable exception of going running, but anyone who enjoys that needs looking at anyway). Bowling I understand the appeal of, Go-Karting I can understand also (though i suck at Go-Karting, I always spin out). But Ice skating… going round and round in a circle trying not to fall over; sound more like government policy than a leisure activity. (ooooh satire!) Once you finally let go of the wall and have remained on your feet whilst doing so, you then submit yourself to travelling around in a circle whilst you are overtaken by 7 year olds going backwards. And unlike other things I’m not good at and therefore don’t like ( football, dancing etc) I can’t actually see that ice skating would be particularly fun even if you were good at it. Certainly not by attending an ice rink anyway. Perhaps an ice obstacle course might be more fun for your experienced skater.

My main objection to ice skating though is not the boredom, although that does play a major part. No, my most major quarrel is with the fact that it is painful. I have never, I repeat, never been ice skating and left with the same number of blisters that I arrived with. The skates fit so badly on the majority of people that it rubs our ankles very badly. This means you need to take a break every few laps of the rink to sooth them. So now, I’m paying to sit there with painful ankles and watch other people skate. I don’t know about anyone else but that doesnt sound like a good afternoon to me. Even an exciting sport like Ice Hockey is only exciting because the Players turn up for a fight, and if they have time play a bit of hockey in the interim. Adding the dimension of ice skating into hockey improves it in no way at all. I happen to enjoy regular hockey. Its great fun. But I would like to meet the man who invented ice skating. Because whoever invented this and then had the cheek to call it entertainment deserves a medal just for his deception