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Gaby Silva: Mastering Tricks and Building Community
Gabby Silva's roller skating journey started at an unexpected point in life, captivating her well into her thirties. Inspired by mesmerizing videos of skaters dancing, Gabby strapped on her first pair of skates at 36 and headed straight for lessons. Her initial steps quickly turned into leaps and bounds as she navigated the skate park scene, overcoming fears and mastering thrilling tricks. Gabby shares her passion for ramps and the exhilarating freedom they bring, emphasizing how preparation and progression paved her path from novice to adept skater.
As Gabby explored skate parks from Switzerland to the US, she found herself in unique spaces combining culture and skating—from indoor mega ramps to skate park-restaurant hybrids. The sense of community shone brightly as she recounted her experiences in competitions, where the spirit of camaraderie celebrates skaters of all ages. Dreams of "skate BnBs" nestled in the mountains spark her imagination, alongside the supportive connections that the skating world nurtures, proving that passion and community go hand in hand.
Outside of skating, Gabby shares her transition to teaching English during the pandemic, blending her love for language and skating in unexpected ways. With a career flourishing alongside her passion for skates, she reflects on the influential skaters, like Jamaline Flower and Estrogen, who shaped her style. Gabby’s journey is a testament to the power of persistence, the joy of community support, and the thrill of pursuing dreams at any stage in life, with upcoming skating events on her horizon promising more excitement and growth.
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Speaker 2:Welcome to this week's episode of how Do you Skate. I am your host, Sean Egan, and my guest today is Gabby Silva. So how are you doing today?
Speaker 3:Doing great. Thank you, Sean. Thank you for inviting me.
Speaker 2:You're welcome, so let's start at the beginning. When did your skating journey start?
Speaker 3:Two years ago, when I was 36.
Speaker 2:Okay, and what made you get into skating Like, was it just something that came up?
Speaker 3:Kind of it was a mixture. I always wanted to skate and ever since I'm using social media I've been getting videos about things I like. You know the algorithm.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And, like two, three years ago, I started watching videos of girls dancing in skates and like cruising and I love that. And I was like, oh, I want to do it one day, I want to do it one day. But you know, life happens and you got to do stuff. So at some point I had some time and money and some skates came into my feed and I was like, oh, my God, those are for me, I need to buy them now. And I did like it was the perfect timing and then I started skating. I found a roller skating school because it was kind of intimidating for me just to go alone at my age, you know I even though I do feel very fit it's kind of challenging, right. You remember your skates like a hard thing and you falling when you were little. Yeah, because I I did skate when I was a kid. So, yeah, I bought my skates, found the school and I started skating.
Speaker 2:Now did you feel once you started skating? Did you feel the same way that you did when you were a kid?
Speaker 3:It's just kind of having that freedom where you feel like nothing can stop you kind of, because I was expecting something else, you know, like a flat ground and the skating just uh, rolling, just cruising. But when I got to the school it was in a skate park and I was like what are we doing? What are we supposed to do here? And I didn't have knee pads or anything. So it was scary. It was scary. I kind of did my best. I even did a 180 on the run and I was like, wow, I got some talent. But I did fall and it hurt. So it was like, okay, I like this, but I think I need to be better prepared for this.
Speaker 2:It was something new.
Speaker 3:I wasn't expecting that at all.
Speaker 2:You weren't expecting to fall.
Speaker 3:I wasn't expecting the skating at a skate park. I never imagined myself doing that. I was looking for roller dancing, yeah you know. But then I found it and I was like, wow, I think I like this. This is kind of cool. Yeah, it was scary, it was scary.
Speaker 2:Trying anything new is scary, and when I first started to skate, the guy that taught me kept knocking me over, purposely making me fall. And then you get to that point where you're not afraid to fall, where it's just part of the process, and I think a lot of people miss fall. Where it's just part of the process, and I think a lot of people miss that, is that falling is part of the process. But doing ramps, um, I'm pretty sure you got your knee pads, your elbow pads and all that stuff now, right, yeah, by the second time I went to the classes I had knee pads okay, and I kind of like ask.
