I'm pushing eighty and still miss it. We use to call it rexing. Detstyle skating started after world war II in the 40s. Skated three times a week all my life till I was 60. I'm sure they have rinks in heaven I'll be looking forward to it.
iM 57 THIS WEEK AND mISS sKATE wORLD FROM pINE hILLS CAN STILL FEEL MY FEET SOING THE SHUFFLE WITH THEM. LOOKING FOR A GOOD SKATING RINK UP HERE IN GA. HATE IT UP HERE!!!!
I stopped skating after the last rinks in my state and the next one over closed a few years ago. It was so much fun for many decades and I miss it as well.
This brings joy to my heart! I was doing this in the late 70s and early 80s. It was a huge part of my childhood. The best part!! Thank you for keeping it alive!!
Me too. I’m 76 and don’t have the agility or balance. I love these videos. If more people would skate instead of naughty things the world would be a better place.
In the 1980s this is where you found all the black and white kids hanging out together in the south. Hell yeah. So much jam skating. So many Fri/Sat nights as well as all day in the summers.
Big smiles! I truly truly truly appreciate you posting this. Skating can bring out so much joy. To see different folks getting their roll, bounce on makes me so HAPPY! I'll be 50 and still love skating to great music thinking back when I would hit the rink every weekend. Memories 😅!!!
Skating was one of the best parts of my childhood !!! Every Sat we were at the rink and would skate ALL day!! Then hit Fri nights as we got a little older in HS. Oh the best times were out on the rink doing the hoky poky, WIPEOUT, and just the 80s music..Funkytown and Double Dutch Bus!!! Another one bites the dust, too. It's still fun at 54. I just really try hard not to fall especially now. Give me a pair of speed skates and this Mimi would still rock it today!!!! Love these memories and thanks for keeping lots of our childhoods alive and kicking!!!
I was shuffle skating in the 80s and I loved it. Got me some fancy speed skates.i was in my 30s then. Taking my kids to skate and I saw this. Fell in love with it right off the bat. Was so freeing just gliding around
I went to rinks in Georgia as a middle schooler and teen. That's how we spent some of our Saturdays. I was a really good skater and had the best time. I miss that.
@@rollerkingonce - Oh, I wish so much that I could but I've had a spinal fusion on my lower back and two knee replacements and I'm afraid skating is out for me. If I fell on my rear end I could hurt my back really badly. I certainly miss it.
I remember skating back in the 70's and my hard contact lens popped out yelled fr everyone to stop and actually found it ! My mom would hv had a fit ! Also thought I had a guardian angel that day ❤
Been skating 50 years. Yours are the best videos I’ve found. It gives you the sensation of what it feels like. Figure and speed skated. I’m 56 now. I live in Hawaii now and we don’t have an indoor rink. I come from San Francisco. Miss my skating friends. Closest thing to flying…especially speed skating. We would go about 40 miles an hour outdoors. Amazing! I have lots of injuries now but it was worth it Love love this channel What kind of camera do you use? The editing is excellent too! ❤❤
THIS IS one of my skate songs.. besides Techno, and Lover Boy! Know all these routines!! Did these back in the 80’s.. 90’s way before YA’LL! Keep skating !! 💜💜❤️🎶🎶
I’m 41 and recently though I was too l old to take lessons but I see the brother in the orange shirt taking the spotlight . Hope I follow through 🎉 this is beautiful
That looks like so much fun and a good form of exercise. FYI guitarist, George Benson, is also a very good skater. Thanks for posting. With all of the craziness that is going on in the world. It’s good to see people of all ages having fun.
Awesome brings back so many memories. Love the song choice. I love the angle of the video shoot from the front and far enough back to see all angles. Thanks again keep posting
Pure joy! I was a regular skater back in my younger days. I was pretty good and could keep up with the best skaters in 1978. I skated all 4 years during high school and made true friends. I wasn't invited to parties at my Catholic high school. I was pretty shy and very insecure. And gained wisdom and inner strength and confidence by hanging out with my friends at Roller Dome South. Those days spent roller skating were the BEST of times for me.
You guys are killing me!! No rinks near here but so great to see you guys keeping this....rolling. It makes me want to get my Reidells and Red Devils out of storage. Thanks for posting.
I miss it so much... trying to get over duel hernia surgery n the groin... but I'll be back one way or the other.. from Evansville Indiana and I'm 50 years old.
Hey, like it. Just good old school skating, simple rock and rhythm. Trick skating is cool, but this is how I used to do it. We even skated on wood floors and did the hokey pokey, and that snake tunnel thing. Good memories. Thanks!
Fun :) If only there was a roller-rink near me or if I wasn't afraid of the concrete 🤗 But seeing other people do it gives me joy as well, so THANK you for uploading
@@Jojo-or2cs These folks are in Smyrna Georgia, US. I live in Europe, there's one roller-rink 25km/ 15,5 miles away from me but that's too far without a car to go every week. Been there for some lessons when I still had a car a few years ago, super fun :)
I've been skating for many years, i first started roller skating at the age of 12, then i started ice skating at 17, from there i played ice hockey. im now 60 years old and i can still skate like i was 17 all over again, you never loose how too ⛸⛸🏒🥅🇬🇧
I skated all the time when I was a kid… Now I'm in my 60s lol… And I wish there was a skate rink near me. I would go skate… And hats off to your photographer… Who is undoubtably skating backwards keeping track of all of this
Beautiful ! Thanks for sharing these videos . Reminds of my teen years n man name jack owned the skate center - he would go out and skate n half time or whatever that is called - he did a show then got others out to play few games. He rolled till he passed in later late years . I never coukd skate 🤣 but I tried n what I did do felt amazing so I know y’all feel amazing riding in the wind free . So talented !
That was great! So many were highlighted -- terrific video work. All that brings me back to my early 20's -- so much fun. I want to start skating again but there are no indoor roller rinks near my area -- north of NYC. Thanks for sharing!
Need to take a road trip to Sparkles ! In my friends and I’s jr. high & high school days in the mid to late ‘80’s we called Skatin’ Place in Cincinnati “home”. We traveled around the Midwest for roller speed skating meets as well ! Sooooo much fun ! I still have my speed skates from 1990 🛼
2:18 is where I spotted my guy, I call him the best skater ever! Love to see more videos with him doing the crazy legs... I swear this dude is in a whole nother zone when he straps on a pair of skates, 🛼🛼 His skating confidence is through the roof and beyond! In Buzz Light-Year voice!!! 4:18 is the two minute interval for the crazy legs. These videos are the truth and I ain't going to tell no lie, this is fantastic to see!
