I’m more of a long-board guy myself…
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I loved roller skating, but I could never keep myself on a board. I probably missed my window and by the time I tried it was too late. Our whole family loved skating, though, and when we didn’t have money for the roller rink, we’d go to the local junior college on weekends and skate around the walking paths. Once, we went to Venice beach to skate and I felt so cool that day, even in all my pads and wrist guards.
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I didn’t start surfing or skateboarding until undergrad in LA. But I’ve skied my whole life (my dad was even a ski instructor before he enlisted). So you would think I’d do okay at skating. But something about not having stabilizing surfaces ahead and behind me just devastates my balance. I can ice skate okay, but something about roller-skating and roller-blading just never worked with me.
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My fam. was all about roller skating in the 70s too, we all got some Sears branded boot skates one Christmas and were cruising around the neighborhood all the time and going to rinks sometimes.
70s skateboards were pretty rough with those tiny decks. I messed with 70s banana boards and couldn’t do much, but I skated a lot on the decks of the 80s and 90s that were broader and shaped - the concave shape and bent nose/tail helped a lot for control.
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Speaking of fridges.
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I can fall over and hurt myself just looking at skates.
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My dad still has the avocado green washer and dryer that came with the house he bought from my grandparents in 1974. They still work.
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It’s OK, though, because you’re not from Canada or Russia where the inability to skate is a national embarrassment.
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like this?
The name of the cultivar baffles me all the time, the sticker in Denglish (Germish?) reads Black Sensation Hate Avocado
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