Speaker 3:It was a an instinctive, an instinctive question like how do I fall safely? Because no one told me I was like dude, how do I fall safely? Oh yeah, well, and I kind of like got it the you know the technique to fall in on ramps and on the floor yeah and then I kind of rehearsed a lot.
Speaker 3:I I had this image of myself of I'm a bit too old for this, so I got to be careful. Yeah, that changed through time, but at the beginning it was like that because I was skating with teenagers.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I was the only one, my age 30 plus, yeah, so I kind of asked the logic questions yeah, how do I fall safely? What is the progression on this? How can I get there safely? Because I totally fell in love with it. I wanted to jump, I wanted to do the hardest tricks, but I knew in my mind to get there you need a progression.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 3:How do I get there? And yeah, so I got prepared. Yeah, from the second class. I kind of like whoa. I feel like I'm very fast and that helped me also. Yeah learning.
Speaker 2:So now do they start you off, kind of like getting the basics down before they threw you on the ramp, or did you just go straight to the ramp?
Speaker 3:I went straight to the ramp because I was good, you know. I put on my skates and I could already roll, uh, front or how you say that, forward, forward, backwards, like turn. I could do 180, I could jump like I. I started from the very beginning but I could do all of that in the first class.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:I dare yeah.
Speaker 2:So you're a natural.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, yes, I think so.
Speaker 2:That's kind of cool. So now it's like you're mostly ramps and pools and whatever else you can find that has a slant or some kind of ramp.
Speaker 3:Yes, I'm more of the skate part. I like streets, but I find them a bit challenging and dangerous. I like ramps better. Yes, yes, I like jumping and doing the big airs, although I can still do big, big airs. I can do some air.
Speaker 2:Nice, some air, nice. Now. I know with a lot of the people that I follow on social media that skating is huge in columbia. So and I know the speed skating scene is really big how is the what would you call it aggressive skating scene? How is that down there?
Speaker 3:well, we have yes, it is huge, especially in medellin. It's a very sporty city. We have sports centers that are amazing. Uh, we have two scenes, the aggressive ones we call them inliners aggressive and then we have the roller skaters. I'm part of the second one and, uh, the aggressive ones, a lot of amazing people like real pros. I've seen some incredible stuff I can share and I don't know if they are champions of anything, but they are really good. You can find a lot of people that is really good and I can send some videos so you can see the caliber.
Speaker 3:The caliber we say oh, oh, my god. The other day I saw like this huge transfer. The guy flew literally. He said he did like in a bowl. He just went from one side to the. I was like, oh my god. But the roller skating scene it's, uh, mostly girls, mostly girls, and there are a lot of girls, a lot of good ones. Uh, last year there was a festival at milano, okay, in italy, and a couple of colombians went there and, yeah, it was uh, we were very proud, it was very popular. In here we did a projection and everything. So we have events, competitions. We even painted a ball pink.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 3:To make it a female space because, yeah, sometimes it's a very masculine space and we want to skate, we want to be there too. So, yeah, we did that thing and together we raised money to paint the ball and nice did a huge event competitions um gifts for the girls, yeah okay, I have won myself some stuff, some knee pads which are important.
Speaker 2:Okay, sorry about that. You might need to pour some coffee into your internet, yeah.
Speaker 3:It pisses me off because I recently paid for a better plan. It doesn't happen often, and it happened to me yesterday with a student and I was like oh my God, I'm so embarrassed Now you said it with a student.
Speaker 2:Do you teach, then? Yes, I teach Spanish. Okay, yeah, I might be connecting with you on that one to learn more too, sure? Sure, even the girlfriends. He only, uh, speaks a little bit of spanish, so okay, sure, yeah, I can teach you too that way I can show her up oh nice, yeah, you can show off like hola mi amor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can show up like hola mi amor, and I'm not even going to tell her. It's like the shooting range they said don't tell her that you're learning to shoot. So when you go for the first time you look like you're just a natural and I'm like that'll work.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, and you can also understand what she's saying.
