New link added
Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by RST_news
Check out the links page for this new addition:
Urban Skate Links
An Online Resource Station for Avid, R&B Skaters
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An Online Resource Station for Avid, R&B Skaters |
Check out the links page for this new addition:
Urban Skate Links
A reader is seeking to find a former rink owner in the Ypsilanti, Michigan area. If you have any helpful information, please contact him. Here is the message RST received:
I’m trying to contact James Edwards, owner of a skating rink in Ypsilanti, MI that burned down in Jan, 2007. Do you have any information on how to reach him. I have an opportunity for him to get involved in another rink in Ypsilanti. Thanks for your help.
Jack Parr
2 Corporate Drive, Suite 300
Southfield, MI 48076
Direct 248 226 1638
Fax 248 226 1639
jack.parr@colliers.com
Last month a member of the Boston Celtics proudly let it be known that he loves to roller skate and believes he’s the best skater in the NBA. Rajon Rondo also shared that he picked up a lot of his skills skating trios in Louisville, Kentucky. Read more in this Black Voices feature entitled: ”Celtics Rajon Rondo is Serious About Roller Skating.”
Those who suffer from diabetes are encouraged to regularly engage in aerobic exercise and keep their blood sugar levels low. Roller skating is a good way to accomplish both. Read more about that in Diabetes Globe.
A reader suggested we start a maintenance category, so we did, and he recommended this page on how to take care of your Bones bearings. Here’s an illustration of a bearing:
Read valuable tips and guidelines in: Maintaining Your Bones Bearings.
This article speaks of the benefits of skating for children but it follows the benefits extend to teens and adults as well.
….Skating … when mastered works such muscle groups as quads, thighs, buns and calfs. Serious skaters who twist and make tight turns are strengthening their backs while also working their abdominal muscles. Moreover, crouching while skating benefits the arms and chest while toning muscles.
Roller skating provides a complete aerobic workout, and involves all of the body’s muscles, especially the heart.
Read more in Skating for Life, (East Texas Review).
RST received this letter from a soulful Island skater:
I am certainly happy to have found your web page. My name is Henry Harper and I have been roller-skating since I was eight years old. I will be sixty three on April 2nd 2008!
I live in Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean and roller skate on weekends around what is known as our Queen’s Park savannah, a three-mile, almost-circular route. I have roller skated in London (UK) - where I lived for ten years - and in Paris.
In Trinidad & Tobago very few people roller skate. In days of old when men were bold we had a club called the Red Circle Roller Skating Club. We put on exhibitions and had racing competitions. For one reason or another the sport is on hold in T&T. So, I stand out like a sore thumb when skating on my quads around the savannah on weekends.
Fact is, I enjoy it! I skate to electronic music and our local “Soca” music.
Thanks for sharing your skate love with us, Henry.
In early March, I visited Chicago, Illinois and had the pleasure of rolling at The Rink’s 30+ Sunday night Smooth Groove session from 5-9 p.m. I arrived an hour and a half into the session and found the parking lot full and the rink packed with 300+ adults who love getting their weekly roll on. Smooth groove R&B was definitely the theme with the DJ mixing it all up right with precision and skill. At one point, he even, (to my surprise), threw in “Emotion” by the BeeGees on the backward, trio skate and it was very enjoyable watching those trio sets with their smooth crossovers and synchronization. True skate class indeed!!
While in the area, I also visited Rich City Skate on a Saturday night but it was the 1st weekend of the month which is reserved for the monthly teen skate/juke jam. The rink was packed with young folks – skaters and dancers – so no rolling was in store for me, however, it was nice to see a Black owned rink providing such an outlet for the youngsters rather than see them out on the street.
Visit the RST Roll or Black Rinks pages for more on rink locations and session times for The Rink and Rich City Skate.
Check out new listings on the Links page for:
Orbit Skate Center and
Sk8 Addix
Visit the RST Roll page for updated adult sessions at these Illinois rinks:
The Rink
Rich City Skate
