Roller Blading to Pink Floyd
Posted by Raven on October 31st, 2006
Whenever I have stress in my life I go roller blading. Fast and furious. It blows off all my steam and I can think more rationally afterwards. This morning I went down to my town park, which has a skateboard thingy…with all the concrete ramps and paved ways…I must have looked bizarre at 4:30am, in the cold, the dark, roller blading to some Pink Floyd tunes. I took my old beat up boom box down with me and blasted the music.
I really need to get my roller blading more tuned. I can go pretty fast, I was clocked at 76 mph one time going down a hill. This morning I know I was going faster than I ever have before. I went upside down over myself on the ramps ten times, and did a two minute spin on one foot. Not just a spin…no…a spin that went round and round AND raised and lowered myself- to the point it made me dizzy…but I slowed it down to a graceful two foot spin so I didn’t lose control.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond has the perfect music for this, with it’s wailing saxophones and heavy draining guitars. Starts off real slow and builds up to a crescendo - just like me- start slow and concerted…moving upward and onward to the faster beat of the song. Talk about working up a massive sweat. All 18 minutes of it, nonstop. My legs felt like rocks after.
I tried to blade to a song called Marooned- I can dance to that but this was different. It’s a relatively slow tune, rich with mutilple guitars and heavy bass. I did it and it was hard. I think I got it down pretty good. The other difficult song to blade to is High Hopes. I have practiced that one before and I always manage to fall over for some reason. Not this morning. I can proudly say I didn’t trip or go down once.
Some PF music is really easy to blade with: GGITS for example…the first song I ever taught myself to dance and roller blade to- pretty darn cool sight I am sure.
I guess my music bothered some folks cause a cop showed up. I didn’t notice him at all until I was finished. He told me I should enter a competition because he was absolutely sure I would win- he told me this was the most unique and different form of blading he had ever seen. Hmm. I don’t do this for attention or to compete. I have watched some of the “pros” do their thing and I know I can be a lot better than them- because I am small and can move in different ways…and I do this for fun. I think competing would take that away.
October 31st, 2006 at 10:51 am
Roller Balding? You’re weird.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:42 pm
BWAHAHAH!!:mrgreen:
October 31st, 2006 at 11:40 pm
I have some blades (size 14) but that extra 2-3 inches hurt a lot when I fall on my ass.
November 1st, 2006 at 9:02 am
***THUD***
he said size 14.
to my sz 3 (rollerBLADEs)
November 1st, 2006 at 6:35 pm
Wow, I’m so jealous you can rollerblade. When I was a kid growing up, roller skates were attached to your shoes with a key! And we would roller skate up and down the street with occassional falls into gravel that caused pits in my knees that I still have - 40 years later!
I ice skated as a kid, and it always, always, always hurt my ankles and my feet - I love to watch people who can do such wondrous things!
November 2nd, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Don’t be jealous Beth. Good GAWD no. I’m not that good at it and I taught myself to do it the hard way…I have a couple scars on my knees and ankles from falls and trips and all that. It’s a hobby for me, like I said- I do it when I need to blow off a lot of steam LOL. I used to do it for fun! I would go downtown blading. Sometimes when I go away to Maine I blade around those little towns as well…
I guess if I can rollerblade I could run in a marathon, someone told me. Hmm…will have to go check that out.