Why Hockey Players Are Better Than Figure Skaters

My biggest pet peeve is Hockey players that think they are better than figure skaters. The often seem to always look down on us like we’re not as important as they are. The first time I remember seeing it happening was just during practice hockey players would always come early and get in the way during skating rink time. Recently when hockey practice was before us, they stayed late and took some of our time on the ice. The rink has open skating and open hockey. There are never skaters their during open hockey. But there are always hockey players at open skate. It drives me and most other skaters I know insane. The last time I was at open skate the hockey players took up the entire ice while playing a game. They would race back and forth while skaters were trying to practice or skate around. They got in the way a lot …show more content…
The hockey stop would make a spray of icy snow and they tried to spray anybody that wasn’t a hockey skater. They almost never are actually able to spray anybody, but it’s still annoying when they try. Skaters can do hockey stops too, we just don’t try to spray other people because we’re not rude. It has always been something that annoyed me, but as I skate more and more, it annoys me more and more. I don’t see why they seem to think they are better than figure skaters. All they do is play the same game, nothing changes, it just gets more difficult. Figure skating may start out easy, but in the long run, it is a lot more difficult. Any figure skater can learn to play hockey, but most hockey players couldn’t figure skate to save their life. I’ve seen them try, it didn’t end well. We could tell them off more often, but I don’t think that would change much if anything. The rink we use is run by hockey, so they get the first choices. I could just ignore it, but that will be