Finding Rhythm on Wheels: Sandra Rankin’s Journey of Passion and Community in Roller Skating

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Roller skating isn't just a pastime; it's a journey of resilience, passion, and community. Sandra Rankin, our inspiring guest, takes us on her personal skating adventure, which began with a pair of roller skates gifted by her daughter during a challenging phase in her life. Sandra's story is one of determination and humor, as she candidly shares her early tumbles and how she bounced back with renewed vigor. With the support of a vibrant skating community, Sandra embraced the falls and found her rhythm, proving that age is just a number when it comes to chasing your passions.

Our conversation doesn't just stop with personal stories; we unravel the fitness potential of skating and how it can be a fun alternative to traditional workouts. We'll talk about how re-watching skating videos can help perfect your technique and develop a unique style, all while understanding the role of ADHD in learning new skills. Capturing the thrill of skating with a GoPro adds a whole new dimension to the experience, and we humorously explore the reactions to the footage, alongside tips on safety gear like padded shorts for the cautious beginners out there. 

The magic of skating lies in its community—a place where camaraderie flourishes and personal growth is a shared endeavor. Join us as we discuss how skating offers freedom and a sense of connection, just as Sandra found her own groove amongst seasoned skaters. From exploring new skating adventures to organizing themed events, we're on a mission to spread the joy of skating far and wide, with aspirations of inspiring others to take up this exciting sport. Whether you're a newbie or a seasoned pro, this episode promises to rekindle your love for skating and the incredible community that surrounds it.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
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(00:30):
and influencers in the industry.
So sit back, relax and getready for an exciting journey
into the world of skating.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Welcome to how Do you Skate.
I am your host, sean Egan, andmy guest today is Sandra Rankin,
so tell us how your skatingstory started and like when the
beginning, and how old you were.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
All right, well, as you know, my name is Sandra or
Sandra, whatever you want tocall me.
Actually, honestly, in 2000, inDecember 2000, my daughter
asked me what I wanted forChristmas and I just went
through a hard loss.
You know, I lost my nephew,lost my brother, my close aunt

(01:13):
and uncle, all in the same year,and I was like you know what I
need to just get out of this,because I just was drowning
myself in depression and I justasked my daughter because she
asked me, what did I want forChristmas?
And I was like some rollerskates.
So in 2000, I ended up gettingthe skates.
I didn't really skate too much,just here and there in 2001.

(01:38):
But late 2001, october Ibelieve, there was a post out
here in Facebook and it was forAdult Roller Skate Night and I
was like, hey, I would like todabble in that a little bit.
I already have my skates.
They're these little Chicagoskates.

(02:00):
Yeah, they were Chicago's.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I know those.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, I think I almost died like eight times
that night.
I didn't know what the hell Iwas doing, but I went out there.
I didn't care if I made myselflook like a fool, I just wanted
to do it.
Mind, you already had theseskates almost a year yeah and I
want to put them on a few timesjust to see what you know, just
to get the full of it.
Put them on a few times just tosee what you know, just to get

(02:27):
the feel of it.
Well, anyways, make that storyand, um, I started getting into
it and then that was in 2000.
2001 was that skate night?
Let me see 2003.
I took a little bit of a breakof personal issues, you know,
and I couldn't.
I just wasn't able to make itout to the rink or even to put
my skates on.

(02:48):
Uh, this year no wait, I'mgetting confused, because this
year is 25, 2004, 24, lateFebruary.
I want to say that's when Idecided we're going to go back
to the rink.
I'm going to try this again.
And ever since then, since lastyear, the ending of February, I

(03:10):
started getting into it and Iwas determined to learn.
I saw girls and guys that havebeen on skates for years.
I'm talking about years.
One says she was born on skates, the other one's been skating
for like 20 plus years.
I'm talking about years.
One says she was born on skates, the other one's been skating
for like 20 plus years, and thenthe guys have been skating also
for 30, 40 years, and I waslike I want to be like them.

(03:34):
Little did I know I was goingto just do it.
I did it for myself.
You know it was like I keptfalling.
I fall all the time and youknow I was determined to do
something that nobody was doing.
At the rink, at our local rink,you know, I saw them going

(03:57):
around in circles doing littlemoves here and there, but I was
switching, gonna sometimes in myhead like, oh, I could do this,
I could do this.
No, I can't, no, I couldn't.
But I learned.
Hey, the more time you go, it'sthe fact that you're doing
something, you're trying tolearn something.

(04:18):
And I did it.
And little by little, I startedtrying to do crazy legs, do
snake, walk, turns or spins,spins.
There you go, the spins,anything and everything you
think about.
I really tried to interpret justby looking at videos.
I watched countless amount ofvideos on just seeing.

(04:41):
I have real bad ADHD.
I can't sit there and hearpeople just talking.
Just show me what you've got,baby, and I'll try to mimic you
as much as I can.
That's so bad, right?
But yeah, I started doing itthis past year and you know I
surprised myself.
I think I surprised myself andthe group that we skate with on

(05:04):
the weekends because, you know,now I'm able to show them what
I'm learning on my own and it'spretty neat because I never
expected for me to be showingthem.
I was expecting them to show me, but it was totally different.
I think it's a neat experience,scary a lot of times because

(05:30):
I'm I'm 45 almost.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
I don't want to break something well, I'm a little
older than you and I haven'tbroken anything skating, so that
makes you feel better.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
I'm gonna lock on work for you, but no, yeah, it's
just, it's been fun.
Uh, my kids do get after mewhenever I go outside and skate
because I tend not to wear mysafety gear.
And uh, yeah, I can't be doingthat to myself.
But yeah, this year I amdetermined to learn new things,
drill the things I've alreadylearned and just, you know, see

(06:02):
what I could come up with.
You know, find my own flow.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now, do you consider yourself like a jam skater, or
artistic or rhythm skater?
Or there's so many differentstyles that they or names they
call it now.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
I don't know what I would consider.
I always say I'm a beginnerstill.
But the guy that we skate withKelly, he says, no, I'm past the
beginner and I'm like, I stillfeel like I'm a beginner.
You know, I haven't had thatmany years under my belt being
on my skate.
So me really being on my skatesthis one year, I still feel

(06:36):
like, hey, I'm a beginner.
I don't care what anybody says,I am still a beginner, you know
.
But that's just me.
I guess I just humble myself alittle bit to know that I'm not
there yet yeah well, the nicething about skating is that it's
always.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
There's never a master skater, because there's
always new things to learn, newthings to try and everything,
and if it makes you feel anybetter.
One of the best freestyleskaters I know probably in the
country has only been skatingfor two and a half years, so
it's it's it's not about time orhow long you've been skating.

