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Finding Rhythm on Wheels: Sandra Rankin’s Journey of Passion and Community in Roller Skating
Roller skating isn't just a pastime; it's a journey of resilience, passion, and community. Sandra Rankin, our inspiring guest, takes us on her personal skating adventure, which began with a pair of roller skates gifted by her daughter during a challenging phase in her life. Sandra's story is one of determination and humor, as she candidly shares her early tumbles and how she bounced back with renewed vigor. With the support of a vibrant skating community, Sandra embraced the falls and found her rhythm, proving that age is just a number when it comes to chasing your passions.
Our conversation doesn't just stop with personal stories; we unravel the fitness potential of skating and how it can be a fun alternative to traditional workouts. We'll talk about how re-watching skating videos can help perfect your technique and develop a unique style, all while understanding the role of ADHD in learning new skills. Capturing the thrill of skating with a GoPro adds a whole new dimension to the experience, and we humorously explore the reactions to the footage, alongside tips on safety gear like padded shorts for the cautious beginners out there.
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Speaker 2:Welcome to how Do you Skate. I am your host, sean Egan, and my guest today is Sandra Rankin, so tell us how your skating story started and like when the beginning, and how old you were.
Speaker 3:All right, well, as you know, my name is Sandra or Sandra, whatever you want to call me. Actually, honestly, in 2000, in December 2000, my daughter asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I just went through a hard loss. You know, I lost my nephew, lost my brother, my close aunt and uncle, all in the same year, and I was like you know what I need to just get out of this, because I just was drowning myself in depression and I just asked my daughter because she asked me, what did I want for Christmas? And I was like some roller skates. So in 2000, I ended up getting the skates. I didn't really skate too much, just here and there in 2001. But late 2001, october I believe, there was a post out here in Facebook and it was for Adult Roller Skate Night and I was like, hey, I would like to dabble in that a little bit. I already have my skates. They're these little Chicago skates. Yeah, they were Chicago's.
Speaker 2:I know those.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think I almost died like eight times that night. I didn't know what the hell I was doing, but I went out there. I didn't care if I made myself look like a fool, I just wanted to do it.
Speaker 3:Mind, you already had these skates almost a year yeah and I want to put them on a few times just to see what you know, just to get the full of it. Put them on a few times just to see what you know, just to get the feel of it. Well, anyways, make that story and, um, I started getting into it and then that was in 2000. 2001 was that skate night? Let me see 2003. I took a little bit of a break of personal issues, you know, and I couldn't. I just wasn't able to make it out to the rink or even to put my skates on. Uh, this year no wait, I'm getting confused, because this year is 25, 2004, 24, late February. I want to say that's when I decided we're going to go back to the rink. I'm going to try this again. And ever since then, since last year, the ending of February, I started getting into it and I was determined to learn.
Speaker 3:I saw girls and guys that have been on skates for years. I'm talking about years. One says she was born on skates, the other one's been skating for like 20 plus years. I'm talking about years. One says she was born on skates, the other one's been skating for like 20 plus years, and then the guys have been skating also for 30, 40 years, and I was like I want to be like them. Little did I know I was going to just do it. I did it for myself. You know it was like I kept falling. I fall all the time and you know I was determined to do something that nobody was doing. At the rink, at our local rink, you know, I saw them going around in circles doing little moves here and there, but I was switching, gonna sometimes in my head like, oh, I could do this, I could do this. No, I can't, no, I couldn't. But I learned. Hey, the more time you go, it's the fact that you're doing something, you're trying to learn something. And I did it. And little by little, I started trying to do crazy legs, do snake, walk, turns or spins, spins. There you go, the spins, anything and everything you think about.
Speaker 3:I really tried to interpret just by looking at videos. I watched countless amount of videos on just seeing. I have real bad ADHD. I can't sit there and hear people just talking. Just show me what you've got, baby, and I'll try to mimic you as much as I can. That's so bad, right? But yeah, I started doing it this past year and you know I surprised myself. I think I surprised myself and the group that we skate with on the weekends because, you know, now I'm able to show them what I'm learning on my own and it's pretty neat because I never expected for me to be showing them. I was expecting them to show me, but it was totally different. I think it's a neat experience, scary a lot of times because I'm I'm 45 almost.
Speaker 2:I don't want to break something well, I'm a little older than you and I haven't broken anything skating, so that makes you feel better.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna lock on work for you, but no, yeah, it's just, it's been fun. Uh, my kids do get after me whenever I go outside and skate because I tend not to wear my safety gear. And uh, yeah, I can't be doing that to myself. But yeah, this year I am determined to learn new things, drill the things I've already learned and just, you know, see what I could come up with. You know, find my own flow.
Speaker 2:Now, do you consider yourself like a jam skater, or artistic or rhythm skater? Or there's so many different styles that they or names they call it now.
Speaker 3:I don't know what I would consider. I always say I'm a beginner still. But the guy that we skate with Kelly, he says, no, I'm past the beginner and I'm like, I still feel like I'm a beginner. You know, I haven't had that many years under my belt being on my skate. So me really being on my skates this one year, I still feel like, hey, I'm a beginner. I don't care what anybody says, I am still a beginner, you know. But that's just me. I guess I just humble myself a little bit to know that I'm not there yet yeah well, the nice thing about skating is that it's always.
Speaker 2:There's never a master skater, because there's always new things to learn, new things to try and everything, and if it makes you feel any better. One of the best freestyle skaters I know probably in the country has only been skating for two and a half years, so it's it's it's not about time or how long you've been skating. It's about how much you put into skating. So and I've seen your videos so I know you've got skills. So I would say at least intermediate.
Speaker 2:So well, I'm still gonna be saying beginner but I mean, like everything though, it's like you always learn, it's like a learning process. So I mean and I know you've already expressed that you went through a bunch of different stuff how has skating kind of been that escape for you with the stuff you've been going through or went through?
Speaker 3:um, I don't think about a lot of things when I'm skating. I'm more just in that moment. Honestly, like everything, anything just leaves my dog. You probably saw that chicken fly across the room.
Speaker 2:I didn't see anything.
Speaker 3:I just heard a thump they threw a chicken in here. Oh my gosh. No, but I'm sorry. I am so sorry it goes to dark, I don't know. Yeah, that's my adult child they always try to interrupt nah, he's just, he's just Alan. No, but yeah, um what was I even saying again, yeah, about how, when you're skating, you don't think about anything.
Speaker 3:You're like just focused on skating yeah, I honestly just um, just that, like everything else, leaves me. I don't even bother with my phone. A lot of times here lately I have been getting to this little habit where I know everybody says you need to record yourself. Every time you get on your skates you need to record yourself. I just been feeling like this year I really don't want to record too much.
