#roller figure

[queen-of-all-knowledge]

Not that anyone asked, but if you put a national champion roller skating team on ice skates we basically lose all ability to function and feel like we're all dying. The only coherent words that came out of our mouths on the ice were things like "I want my roller skates instead" and "I'm gonna die"

[queen-of-all-knowledge]

Fourth Generation Skater Watches United Skates

Okay, so be prepared for a long post.

I'm watching the HBO documentary United Skates and I have been crying at the documentary almost the whole time.

In the first few minutes; my mom paused it on a rink in Detroit. Northland Skating Rink on Eight Mile. Her dad helped lay the floor. He painted it. He ran that rink. I never got to meet him, but the connection through skating really got me.

Fast forward a bit and I'm absolutely losing it over Skate Depot closing in CA. I'm on the east coast and I'm sobbing over a rink on the other side of the country. The thought of losing a rink. The last rink in an area. I can't even begin to imagine. Then it's not just that rink. It's rinks across the country. It's a heartbreaking look at the importance of having a place that gives you an outlet, a sense of community. People NEED these rinks, and if you don't skate you're not going to get how much skating can mean to someone.

I worked at a rink for 6 years. I've work the national parties they show. My rink is in there. The amount of love, joy, and community that you feel in the rink on those nights is amazing.

Skating gives you such an amazing extended family and I am forever grateful for mine.

[nocobbies]

❤️

[queen-of-all-knowledge]

I'm putting my skate pants on for my first lesson in forever because I've been at college. I'm way too excited for this.