(07:13):
It's about how much you putinto skating.
So and I've seen your videos soI know you've got skills.
So I would say at leastintermediate.
So well, I'm still gonna besaying beginner but I mean, like
everything though, it's likeyou always learn, it's like a
learning process.
So I mean and I know you'vealready expressed that you went

(07:37):
through a bunch of differentstuff how has skating kind of
been that escape for you withthe stuff you've been going
through or went through?

Speaker 3 (07:45):
um, I don't think about a lot of things when I'm
skating.
I'm more just in that moment.
Honestly, like everything,anything just leaves my dog.
You probably saw that chickenfly across the room.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
I didn't see anything .

Speaker 3 (08:05):
I just heard a thump they threw a chicken in here.
Oh my gosh.
No, but I'm sorry.
I am so sorry it goes to dark,I don't know.
Yeah, that's my adult childthey always try to interrupt nah

(08:27):
, he's just, he's just Alan.
No, but yeah, um what was Ieven saying again, yeah, about
how, when you're skating, youdon't think about anything.
You're like just focused onskating yeah, I honestly just um
, just that, like everythingelse, leaves me.
I don't even bother with myphone.
A lot of times here lately Ihave been getting to this little

(08:48):
habit where I know everybodysays you need to record yourself
.
Every time you get on yourskates you need to record
yourself.
I just been feeling like thisyear I really don't want to
record too much.
Um, I feel like now is the timethat I should be able to fill it
a little bit more, but videosdo, because sometimes I'm like,
ooh, that's where I miss up,that's what I'm doing wrong.

(09:09):
And you know, when I first gotstarted, everybody was like, oh,
you need to use this edge, youneed to use that edge.
I'm like, what the hell is anedge?
What is an edge?
You know I don't get it, butyeah, you know, focusing on all
that, you know, but, yeah, youknow, focusing on all that, you
know, on my feet and just myposture has helped me not to be
in my depressing states.
And, yeah, I feel, I feel happywhen I'm on my skates, honestly

(09:36):
Well.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
When you take your skates off, though, do you still
kind of have that high and getexcited about the next time you
get to skate.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh, hell, yeah, Definitely, definitely,
definitely.
I'm ready.
I go onto YouTube or eitherInstagram on my save videos and,
honestly, I watch the samevideo over and over from the
same people, just for I couldsee.
You know there.
I know it's like I'm hey,you're watching that like a
hundred times, but you know what, maybe I need that, I need that
.
I just focusing on their feetand then go from there.

(10:06):
You know, like I said, thatadhd really does kick in.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I cannot sit through videos that talk a lot yeah, and
it's you kind of watch, butit's like watching the same
video.
Then you kind of help perfectthe technique, but then at the
same time it also helps developyour own style.
You learn the technique, butyou do develop the same
technique with your own style orflair.
So and don't listen to peoplethat say you need this edge or

(10:31):
that edge or this edge.
It's everything is personalized.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
When it comes to skating, nobody has the same two
things in skating I felt likethat too, because when they
would tell me, hey, you're doingthis, just do this.
I'm like I don't know what anedge is, you know.
But once I started trying tomimic a move, then I started um,
like I'll turn to my right andthen all my weight will be on
one side, which I didn't knowwhere weight's supposed to be at

(10:57):
.
But little by little I got thefeel for it and then I learned
edges.
Really crazy, how I learnededges was acting.
I was acting like I was skatingdown the slope with my two
knees just going back and forth,and that's how I was learning
my edges.
Now I just pass everybody doingthose little circles.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Nice, I like skating fast.
What's fun is do you have aGoPro?
No, I don't.
I have a GoPro with a headbandand one night I like put it up,
put it on and skated.
What it looks like for me toskate.
I'm like weaving in and out ofeverybody because I do speed
skating, so I just like to gofast.
So and it's funny because Igave somebody anxiety because

(11:37):
they were watching it and beweaving in and out of people.
But it's kind of cool to wearthen.
That way you can get like whateverybody else is doing around
the rink too.
So it's kind of cool to wearthen.
That way you can get like whateverybody else is doing around
the rink too.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
So it's just a fun little thing to give people
stress so you should have one inthe front and in the back my
dash cam, just in case I get ina wreck.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
So hey, those are helpful nowadays so now, when
you're asked your daughter forskates, what was like, what was
like the whole your daughter forskates?
What was like?
What was like the wholereasoning for getting skates,
like, what was the?
What were you thinking at thattime?
Like why skates?
Cause she could have gotten youa gym membership, a jump rope,
a bike?

(12:16):
Uh well, you're in Texas, sonot skis.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Um, I know Right, I'm gonna go ski the sandbars over
there it could be fun.
I bet.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
But like why skating?

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Why skating?
I honestly, I just saw a videoone day and it was on YouTube,
no, it was on Pinterest.
It was on Pinterest.
I was scrolling down my wholelittle wall of Pinterest and I
saw a girl on skates and I'mlike man, I'm already in my
forties, I need to do something.
You know, I hardly ever like towork out anymore.

(12:55):
You know, you get that.
You understand right.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Cardio in the gym is the worst.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
This is my gym.
Is lifting the food to my mouth?
But no, yeah, I just saw thatvideo on Pinterest and I was
like that's, that's what I wantto do that.
And I know everybody was goingthrough the whole COVID thing
and stuff, but that's not reallywhat got me started with the
whole COVID thing.
No, I wasn't one of them.
I was more at the very, veryend of it.

(13:25):
Like I said, I got my skates inDecember of 2000 and really
didn't use them until 2001.
So, yeah, it started with thatand I was like I can't get older
and not do something.
I kayak, fish, I love to fish,so I wanted to do something
totally different from what Iwas used to.
I love to fish, so I wanted todo something totally different

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from what I was used to.
I saw that this girl was justflying in the wind and I was
like I want to fly, I want tofly.
Yeah, I flew, but I keptfalling and I kept getting up.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
That's the thing it's like.
When anybody learns how toskate, they have to fall.
The people that are afraid tofall will never get it down.
The guy that taught me how toinline skate he just kept
knocking me over.
He made me fall on purpose,like he was constantly.
So then once you get past thatfear of falling because you know
you're going to fall, theneverything else kind of falls

(14:18):
into place.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
So what sucks is sometimes I could gracefully
fall.
Other times I fall like a bagof potatoes.
It's like holy shit, I justhurt myself.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's all part of the game.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, and I tell the girls too, because there's some
girls like how do you do that?
I'm like, well, this is the wayI do it.
And then they fall.
I don't want to do it becauseI'm going to fall.
I'm like you know what?
What I've been told.
If you're not falling, you'renot trying.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
You're not really trying and I did learn that
Doing all that is building themuscle and muscle memory.
I'm grateful for all thosefalls I fell the other night.
I'm going to take it and I'mgoing to go with it.
I just hope I don't breakanything, yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
They do make padded shorts for the ones that are
afraid to fall.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, I see that I don't want to walk around with
no diaper man.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
That's why you wear the flowing, flowing dress.
Just so well.
I, not me, you.
You wear the flowing dress withthe pads underneath.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Oh you know what?
That's a good idea, that'ssmart.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
So where out in Texas are you?