Speaker 2:I was like, really I don't do that.
Speaker 3:That's funny.
Speaker 2:But now she's going to know when she listens to the episode. So now with the Italy, did you end up going to Italy? Or you just said some people it's in your future plans though isn't it Of course it's in your future plans though, isn't it?
Speaker 3:Of course you know I saw I got to see a lot of skate parks because one of the girls did go. She raised funds to go and she showed us all the journey and she, she went to Spain and France, Switzerland and Italy Okay, and things that are amazing skate parks, amazing skate parks.
Speaker 3:In Switzerland, there is this huge skate park, indoors skate park that has mega ramps and has like a huge bed so you can fly, you can go, like, do this stuff, and yes, so good, yes, so good, but I couldn't go. Yeah, but I watch everything and and, together with the school, we organized a projection, a screening, okay and we saw it on a restaurant. That is also a skate park, so we saw the screening and started skating you have a restaurant that's actually a skate park that, yeah, a restaurant that has a skate park that's awesome it is, it is.
Speaker 3:But you know, on in united states you have air bmbs that are that have skate parks, so they are called skate bmbs uh, I did not know that either.
Speaker 2:I learned something, I so want one.
Speaker 3:I so want one here. It would be amazing, like in the mountains, having a huge cabin or mansion With a skate park and a pool.
Speaker 2:Just a cabin with a skate park in the back. You don't need a lot of living. You need a kitchen, you need a TV and you need a bed. That's all you need and a shower.
Speaker 3:We have one. We actually have one like that, but it's an hour and a half away, so I want one closer to the city and with a pool. Yeah, we need the pool because sometimes it's very hot, so you start skating.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You can have a bunch and then you go back.
Speaker 2:There you go, future business plans for you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So anyone that wants to sponsor, here I am.
Speaker 2:We gotta get mvs in columbia we gotta get our word out somehow yes so now your progression. And you said you've done competitions and won some yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, I participated in a an event. It was like a roller skating game, you know, you have to do a trick, the other one has to do it, and like that, uh so kind of like a trick battle yeah, yeah
Speaker 3:it was crazy because I I competed against a very pro girl but, she couldn't do one trick I did, so I stuck with that trick, the fakie stall and variations, yeah, and she was like how come you can do that and you're beating me? Then she did like super complicated tricks and won. It was a good event, a good participation, yeah. The second one was indeed a competition and we divided it in levels and I went in intermediate and, yeah, I rehearsed like for two weeks the line because I couldn't do a complete line at the ball.
Speaker 3:The ball is the hardest thing for me. Balls, rams I'm good, but the ball is kind of like challenging. So I put together a line. And yeah, they were surprised Like wow, you could do that. Oh God, yeah, I did. Like a handstand drop in, but you know not the dead drop. Yeah, yeah, they were like wow, nobody did that the handstand drop in.
Speaker 2:Nice Now with your skating. When you first started at the skate school, you said you were the oldest and everybody else was teenagers. Did they just welcome you in like you were one of the guys, or did they kind of tease you about being old?
Speaker 3:No, they welcomed me. Like the rest of them, they never guessed that I was that old.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, you look pretty young, so.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they were like, oh, you must be 25 or something. I was like, thank you.
Speaker 2:You're like, yeah, close enough, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:No, they treated me like the rest of the girls. Yeah. Now is the skating community pretty supportive of each other down there. Yes, yes, very much yes. Recently we had a girl doing a video and she did an event and a screening and everybody went. We went to support her and she actually had a piñata for us with prizes. I was like, oh, that's so cute, did?
