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louiejoyce · 8 days

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Godzilla: Skate or Die! Issue 1 cover process. 🦖🤙🛼🛹🛼🛹🤙🦖

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simply-irritable · 8 months

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#roller skates #roller skating #rollerskating #quad skates #roller girls #skater girls #skate tricks #roller girl #skating

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1451514-emojis · 2 months

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Roller skate! Specifically, a quad style skate used in roller derby! I've been playing for 6 years, so I figured this would be a fun one to put out there :D

(This totally isn't kind of modeled after my actual skates)

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saccharine-dreamer · 29 days

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Julien Fournié 2022 Spring/Summer Collection

#julien fournie #fashion #runway #hautecouture #haute couture #roller skating #quad skates #looks #2022 #roller disco

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womenties · 2 months

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Jamming it up in Roller Derby

Had I been in this rink before? If so, it was back in Junior high school in the late 1970s, when roller skating added music, lights, and fun to a teen’s life. If you were lucky, the rink dimmed the overhead lights so strobes and fluorescent lighting illuminated the ground where your quad skates slid across the wooden floor. But today was 2024 and this ole 59’er hadn’t tried roller skating since she was a teen, making this new sport of Roller Derby an interesting prospect. The thing that happens as you approach your sixth decade of life is your center of weight shifts as your weight increases. Sure, I run half marathons, but that’s easy when your feet hit the pavement and nothing is rolling beneath you. I think my last 8-mile run, which took over an hour, was easier than standing on roller skates for one hour. New experiences give you realistic points of view you wouldn’t gain otherwise.

So, there I was, along with one other 50-year-old woman celebrating her birthday by trying roller derby, and twenty 20- and 30-year-olds, prime for the adventure. The women there were fantastic – friendly, some apprehensive like me, some excellent at the sport already, and accepting of all others in the room. No matter your size, age, gender identification, or skill, every woman was welcome, just like rugby. The Central New York Roller Derby organization based in my hometown of Rome, NY was well organized and coached. Their leaders made sure we had the essential equipment on – helmet, elbow pads, mouth guards, wrist guards, knee pads, and quad skates. For $50, you get all the rented equipment plus eight weeks of lessons and activity making it a reasonably priced sport to try. They were patient and helpful with the newbies.

Like every sport, we began with warmups. I particularly liked doing pushups and sit-ups with roller skates on. It added some weight to the exercises. Then it was time to stand up and try gliding on the skates. I say this with the hesitation that’s intended. It takes a while to find your center of gravity and fearlessness to push off, glide, and stop without falling down. Okay, I did fall two times until I figured out to lean forward not back in my stance. Like anything in life, you have to adjust to new centers of balance. Then we got off our skates and learned about the key derby positions of jammers and blockers and did a few activities like getting into positions as blockers to stop the jammers and how to become a pivot blocker if you receive the jammer star/cover when it is handed to you. What I learned only from this small exercise is I need to watch a YouTube video on roller derby to piece it all together so I understand it better the next time I try it. I did this before trying rugby and it helped my comprehension level immediately. Don’t call it necessary due to my age, but rather because I learn best by seeing, and not hearing.

As our two-hour stint came to an end, we gathered for a group photo as buddies who experienced something new and fun for the first time. I vowed to go back next week to try it again since I felt it needed more time to say I tried the sport. I already have a new group of Syracuse roller derby sisters who want to carpool to Rome and a new roller derby name to try out – Pinky Habanero. Every roller derby chick has a nickname. I met Squash, BAM, Dead, Sunshine, Meli, and more. All I can tell you is if you want to feel young again (in some ways) and old (in other ways), try out roller derby at your local skating rink. Put on those four quads, helmet, and find your center of balance, smile, give yourself a badass name, and get into the rink. I promise you’ll smile, laugh at yourself, and even realize you can be humble, and somewhat graceful while trying something new.

#Roller Derby #Roller Skating #Quad Skates #Women who Roller Skate #Rome NU

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allisonperryart · 3 months

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Another one of my favourite pre-vis paintings that never quite found its way into the show: at one point, we were playing around with the idea that we'd see Eric skating at this roller rink and quietly reflecting on his time with Carol during the credits of one the early episodes, but it never quite panned out. To be fair, that'd be a really ambitious undertaking for a section of the episode most people skip anyways - plus, we already have a skating sequence in episode 7 that I think is far more impactful. Sometimes an idea can be good on its own, but still not quite the right fit for the bigger picture! Thanks for looking, and watch Carol and the End of the World on Netflix! Showrunner: Dan Guterman BG design: Alex Myung Art direction: @ellemichalka

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trashyraccoonsworld · 1 year

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2011 seems wild 😭😭

#roller derby #rollerskates #derby #quad skates #roller girl #whip it

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damnpaws · 2 months

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Sc skate today. Having broken my legs only strengthens my broken ankle manuals :3

#quad skates #aggressive quad skates #skatepark #damnpaws #damn paws #me

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bearheadwood · 4 months

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Did my first wee drop in a the skate park on holidays. Phenomenally steady film work by the youngest one. :) Now it's not scary any more, I can move on to bigger and dumber things.