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Oh, I'm in Victoria, texas, all the way down South.
I'm 20 minutes from the Gulf.
Like I said, uh, uh, right,here you go fishing, you go
skating.
The good thing about us overhere, we do have a local rink in
our town yeah so I'm just sixminutes away from it nice.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, skating is huge in texas.
My friend robbie that I wastelling you about that's only
been skating for two and a half.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
He just moved to texas so he's tearing up the
rinks out there in Texas andeverything, and I know Texas has
a huge skate culture, so yeah,well, I think more of up north
has more of the skate culturecompared to down here, because
down here I want to say there'sonly about it's going to be
Crystal, kelly, lee, ashley.

(16:13):
Those are the four that reallygo like Fridays and Saturdays,
besides myself.
But you really, there's not abig group of adults that go,
which is sad, you know, but it'sokay, it'll get there, you know
, like they say, it is getting acomeback and I'm like okay,
cool, like it's cool, I likethat.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
It's'm like okay cool , like that's cool, I like that
well, that's what I'm, that'swhat I'm hoping the podcast does
is help people kind of likespread skating, more awareness
of skating, and everything tooit's so so much freedom, like
honestly, and you know, and I Iget why people get scared of
skating?

Speaker 3 (16:53):
because they don't want to fall, they don't't want
to get embarrassed.
But you know, I always feellike, hey, I'm skating for
myself, I'm skating for me andme only, and I skate like
nobody's watching me.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
I feel like nobody is .
But you know, little do I know.
They do Because they ask mequestions.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
I'm like, hey, I've just been doing this for a year,
but I'll show you what I knowlike come yeah, exactly, and
that's the nice thing about theskate culture and the skate
family is that we all kind ofstick together.
There's really no at least notat my rink, um, or the rinks
that I go to we don't reallyhave beefs with other people.
It's like we're all there tosupport each other and every
once in a while you get that oneperson that kind of has an

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attitude that'll just rub youthe wrong way.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
The chingones, yes them I actually do know what
that means.
I get it.
I see videos sometimes and I'mlike, oh, that looks cool, but
you could tell some people onthese videos is like, oh, I feel
mad for her.
But hey, kudos to everybody,because you know what they're

(17:59):
doing, stuff they like to do,you know.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, and it's like I said earlier, doing cardio in
the gym.
It's like you get five minuteson the treadmill and you're like
, damn, it's only been fiveminutes, but at the roller rink
like two hours later, what doyou mean?
The final song, yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
But at the roller rink like two hours later.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
What do you mean?
The final song?

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, I know you right, it's just totally
different when you're doingsomething that you enjoy doing
as far as it's hard to call itexercise, when it's actually fun
.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
I call it exercise.
Don't tell anybody else that,because I tell my kids it's my
exercise.
It is Actually skating is likeone of the highest
calorie-burning can do.
So if if you didn't know that,now you've got that piece of
information.
So now you got you know, go eatpizza and then go skate and
you're fine.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
I'm going to go skate with the pizza in my mouth.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
But if it gets on the rink floor then it's like you
know, it gets all slippery.
So yeah, I don't like that doyou do a lot of outside skating
too, or is it just mainly at therink?

Speaker 3 (18:58):
once in a while I do go outside, uh, but mostly it's
in the rink or right here in myroom.
I love being right here in myroom because I'm by myself.
I listen to what I want tolisten to, um and yeah, uh, here
we have our little riversidepark, here they have a nice
little trail.
I've done it a few times.
It's nice, it's really reallynice.

(19:18):
But you know, I'm ready to godo adventures.
Honestly, I want to branch out,go different places, even if
it's by myself.
You know, I don't mind ridingsolo, you know.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
I was born alone.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
I'm going to die alone.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Well, in April, coming up in april, we have an
event out here called mile highrollers, which is a huge, like
it's jam skating, artisticskating.
So I mean, if you really wantto come and learn and I think
I'm actually trying to work ongetting honor roll skate crew
that won roller jam out for that, and then also torell ferguson,
the judge trying to get themout here for that, and then also
Terrell Ferguson, the judge,trying to get them out here for
that.
So I mean, if you want like afun event, cause people come

(19:59):
from all over for that thing,and it's like the whole week and
it's like a three day event.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Well, you know what?
You will definitely have tosend me that link because I'm
this.
Last year I took my first evertrip out of state, my first ever
trip out of state, and I wentto vegas out of all places,
right, vegas.
I didn't go there for a goodtime, I just went there for a
happy memory.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
My friend got married over there so okay, and they
have some good drinks there too.
Did you bring your skates?
I?

Speaker 3 (20:28):
didn't even get to go skating over there.
I wanted to, but we're sooccupied in doing all the
wedding stuff that it was like,and plus, I was with them.
So it was like I want to leavey'all.
But they're like, I didn't wantto be rude and be very selfish.
I was there with them and youknow, I just didn't want to be

(20:48):
selfish and just think aboutmyself and leave my people.
So, yeah, unfortunately Ididn't get to skate anywhere,
even though I took my skateswith me.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Always got to take your skates with you.
So what's like your futureplans with skate, like, how far
do you want to take it?

Speaker 3 (21:06):
I want to take it where it can take me.
As far as it could take me, Idon't know.
Honestly, I want to learn more.
I know that and I woulddefinitely like to try to teach
people.
You know, like I said, I feellike I'm still a beginner and I
would love to teach people whodon't really know anything.
But yeah, I think, maybeteaching people one day, you
know not doing any competitions.

(21:28):
That'd be pretty cool, but Idon't know if they have any
competitions for 45 year olds,do they?