Speaker 3:it have like bearings and wheels and yeah, bearings, wheels, knee pads, helmet tools that must have been a big piñata no it was she put like papers, papers, oh, okay, yeah, so on the paper you oh, I want and candies oh, there we go yeah, no, we're very supportive. An example was the ball. You know we raised money yeah it was like maybe I don't know, I'm guessing more than one thousand two thousand dollars, something like that we raised that money all together to paint the ball. And then we went on the scheduled date and took turns to paint, and under the sun, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's kind of like you have to start with one side and work your way back to one spot so you can get out of the pool. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yes, but yeah, the community is pretty supportive in here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's one thing I've noticed about just the skating community in general it doesn't matter where you're at. It's kind of like it's that language. No matter what language you speak, if you skate you're family, so and it just doesn't matter. So I think we break down more barriers than a lot of other stuff, because every once in a while you have a few egos, but for the most part everybody you know we're at the roller rink and we help people that don't know how to skate. We have a thing called flow, flow motion, which is for, like the jam skaters and my friend will. He's pretty good he was a couple episodes ago and he gets out there and helps people and and learn new stuff about jam skating and stuff because he's been doing it for a long time. But it's just amazing how we have such a awesome community and you can go anywhere, even by yourself, and still feel welcome.
Speaker 3:Yes, totally, I was thinking about that the other day. I have people from Japan and TikTok that skates and I know if I go to Japan I'm going to have people to skate with.
Speaker 2:Nice. I've got a few people in England because I'm actually planning on going to germany this year and doing a race. So it's it's, you can go to england. I know people, uh, germany, columbia now, yes, please. So it's just, it's just amazing that I can turn it into a business, and the nice thing is is I can use it as a tax write-off.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's going to be a satisfying business.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, I mean as a pro you don't get paid like you do in, like the NFL, the NBA or Major League Baseball out here, but we have longer careers. Yeah, yeah, I mean like look at Tonyk, because he's been doing it since he was a kid and he's, I think, what 50 right around my age.
Speaker 3:So 52, 53 so still young I'm trying but no, I think that's a good time to be human, a good stage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly. So now, where do you see yourself taking skating now? Do you plan on going more competitions or turning pro, or what's your goal?
Speaker 3:I want to become pro. I want to fly. As I told you before, I always wanted to do those spins in the air. I mean ever since I saw it right, because I didn't know practically it existed until I started doing it. So I really want to get to do those tricks. I want to do a good handstand. I want to do the dead drop. Maybe I want to do a spin stall. I know the tricks. I want to do the dead drop. Maybe I want to do a spin stall. I know the tricks I want to do. So I would like to continue my journey and at some point become pro. But I have a lot of anxiety, like I want to do the tricks right away. And it has built patient, yeah, so, yeah, I'm not. I'm trying not to be in a rush. Yeah, so I want to take it, uh, as it comes yeah and I would like to develop more projects related to it.
Speaker 3:I had a a project called epic scape which was about taking the girls on trips roller trips, I called it so trips to visit other skate parks and nature. Okay, uh. Yeah, it was very ambitious, so it's kind of like on hold right now, but we did our first trip to a skate park that is five hours from here okay, one of the newest in the country.
Speaker 3:It's beautiful and it's right aside of hot springs. So you go skate your life out and then you get into the hot springs. That's cool, so it's a really nice plan and we have a lot of skate parks, like in the middle of nowhere, and Bogota has so many skate parks. So, yeah, colombia is a good destination to come for holidays and skate Nice yeah, my uncle is a good destination to come for holidays and skate Nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my uncle is a yoga instructor and what he was doing for a while is, twice a year he'd have a week-long retreat for yoga, yes, and people would pay to do it. So like that would actually be cool for you to set it up that way, where it's like, okay, this is how much the trip's going to cost Exactly, and then you like like get all the room and board and all that kind of stuff he camped.
Speaker 3:But I mean that's always an option too yeah, I know you have it in in the us with moxie. They have uh roller camps and stuff, but it's way bigger, way bigger yeah, the camps that they have.