#quad skates #roller skating

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louiejoyce · 13 days

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First interview and interior art for Godzilla: Skate or Die! Read here: https://godzilla.com/blogs/news/louie-joyce-godzilla-skate-or-die-comic-book-interview

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simply-irritable · 1 year

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Silly rollerskate tricks :)

#rollerskating #roller skating #roller skates #quad skates #roller girls #skater girls #skate tricks #roller girl #california #skating

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cheezyratz · 9 months

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These are so cute!!

#Skates #sky #clouds #blue #quad skates #roller skates #The wheels are cute too!!!

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20dollarlolita · 2 years

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Pink and that time I refused to let my Bodyline tea parties die, part 6

My poor bodyline tea parties.

Bought in nov 2011 for $39, sole fell off. Glued on the sole. Other shoe's toe blew out, repaired the toe, lasted for about two years until the toe blew out again and the sole cracked in half, fixed with a leather repair kit and a chunk I cut out of a couch I found on the side of the road, painted them gold. I've had these shoes longer than I've had my bipolar diagnosis.

I give you

one of the stupidest things I've ever made:

Tea party quad skates.

#lolita fashion #quad skates #these are not safe and i will not be making a tutorial #at least not until i stabilize the soles because these have zero edge control right now #these shoes are not almost $40 now #I think babylita me didn't know that you have to wait until you get big sales on Bodyline and overpaid #those shoes are $26 now

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fitgothgirl · 2 years

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Pros of going to the skate rink: - The surface is much easier than outdoors - Cool lights & DJ playing music - Fans/air conditioning (I’ve gotten pretty hot in my backyard after only 15 minutes or so since it’s been really warm lately) - I think falling hurts less in terms of both texture and hardness - Can skate longer without getting fatigued

Cons of the skate rink: - Children. But easily abated by opting for 18+ skate nights (Wed 8pm-11pm and Friday 10pm-1am) - TBH I more so blame the parents that don’t teach basic etiquette. It has nothing to do with being an expert (I’ve literally been skating 2 days), it’s just common sense stuff... - Can only turn one direction - Obviously doesn’t help me get skilled at skating outside or uphill/downhill, etc. - Costs money ($12-$15 depending on which local rink I go to. $15 for the rink that has the 18+ skate nights)

But man, the rink was so smooth. I went from very wobbly outdoors to skating on one foot at the rink (I also had loosened my trucks) - nothing crazy but I was getting in good practice just balancing on one foot. I think I’d like to go to the rink once a week or so for the most ideal practice and then do more outdoors in a parking lot or something.

I also have my first skate bruise! All the YouTubes I’ve watched about skating says everyone falls no matter how good you are and “if you’re not falling, you’re not skating” haha. It’s on my upper outer thigh/lower butt since I landed kinda on the side of my butt (the ideal way to fall!). It was one of three times I fell haha. I had a sweater tied around my waist so I think that helped because it didn’t really hurt at all despite the bruise!

Also, my shoulders are super sore?? Was not expecting that. I think just from using them to balance and holding them out, etc. Also the other two times I fell, unfortunately my arms took some of the force (not the way to fall) so I wonder if that contributed too. I don’t feel injured though, just sore in my legs and arms like I had a good workout (cuz I did!).

#for the record i wear wrist guards and knee pads #but wrists are still sensitive and you shouldn't use your arms to break your fall #if you can help it - falling is such a split second thing and my brain still needs to learn some muscle memory #mine #fitblr #fitness #personal fitblr #health #healthblr #healthy #exercise #workout #weight loss #healthy weight loss #roller skating #quad skates #roller rink

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skullasteroid · 4 months

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“That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.” - George Foreman

#skullasteroid #skullart #weird #art #rolling girl #rolling #roller skating #rollerskates #halfpipe #quads #quad skates #skatergirl #skatelikeagirl #skatelife #roller skates

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rexycrazy · 1 year

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Vrenda 💘

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