Speaker 3:Um, I feel like now is the time that I should be able to fill it a little bit more, but videos do, because sometimes I'm like, ooh, that's where I miss up, that's what I'm doing wrong. And you know, when I first got started, everybody was like, oh, you need to use this edge, you need to use that edge. I'm like, what the hell is an edge? What is an edge? You know I don't get it, but yeah, you know, focusing on all that, you know, but, yeah, you know, focusing on all that, you know, on my feet and just my posture has helped me not to be in my depressing states. And, yeah, I feel, I feel happy when I'm on my skates, honestly Well.
Speaker 2:When you take your skates off, though, do you still kind of have that high and get excited about the next time you get to skate.
Speaker 3:Oh, hell, yeah, Definitely, definitely, definitely. I'm ready. I go onto YouTube or either Instagram on my save videos and, honestly, I watch the same video over and over from the same people, just for I could see. You know there. I know it's like I'm hey, you're watching that like a hundred times, but you know what, maybe I need that, I need that. I just focusing on their feet and then go from there. You know, like I said, that adhd really does kick in.
Speaker 2:I cannot sit through videos that talk a lot yeah, and it's you kind of watch, but it's like watching the same video. Then you kind of help perfect the technique, but then at the same time it also helps develop your own style. You learn the technique, but you do develop the same technique with your own style or flair. So and don't listen to people that say you need this edge or that edge or this edge. It's everything is personalized.
Speaker 3:When it comes to skating, nobody has the same two things in skating I felt like that too, because when they would tell me, hey, you're doing this, just do this. I'm like I don't know what an edge is, you know. But once I started trying to mimic a move, then I started um, like I'll turn to my right and then all my weight will be on one side, which I didn't know where weight's supposed to be at. But little by little I got the feel for it and then I learned edges. Really crazy, how I learned edges was acting. I was acting like I was skating down the slope with my two knees just going back and forth, and that's how I was learning my edges. Now I just pass everybody doing those little circles.
Speaker 2:Nice, I like skating fast. What's fun is do you have a GoPro? No, I don't. I have a GoPro with a headband and one night I like put it up, put it on and skated. What it looks like for me to skate. I'm like weaving in and out of everybody because I do speed skating, so I just like to go fast. So and it's funny because I gave somebody anxiety because they were watching it and be weaving in and out of people. But it's kind of cool to wear then. That way you can get like what everybody else is doing around the rink too. So it's kind of cool to wear then. That way you can get like what everybody else is doing around the rink too.
Speaker 3:So it's just a fun little thing to give people stress so you should have one in the front and in the back my dash cam, just in case I get in a wreck.
Speaker 2:So hey, those are helpful nowadays so now, when you're asked your daughter for skates, what was like, what was like the whole your daughter for skates? What was like? What was like the whole reasoning for getting skates, like, what was the? What were you thinking at that time? Like why skates? Cause she could have gotten you a gym membership, a jump rope, a bike? Uh well, you're in Texas, so not skis.
Speaker 3:Um, I know Right, I'm gonna go ski the sandbars over there it could be fun. I bet.
Speaker 2:But like why skating?
Speaker 3:Why skating? I honestly, I just saw a video one day and it was on YouTube, no, it was on Pinterest. It was on Pinterest. I was scrolling down my whole little wall of Pinterest and I saw a girl on skates and I'm like man, I'm already in my forties, I need to do something. You know, I hardly ever like to work out anymore. You know, you get that. You understand right.
Speaker 2:Cardio in the gym is the worst.
Speaker 3:This is my gym. Is lifting the food to my mouth? But no, yeah, I just saw that video on Pinterest and I was like that's, that's what I want to do that. And I know everybody was going through the whole COVID thing and stuff, but that's not really what got me started with the whole COVID thing. No, I wasn't one of them. I was more at the very, very end of it. Like I said, I got my skates in December of 2000 and really didn't use them until 2001. So, yeah, it started with that and I was like I can't get older and not do something. I kayak, fish, I love to fish, so I wanted to do something totally different from what I was used to. I love to fish, so I wanted to do something totally different from what I was used to. I saw that this girl was just flying in the wind and I was like I want to fly, I want to fly. Yeah, I flew, but I kept falling and I kept getting up.
Speaker 2:That's the thing it's like. When anybody learns how to skate, they have to fall. The people that are afraid to fall will never get it down. The guy that taught me how to inline skate he just kept knocking me over. He made me fall on purpose, like he was constantly. So then once you get past that fear of falling because you know you're going to fall, then everything else kind of falls into place.
Speaker 3:So what sucks is sometimes I could gracefully fall. Other times I fall like a bag of potatoes. It's like holy shit, I just hurt myself.
Speaker 1:It's all part of the game.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I tell the girls too, because there's some girls like how do you do that? I'm like, well, this is the way I do it. And then they fall. I don't want to do it because I'm going to fall. I'm like you know what? What I've been told. If you're not falling, you're not trying.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 3:You're not really trying and I did learn that Doing all that is building the muscle and muscle memory. I'm grateful for all those falls I fell the other night. I'm going to take it and I'm going to go with it. I just hope I don't break anything, yeah.
Speaker 2:They do make padded shorts for the ones that are afraid to fall.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I see that I don't want to walk around with no diaper man.
Speaker 2:That's why you wear the flowing, flowing dress. Just so well. I, not me, you. You wear the flowing dress with the pads underneath.
Speaker 3:Oh you know what? That's a good idea, that's smart.
Speaker 2:So where out in Texas are you?
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm in Victoria, texas, all the way down South. I'm 20 minutes from the Gulf. Like I said, uh, uh, right, here you go fishing, you go skating. The good thing about us over here, we do have a local rink in our town yeah so I'm just six minutes away from it nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, skating is huge in texas. My friend robbie that I was telling you about that's only been skating for two and a half.
Speaker 3:He just moved to texas so he's tearing up the rinks out there in Texas and everything, and I know Texas has a huge skate culture, so yeah, well, I think more of up north has more of the skate culture compared to down here, because down here I want to say there's only about it's going to be Crystal, kelly, lee, ashley. Those are the four that really go like Fridays and Saturdays, besides myself. But you really, there's not a big group of adults that go, which is sad, you know, but it's okay, it'll get there, you know, like they say, it is getting a comeback and I'm like okay, cool, like it's cool, I like that.
Speaker 2:It's'm like okay cool, like that's cool, I like that well, that's what I'm, that's what I'm hoping the podcast does is help people kind of like spread skating, more awareness of skating, and everything too it's so so much freedom, like honestly, and you know, and I I get why people get scared of skating?
Speaker 3:because they don't want to fall, they don't't want to get embarrassed. But you know, I always feel like, hey, I'm skating for myself, I'm skating for me and me only, and I skate like nobody's watching me.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I feel like nobody is. But you know, little do I know. They do Because they ask me questions.