Speaker 2 (21:41):
They have cool, but I don't know if they have any
competitions for 45 year olds,do they?
They have, they actually havemaster classes and, um, a friend
of mine, she's probably 45, 46and she's getting ready to do,
uh, actually some of her firstcompetitions.
So it's all ages, so see thatthat's pretty neat.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
I like to see older, mature women dancing because
we're keeping ourselves young.
Yeah, you know, maybe I shouldlook into something like that.
That would be fun.
I just need to get better.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, one of my past guests, nicole Fiore.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Oh yeah, need to get better, yeah one of my past
guests, nicole fiori.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Oh yeah, she actually has tutorials on her website
and I have all of them.
Okay, yeah, I looked at, it'sinexpensive.
It's only like 15.99 a month.
It's not expensive to sign upfor her tutorial videos and
stuff, so okay.
And since she's been worldchampion, national champion,
she's a good one to actually getlessons from, because do you

(22:37):
like actually have any of yourring?
Does it have like an artisticskate teacher?

Speaker 3 (22:42):
No, no, no.
There's no teachers actuallythere.
Well, I would say Kelly and Leeare more of the teachers there.
They've been out.
Kelly is a national speed skatechampion, something like that
okay, and then mr lee, you know,um, lee's been skating well.

(23:04):
He was part owner of that rinkfor a long time and, uh, now
somebody else owns that.
Uh plays the garcia garza's.
They're pretty nice people, um,but yeah, uh, they know more in
and out of anything andeverything skating.
Like these guys know everything, like they try to tell me what

(23:24):
to do sometimes and I'm like, uh, I don't want to listen.
They've been doing it for solong.
It's like I think they expectyou to get it right away, and
then I could just see the faces.
It's like, okay, maybe I'lljust come over here real quick
and do it behind your back untilI get it.
It's fun, though, but yeah, no,they don't have really nothing

(23:47):
over here.
It's just they open Thursday no, no, no.
Friday, saturday and Sundaysfor parties.
Okay, that would be fun to tryto do, but we need to get more
people in Victoria out here.
It would be nice to get morepeople out here.
Victoria is not a big town,it's a small town.
We made nation news a few times.

(24:10):
You don't even want to know why, but you know.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Hopefully not If I don't want to know why you know.
Hopefully not if I don't wantto know why it's got to be bad
you're gonna go and googlevictoria texas.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
What's happened there ?

Speaker 2 (24:23):
you're gonna be holy hell I actually think I have a
cousin that lives there oh gosh,I feel sorry for them.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
No, no, victoria is a good town, just, you know, you
just gotta.
It's not bad.
Bad, everybody else who is heresays it is.
But you, just you, stay out ofthe trouble, out of trouble, you
know.
That's the way I feel about it.
But every town has its issues,right?

Speaker 2 (24:49):
yeah, that's for sure .
So now do you have like aanother roller rink in another
town that's near you, or Corpusis probably going to be the
closest one to us.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
I don't know what that play I think it's called
play land or something.
I don't know what it's called.
I've never been there, I'venever been on a wooden floor,
just my floor.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
They're nice Wooden floors are nice.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
I've been told they say you would just glide on
there.
I'm like, ooh, it was like myfloor.
You know like, okay, I get it.
But I do understand thedifferent styles of the textures
different.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
But yeah, I really want to go to a wooden floor
this year.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
And Corpus Christi has one.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
I want to say they do .
I want videos that I've seen.
I want to say they do, but I'mI'm not mistaken, might be a
different thing.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, and how far is that from you uh, hour and a
half.
If you drive fast, 45 minuteswhich me being from california
an hour and a half is actuallysometimes just getting to san
francisco, so and here in texas.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Normally, from from here, from where I'm at, to get
to dallas is five, six hoursjust away from me.
So, yeah, getting out of texas.
When, when I went to vegas, ittook us, I think, 11 hours just
to get out of here, I'm like, ohgosh, and then we get to
Arizona, it took us two and ahalf hours just to get out of

(26:17):
there.
I'm like what the hell?
Like Texas, what?

Speaker 2 (26:21):
the hell is wrong with you.
It's big.
That's what's wrong.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
There ain't nothing wrong with it.
Yeah, it's really big.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
The first company I worked for when I moved out here
to Colorado.
I actually had to drive toTexas to get training because I
got promoted to service managerbefore they shut the thing down.
So I drove from Denver toMidland was where I was for the
first three days.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
And then the second two days I went from Midland to
Dallas, so it was I want to sayit was 13 hours from here to
Midland and then it was likeanother five hours to Dallas
from Midland.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
You got to see all the hill country.
It's really pretty on that side.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
I didn't see nothing.
I saw flatlands, cactuses andtumbleweeds.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
What?
Oh, you must've been in theback roads.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
It took me all through, I don't.
I didn't really start to see afreeway until I headed to dallas
, so it was kind of.
And then, of course, I was intexas before you were born, so
it was between first and secondgrade.
Um, I went out there with mybest friend because his uncle
lived out there, so campingfishing, which I do uh, horse

(27:38):
riding and I got dragged by ahorse oh, that's nice, because I
got I fell off, my foot gotcaught in the rains and it just
kept running oh gosh but, Isigned up for a rodeo down here,
huh if it's draft more likedrag racing with horses um

(27:58):
when you need it right but didyou ever skate it as much as a
kid, or anything, or?

Speaker 3 (28:04):
no, not really.
Uh, if I could remember right,we'll go to the skating rink
once in the blue moon.
My parents would drop us off,but majority of the they dropped
us off at Playhouse.
It's a movie theater here.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
And we would go watch dollar movies.
You know, we're little back inthe 80s, 90s, yeah, like I say,
it wasn't until 2000 that Ireally wanted to get into this.
But this past year was when Ireally drilled.
And I'm talking about I drilled.
I was determined to do this formyself.
I needed to do it for myself.

(28:39):
I didn't want to keep falling,but little did I know I'm still
falling, you know.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
I've been skating since 88 and I still fall.
So, and it's the one thing mygirlfriend wants to see, but
whenever she shows up, I neverfall when she's there.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
She wants to laugh at you, huh.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
That's an understatement.
I think she wants to put it onvideo and post it everywhere.
I don't.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
I don't like when people laugh.
I'm going to be honest.
I dislike when people laugh atother people falling.
You know they're at a rink, youknow because you never know how
hard they fell or if they hurtanything.
I just don't like it.
But when it's me and I'mediting my videos falling, I'm
laughing my ass off.

