first day!
first day!
after about nine months of dreaming and pining and putting it off because of money, i finally got me some inline skates and i am so happy with them.
i used to do a bit of aggressive inline years ago, and last winter i got the idea in me to start skating again for some reason, and the idea would not leave me be. i was hesitant to order something online though without being able to try it on first, but i found a physical skate shop with what i wanted only like an hour and half drive away.
so i hit the road this morning, and not only did i manage to get exactly the skates i wanted, sized perfectly, and they were on sale, but the dude (Gil) at the shop threw in a free t-shirt and some wax too. big shout out to roller warehouse in rocklin, CA.
i then took them to a local rink, and was pleasantly surprised that i hadn't lost all of my skills over the past decade. i did take one tumble when trying to hop out of fakie, but i had a hell of a time overall.
Congrats! What was the wax for? Is it to help maintain the skates?
oh, it's for like, rubbing on kerbs and rails and stuff so you can grind smoother. i honestly never managed to nail a grind back in the day, but i might give it a try again one of these days.
Nice. Just a word of caution. Take it very slowly. I too bought some skates of a whim after a decade of not rolling, and although I still had the muscle memory to land many grinds, I no longer had the muscles to hold them, and came very close to overextending my knee tendons/ligaments. Unfortunately I then moved far away from anywhere I could roll regularly, so I didn't keep it up.