Speaker 2:I'm like, hey, I've just been doing this for a year, but I'll show you what I know like come yeah, exactly, and that's the nice thing about the skate culture and the skate family is that we all kind of stick together. There's really no at least not at my rink, um, or the rinks that I go to we don't really have beefs with other people. It's like we're all there to support each other and every once in a while you get that one person that kind of has an attitude that'll just rub you the wrong way.
Speaker 3:The chingones, yes them I actually do know what that means. I get it. I see videos sometimes and I'm like, oh, that looks cool, but you could tell some people on these videos is like, oh, I feel mad for her. But hey, kudos to everybody, because you know what they're doing, stuff they like to do, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's like I said earlier, doing cardio in the gym. It's like you get five minutes on the treadmill and you're like, damn, it's only been five minutes, but at the roller rink like two hours later, what do you mean? The final song, yeah.
Speaker 3:But at the roller rink like two hours later.
Speaker 2:What do you mean? The final song?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know you right, it's just totally different when you're doing something that you enjoy doing as far as it's hard to call it exercise, when it's actually fun.
Speaker 2:I call it exercise. Don't tell anybody else that, because I tell my kids it's my exercise. It is Actually skating is like one of the highest calorie-burning can do. So if if you didn't know that, now you've got that piece of information. So now you got you know, go eat pizza and then go skate and you're fine.
Speaker 3:I'm going to go skate with the pizza in my mouth.
Speaker 2:But if it gets on the rink floor then it's like you know, it gets all slippery. So yeah, I don't like that do you do a lot of outside skating too, or is it just mainly at the rink?
Speaker 3:once in a while I do go outside, uh, but mostly it's in the rink or right here in my room. I love being right here in my room because I'm by myself.
Speaker 3:I listen to what I want to listen to, um and yeah, uh, here we have our little riverside park, here they have a nice little trail. I've done it a few times. It's nice, it's really really nice. But you know, I'm ready to go do adventures. Honestly, I want to branch out, go different places, even if it's by myself. You know, I don't mind riding solo, you know.
Speaker 1:I was born alone.
Speaker 3:I'm going to die alone.
Speaker 2:Well, in April, coming up in april, we have an event out here called mile high rollers, which is a huge, like it's jam skating, artistic skating. So I mean, if you really want to come and learn and I think I'm actually trying to work on getting honor roll skate crew that won roller jam out for that, and then also torell ferguson, the judge trying to get them out here for that, and then also Terrell Ferguson, the judge, trying to get them out here for that.
Speaker 2:So I mean, if you want like a fun event, cause people come from all over for that thing, and it's like the whole week and it's like a three day event.
Speaker 3:Well, you know what? You will definitely have to send me that link because I'm this. Last year I took my first ever trip out of state, my first ever trip out of state, and I went to vegas out of all places, right, vegas. I didn't go there for a good time, I just went there for a happy memory.
Speaker 2:My friend got married over there so okay, and they have some good drinks there too. Did you bring your skates? I?
Speaker 3:didn't even get to go skating over there. I wanted to, but we're so occupied in doing all the wedding stuff that it was like, and plus, I was with them. So it was like I want to leave y'all. But they're like, I didn't want to be rude and be very selfish. I was there with them and you know, I just didn't want to be selfish and just think about myself and leave my people. So, yeah, unfortunately I didn't get to skate anywhere, even though I took my skates with me.
Speaker 2:Always got to take your skates with you. So what's like your future plans with skate, like, how far do you want to take it?
Speaker 3:I want to take it where it can take me. As far as it could take me, I don't know. Honestly, I want to learn more. I know that and I would definitely like to try to teach people. You know, like I said, I feel like I'm still a beginner and I would love to teach people who don't really know anything. But yeah, I think, maybe teaching people one day, you know not doing any competitions. That'd be pretty cool, but I don't know if they have any competitions for 45 year olds, do they?
Speaker 2:They have cool, but I don't know if they have any competitions for 45 year olds, do they? They have, they actually have master classes and, um, a friend of mine, she's probably 45, 46 and she's getting ready to do, uh, actually some of her first competitions. So it's all ages, so see that that's pretty neat.
Speaker 3:I like to see older, mature women dancing because we're keeping ourselves young. Yeah, you know, maybe I should look into something like that. That would be fun. I just need to get better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one of my past guests, nicole Fiore.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, need to get better, yeah one of my past guests, nicole fiori.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, she actually has tutorials on her website and I have all of them. Okay, yeah, I looked at, it's inexpensive. It's only like 15.99 a month. It's not expensive to sign up for her tutorial videos and stuff, so okay. And since she's been world champion, national champion, she's a good one to actually get lessons from, because do you like actually have any of your ring? Does it have like an artistic skate teacher?
Speaker 3:No, no, no. There's no teachers actually there. Well, I would say Kelly and Lee are more of the teachers there. They've been out. Kelly is a national speed skate champion, something like that okay, and then mr lee, you know, um, lee's been skating well.
Speaker 3:He was part owner of that rink for a long time and, uh, now somebody else owns that. Uh plays the garcia garza's. They're pretty nice people, um, but yeah, uh, they know more in and out of anything and everything skating. Like these guys know everything, like they try to tell me what to do sometimes and I'm like, uh, I don't want to listen. They've been doing it for so long. It's like I think they expect you to get it right away, and then I could just see the faces. It's like, okay, maybe I'll just come over here real quick and do it behind your back until I get it. It's fun, though, but yeah, no, they don't have really nothing over here. It's just they open Thursday no, no, no. Friday, saturday and Sundays for parties. Okay, that would be fun to try to do, but we need to get more people in Victoria out here. It would be nice to get more people out here. Victoria is not a big town, it's a small town. We made nation news a few times. You don't even want to know why, but you know.
Speaker 2:Hopefully not If I don't want to know why you know. Hopefully not if I don't want to know why it's got to be bad you're gonna go and google victoria texas.
Speaker 3:What's happened there?
Speaker 2:you're gonna be holy hell I actually think I have a cousin that lives there oh gosh, I feel sorry for them.
Speaker 3:No, no, victoria is a good town, just, you know, you just gotta. It's not bad. Bad, everybody else who is here says it is. But you, just you, stay out of the trouble, out of trouble, you know. That's the way I feel about it. But every town has its issues, right?
Speaker 2:yeah, that's for sure. So now do you have like a another roller rink in another town that's near you, or Corpus is probably going to be the closest one to us.
Speaker 3:I don't know what that play I think it's called play land or something. I don't know what it's called. I've never been there, I've never been on a wooden floor, just my floor.
Speaker 2:They're nice Wooden floors are nice.
Speaker 3:I've been told they say you would just glide on there. I'm like, ooh, it was like my floor. You know like, okay, I get it. But I do understand the different styles of the textures different.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I really want to go to a wooden floor this year.
Speaker 2:And Corpus Christi has one.
Speaker 3:I want to say they do. I want videos that I've seen. I want to say they do, but I'm I'm not mistaken, might be a different thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and how far is that from you uh, hour and a half. If you drive fast, 45 minutes which me being from california an hour and a half is actually sometimes just getting to san francisco, so and here in texas.
