That was so much fun!

Sorry we couldn't make it to AFM!

No worries. I hope you and Red had a great time ice skating and I cannot wait to do it again! :D

I like it alot

Now that's timing. Nice!

Oh yes. This photo was actually done in 1 take also! =^.^=

I take it you snow the goalie every now and then :p

But still *brushes the snow off* :I

Naw, I try not to do that to the goalie. If I do, I apologize and they usually so no problem. I'm a nice tiger... most of the time. :p

XD eh, the goalies should enjoy it. After working up a sweat, I think that'd be kinda refreshing x3

Hehe, normally it is seen as being rude to do that to a goalie. :p

I know the opposing players would have something to say about it.

Usually a shove and a glove to the face :p

Badass pic man!

Thanks very much! =^.^=

Must be nice to do tht so well. Goalie skates are not the best for that

It's easier to stop and also looks cooler in photos, hehe. They are regular skates, not goalie skates, though.

I know they're regular. I'm a goalie so I'm saying it's much harder to get a nice spray

Ah, okies, I gotcha. Yes, I would imagine there wouldn't be too much since the foot is much lower to the ground and the blade is longer. Harder to go fast in goalie skates plus all the goalie pads.

I will admit its fun being goaltender. Plus I played and I still am when i was 280 and never before had people seen that big a kid do a splits... Well it's easier on pads.

Pretty cool! Goalies are always needed, too!

Awesome action shot, tiger! :D

Thanks! The photographer is awesome and knows what he's doing, so he gets a lot of credit too, hehe.

lol very true. Hooray for Desert! :D

This is truly my passion. Always love capturing moments like these.

cool picture

I need to learn to stop. XD

Yeah, stopping is kind of important so you don't accidentally run into others or the boards, haha.

I had just learned how to stop, then when playing Tag had a head-on collision with another skater (another fur, too!) and dislocated my shoulder, because I panicked and froze up instead of stoping.
I still skate but not as frequently, don't play tag and un-learned how to stop, and most of that is because I don't have my own skates and rentals are CRAP.
I can slow down but not *stop*.

This is super badass!

An ice skating tiger, I LOVE IT I love the way your colors just POP in this photo!!!

Thanks so much! I have to give a lot of credit to the amazing photographer. He knows what he's doing, hehe.

Awesome pic

Darn. I want to do fursuit ice skating. Maybe I should drive over when you do it again. XD

If you're down in the area you should! The rink is actually closing down and the last time we'll be out there is Saturday, September 6 of this year. I hope we will be able to find another rink nice enough to let us fursuit ice skate in the near future.

He got me too!

Frosted flakes. They're grrrrrreat!

I just realized, how did you get on the ice with the rink empty?
We get some fursuiters on ice here but you've got to dodge crowds under dark disco lighting.

It was near the end of an open skate and there was barely anyone left on the ice. We got some shots, including this near when everyone was exiting the ice. We got special permission for the photographer with no skates to go on the ice. =^.^=

Awesome. We had staff offer a photographer go down the back end of the rink that is normally closed off, that was almost as good.

The rink is usually nice and lets our photographer go into one of the benches so they don't have the glass in the way; however, the rink that let us ice skate in fursuit closed down and we haven't found a new one to skate in since. D:

We just turned up and one guy fursuited, staff loved it, at both local arenas. Won best dressed at a cowboys and indian themed party in a dragon-wolf-monster fursuit... go figure. That arena started to charge people full skating fare just to spectate so we don't go to that one anymore, shame because its 5 min from my house. I'm still not brave enough to do it in full suit yet, but I'm getting better!

Haha, that's pretty silly. Weren't even a cowboy or indian? :p I'm glad they were very welcoming to you guys. It's general practice for me to ask permission first of management to be safe. I wouldn't want to be asked to leave right as entering; however, some seeing it in person may welcome it compared to a call/email.

That's too bad about charging full amount for spectators, but maybe they had some cheat the system before and skate. Maybe you can work out a deal with management.

We asked permission to suit. The cowboys and indians thing was total chance, and nobody dressed up other than staff.

As for the charge to spectate, at that arena I used to go there all the time, we never paid to spectate. One night we all got stopped by someone we had never seen before (assuming owner) and "oh you've got to pay to enter, even spectators", we explained that we were regulars, went there weekly, never had to pay to spectate before, presumable owner said its been that way for years. While I was trying to explain I was a regular that has never had to pay to spectate, the skate rental guy walked past and greeted me by name, owner still argued and was quite rude about it. Never been back, lost 4 regular and a handful more occasional skaters business to the competitor. All the spectators would spend money in the cafe anyway. Been back once since and the place was dead, maybe 10 people on the ice.

Going skating in an hour, hope to be able to hockey stop by the end of the night ^_^, i'm getting closer at it.

That's too bad the boss only sees dollar signs and ruined it for you guys. Are you able to hockey stop now? :)

I've got the motion down, and can stop from a walking pace and with low confidence, but there were too many people to practice a lot. More attempts Saturday night which is usually quieter. Need to practice sliding on the edge of the blade especially at higher speed.

You can just stand there, put pressure on the skate to get and idea of the general angle of where your leg needs to be to be able to stop (At least with your outside leg), then start moving slowly and doing that angle. Eventually you can do it with both feet together. That's how I learned.

Yes, initially I learned on rental skates and could just slide, eventually I could slide okay but being rentals, would be different every session. Since my injury and buying my own skates, I started doing it that way again but there is much more grip (a good thing) and sort of got the hang of it, but only watched a video advising what you just said before last time. But there were too many people to stay stationary for more than a few seconds last session.
Practice makes perfect! I'll get it! Then I'll try going backwards. Backwards is cool, but stopping is more important.

Rental skates are bad. Every pair and every skate are different and not that sharp. :p Hope you can get stopping and going backwards down. :)

I can now almost confidently stop from a medium speed. Still needs more practice before I can get a spray up but I've got it going pretty good!

Yay! Congratulations! Keep up the good work! :D