If you’re a speed skater you SHOULD know how to bail and not hit other people

I went ice skating last night with my bf for Valentine’s Day. It was packed with little kids and couples.

Heres the problem, I’m a roller skater that can ice skate and I do like to go fast on ice and definitely go fast on 4 wheels.

It’s a thrill to be able to skate past people or in between people, but there’s a limit. If there’s a lot of traffic with couples and kids, why are you speed skating? I’m talking packed sections of the rink with people holding hands.

I fell twice.

Once, because I bailed out not to hit someone

and two, because an asshole thought it would be fun to speed skate between a group of people holding hands and kids.

This guy decides it’s his world and we can all fuck off I guess. He comes in too hot and hits me from behind. I’m pissed off because I landed on an old injury. He has the audacity to say “it was either you or the kid”. I get not wanting to hurt a kid hence why I said that I fell earlier in the story, I didn’t want to hit a kid BUT I FELL ON MY OWN. I bailed out so I wouldn’t hit someone.

Please for the love of god if you’re “good” at any type of skating know how to not do shit like this. Why risk it? Know when to not do shit like this.

And I get it things happen but it’s just pissing me off because I’ve been in this same situation on 4 wheels and I knew that I needed to pull back because there’s kids.

Stop doing this shit, it also makes all of us that speed skate look bad because you want to push shit too far.