Speaker 3:Normally, from from here, from where I'm at, to get to dallas is five, six hours just away from me. So, yeah, getting out of texas. When, when I went to vegas, it took us, I think, 11 hours just to get out of here, I'm like, oh gosh, and then we get to Arizona, it took us two and a half hours just to get out of there. I'm like what the hell? Like Texas, what?
Speaker 2:the hell is wrong with you. It's big. That's what's wrong.
Speaker 3:There ain't nothing wrong with it. Yeah, it's really big.
Speaker 2:The first company I worked for when I moved out here to Colorado. I actually had to drive to Texas to get training because I got promoted to service manager before they shut the thing down. So I drove from Denver to Midland was where I was for the first three days.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And then the second two days I went from Midland to Dallas, so it was I want to say it was 13 hours from here to Midland and then it was like another five hours to Dallas from Midland.
Speaker 3:You got to see all the hill country. It's really pretty on that side.
Speaker 2:I didn't see nothing. I saw flatlands, cactuses and tumbleweeds.
Speaker 3:What? Oh, you must've been in the back roads.
Speaker 2:It took me all through, I don't. I didn't really start to see a freeway until I headed to dallas, so it was kind of. And then, of course, I was in texas before you were born, so it was between first and second grade. Um, I went out there with my best friend because his uncle lived out there, so camping fishing, which I do uh, horse riding and I got dragged by a horse oh, that's nice, because I got I fell off, my foot got caught in the rains and it just kept running oh gosh but, I signed up for a rodeo down here, huh if it's draft more like drag racing with horses um
Speaker 2:when you need it right but did you ever skate it as much as a kid, or anything, or?
Speaker 3:no, not really. Uh, if I could remember right, we'll go to the skating rink once in the blue moon. My parents would drop us off, but majority of the they dropped us off at Playhouse. It's a movie theater here.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:And we would go watch dollar movies. You know, we're little back in the 80s, 90s, yeah, like I say, it wasn't until 2000 that I really wanted to get into this. But this past year was when I really drilled. And I'm talking about I drilled. I was determined to do this for myself. I needed to do it for myself. I didn't want to keep falling, but little did I know I'm still falling, you know.
Speaker 2:I've been skating since 88 and I still fall. So, and it's the one thing my girlfriend wants to see, but whenever she shows up, I never fall when she's there.
Speaker 3:She wants to laugh at you, huh.
Speaker 2:That's an understatement. I think she wants to put it on video and post it everywhere. I don't.
Speaker 3:I don't like when people laugh. I'm going to be honest. I dislike when people laugh at other people falling.
Speaker 3:You know they're at a rink, you know because you never know how hard they fell or if they hurt anything. I just don't like it. But when it's me and I'm editing my videos falling, I'm laughing my ass off. I'm like, oh, pendeja, you fell again. That's how I fell, you know two left feet. And it's just like oh. So I like laughing at myself. I just don't like laughing at other people. But I ain't going to lie. There's some falls that are just like okay, I got to laugh, like and I don't want to, but it just comes out like holy shit.
Speaker 2:It's the way they fall.
Speaker 1:It's all in the style that they fall and if they go down hard.
Speaker 2:That's what I tell people. I'm like don't look down, because your body follows where your head is looking. So if you're looking at the floor. You're going to end up there that is so true so have you ever like been skating so fast where you've gone around the turn and just like ran into the wall? No, not yet, but I'm looking forward to that day because we got carpet walls and I've hit it a couple of times and you get the rug burn from sliding on.
Speaker 3:I'm like, ah, so no, that hasn't happened yet, but you know, it sounds like a good time so now you're just, you just do quads, right I actually got me these come in ah, some inlines yeah, I got these. I used them a few times. They're pretty neat, but I was I got them at the same time when I got the new uh speed skates. I got those in january, in january, I don't remember the year, but I got these and I was so scared. They're scary. They're like really really scary.
Speaker 2:The little thing I know they're way easier than quads yeah, and it's funny because I can skate better backwards on quads than I can on inline.
Speaker 3:So I can't go forward on the inline now, do they have any like?
Speaker 2:do they have anything or is it just like roller rink? They don't have any programs like skate lessons or unfortunately they don't.
Speaker 3:Now the owner does. Uh, raymond, he puts on a little um during the session. He'll be like any beginner skaters want to learn uh, some moves. Come to the front and he'll teach them. You know how to go backwards, how to go forward and just things like that. But no, I wish they would. You know, maybe try to get more of the community in, but at the same time they're only open friday, saturday and sunday. Uh, but it'd be needed. They want to do that. Honestly, it would it just getting the people out there I mean there's, there's your opportunity right there.
Speaker 2:It's like you've got an opportunity where, even if you just teach, not just the moves, like, but have beginner skating, that people that want to learn how to skate and just learn how to go forward and transfer their weight and that kind of stuff I mean there's a good opportunity right there for you to. I would talk to the owner to see if you can start doing lessons.
Speaker 3:See, that would be nice to do. I'll talk to him this week. I'll be like Raymond come in and talk to you.
Speaker 2:Step into my office.
Speaker 3:We tried Kelly and I have tried before uh, getting people out here. We have a basketball court here. It's a big one, one of the biggest ones we have in victoria. Uh, we'll go out there and skate once in a while. We invited people, but I think we've only had one person show up. So, like I said, down here it's our town is really um, they're like debbie downers when it comes to things trying to do different things. Everybody's stuck in their own thing. Um, I say everybody needs to come and try something new.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah, learn with me and I'll learn with you and especially starting off young kids, because you're always looking for activities for kids, especially with how much they spend on video games too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, see, my niece, actually my great niece actually started coming with us skating and I thank God she does, because my mom and dad are raising her and you know she doesn't have no siblings with her. All of us are all grown up, so there's no kids and all our kids are. They're adults, and then they're having babies. So they're babies and she's nine years old.
Speaker 3:I want to say so it feels good bringing her with us. You know she has a lot of fun, she, we. She recently got a pair of skates, so that's she's like okay, I'm a skater girl. Now I'm like girl, look at you now do this there um.
Speaker 2:Is there a skate shop there or is it? You have to order online we order everything online.
Speaker 3:Now they can order skates for you at the rink. They have the whole catalog and everything there that raymond could do orders for everybody is it?
Speaker 2:does he like do inlines and everything, or is it just?
Speaker 3:Everything, yeah. Now the one that I talk to most about anything skates is going to be Kelly. To me, kelly is the one who knows everything. He's like the god of skates for me over here, only because he knows a lot of stuff, because he's been around the block, yeah he's going to be that white guy. No, the one that I skate with sometimes. You'll see him in my videos. That's him. He's the one I.