(29:27):
I'm like, oh, pendeja, you fellagain.
That's how I fell, you know twoleft feet.
And it's just like oh.
So I like laughing at myself.
I just don't like laughing atother people.
But I ain't going to lie.
There's some falls that arejust like okay, I got to laugh,
like and I don't want to, but itjust comes out like holy shit.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
It's the way they fall.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
It's all in the style that they fall and if they go
down hard.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
That's what I tell people.
I'm like don't look down,because your body follows where
your head is looking.
So if you're looking at thefloor.
You're going to end up therethat is so true so have you ever
like been skating so fast whereyou've gone around the turn and
just like ran into the wall?
No, not yet, but I'm lookingforward to that day because we

(30:13):
got carpet walls and I've hit ita couple of times and you get
the rug burn from sliding on.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
I'm like, ah, so no, that hasn't happened yet, but
you know, it sounds like a goodtime so now you're just, you
just do quads, right I actuallygot me these come in ah, some
inlines yeah, I got these.
I used them a few times.
They're pretty neat, but I wasI got them at the same time when

(30:39):
I got the new uh speed skates.
I got those in january, injanuary, I don't remember the
year, but I got these and I wasso scared.
They're scary.
They're like really reallyscary.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
The little thing I know they're way easier than
quads yeah, and it's funnybecause I can skate better
backwards on quads than I can oninline.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
So I can't go forward on the inline now, do they have
any like?

Speaker 2 (31:06):
do they have anything or is it just like roller rink?
They don't have any programslike skate lessons or
unfortunately they don't.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Now the owner does.
Uh, raymond, he puts on alittle um during the session.
He'll be like any beginnerskaters want to learn uh, some
moves.
Come to the front and he'llteach them.
You know how to go backwards,how to go forward and just
things like that.
But no, I wish they would.
You know, maybe try to get moreof the community in, but at the

(31:36):
same time they're only openfriday, saturday and sunday.
Uh, but it'd be needed.
They want to do that.
Honestly, it would it justgetting the people out there I
mean there's, there's youropportunity right there.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
It's like you've got an opportunity where, even if
you just teach, not just themoves, like, but have beginner
skating, that people that wantto learn how to skate and just
learn how to go forward andtransfer their weight and that
kind of stuff I mean there's agood opportunity right there for
you to.
I would talk to the owner tosee if you can start doing
lessons.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
See, that would be nice to do.
I'll talk to him this week.
I'll be like Raymond come inand talk to you.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Step into my office.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
We tried Kelly and I have tried before uh, getting
people out here.
We have a basketball court here.
It's a big one, one of thebiggest ones we have in victoria
.
Uh, we'll go out there andskate once in a while.
We invited people, but I thinkwe've only had one person show
up.
So, like I said, down here it'sour town is really um, they're
like debbie downers when itcomes to things trying to do

(32:41):
different things.
Everybody's stuck in their ownthing.
Um, I say everybody needs tocome and try something new.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
You know, yeah, learn with me and I'll learn with you
and especially starting offyoung kids, because you're
always looking for activitiesfor kids, especially with how
much they spend on video gamestoo.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, see, my niece, actually my great niece actually
started coming with us skatingand I thank God she does,
because my mom and dad areraising her and you know she
doesn't have no siblings withher.
All of us are all grown up, sothere's no kids and all our kids
are.
They're adults, and thenthey're having babies.

(33:19):
So they're babies and she'snine years old.
I want to say so it feels goodbringing her with us.
You know she has a lot of fun,she, we.
She recently got a pair ofskates, so that's she's like
okay, I'm a skater girl.
Now I'm like girl, look at younow do this there um.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Is there a skate shop there or is it?
You have to order online weorder everything online.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Now they can order skates for you at the rink.
They have the whole catalog andeverything there that raymond
could do orders for everybody isit?

Speaker 2 (33:52):
does he like do inlines and everything, or is it
just?

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Everything, yeah.
Now the one that I talk to mostabout anything skates is going
to be Kelly.
To me, kelly is the one whoknows everything.
He's like the god of skates forme over here, only because he
knows a lot of stuff, becausehe's been around the block, yeah
he's going to be that white guy.
No, the one that I skate withsometimes.

(34:19):
You'll see him in my videos.
That's him.
He's the one I.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
He's a little champion okay, so he's the, but
he's a speed skater on quadsyeah, on, on, uh, um inlines
okay yeah so he's got that.
Does he skate on three or fourwheels?

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Man, why you gotta ask me that.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
I don't know.
I got three wheel speed skatesand I'm getting four wheel, like
the three wheel have 125millimeter wheels, okay, so that
are four, and then some that Ihave three.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Cause he has a bunch of skates.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
He really does Like he.
He has a bunch of skates.
He really does like he.
He has a bunch of skates and abunch of wheels.
Like you should see the bag ofwheels I have because of him.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah, the one thing about skating is, the more
serious you get about it, themore expensive it gets and I
wanted to, I wouldn't buy myselfa pair of skates for my
anniversary, but my company'sanniversary, right.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
But then I started looking at the prices eight,
nine I'm like, oh yeah, no, youknow what, I love you, but I
don't love you that much.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Not right now.
What kind of skates do youskate on now?

Speaker 3 (35:31):
I actually where are my skates at?
I was using them yesterday, sothey're still.
These are my skates.
I was using them yesterday, sothey're back there still.
These are my skates.
They are, but they don't makethem anymore.
I know that.
Are they the?

Speaker 2 (35:45):
dart Rydell darts.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
No, these are not.
I have a boss, can't even see,I don't even want to turn on my
light.
It's hot in my house right now.
It's a mota, mota skate.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Mota skate.
But I colored them in.
I put the black light ink onthere.
So, whenever I'm under theblack light it shines, so you
know I'm not too much of a glowyperson, so I like dark stuff
now, do you?

Speaker 2 (36:18):
did you change the wheels and put in new bearings,
or?

Speaker 3 (36:22):
uh, the only thing we do was change the wheels to
these right here.
I want to see these are.
Uh, I got the name of itactually.
Let me tell you the name of it.
It's funny, I was looking atthis earlier too.
What the hell are they calledBackspin?
That's what they were, backspin.

(36:42):
Yeah, he got these for meactually.
And, mind you, I've been onplugs already since May.
Ok, I love the plugs actuallybecause when I did start trying
to really really learn, like Itold you, I wanted to do toe toe

(37:02):
I was like nobody's doing toetoe.
I see them just, you know,skating around, I'm gonna do toe
toe, sure enough.
Uh, toe toe has actually helpedme a lot when I'm on my toe
skating and then transitioning.
It's helped me a lot.
So I think doing that is whatbuilt a lot of my muscle up yeah
, and if you have breaks you'regonna.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
It's almost like that movie cutting edge.
It's like dope it, you justkeep flipping.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
So let's just say that happened a few times
because when I was on thattoilet, like oh, what the hell
was that?
It was me, it's the same stufftrying to understand the uh
distance between that, uh, the,what was it?
Toe stop and the floor was justrough for me.
And then, finally, when Ichanged it to the plugs, that
was a game changer for me.

