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When you come around by those stairs I just knew there was going to be some big stunt off of them..........:tongue::biggrin:
 
I had lunch with Paul today and we talked about skating rinks after he showed me his video and found out we both met our first wives at a skating rink. Damn near ruined my lunch, but it's hard to ruin a Cattleman's Burger.
 
I grew up on skates, even tried roller derby as a teen.
Now my 58 year old ass is way too big and out of shape for that.
I applaud your efforts, I'm working out now, trying to get in a little better shape.
maybe one day, I'll take the grandkids skating.

Thanks for the vid, keep up the skating.
 
Never did derby. I was more interested in speed skating. Grew up skating, and drifted in and out of it over the years. I still have kids at home, and they love to go to the rink as well. Just got into outdoors, on regular quads. Don't get along with inlines. I have all the pads for out doors, including the 'bum saver' :). It's like padded bike shorts for my thighs, hips and tail bone. Haven't tested them so far, which is a good thing!
 
I used to do that, until I shattered my ankle. not skating but on my day job. doc said no more skating or skiing for me.

one reason to take up turning.

IAN
 
At 72, my skating days are past, but as a teen, the local skating rink was a standard Friday night destination. But I learned to skate on the sidewalk with skates that strapped and clamped to my street shoes! A skating rink was the height of luxury!
 
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Ahhhh yes, old people reminiscing!:biggrin:
My wife and I skated for many years tugging younger siblings along with us. Lots of good times in a skating rink.
I had not been on/in a rink for many years when I started taking my grandchildren skating first for a school skate and then the weekly cheap skate night. I had to laugh the first night I took them. The music has changed but the drama of young people figuring out their lives was still the same. I think the same kids that would sneak out around the corner for a smoke were still there, only now their on oxygen and its their grandkids doing the sneaking around the corner. I had to give it up my ankles wont take it any more, Arthur had something to say about that.
 
sbwertz said:
At 72, my skating days are past, but as a teen, the local skating rink was a standard Friday night destination. But I learned to skate on the sidewalk with skates that strapped and clamped to my street shoes! A skating rink was the height of luxury!
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Learned on the strap on steel wheel skates myself. I have made a friend at the rink that is 74. Skates just to keep up balance and moving. Wears all the pads I wear out doors while skating the rink. Came in with a black eye one time. Said a little skater got tangled with him, then fell on him when they went down!
 
Hey Roy,
Good on you...(at your age)... even when I was 17 and still in high school, I could not stand on a pair of skates... I rarely every trip, am pretty steady on my feet, but if you put wheels on them, they go every way but the way I'm headed... same with Ice skates... my senior trip in HS we went to Colorado Springs and stayed at some famous hotel there that had an ice rink... being east Texan, we'd never been ice skating, so the class tried it... first rattle both feet went out from under me and some one fell backwards across my knees, felt like they were bent backwards and I hung up my skates - permanently.

BTW, it's been at least 30-40 years ago at least, but my mother was a waitress at a Cattleman's in OKC... and think there was one in Tulsa also that she worked at...
she and her second husband lived in and around Oklahoma for over 20 years until he died then she moved back to Texas...
 
Used to go roller skating all the time with my ex girlfriend in Ohio back in the 80's. It was a cheap way to date.. Don't remember the last time I was on roller skates. Never learned how to ice skate..
 
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