Speaker 2:He's a little champion okay, so he's the, but he's a speed skater on quads yeah, on, on, uh, um inlines okay yeah so he's got that. Does he skate on three or four wheels?
Speaker 3:Man, why you gotta ask me that.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I got three wheel speed skates and I'm getting four wheel, like the three wheel have 125 millimeter wheels, okay, so that are four, and then some that I have three.
Speaker 1:Cause he has a bunch of skates.
Speaker 3:He really does Like he. He has a bunch of skates. He really does like he. He has a bunch of skates and a bunch of wheels. Like you should see the bag of wheels I have because of him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the one thing about skating is, the more serious you get about it, the more expensive it gets and I wanted to, I wouldn't buy myself a pair of skates for my anniversary, but my company's anniversary, right.
Speaker 3:But then I started looking at the prices eight, nine I'm like, oh yeah, no, you know what, I love you, but I don't love you that much.
Speaker 2:Not right now. What kind of skates do you skate on now?
Speaker 3:I actually where are my skates at? I was using them yesterday, so they're still. These are my skates. I was using them yesterday, so they're back there still. These are my skates. They are, but they don't make them anymore. I know that. Are they the?
Speaker 2:dart Rydell darts.
Speaker 3:No, these are not. I have a boss, can't even see, I don't even want to turn on my light. It's hot in my house right now. It's a mota, mota skate.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Mota skate. But I colored them in. I put the black light ink on there. So, whenever I'm under the black light it shines, so you know I'm not too much of a glowy person, so I like dark stuff now, do you?
Speaker 2:did you change the wheels and put in new bearings, or?
Speaker 3:uh, the only thing we do was change the wheels to these right here. I want to see these are. Uh, I got the name of it actually. Let me tell you the name of it. It's funny, I was looking at this earlier too. What the hell are they called Backspin? That's what they were, backspin. Yeah, he got these for me actually. And, mind you, I've been on plugs already since May. Ok, I love the plugs actually because when I did start trying to really really learn, like I told you, I wanted to do toe toe I was like nobody's doing toe toe. I see them just, you know, skating around, I'm gonna do toe toe, sure enough. Uh, toe toe has actually helped me a lot when I'm on my toe skating and then transitioning. It's helped me a lot. So I think doing that is what built a lot of my muscle up yeah, and if you have breaks you're gonna.
Speaker 2:It's almost like that movie cutting edge. It's like dope it, you just keep flipping.
Speaker 3:So let's just say that happened a few times because when I was on that toilet, like oh, what the hell was that? It was me, it's the same stuff trying to understand the uh distance between that, uh, the, what was it? Toe stop and the floor was just rough for me. And then, finally, when I changed it to the plugs, that was a game changer for me. Then I was gone. You couldn't stop me.
Speaker 2:There you go. Now, what kind of inlines do you have?
Speaker 3:I don't know what these are, since you showed me. Let me see it said next. That's what it says.
Speaker 2:I know they look small right. Compared to my feet. Yes, I wear a size 13 skate.
Speaker 3:That's a big skate. These are tiny. I really don't know too much about inline skates, I just know that these are my first pair and they've been nice. I like them. I like them.
Speaker 2:So are you going to try to do like? I guess like the the term is for like. What you're doing with quads would be like wizard skating or freestyle skating or freestyle skating.
Speaker 3:I would love freestyle skating. You know, I always dance like not professional dancer, you know, but I working in, all of a sudden I'm like, ooh, you know, I'm getting it there by myself and it's like it's just in me. You know, music, I hear it. And what happens when you hear music? You just want to boogie. And for me, that's what I feel when I'm skating. I feel like I'm really not skating, I'm dancing, you know, and I move my upper body. Yes, I move my legs, but I don't know To me, I just feel like it's dancing for me. I would really, really love to dance skate.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Even more.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, definitely check out Nicole Fiore's stuff because she's got a lot of good lessons and that's what she does. But I can't remember which it was either Terrell or one of the guys from Honor Roll. They said if you want to do the jam skating, take dance lessons.
Speaker 3:Skate shot. I think right the skate shot.
Speaker 3:I'm on YouTube and tiktok a skate shot that's the one that I've been following and it's like they do show a lot and it's the guys from the roller jam that won some. I was want to say one of them, but it might be all of them. Honestly, I I really don't know. I don't pay too much. I look at feet more and now I'm so bad too, like I feel bad because when they're like who'd you, who'd you find this from, I'm like I don't know, I don't look at their names you're like, I'll send you the link when I get home and see it.
Speaker 2:So that's what we do nowadays we send each other links. It's like here's the link.
Speaker 3:So now if you would tell me hey, let me have your number. You better write it down because I'm gonna remember you. Remember old school ways, right, like that's the only way I remember anything. Give it to me and I have it, but it's just. I, just I don't know. I don't know I'm a weirdo when it comes to things like that and I know I get after myself. You need to read people's names.
Speaker 2:You need to remember people's names. Ever see them? I'm like, why should I remember the names? It's weird because, like early 80s and early 90s, I would have 200 phone numbers in my head with the name of the person. Now I got mine memorized I couldn't tell you anybody's phone number, if I lose my phone.
Speaker 3:I have no emergency contact all you have to do back then is get that dime, put it in the phone machine and call somebody real quick. That's the way we did it.
Speaker 2:I was the dime when we used to use the dimes in the phone, until it turned to a quarter it was funny because we were out to dinner a couple of weeks ago at Fuzzy's Burrito Shop and they actually had a pay phone inside. Didn't work, work, but they had a pay. I'm like, what the hell is that? We're like looking at it.
Speaker 3:Shoot. It would be even better if it was a Rody phone. It would be like Just wait for the little clicks.
Speaker 2:I think my kid's head would explode if I put that in front of them and said make a phone call.
Speaker 3:They'll be like hey Siri, hey Siri they'll be like hey siri, hey siri.
Speaker 2:Do you remember trying to call the radio station?
Speaker 3:trying to be like the ninth caller with the rotary dial. Oh yeah, oh gosh. And then you had to wait. If it was busy, you had to redo it again. There was no. Uh, hurry up and recall it like, oh god yeah, I don't even think.
Speaker 2:The kids, my kids, know what a busy signal is oh my god, you know what technology has changed. It's not the same it has and the cool thing is is like there's a bunch of apps that, like when you skate, they actually track your skating. Like if you have an apple watch or a fitbit, it'll actually keep track of how many calories. As we get older, we like to know how many calories we burn because of the food we eat.
Speaker 3:So I don't count, I just lift.
Speaker 2:No, there you go. So now, when it comes to skating, who is who is okay, not just skating in general, but with the path you're on now. Who has been your biggest influence?
Speaker 3:jasmine. Her name is Jasmine Barnett. I found her on Instagram and she really doesn't talk. That's why all she does is just show you step by step and then she'll be like now it's your turn, you know, and that's the one I enjoy watching like a lot. That last one that I? I?