(37:43):
Then I was gone.
You couldn't stop me.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
There you go.
Now, what kind of inlines doyou have?

Speaker 3 (37:49):
I don't know what these are, since you showed me.
Let me see it said next.
That's what it says.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
I know they look small right.
Compared to my feet.
Yes, I wear a size 13 skate.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
That's a big skate.
These are tiny.
I really don't know too muchabout inline skates, I just know
that these are my first pairand they've been nice.
I like them.
I like them.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
So are you going to try to do like?
I guess like the the term isfor like.
What you're doing with quadswould be like wizard skating or
freestyle skating or freestyleskating.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
I would love freestyle skating.
You know, I always dance likenot professional dancer, you
know, but I working in, all of asudden I'm like, ooh, you know,
I'm getting it there by myselfand it's like it's just in me.
You know, music, I hear it.
And what happens when you hearmusic?
You just want to boogie.
And for me, that's what I feelwhen I'm skating.

(38:55):
I feel like I'm really notskating, I'm dancing, you know,
and I move my upper body.
Yes, I move my legs, but Idon't know To me, I just feel
like it's dancing for me.
I would really, really love todance skate.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Even more.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
So, yeah, definitely check out Nicole Fiore's stuff
because she's got a lot of goodlessons and that's what she does
.
But I can't remember which itwas either Terrell or one of the
guys from Honor Roll.
They said if you want to do thejam skating, take dance lessons
.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Skate shot.
I think right the skate shot.
I'm on YouTube and tiktok askate shot that's the one that
I've been following and it'slike they do show a lot and it's
the guys from the roller jamthat won some.
I was want to say one of them,but it might be all of them.
Honestly, I I really don't know.

(39:48):
I don't pay too much.
I look at feet more and now I'mso bad too, like I feel bad
because when they're like who'dyou, who'd you find this from,
I'm like I don't know, I don'tlook at their names you're like,
I'll send you the link when Iget home and see it.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
So that's what we do nowadays we send each other
links.
It's like here's the link.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
So now if you would tell me hey, let me have your
number.
You better write it downbecause I'm gonna remember you.
Remember old school ways, right, like that's the only way I
remember anything.
Give it to me and I have it,but it's just.
I, just I don't know.
I don't know I'm a weirdo whenit comes to things like that and
I know I get after myself.
You need to read people's names.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
You need to remember people's names.
Ever see them?
I'm like, why should I rememberthe names?
It's weird because, like early80s and early 90s, I would have
200 phone numbers in my headwith the name of the person.
Now I got mine memorized Icouldn't tell you anybody's
phone number, if I lose my phone.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
I have no emergency contact all you have to do back
then is get that dime, put it inthe phone machine and call
somebody real quick.
That's the way we did it.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
I was the dime when we used to use the dimes in the
phone, until it turned to aquarter it was funny because we
were out to dinner a couple ofweeks ago at Fuzzy's Burrito
Shop and they actually had a payphone inside.
Didn't work, work, but they hada pay.
I'm like, what the hell is that?
We're like looking at it.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
Shoot.
It would be even better if itwas a Rody phone.
It would be like Just wait forthe little clicks.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
I think my kid's head would explode if I put that in
front of them and said make aphone call.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
They'll be like hey Siri, hey Siri they'll be like
hey siri, hey siri.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Do you remember trying to call the radio station
?

Speaker 3 (41:39):
trying to be like the ninth caller with the rotary
dial.
Oh yeah, oh gosh.
And then you had to wait.
If it was busy, you had to redoit again.
There was no.
Uh, hurry up and recall it like, oh god yeah, I don't even
think.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
The kids, my kids, know what a busy signal is oh my
god, you know what technologyhas changed.
It's not the same it has andthe cool thing is is like
there's a bunch of apps that,like when you skate, they
actually track your skating.
Like if you have an apple watchor a fitbit, it'll actually

(42:10):
keep track of how many calories.
As we get older, we like toknow how many calories we burn
because of the food we eat.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
So I don't count, I just lift.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
No, there you go.
So now, when it comes toskating, who is who is okay, not
just skating in general, butwith the path you're on now.
Who has been your biggestinfluence?

Speaker 3 (42:33):
jasmine.
Her name is Jasmine Barnett.
I found her on Instagram andshe really doesn't talk.
That's why all she does is justshow you step by step and then
she'll be like now it's yourturn, you know, and that's the
one I enjoy watching like a lot.
That last one that I?

(42:55):
I?
Well, this past weekend, when Itried to do that one foot spin
exactly, I got the tutorial fromher but, like I said, I had
been watching that video for along time.
But I watched all her videos,yeah, but this one video in
particular.
I just kept watching it andwatching it and just I grew a
wild hair up but and I was likeI'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it

(43:16):
.
Well, that night I went and Idid, I was nice.
I was so, so surprised and Iwas like, okay, and they're like
, hey, you need to use more ofthis edge.
I'm like I still don't get theedges, but okay, I'll try, you
know, and I actually kind of didit.
It's not perfect, but to meit's perfect because I did
something.
I wasn't comfortable.

(43:37):
I'm scared to get off of onefoot yeah, but I need to try, I
want.
I'm determined to learn, so I'mgonna do it.
You know, even when they sayyou shouldn't be doing that yet,
I'm gonna do it we shouldn't bedoing what yet?
anything like if you're notready.
That that's what I'm saying.
I built my muscles, things thatI shouldn't have been doing,
what I've been told I did itanyways and I built my muscle

(44:02):
and I how can I say I've met mygoals from last year?
I totally overpassed my goals.
You know, my whole thing wasjust staying on my feet going
around the ring and I did that.
Now you have to set higher goalsyeah, you're right, that's why
I said getting more into therhythm, uh, just finding my flow

(44:25):
, you know, and I think I havean okay flow when I'm by myself.
Uh, I, I enjoy skating here athome.
I know it's not, you know, arink or anything, but yeah, you
see my wall like I make but youcan practice moves though.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
That's the whole thing, it doesn't matter what
environment?

Speaker 3 (44:45):
you're in and then here's the thing I don't mind.
When my kids see me fall orhear me fall, they'll come out
what happened like nothing.
Just go back to your roomexactly now.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
This is a question from something you said.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Oh shit.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
How does someone know that you're not ready to do
something yet?

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Maybe because they have more years on skates, I'm
assuming.
You know, I really don't knowthe way I feel about it.
I can't skate in anybody else'sshoes, you know, because I
don't know their movements or orhow they're doing things like
I'm me, I'm exactly me, and youknow, um, if it bothers anybody,

(45:28):
you know, what did you die like?
Did you die?

Speaker 2 (45:35):
the classic line from the Hangover but did you die?

