u/Invorvial

So I just saw a post on Facebook by Risport highlighting Nina as one of their athletes, showing her in Royal Pros, which are the lesser stiff boots from the Royal series and everyone else I've seen in Risport Royals uses the Primes. Pros are rated for doubles and triples, and Primes for triples and quads, but I was surprised to see a worlds medallist in what you could say is a 'lesser' boot. I have Royal Pros myself after like 10 years in synchro on the very old RF3s, and have just started with adult singles, properly working on jumps for the first time, but I've been seeing what are arguably beginners in Pros. I like them, but having tried on Primes when looking to buy my current skates, the stiffness level is a huuuge difference.

So on one hand, I'm like 'yay, these skates are good enough for a worlds medallist' and on the other hand, I can't imagine doing triples in these skates even though they're rated for them, because they don't feel that stiff and are very similar in stiffness and support to the old RF3s which back in the day were marketed as just a junior boot.

Is Nina just a huge outlier or is it normal for senior women to use lower rated boots rather than top of the range? And are beginners who are just getting their one foot spins and attempting single jumps and maybe trying difficult turns for the first time overbooted in Royal Pros or are Risport similar to Edea when it comes to overbooting?

(I had some doubts after I bought them if I maybe underbooted for my skating (not jumping lol) level, seeing synchro girls in juniors/seniors/high-level mixed age mostly in edea ice flys, and if I should have splurged on the Royal Primes that people around me had, so seeing Nina in Royal Pros made me personally feel better.)

Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/HousingUK/s/BuQMI5xqi7

They sent a tenancy deposit dispute after we told them that there's no way we're paying it. Highlights of their side:

- they claim mould damage (there was mould but it was uncleanable so I believe it was behind the lining, they originally told us to run a dehumidifier because the bathroom would get mouldy which we did, now they claim they never had mould in email to us) - as part of this claim on the system, they say we told the agency that we don't open windows??? First of all, it's an en-suite without windows. Second, we never said that, this is a straight up lie. We open the master bedroom balcony door and the main room window frequently, ran that dehumidifier all the time minus when it broke in the last week of tenancy and started smelling burn-like, and we kept the lights on to keep the built-in fan running, plus the bathroom door open, which I imagine cost us a bit in electricity. Absolutely bewildered that they just chose to lie like that. Funnily enough, they claim damage on the side of the sliding balcony door we supposedly didn't open - damage inevitably caused by frequently opening the door because the handle was a big rotating piece of metal that would hit the the frame when turned...

- they claim toilet seat damage and replacement. From the picture she sent, there are tiny specks from the toilet side cleaner thingy that cleans the toilet on each flush. We generously left these behind together with a roll of toilet paper, sice they have informed us prior to inspection that they would come to paint.

- they left the cost of painting as emailed to use in the dispute, don't mention how they got to the number, claim agency told them it's beyond wear and tear. Same agency that lied about us telling them we don't open windows? Unless the landlord just made that up fully...

Anyways, I am somehow even madder than I was originally, they request 90%+ of the deposit. Hell no.

As an aside, we were planning to bring a housewarming gift to the next tenant. I guess now it will come with a big fat warning - and we even told the viewers that the landlord was great, because up til then, the landlord was just fine. Are there any implications of this? Should we wait until after the dispute is resolved?

I'm really just looking for a sanity check - we've just left a tenancy and are moving into our own. We got the landlord's deposit request, where they're saying that they repainted the whole flat (there were scuff marks on some walls, but we'd argue wear and tear), which took them a week and they had to take time off work, and so are charging us for the paints, their travel to where the flat is every day of the week, and their time (lost wages) - over a 1000 pounds in total. Are we crazy to think this is utterly ridiculous?

Edited: England

Hi all, I was just browsing Reddit and found this community and thought it would be good to join and find some friends!

A (long-ish) bit about me: I've been a synchro skater for a long time, I started around 8-9 years old around 2006 and skated competitively until 2016/17, doing juvenile, novice, junior ISU and mixed age competitions. We were an unusual team by today's standards as we all grew up together, only did synchro, had relatively lot of ice time (kids sports funding rocks!) and moved categories as a team, rather than jumping from team to team within a club. This means my experience of figure skating is very different to most people - we had a dedicated locker room and were always on the ice together developing synchro skills together, so now I am really terrified of other people on patch ice. We weren't the best, we never made it to junior worlds (0.5 point at the nominating competition in 2015, still hurts), but had some international medals in mixed age once we aged out of juniors.