Speaker 3:Well, this past weekend, when I tried to do that one foot spin exactly, I got the tutorial from her but, like I said, I had been watching that video for a long time. But I watched all her videos, yeah, but this one video in particular. I just kept watching it and watching it and just I grew a wild hair up but and I was like I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it. Well, that night I went and I did, I was nice. I was so, so surprised and I was like, okay, and they're like, hey, you need to use more of this edge. I'm like I still don't get the edges, but okay, I'll try, you know, and I actually kind of did it. It's not perfect, but to me it's perfect because I did something. I wasn't comfortable. I'm scared to get off of one foot yeah, but I need to try, I want.
Speaker 3:I'm determined to learn, so I'm gonna do it. You know, even when they say you shouldn't be doing that yet, I'm gonna do it we shouldn't be doing what yet?
Speaker 3:anything like if you're not ready. That that's what I'm saying. I built my muscles, things that I shouldn't have been doing, what I've been told I did it anyways and I built my muscle and I how can I say I've met my goals from last year? I totally overpassed my goals. You know, my whole thing was just staying on my feet going around the ring and I did that.
Speaker 3:Now you have to set higher goals yeah, you're right, that's why I said getting more into the rhythm, uh, just finding my flow, you know, and I think I have an okay flow when I'm by myself. Uh, I, I enjoy skating here at home. I know it's not, you know, a rink or anything, but yeah, you see my wall like I make but you can practice moves though.
Speaker 2:That's the whole thing, it doesn't matter what environment?
Speaker 3:you're in and then here's the thing I don't mind. When my kids see me fall or hear me fall, they'll come out what happened like nothing. Just go back to your room exactly now.
Speaker 2:This is a question from something you said.
Speaker 1:Oh shit.
Speaker 2:How does someone know that you're not ready to do something yet?
Speaker 3:Maybe because they have more years on skates, I'm assuming. You know, I really don't know the way I feel about it. I can't skate in anybody else's shoes, you know, because I don't know their movements or or how they're doing things like I'm me, I'm exactly me, and you know, um, if it bothers anybody, you know, what did you die like? Did you die?
Speaker 2:the classic line from the Hangover but did you die?
Speaker 3:You know, or this one, did they hurt you here, or did they hurt you here?
Speaker 2:But that's like my whole point. It's like there's no one can come in and say that I'm not ready to do something.
Speaker 3:If I'm not ready to do something, that's for me to know, not for someone to come in and tell me that I can't do something, because the minute you tell me I can't do it, it's on, it's on. That's me, see.
Speaker 2:Chingon Chingona. No Like, if you want me to get to me to do the dishes, tell me you don't know how to do dishes. I'm like, oh yeah, let me show you. I'm just saying you can't. You can't tell me what I'm ready or not ready for, because that's all based on how far you've come and I would definitely check out. Just, he's on my Tik TOK Plus. I've had him on the show Robbie Hall Jr.
Speaker 3:Is that the skateboarder guy?
Speaker 2:No, that he's. He's the one that's been skating for two and a half years.
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:But, like, watch his stuff at the rink and it's funny because I will tell somebody. I'll tell somebody to try it. And if they fall they're like oh, I can't do it. I'm like, you're right, you can't do it. They're like what do you say that for? I'm like because you just told me you can't, true. Like then they get up and want to do it. Right, yeah, it's because it's like. Once I would have to say I forget one of my guests. I've had a lot. Now one of my guests actually says skating is 90 mental like. Yeah, if you get that mental block, if you start putting stuff, if someone tells you you can't do something and you believe them, you're not going to do it. Or if someone tells you you're not ready for that, you're going to be scared to try it because now you think you're not ready for it. It's all in your head, especially with you with ADHD. Did I say it right? Did I get the right one?
Speaker 3:ADD, adhd, bipolar, you name it. I got it there we go.
Speaker 2:It's like you already go through mental health stuff. So if you let other people affect how you are, it can screw you up. But it's like you know what your limits are and you push beyond them because you can, not because someone told you you can't Exactly.
Speaker 3:And I've always been like that Well, you tell me I can't or I'm doing it wrong, I'm going to show you, I'm going to do it right. I've always been like that. Always is like you can't tell me anything because it's just going to trigger me to do something and it's, you know, like it or don't like it, you know, did you die?
Speaker 2:no, exactly now, that's. That's the cool thing when you get to a point where you get coaches I know some coaches do online where you will film yourself and then you'll send them the video and they'll be like okay, so with this you need to just tweak this just a little to the left or a little to the right and that's why?
Speaker 3:no, that's the thing like how, how do you?
Speaker 2:I just don't get it sometimes because, they watch the videos and they know, they understand how the move's supposed to go, or and then they'll sit there and say like, okay, I noticed your foot's going this way, try to turn it just a little. You know just a little left and try going from that. So I mean, it's a process and everything's a process and, like I said earlier, skating is always evolving. So there's no, you get to a point and you know it. Like hockey, the rules are always the same. Speed skating, the rules are the same, and that kind of stuff. But when it comes to artistic and jam skating, the field is wide open for innovation and new techniques and new styles and everything. So there is no limit to what you can do when you're doing that.
Speaker 3:See, yeah, I like that because it's true. It's true there's no limit to anything unless you hurt yourself, right, but there shouldn't be a limit on anything. You try to learn and I'm all for it, like for real. I like seeing people trying to learn. I love to see, like the girls even the guys not even the guys, but the girls at our rink. You know they they'll see something. And I feel like a lot of times now that I influenced them to do this stuff. Not that I'm saying I'm better, because I know I'm far from being better than anybody, but I feel like I have been an influence on things there at the rink because now you see them trying to learn different things, getting out what they're used to doing. Like I said, they've been on skates way longer than I have yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So no, for that to happen for me has been a blessing in itself, honestly, and I never thought they would even ask me for anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, you're not out of your comfort zone. They're probably stuck in their comfort zone for what they've been doing for so many years. Because it's just like anything else, like when you're working out, you hit that rut, then you need to change it up. If you skate the same way all the time, you need to get out of that rut and try something new, try a new style. Because I've played rink hockey, I'm starting to do short track ice, long track ice and I'm doing inline speed skating and I also want to do roller derby.
Speaker 3:I want to do roller derby. See, I always wanted to be a derby girl, but I wanted to do derby like in the 80s, you know, when you were able to use the elbow and do the flying Superman Knocking them out.
Speaker 2:You can still do that stuff, I do. I just keep pushing around, that's all I see, did you listen to the episode that I had with the derby team?
Speaker 3:No, I haven't listened to that one.
Speaker 2:I need to go check it out. They've got the coolest name they're called Spawn of Skating.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm like I got to have a shirt. I got to have a shirt.
Speaker 3:Hey, you ever need t-shirts. I'm still waiting for you to get with me.