Speaker 2:Um, I know a guy he was one of my guests. He teaches skateboarding in Santa Cruz, california, and it's one of those things where it's like a day camp type thing, so you go home afterwards. But I think it would be cool to travel and do like a retreat somewhere for a week. Yes, especially with hot springs right there, skate all day and then just go recover at night.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, it was amazing. Yeah, it was amazing. It was kind of like a bit an improvisation, hectic thing sometimes yeah you know, but it was our first trip. Uh, we had like eight people signing up. We meant to have 15, but yeah, so we we did when we did go and uh had some videos done and learned some tricks. Yeah, it was super fun. So I do see myself, uh, working in those kind of projects in the future and skating, yes so you're planning on making it a business also eventually making it part of my life.
Speaker 3:I'm already in in it, yeah yeah this last year. I'm not working in an office, I'm working on my own, because when I started skating I was like dude, I never have time to skate and my progression was slow. Yeah yeah slow.
Speaker 3:I would skate like every two weeks, every week, once every week and I was like I want more of this. So, yeah, I changed jobs. Then I was unemployed for a long time and skating helped me to manage that stress and stay focused. So I said to myself, how can I make this part of my life like a bigger part of my life? Okay, I'm going to become independent for good you know, and now I'm working on it and I have more time to skate.
Speaker 2:Yes, nice, because you were talking about skating today.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, I made time to skate today in the morning.
Speaker 2:I love skating in the morning time okay, yeah, for me it's whenever I get the opportunity and I usually skate three or four times a week, so but I do the speed skating side, so I don't yeah, at my age, the last thing I need to do is fall into a bowl and can't get out well, you know, I I know this guy from tiktok.
Speaker 3:He is I think he's my asian. He started with aggressive skating in balls okay yeah, and he records this process and I think, wow, that's very brave. Yeah, it's. You require a lot of bravery, courage to get into a ball, yeah, um, but practice makes it.
Speaker 2:Practice does the trick exactly, and that's the one thing I see. It's like in some of the skate groups I belong to on social media. They're like how do you get better at this? How do you bet? It's like, just, you keep skating, you can't. You can't go once and expect things to, um, be the way you want it or be able to land a trick the first time you try it. That's like going to the gym and leaving and wondering why you're not buffed so yeah it's like why don't I have an awesome body?
Speaker 2:I worked out once, so what we do.
Speaker 3:We get together with the best ones. Yeah, yeah, oh, this girl does the trick I want to do. I'm going to skate when she skates and we have a lot of uh whatsapp groups, we use that. Okay, and it's like I'm going to skate when she skates and we have a lot of uh whatsapp groups, we use that okay and it's like I'm going skating today.
Speaker 3:Anybody wants to go and so people join and nice skate together or take the lessons, yeah yeah, and that's the one thing about like especially your style, like my style has rules.
Speaker 2:the only thing I can get better at is my physical fitness, um, but like aggressive and skating ramps and stuff, there's new tricks that haven't been seen yet. So you've got the possibility of creating a trick that someone's never seen before.
Speaker 1:Like.
Speaker 2:I was at the X games when Tony Hawk hit the first 900. Wow, so it's it's. There's always stuff, and now people are doing just amazing stuff that I've never seen before and they do a new trick and that stuff goes viral. So and that's the nice thing about what you do is you've got that opportunity to come up with new stuff. There is no end to the style that you do.
Speaker 3:Yes, infinite possibilities.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 3:Infinite combinations.
Speaker 2:Now, when you go to do a competition, do you put a routine together or do you just go out there and do what you feel?
Speaker 3:It depends on the competition. We usually have to put a routine together. We call them lines.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:What you do. The path you roll on the park or the bowl is called line.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:The merrier the tricks you do on your line, the better. Yeah, so you do have to put it together.
Speaker 2:And do you have a time limit, then yes, sometimes we do have.
Speaker 3:And in that competition, uh, where I competed in the intermediate, I got third place.
Speaker 2:Third place, uh, it was one minute, uh, one minute line oh wow one minute yeah, it doesn't seem like a long time, but when you're actually doing something it seems like a long time yes and that's like my kids wrestled. And you know a three-minute match doesn't sound like a lot, but when you're watching them you're like why isn't this over yet?
