My love has gone astray

Hey guys, long time, no blog.
So today i spent almost the entire day at the Hershey Kiss centre, for a synchro competition.
and i know that 99.999999% of you will not understand this but, i decided to blog about it, because the world has flipped. Well not the World, but my world.

Something that we can usually count on is rules, and that are set in place for a reason. They are there to protect us, possible from ourselves, but they are put there for a good reason.
Today, the rules were broken and no judge seems to give a F***. In synchro the highest and most prestigious level of skating is called Senior. They do the hardest moves, are most technically advanced skating and have the best skating skills. If you can win anything in senior, you basically won an Oscar or the Stanley cup. Its that hard.
Today, teams in every category of skating, were trying to be a Senior team. The rules that arevset out for our own protection (because we aren't senior teams) state that we should not be doing these moves, we just don't have that level of skill, and that we would probable hurt ourselves. But the judges didn't seem to care, in fact they mark you up if you broke the rules. You break the rules, and are going to get rewarded for doing it.

As with anything in life, we respond to a name more than the person behind it. I don't care about Robert Pattinson or Nick Jonas, I care about NEXXICE, Gold Ice, and Les Supreme. They are true rock stars to me, because the have earned their prestige through hard work. These are World Champions and the most important synchro clubs in Canada. But with that comes a ton of BS. Names are one thing, but i also care about what you do today, what yhou do today makes more of a difference than your scores 10 years ago. Three years ago, Gold Ice was the best synchro team in Canada, now they are ranked 4th. The only thing that has kept them close to the top is their name. A name, not their skill or their talent, but their name. The name has been their shield for fare to long and today it came down and the judges got to see what i have seen for the last year. That they are no longer the power house they once were, and should be marked based on skating skill.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE THIS SPORT! I have dedicated almost a decade of my life to skating synchro, and love it more than anything else in the world and if i don't stop talking now then I'm going to keep talking for the rest of the day.
have a good weekend and good luck on the podpasts.