Speaker 2:I'm still waiting to get the new logo done, so it's yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm still waiting to do my own business shirts myself. I get so occupied, honestly, I think about it. I'm working outside and I'm like I want to go skate and I don't take my break till 12 o'clock. You know, I try to keep it regular but yeah, there's a lot of times where I just like what am I going to do? What am I going to do? Of times where I just like what am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? And honestly, being out there, like I said, not with my skates on, because I would not work with my skates on, it's too dangerous for what I do. You know, if I slip and fall, I hit an edge, that's it, you know what do you do?
Speaker 3:I'm a screen printer okay, so you just.
Speaker 2:The t-shirt business is the whole business.
Speaker 3:That's the whole thing yeah, I've been doing that for nine years on my business, going on a year in February.
Speaker 2:Congratulations, thank you, and you really don't want to slip and land in the ink either. So then your face will be all messed up.
Speaker 3:So no, all it is to take that stuff off Like for real. If it gets one place, it gets everywhere.
Speaker 2:And it's not like your regular ink.
Speaker 3:you know it, it Exactly, and it's not like your regular ink. You know it doesn't dry. It has to be a certain degree for it to dry. Yeah, and you're not going to get to 320 degrees and it dry on the surface, you're just going to transfer it everywhere. My car is full of ink, by the way, you know. I have it on my hip or on my elbow and I get in the car. I'm like how did that get there? It's on my arm.
Speaker 2:So now do they have derby. Is there like any derby teams in?
Speaker 3:No, I think the closest one is going to be San Antonio, and San Antonio is two hours away from us. We're in the crossroads, we're basically.
Speaker 2:Victoria's crossroads. See to me that's not a long drive, Like I'll do, because, like when in the Bay Area, I'll drive up to Sacramento to go skating, and that's an hour and a half depending upon where you're going in Sacramento, but it's cool. But you know, I really think, yeah, that you should just take a weekend, just get a couple of hotel rooms and just hit the different rinks.
Speaker 3:That's what I want to do. That is my goal for this year is to travel, even if it's by myself. You know I don't mind, I like to write solo. You know I really am going to do it. This I am. I'm not saying that's my goal, because I know what I'm going to do this year.
Speaker 2:And I'll definitely send you the stuff for mile high Rollers because I think that would be a fun event for you to check out.
Speaker 3:I've never been on a plane, really. No, we drove to Vegas, so just imagine that drive.
Speaker 2:That's the only other state you've been to. It's like the first time you left.
Speaker 3:Yeah, first time.
Speaker 2:Mexico don't count either, okay, because Mexico is literally just four hours away from me, so it's like I always say, I've been around Mexico, but that counts as leaving the country, not the state.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, there you go. I've left the country before.
Speaker 2:There you go so yeah, it's, it's it's kind of like weird. It's like you've got like a pretty good hotbed for skating and I think on the weekends you should just take off and start exploring all the other rinks, Cause I mean, there's so many rinks.
Speaker 3:I am going to do that. I will do that. I am determined to do that. You know, even if I'm the oddball, nobody knows like I really am. I feel like I'm the oddball in our rink too, cause the only little Mexicana right there is like she's just a little feet.
Speaker 2:Well, it's funny because I didn't know anybody that skated out here. So the first time I went to the roller rink I went by myself, and now then my son ended up getting a job there and working there. For a while I played on the rink hockey team because my son asked me to, and then we had this big tournament and I'm like the only one from the Westminster I'm like I don't even work here and I'm playing for the team.
Speaker 3:Do you teach? Do you teach at any rinks out there, or do you do anything like that?
Speaker 2:Uh, not at the moment. I'm good. I've got a really busy year scheduled between the podcast skating and going to announce it, because everybody's going to find out about it. Eventually, I'm actually working on a documentary on skating too. So, hoping to release that in 2026. And I've actually got a major person in the music industry that's actually going to work on the soundtrack with me.
Speaker 3:So you know what? That's a big blessing for you. You know a positive vibe going your way, sprinkle, sprinkle over there, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the whole reason I started the podcast, cause I was like looking for a good skating podcast, and the reason mine's different is because I include all forms of skating.
Speaker 3:And that's nice, you know, because if you're rolling. You're still skating, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the cool thing is is with the different styles. Then that might make somebody want to go out and try something different too. Like, I want to go get a skateboard. I don't think I'm going to be doing ramps or anything. I actually want to get myself a nice skateboard set up and I'm going to be talking to some people and it's weird how people are reaching out to me now to like different skating stuff and I want to get I started the ice doing the inline. I'm going to get quads. I'm kind of have a skateboard just so I can complete the skate collection, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that'd be nice, my son used to skateboard when he was young, so I never really got into it. He's like little Tony Hawk over there. He's always enjoyed stuff like that. I think it's pretty cool. I try to get on the board when I was I'm going to say when I was younger, but you know, when I was younger it was in one of my 30s when he was doing this.
Speaker 2:Is he still skateboarding?
Speaker 3:No, he doesn't. He's a grown man and he lives his own life. You know, does his own thing. So, no, he golfs now.
Speaker 2:We're grown people too, and we're still skating, hey, but don't get it wrong.
Speaker 3:I bet you you give this boy a skateboard, he'll go for it. I bet you because he did. He. He was doing some little flip where I don't know what it's called, I just know that he'll kick it up and it'll just go back down. Like okay, that one and I know he was trying to do one where you kick and you spin the skateboard. Okay, yeah, we used to. I remember a long time ago when he was doing it, we had a skateboard shop here in Victoria and it's actually right here the next street over to where I live at. I wasn't living here at the moment, but they closed down. Nothing lasts here in Victoria. Like I said, it's just one of them towns that it's a big town, but it's just. We're such a big town but we don't have nothing going for us here.
Speaker 2:And that's why you have bad things happen, cause there's nothing to do. Like honestly it's. It's like, if you don't have activities and you don't get community, like I consider skating a community activity. If you don't have that, and I mean right now, you're in the position to be an ambassador for skating in your town. That'd be awesome. Like, how do you, when you decide to do an event, how do you advertise?
Speaker 3:I've never done an event, actually when now, when I used I hosted pinup contests before a few times, so you know I would. Of course the ladies will make the flyers for me and they were the hosts doing it. All I had to do was just host the contest.
Speaker 3:They took care of everything else. I just had to do that. But that's how a lot of I'm not going to say a lot of people, quite a bit of people know me here in Victoria just from the pinup stuff and that's what actually. I grew a the newspaper here in Victoria so it was pretty neat. So just doing that, a lot of people know me Now putting it out on Facebook. I don't try to put it out too much on there because you know how people just nosy sometimes.
Speaker 3:Yeah sometimes, yeah and uh, I've been trying to get those people that you know. I interacted so many times, you know, through car clubs and all that. I'm ready for the next car club I mean car show for I could get my skates and go skate around in my little pinup outfits, you know. See, if I could bring more people in, because that's the way I feel about it is. Now that I'm thinking about it is, if people see you doing something, eventually they're going to want to do it too. So why not try it Right?
