Wow, this makes me appreciate the fact that I've never had an unfavorable incident at a f.s. show or competition (or rock concert, circus, et al, for that matter). Now at a movie theatre, that's another story all together, some real disrespectful sobs out there.
My rule of thumb is to always try to be respectful to those around me, treat them as I would like to be treated, with common courtesy, the way my parents' taught me to be behave, as their parents taught them and so on.
That said, I have a good time talking with the people around me before the show (my favorite was talking to an octogenarian at a COI show way back in the 90's; he told me what the area used to look like back in his day, very congenial & nice). But during the show/competition I try to be respectful of those around me, which isn't hard to do, as my total focus is on the skater(s). Then when it's over I show my appreciation by clapping, standing, throwing my gifts to them, et al. It's so good to be giving a standing O to your favorite skater whilst everybody else is doing the same thing, just makes me want to cry with joy!!!! Lol, I recall at the Olympics how magical it was to be in a such a crowd of people and to know, to actually *feel* their reaction was the same as mine when Zhenya landed his huge, magical, powerful jumps right in front of me ~ we ALL literally gasped aloud when he was tilted in the air but God set him down like a cat.
Lol, all this talk makes me want to go to another competition ASAP, as long as it's near Seattle, even over in Oregon or Canada would be good because they're actually closer to me than Spokane, Washington.
I'm envious of the creator of this thread, you're going to have a BLAST!!!!!
My rule of thumb is to always try to be respectful to those around me, treat them as I would like to be treated, with common courtesy, the way my parents' taught me to be behave, as their parents taught them and so on.
That said, I have a good time talking with the people around me before the show (my favorite was talking to an octogenarian at a COI show way back in the 90's; he told me what the area used to look like back in his day, very congenial & nice). But during the show/competition I try to be respectful of those around me, which isn't hard to do, as my total focus is on the skater(s). Then when it's over I show my appreciation by clapping, standing, throwing my gifts to them, et al. It's so good to be giving a standing O to your favorite skater whilst everybody else is doing the same thing, just makes me want to cry with joy!!!! Lol, I recall at the Olympics how magical it was to be in a such a crowd of people and to know, to actually *feel* their reaction was the same as mine when Zhenya landed his huge, magical, powerful jumps right in front of me ~ we ALL literally gasped aloud when he was tilted in the air but God set him down like a cat.
Lol, all this talk makes me want to go to another competition ASAP, as long as it's near Seattle, even over in Oregon or Canada would be good because they're actually closer to me than Spokane, Washington.
I'm envious of the creator of this thread, you're going to have a BLAST!!!!!