Rollerskating Thread!

[Deebo]

Anyone else like rollerskating? Quad skates or in-lines? I have a pair of riedell darts with atom poison hybrid wheels, and I replaced the stops with plugs in the front for greater mobility.
I skate at the local rink a few times a month and especially enjoy Disco Nights. I want to skate outside more, and my hybrid wheels help, but skating on asphalt is a pain in the ass so I stick to concrete and smoother paved surfaces. I also want to get back into roller derby!!

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I used to be quite an accomplished skater, even taking mine to school to abuse the gym's flat surfaces before getting kicked out XD It's too bad that I outgrew my quads and can't afford to replace them now.

 

[NotReallyHere]

I haven't been rollerskating since the mid-90s, back when my local schools would host monthly skating parties at the neighborhood rink. It was a fun, safe hangout for the kids, and was walking distance from my house, so I made it a point to go as often as I could!

Killer arcade in that rink, too. It was nice to see the evolution in games between the 80s and 90s. Some games, I've only ever seen at that rink, like Konami's Aliens shoot-em-up and Atari's game based on the original 1989 Batman film. Around the time I stopped going, they had just gotten X-Men vs Street Fighter

I have a pretty strong memory of my last trip there, skating circles with a glowstick under the blacklights while The Immortals' Mortal Kombat movie theme played overhead. Damn, what a moment in time!

In later years, I "graduated" to skateboarding, but was only really good at busting my own ass. Several concussions and broken bones later, and I gave it up largely for good.

Also played hockey in my adult years! I miss it dearly. Always preferred ice skating to roller skating, though you are, of course, much more limited in your options for ice skating. I'd do almost anything to live near a rink again - fingers crossed they build one here in town at some point

 

[Deebo]

Also played hockey in my adult years! I miss it dearly. Always preferred ice skating to roller skating, though you are, of course, much more limited in your options for ice skating.

I had nearly forgotten how much I love ice skating too!! Ice skating makes me feel pretty lol. It’s hot where I live, so it’s not a super popular thing, but I get my chances to do it once in a blue moon still.
Does it hurt your feet more than quad skating or was that just my experience?

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I used to be quite an accomplished skater, even taking mine to school to abuse the gym's flat surfaces before getting kicked out XD It's too bad that I outgrew my quads and can't afford to replace them now.

Sorry to hear that waffles :-( Skates can be expensive. Have you looked on eBay? They have a ton of listings but the shipping will probably be more expensive than usual

 

[valosagutas]

My childhood was filled with rollerskating!!! However around kids rollerskating was socially banned for boys. I mean boys would be made fun of from everyone if they had used rollerskating so it was mostly a girl thing.

My generation perhaps suffered from nonsense stereotypes regarding the sex people have. It either made people rebel by being a boy, growing hairs and even showing interest in rollerskating without any care, or they became a person who did what is subjectively right to be a girl or boy.

I think rollerskating is cool but why I never did it is just because it was very dangerous for me. I never trusted myself to don't kill myself while using it lol. So as rest of the boys I was interested in skateboards yet naturally I was nowhere near the people who were really good at skating.

I remember there was a rather popular girl group locally who enjoyed rollerskating together. I think they were either 3 or 4 girls.They came up with the most insane tricks I can't think of and they performed it without even any sense of protection! I admired there sense of fun and bravery from lack of protection. They were rather way older people than me, clearly highschool girls so their fame didn't last long because after a year or so they just disappeared. There were other people who were inspired by their local legend but long after such outdoor interests were reduced due to arcade and home video game console craze lol.

This make me mention one of the greatest reason why video games were encouraged by parents in large scale: They saw the recent craze about rollerskating and skateboard as great danger to kids. I watch video game documentaries but as far as I know they only mention why video games got popular is because Pacman and whatnot, they never mention parents side of things.

Rollerskating and skating very dangerous so they forced their kids to stay in homes by using video games as a good excuse. In the content of this topic and how this is a place about what is retro and video games, I thought this is an interesting opinion to share. Perhaps I'm very biased about it because I remember my mother one day told me they couldn't save one of the kid we knew who were living around because of severe head injury because he was riding a skateboard. She said parents talked about it and determined video games would be a great way to keep kids save. I remember my mother asking if I had cared to play Atari at home (she meant Atari 2600) and I was like "hell yeah" lololol. My mother thought I wouldn't be interested in video game. Pah! Video games 4 live yo!!!

I know it's not an excuse because Tony Hawk still rocks but I don't skate anymore because I'm too old for this lol. The other day I was just walking and I had to sit down because some random pain around my hips. My body may getting older but my spirit gets younger!!!

 

[Deebo]

That’s an awesome perspective @valosagutas. It’s unfortunate you had to deal with skating being such a gendered activity though. Weird to think people used to care about stuff like that more.

And I guess I gotta agree, the emergence of video games probably saved a few lives for kids who would’ve otherwise been rolling around getting hurt. People are not careful enough in cars. I’m a victim of severe helicopter parenting, so think kids often aren’t given the autonomy and mobility they need, but I’m also NOT a parent myself, and I’m sure my tune would change if a child in my community died too soon from a skating accident.

It won’t make you invincible, but everyone remember to wear your pads and helmet, especially outside! Don’t ride on roads or paved surfaces unprotected. Honestly though…indoors I just wear wristguards. That’s just cuz I rink skate though, there’s not a lot of threats to safety there.

Wristgaurds are so underrated—when you fall, 9/10 times you’ll try to brace yourself with your hands, and wrists are easy to break that way. If you’re going to wear anything, other than a helmet, wear wristguards.