Skating terms I can relate too

Huckleberries Online: John Blanchette's definitions for skating terms

• Axels – Pawn shop where Spokane skating fans took their stereos, silverware and first-born sons for the cash to afford a season ticket to the championships.
  
  
• Double Axel – Return trip to hock the plasma screen for a second season ticket when your wife refuses to go to the Arena without you.
  
  
• Salchow – What a farmer has to do to afford tickets.

• Lutz – How much tickets cost, if you haven't already figured that out.

• Camel – Tonya Harding's brand.

• Compulsory dance – What seventh-grade boys hate about P.E.