Speaker 3 (45:41):
You know, or this one , did they hurt you here, or did
they hurt you here?

Speaker 2 (45:46):
But that's like my whole point.
It's like there's no one cancome in and say that I'm not
ready to do something.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
If I'm not ready to do something, that's for me to
know, not for someone to come inand tell me that I can't do
something, because the minuteyou tell me I can't do it, it's
on, it's on.
That's me, see.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Chingon Chingona.
No Like, if you want me to getto me to do the dishes, tell me
you don't know how to do dishes.
I'm like, oh yeah, let me showyou.
I'm just saying you can't.
You can't tell me what I'mready or not ready for, because
that's all based on how faryou've come and I would

(46:30):
definitely check out.
Just, he's on my Tik TOK Plus.
I've had him on the show RobbieHall Jr.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Is that the skateboarder guy?

Speaker 2 (46:38):
No, that he's.
He's the one that's beenskating for two and a half years
.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
Okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
But, like, watch his stuff at the rink and it's funny
because I will tell somebody.
I'll tell somebody to try it.
And if they fall they're likeoh, I can't do it.
I'm like, you're right, youcan't do it.

(47:06):
They're like what do you saythat for?
I'm like because you just toldme you can't, true.
Like then they get up and wantto do it.
Right, yeah, it's because it'slike.
Once I would have to say Iforget one of my guests.
I've had a lot.
Now one of my guests actuallysays skating is 90 mental like.
Yeah, if you get that mentalblock, if you start putting
stuff, if someone tells you youcan't do something and you
believe them, you're not goingto do it.
Or if someone tells you you'renot ready for that, you're going

(47:27):
to be scared to try it becausenow you think you're not ready
for it.
It's all in your head,especially with you with ADHD.
Did I say it right?
Did I get the right one?

Speaker 3 (47:39):
ADD, adhd, bipolar, you name it.
I got it there we go.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
It's like you already go through mental health stuff.
So if you let other peopleaffect how you are, it can screw
you up.
But it's like you know whatyour limits are and you push
beyond them because you can, notbecause someone told you you
can't Exactly.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
And I've always been like that Well, you tell me I
can't or I'm doing it wrong, I'mgoing to show you, I'm going to
do it right.
I've always been like that.
Always is like you can't tellme anything because it's just
going to trigger me to dosomething and it's, you know,
like it or don't like it, youknow, did you die?

Speaker 2 (48:18):
no, exactly now, that's.
That's the cool thing when youget to a point where you get
coaches I know some coaches doonline where you will film
yourself and then you'll sendthem the video and they'll be
like okay, so with this you needto just tweak this just a
little to the left or a littleto the right and that's why?

Speaker 3 (48:37):
no, that's the thing like how, how do you?

Speaker 2 (48:39):
I just don't get it sometimes because, they watch
the videos and they know, theyunderstand how the move's
supposed to go, or and thenthey'll sit there and say like,
okay, I noticed your foot'sgoing this way, try to turn it
just a little.
You know just a little left andtry going from that.
So I mean, it's a process andeverything's a process and, like

(49:00):
I said earlier, skating isalways evolving.
So there's no, you get to apoint and you know it.
Like hockey, the rules arealways the same.
Speed skating, the rules arethe same, and that kind of stuff
.
But when it comes to artisticand jam skating, the field is
wide open for innovation and newtechniques and new styles and

(49:21):
everything.
So there is no limit to whatyou can do when you're doing
that.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
See, yeah, I like that because it's true.
It's true there's no limit toanything unless you hurt
yourself, right, but thereshouldn't be a limit on anything
.
You try to learn and I'm allfor it, like for real.
I like seeing people trying tolearn.
I love to see, like the girlseven the guys not even the guys,

(49:48):
but the girls at our rink.
You know they they'll seesomething.
And I feel like a lot of timesnow that I influenced them to do
this stuff.
Not that I'm saying I'm better,because I know I'm far from
being better than anybody, but Ifeel like I have been an
influence on things there at therink because now you see them

(50:10):
trying to learn different things, getting out what they're used
to doing.
Like I said, they've been onskates way longer than I have
yeah, yeah.
So no, for that to happen for mehas been a blessing in itself,
honestly, and I never thoughtthey would even ask me for
anything.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Yeah Well, you're not out of your comfort zone.
They're probably stuck in theircomfort zone for what they've
been doing for so many years.
Because it's just like anythingelse, like when you're working
out, you hit that rut, then youneed to change it up.
If you skate the same way allthe time, you need to get out of
that rut and try something new,try a new style.
Because I've played rink hockey, I'm starting to do short track

(50:47):
ice, long track ice and I'mdoing inline speed skating and I
also want to do roller derby.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
I want to do roller derby.
See, I always wanted to be aderby girl, but I wanted to do
derby like in the 80s, you know,when you were able to use the
elbow and do the flying SupermanKnocking them out.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
You can still do that stuff, I do.
I just keep pushing around,that's all I see, did you listen
to the episode that I had withthe derby team?

Speaker 3 (51:17):
No, I haven't listened to that one.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
I need to go check it out.
They've got the coolest namethey're called Spawn of Skating.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
I'm like I got to have a shirt.
I got to have a shirt.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Hey, you ever need t-shirts.
I'm still waiting for you toget with me.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
I'm still waiting to get the new logo done, so it's
yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
I'm still waiting to do my own business shirts myself
.
I get so occupied, honestly, Ithink about it.
I'm working outside and I'mlike I want to go skate and I
don't take my break till 12o'clock.
You know, I try to keep itregular but yeah, there's a lot
of times where I just like whatam I going to do?
What am I going to do?
Of times where I just like whatam I gonna do?

(52:01):
What am I gonna do?
And honestly, being out there,like I said, not with my skates
on, because I would not workwith my skates on, it's too
dangerous for what I do.
You know, if I slip and fall, Ihit an edge, that's it, you
know what do you do?
I'm a screen printer okay, soyou just.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
The t-shirt business is the whole business.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
That's the whole thing yeah, I've been doing that
for nine years on my business,going on a year in February.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Congratulations, thank you, and you really don't
want to slip and land in the inkeither.
So then your face will be allmessed up.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
So no, all it is to take that stuff off Like for
real.
If it gets one place, it getseverywhere.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
And it's not like your regular ink.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
you know it, it Exactly, and it's not like your
regular ink.
You know it doesn't dry.
It has to be a certain degreefor it to dry.
Yeah, and you're not going toget to 320 degrees and it dry on
the surface, you're just goingto transfer it everywhere.
My car is full of ink, by theway, you know.
I have it on my hip or on myelbow and I get in the car.
I'm like how did that get there?

