Every subculture has it’s own exclusive & quirky methods to find a laugh. Until this past month, I was fully ignorant of this specific method of self expression. The short track Quick-Tip.

First of all, if you are unpopular with what a Quick-Tip is, here is an image of our best noted short tracker, in the final corner of a world cup short track race chasing two Koreans.

See how at top speed, a short tracker puts his left hand down on the ice, for those who do this hundreds of times every time they train, you can eventually wear out the fingertips of your gloves. For this cause, several truly fast short tracker use “ET finger-like” glue-on plastic tips for their gloves.

Here was the first pair I noticed- these belong to a Korean skater, training in Utah, who we know as “Sky”. She is about a third my size (really), and as I was skating behind her one day, I noticed 5 perfect Korean flags looking up at me.

Once I begun watching for them, funky quick tips are EVERYWHERE among the elite short track crowd. Here are Nathaniel’s, stating the cause many people are skating here.

Related Content

Subscribe to the post comments feeds or Leave a trackback