Speaker 3:yeah, three minutes it's eternal forever so, but then?
Speaker 2:so, now that you're independent, like what did you transition like? You went from working in an office to being independent? Like what was your line of work that did that and I know being unemployed can be extremely stressful and how skating helped you. So what was that transition like?
Speaker 3:Well, I'm bilingual. I'm bilingual since a long time ago, so I I knew the possibilities of working online for me yeah and I did some research and applied for some jobs, but at some point it wasn't working.
Speaker 3:so I decided to go freelance with my skills. My, my main skill is my languages. There are the two languages that I can speak, and maybe my charisma, I don't know. So a few years ago, when COVID hit, I decided to teach because another friend told me like hey, you have a good English, why don't you start teaching? You can charge whatever you want.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and not being in a job 10 hours getting $1 per hour, yeah. And I was like, oh, I like that, I think I like that, and I started teaching. But then I got an office job so I stopped. So this past year I decided, yeah, maybe I can go back to teaching with what I gather. Yeah, with all the experience I have gathered these years and I started doing it and using a lot of tools different tools Also. I took a course on how to teach a language and that kind of gave me structure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I did like I like doing research. I'm a researcher, so I looked up for my possibilities and I also took a voiceover course. So I was doing voices and stuff and I was like, okay, the voices thing is not so profitable because you have to be connected or I have to have the right project. So I'm going to go for teaching and it went well. Now I have like 30 students.
Speaker 2:Nice, and you can make a pretty good living at that.
Speaker 3:Yes, totally, because you don't earn a minimum salary. You earn what you consider. Yeah, and I just raised my rate this month because so many students and I was like, okay, well, if you want to have lessons with me, I think this is what it's worth. Yeah, all that I offered, I think, is this price. There you go and yeah, it's been going good. I think they like it.
Speaker 2:There you go, and it's like skating the possibilities are endless.
Speaker 3:Yes, and actually learning a language is like skating. The possibilities are endless. Yes, and actually learning a language is like skating yeah so like I have more tools to teach now because I went through that process nice so now, who is one of your biggest influences for skating?
Speaker 3:jamaline flower okay, yeah I mean obviously estrogen, uh, michelle yeah uh, she's the influence of one of the biggest roller skaters in here yeah when I saw that girl is called she's called, her name is danny danny atom uh, she told me, yeah, this girl estrogen. I was like I think I know her and I saw her and I was like, wow, that's awesome. But also jamaline.
Speaker 3:I think more jamaline because she has a particular, particular style yeah, and she eats with her dog and she does the sickest, the sickest tricks and gnarliest tricks she and she has like this hippie style that is so cute. Like I don't understand how she keeps the hat on with a hat, yeah, but she's so sweet and she's crazy. It's like the perfect combo and all the tricks she does Like.
Speaker 2:I want to do them all, yeah, my biggest inspiration. And it was those two and one other that at least did the first round of roller jam. So, yeah, it's my biggest inspiration. And it was those two and one other that at least did the first round of roller jam.
Speaker 3:So yeah, I saw that I, I I sign up to HBO just because of them, the monthly crew. I wanted to see them.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Michelle Jama, and the other girl, big booty girl. I don't remember her name.
Speaker 2:There's no word if there's a second season yet. I asked. I asked Terrell when I had him on the show, but he said he does not know. And then when I had Honor roll on, I asked them I'm like, if they ask you to come back as a judge, like as a group, be one of the judges, would you guys do it? And they're like in a heartbeat. So it's, they love the show and they were actually the ones I picked to win the show from the beginning.
Speaker 3:Nice. I would love to go and see it live one day. It's just amazing what they do.
Speaker 2:We have an event in April coming up. It's called Mile High Rollers and it's more of like the jam skating. So you would like probably freak people out doing flips and stuff.
