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- Feb 16, 2010
I don't hang out with the kids so I don't see much drama. That doesn't mean the kids aren't experiencing some.
The last few years I've mostly been skating mid-morning freestyles that have more adults than kids, or sometimes mid-afternoon freestyles.
Sometimes there would be two or three skaters practicing the same freestyle program. Even if they weren't connected, that almost makes it harder to avoid all of them at the same time. If they played the music once or twice per session, that's one thing, but if there are multiple pairs of synchro kids doing runthroughs together on the same session, that adds up to a lot of time where it's hard to find a safe right of way, and worse if they're also tracking each other when their music isn't on, and worse for the higher level synchro skaters who are much stronger skaters than me (and probably less aware of what's going on around them the high-level dance teams).
However, that's mainly a traffic safety issue. As I said, I haven't observed much emotional drama, especially since I stopped frequenting the crowded early evening freestyles.
Are you going to open freestyle sessions, or the regular freestyle sessions? Maybe I will ask the skating director about synchro skaters on freestyles. It might help if skaters who fnd it a nuisance made complaints to her. The problem is that there are at least a couple of synchro coaches who will fight any restrictions.