In 2017, I moved countries for university and didn't have time to skate. Once I finished my studies and COVID allowed, I tried getting into synchro skating in the UK, but the way the sport functions here, with ever changing teams, everyone expected to skate on their own and most people not having synchro as their priority, it was very difficult to fit in for me, and I always had to commute quite far which made it ultimately not work out.

Now I've decided that I'm getting fat and am really unfit and need to start doing something about that, and adult skating is probably the way to go. I found a coach and had two lessons so far, which were really exciting, even though I'm still super afraid to jump and spins make me sooo dizzy. I need to aim for competition to keep motivated, so I'm finalising my music now and we will start working on a programme for UK adult silver.

I feel a bit bad coming in with a lot of skating experience, I've got most difficult turns and generally good edges and speed, but on the other hand, in synchro, we only really did basic upright spins and jumps for fun (this was before jumps and spins became more integrated into synchro programs), so I have very little experience with those. Currently, I've got salchow and toeloop but still with relatively low speed, loop is my nemesis, and I just started trying the flip for the first time in my life (half flip is there, fully rotated two-footed sometimes happens). Gotta strengthen my legs and core for sit spins and I tried broken leg (falling over forward every time) and sit behind (this one I am starting to vibe with) for the first time, too. I have also, for the first time in my skating career figured our the cross legged backspin! I could never do them before with my legs crossed, always fell out immediately, and my coach just made them click for me, though so far I only get maybe 3-4 rotations in before putting the other foot down.

If anyone's on a similar level or just wants to chat and support each other, I'd love to connect and share progress and commiserations!

Hi all, I was just browsing Reddit and found this community and thought it would be good to join and find some friends!

A (long-ish) bit about me: I've been a synchro skater for a long time, I started around 8-9 years old around 2006 and skated competitively until 2016/17, doing juvenile, novice, junior ISU and mixed age competitions. We were an unusual team by today's standards as we all grew up together, only did synchro, had relatively lot of ice time (kids sports funding rocks!) and moved categories as a team, rather than jumping from team to team within a club. This means my experience of figure skating is very different to most people - we had a dedicated locker room and were always on the ice together developing synchro skills together, so now I am really terrified of other people on patch ice. We weren't the best, we never made it to junior worlds (0.5 point at the nominating competition in 2015, still hurts), but had some international medals in mixed age once we aged out of juniors.

In 2017, I moved countries for university and didn't have time to skate. Once I finished my studies and COVID allowed, I tried getting into synchro skating in the UK, but the way the sport functions here, with ever changing teams, everyone expected to skate on their own and most people not having synchro as their priority, it was very difficult to fit in for me, and I always had to commute quite far which made it ultimately not work out.

Now I've decided that I'm getting fat and am really unfit and need to start doing something about that, and adult skating is probably the way to go. I found a coach and had two lessons so far, which were really exciting, even though I'm still super afraid to jump and spins make me sooo dizzy. I need to aim for competition to keep motivated, so I'm finalising my music now and we will start working on a programme for UK adult silver.

I feel a bit bad coming in with a lot of skating experience, I've got most difficult turns and generally good edges and speed, but on the other hand, in synchro, we only really did basic upright spins and jumps for fun (this was before jumps and spins became more integrated into synchro programs), so I have very little experience with those. Currently, I've got salchow and toeloop but still with relatively low speed, loop is my nemesis, and I just started trying the flip for the first time in my life (half flip is there, fully rotated two-footed sometimes happens). Gotta strengthen my legs and core for sit spins and I tried broken leg (falling over forward every time) and sit behind (this one I am starting to vibe with) for the first time, too. I have also, for the first time in my skating career figured our the cross legged backspin! I could never do them before with my legs crossed, always fell out immediately, and my coach just made them click for me, though so far I only get maybe 3-4 rotations in before putting the other foot down.

If anyone's on a similar level or just wants to chat and support each other, I'd love to connect and share progress and commiserations!