Speaker 3:So, maybe I'll end up taking my little happy ass out and about and just go skate around. You know the car shows maybe bring more people in. You never know.
Speaker 2:Well or this is just an idea that popped in my head is talk to the rink owners and do like a theme night with the car show at the roller rink I'd ask them to do a theme night already. But if you do a theme, night if you do like the car show, then you have everybody and it's like, depending upon what area your car is from, you kind of dress up in that style and then you skate with that style.
Speaker 3:So we got uh, the guys here in victoria, uh, they do the texas ride through, uh, texas the car. So yeah, bobby sparkman and his wife and sabrie, they're awesome I'm talking about. They go everywhere, everywhere and it'll be. I could probably talk to them too about maybe doing I'm pretty sure they'll be game because they're all for anything, for kids too, and that's what I want is more of the youth coming out, even if they're gangbangers. Why not Get them out? Get them to do something different, maybe get them out of that, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and especially kids. I mean, that's our future generation of skating. We need to pass on what we know down to them. And, um, we've got some amazing kids because we got, like, I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, like eight or nine roller rings within driving distance from here. Really, no, yeah, colorado has a bunch, and um, I've seen some big, big uh groups that go out to these rinks though, right uh, there's groups and then like aurora's, like our main jam session one, my friend, dj dough boy.
Speaker 2:He's the one that does the adult skate on friday and sunday nights. That's where a lot of the jam skaters go. Friday night's kind of mellow at the rink I usually go to. So it's kind of like if you want to try stuff there's a lot more room to try stuff. And they started a thing called Flow Motion which is 45 minutes after the rink closes after adult skate, where you can go and my friend Will actually helps people like learn different tricks and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3:Do you get a lot? Just people go in there to try to learn uh, flow motion.
Speaker 2:You get maybe like four or five people. Sometimes it's only one person. He just gets the whole ring to himself for 45 minutes. But I mean it's cool because we always support each other. It's it's always that I mean like I bump into somebody, I'm like, hey, sorry, they're like, oh, that's cool Because it's like on a freeway, nobody knows they don't use blinkers, they just come over all of a sudden. You're like what the hell? So, and especially with kids, because we have adult skates, I usually go to the adult skates because I can skate faster. With the kids there. I can't skate as fast as I want to because they're like getting on the one way street, going the wrong direction. But I mean it's just, it's just giant and it's like I can just see you where you're at and with what you're doing and posting and getting your followers on TikTok. Um, like you've got that like opportunity to really turn skating around and bring skating to a bigger level in Victoria, just cause.
Speaker 3:I hope I can do that, man. I really do. It'd be. It'll be a pleasure to do it with any you know honestly, like I. I would like to do help people. I you know, help me, I'll help you. You help me, you know we both fall together.
Speaker 2:It's funny, though, cause it's like gotta, we're both gen xers, we gotta go the old school method where you're making flyers and you're putting them up in shops and that kind of stuff for people to see, as opposed, especially like a lot of the kids go.
Speaker 3:so and then my sister works at a school too, so I could be like, hey, sis, take these, they don't, they don't do like activities for the school because like out here they do fundraisers with the schools and different programs and stuff anything, anything at all.
Speaker 3:There is nothing telling you, victoria, for being such a big town. They don't do anything for anybody here, so it's just it really sucks. You know, if it wasn't for miss crystal Crystal renting out the hall and then trying to make an adult night for the adults to go skating, I wouldn't have ever known, really, that there was adult nights. Mind you, there's no adult nights, we don't have adult nights, it's just open session.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what time does the open session end usually? 10 o'clock 10 o'clock, so they have parties during that time.
Speaker 3:So from 7 to 10 o'clock you have a bunch of little mocosos running around and skating the wrong way, like you said. It's like oh gosh, you know, and I'm trying to tell them you're skating the wrong way. Where's the floor guard?
Speaker 2:But then it's like I don't know why they don't.
Speaker 3:They should do like one night a week from 10 to 12 doing adult skate. If we got more adults in maybe they would. Maybe they would. It would be nice to do it. I know Kelly said that they did it before Tuesday nights. I want to say Tuesday night skates. It would be nice to do that. I was never lucky enough to join any of those, but I was uh, I was lucky enough to join the last two adult nights that the lady rented out the hall the skating rink just to have it, and it was nice.
Speaker 3:uh, no, kids, that's what made it even better. Um, but, like I said, when I first went out there, I was like I going to make an ass out of myself, and I did. I fell most of the night, I died about eight times and arose again.
Speaker 2:But that's the whole point. Like when you're learning new stuff, you're going to be an ass when you're skating anyway. So I just don't care what people think. Exactly, exactly as you can tell Now what would be your advice to people that want to start skating, especially?
Speaker 3:since we're of the older genre. My advice would be don't let anybody ever make you feel like you can't do something that you can do, and always feel like you can do something even though you can't do it. You know, nobody's perfect and it's okay.
Speaker 2:It's okay to fall it really is.
Speaker 3:So now, how can my listeners follow you? Uh, they could go to let me see. You know, I've been thinking about this lately and I'm gonna tell you. Uh, because my kids are like, oh, you're trying to get all these following tiktok. I started thinking like, do I really want to have to keep making videos every day, to be posting I? I like I'm thinking this year I just want to do maybe once or twice a week, maybe post something. But now you've given me ideas to like want to push for more. So I don't know what I'm gonna do. But yeah, they can find me on TikTok. I go by Ms Sandra Citas, not Sandra.
Speaker 2:Citas. Okay, correct the person who's from the.
Speaker 3:British Isles. Okay, but yeah, no, you can find me on YouTube, instagram, facebook and TikTok, and it's all the same. Ms Sandra Citas, you'll see my name. My name is Sandra Rankin. Yeah, I know my last name is so funny, right? Because you say Sandra and then you go with Rankin. It's weird.
Speaker 2:I knew a lot of Rankins in California.
Speaker 3:You know what? That's another different topic right there. But I never knew my grandpa and I know he was from California and he's a Rankin and I know he's a white man, a German white man.
Speaker 2:So I probably know a lot of your cousins.
Speaker 3:We never met him, you know. So I would love to, you know, find my family, hopefully one day, but right now I'm not in no rush for it.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 3:We lived without it all our life, so it's not going to hurt me not knowing it, so I'm okay with it. You know, I got my dad, I got my mom, so I'm good.
Speaker 2:There you go Well. I appreciate you coming on the show today.
Speaker 3:It was a pleasure, my first time, so a little nervous Got me sweating over here.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you, no, thank you no, and thank you.
Speaker 3:It was a honor to be asked to do this with you like. Honestly, it was a big honor and a big blessing for me I appreciate that you.
Speaker 2:Thank you, thank you.