Speaker 3:No, but I do like jam skating. I'm learning too. It's just for me it's harder.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I do. I do have some tricks of roller dancing and and well, there you go. Yeah, I like it too.
Speaker 2:You can come to Denver and kind of hang out and hang out with everybody, because I think we're getting Honor Roll skate crew there. So Honor Roll and Terrell, it'll make for a fun weekend.
Speaker 3:Yeah, for a season for short holidays.
Speaker 2:Exactly a fun weekend, but, yeah, they've got a season for short holidays, exactly. And then uh, now what is your setup like? What do you use like boots?
Speaker 3:wheels bearings. What's your? Uh, I actually have my babies around one second. Yeah, I always have my babies around, like my cats. They are my support artifact.
Speaker 2:Mine are always in my car, because you never know.
Speaker 3:So these are my skates.
Speaker 3:They are like the traditional boot and it's a boot made in here in Colombia. Okay, it's a Colombian boot. So far I have narrow trucks. I haven't been able to change them them just yet and I'm not sure. I try, I've tried them and it feels like a bit weird, you know like, but it helps you with tricks like grinding and that kind of stuff. I have hard wheels. These are 101 uh, okay. I have these local sliders too. Nice I recently got them, Like I've been sliding for two months now two months and a half- Okay.
Speaker 3:And that's it.
Speaker 2:That's it. What about bearings? What kind of bearings do you use?
Speaker 3:I won on the competition. I won the this super popular bearings bone bearings bones. Yeah, so I got. Yeah, I want some bones bearings.
Speaker 2:and look at this they, they are good bearings. Yeah, Look, it doesn't stop. Nice, yeah, I have a lot of friends out here that when the cause I do inline but they use quads and when they switch over to bones they end up going faster. Yes, Sometimes they get too much speed and they kind of freak out and I'm like I love speed.
Speaker 3:It's like butter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love getting close to the walls when you're going around.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but with this hard wheels you slide, yeah. Going around, yeah, but with this hard wheels you slide, yeah, you like, you can, uh how you call that when you do this, uh, when you try to stop and you slide, slide like a hockey stop or slide or yeah, yeah these wheels allow you to do that, so sometimes it's, it's tricky, it's dangerous, you can fall they have like really tiny wheels that they call sliders, that are just designed for sliding across floors. Oh, yes, yes for aggressive ones, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I mean it's pretty interesting. But now what's your advice towards anybody coming into skating, Because I know you pretty recent with a couple of years ago, so what's your advice especially, um, I'm older, you're not exactly a young, young kid or teenager anymore, so what's your advice that people that want to try it and kind of freak out?
Speaker 3:Well, I would tell them right off the bat skating makes you younger, Definitely makes you younger.
Speaker 2:Definitely.
Speaker 3:Skating makes you younger. You should try it. If you want to do it. Maybe find a community. The right people will help you to have a good start, without injuries, most likely. Yeah, to have some consistency, to keep doing it, because it's not a thing that you're going to learn on on the first day or the second day, unless you're super talented. Yes, you can get it, but those are exceptions. Most people have a process to get to a trick, so you gotta start developing patience and hang out with the right people. I think that uh injects a lot of motivation yeah, not going alone.
Speaker 3:I mean, if you can do it with others, that's better, that's best. Yeah, and just have in mind what you want to accomplish, because any trick you want to do, you can do with practice and consistent and maybe support of other people. You can do it alone too, but other people's support is gonna boost the process and make it, make you get there faster absolutely so.
Speaker 2:Now, how can my listeners you?
Speaker 3:oh, thank you yeah, I'm on tiktok uh, I think it's wanderingmaga and I'm on instagram too. That's the main platform I use to communicate with people. It's also wanderingmaga at wanderingmaga, yeah so you can follow me there and, yeah, you can see what's coming soon.
Speaker 2:Awesome. Well, I appreciate you coming on the show.
Speaker 3:Thank you, sean, I had fun today. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2:All right Cool, thank you.
Speaker 3:Thank you, bye you, thank you, thank you.