(52:57):
It's on my arm.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
So now do they have derby.
Is there like any derby teamsin?

Speaker 3 (53:05):
No, I think the closest one is going to be San
Antonio, and San Antonio is twohours away from us.
We're in the crossroads, we'rebasically.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Victoria's crossroads .
See to me that's not a longdrive, Like I'll do, because,
like when in the Bay Area, I'lldrive up to Sacramento to go
skating, and that's an hour anda half depending upon where
you're going in Sacramento, butit's cool.
But you know, I really think,yeah, that you should just take
a weekend, just get a couple ofhotel rooms and just hit the

(53:37):
different rinks.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
That's what I want to do.
That is my goal for this yearis to travel, even if it's by
myself.
You know I don't mind, I liketo write solo.
You know I really am going todo it.
This I am.
I'm not saying that's my goal,because I know what I'm going to
do this year.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
And I'll definitely send you the stuff for mile high
Rollers because I think thatwould be a fun event for you to
check out.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
I've never been on a plane, really.
No, we drove to Vegas, so justimagine that drive.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
That's the only other state you've been to.
It's like the first time youleft.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Yeah, first time.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Mexico don't count either, okay, because Mexico is
literally just four hours awayfrom me, so it's like I always
say, I've been around Mexico,but that counts as leaving the
country, not the state.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Yeah, oh, there you go.
I've left the country before.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
There you go so yeah, it's, it's it's kind of like
weird.
It's like you've got like apretty good hotbed for skating
and I think on the weekends youshould just take off and start
exploring all the other rinks,Cause I mean, there's so many
rinks.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
I am going to do that .
I will do that.
I am determined to do that.
You know, even if I'm theoddball, nobody knows like I
really am.
I feel like I'm the oddball inour rink too, cause the only
little Mexicana right there islike she's just a little feet.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
Well, it's funny because I didn't know anybody
that skated out here.
So the first time I went to theroller rink I went by myself,
and now then my son ended upgetting a job there and working
there.
For a while I played on therink hockey team because my son
asked me to, and then we hadthis big tournament and I'm like
the only one from theWestminster I'm like I don't
even work here and I'm playingfor the team.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
Do you teach?
Do you teach at any rinks outthere, or do you do anything
like that?

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Uh, not at the moment .
I'm good.
I've got a really busy yearscheduled between the podcast
skating and going to announce it, because everybody's going to
find out about it.
Eventually, I'm actuallyworking on a documentary on
skating too.
So, hoping to release that in2026.

(55:51):
And I've actually got a majorperson in the music industry
that's actually going to work onthe soundtrack with me.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
So you know what?
That's a big blessing for you.
You know a positive vibe goingyour way, sprinkle, sprinkle
over there, yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Well, that's the whole reason I started the
podcast, cause I was likelooking for a good skating
podcast, and the reason mine'sdifferent is because I include
all forms of skating.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
And that's nice, you know, because if you're rolling.
You're still skating, right.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Yeah, and the cool thing is is with the different
styles.
Then that might make somebodywant to go out and try something
different too.
Like, I want to go get askateboard.
I don't think I'm going to bedoing ramps or anything.
I actually want to get myself anice skateboard set up and I'm
going to be talking to somepeople and it's weird how people
are reaching out to me now tolike different skating stuff and

(56:51):
I want to get I started the icedoing the inline.
I'm going to get quads.
I'm kind of have a skateboardjust so I can complete the skate
collection, you know.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
Yeah, that'd be nice, my son used to skateboard when
he was young, so I never reallygot into it.
He's like little Tony Hawk overthere.
He's always enjoyed stuff likethat.
I think it's pretty cool.
I try to get on the board whenI was I'm going to say when I
was younger, but you know, whenI was younger it was in one of

(57:26):
my 30s when he was doing this.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
Is he still skateboarding?

Speaker 3 (57:32):
No, he doesn't.
He's a grown man and he liveshis own life.
You know, does his own thing.
So, no, he golfs now.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
We're grown people too, and we're still skating,
hey, but don't get it wrong.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
I bet you you give this boy a skateboard, he'll go
for it.
I bet you because he did.
He.
He was doing some little flipwhere I don't know what it's
called, I just know that he'llkick it up and it'll just go
back down.
Like okay, that one and I knowhe was trying to do one where

(58:03):
you kick and you spin theskateboard.
Okay, yeah, we used to.
I remember a long time ago whenhe was doing it, we had a
skateboard shop here in Victoriaand it's actually right here
the next street over to where Ilive at.
I wasn't living here at themoment, but they closed down.
Nothing lasts here in Victoria.
Like I said, it's just one ofthem towns that it's a big town,

(58:24):
but it's just.
We're such a big town but wedon't have nothing going for us
here.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
And that's why you have bad things happen, cause
there's nothing to do.
Like honestly it's.
It's like, if you don't haveactivities and you don't get
community, like I considerskating a community activity.
If you don't have that, and Imean right now, you're in the
position to be an ambassador forskating in your town.

(58:51):
That'd be awesome.
Like, how do you, when youdecide to do an event, how do
you advertise?

Speaker 3 (58:57):
I've never done an event, actually when now, when I
used I hosted pinup contestsbefore a few times, so you know
I would.
Of course the ladies will makethe flyers for me and they were
the hosts doing it.
All I had to do was just hostthe contest.
They took care of everythingelse.
I just had to do that.

(59:17):
But that's how a lot of I'm notgoing to say a lot of people,

(59:44):
quite a bit of people know mehere in Victoria just from the
pinup stuff and that's whatactually.
I grew a the newspaper here inVictoria so it was pretty neat.
So just doing that, a lot ofpeople know me Now putting it
out on Facebook.
I don't try to put it out toomuch on there because you know
how people just nosy sometimes.
Yeah sometimes, yeah and uh,I've been trying to get those

(01:00:05):
people that you know.
I interacted so many times, youknow, through car clubs and all
that.
I'm ready for the next car clubI mean car show for I could get
my skates and go skate aroundin my little pinup outfits, you
know.
See, if I could bring morepeople in, because that's the
way I feel about it is.
Now that I'm thinking about itis, if people see you doing
something, eventually they'regoing to want to do it too.
So why not try it Right?

(01:00:26):
So, maybe I'll end up taking mylittle happy ass out and about
and just go skate around.
You know the car shows maybebring more people in.
You never know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Well or this is just an idea that popped in my head
is talk to the rink owners anddo like a theme night with the
car show at the roller rink I'dask them to do a theme night
already.
But if you do a theme, night ifyou do like the car show, then
you have everybody and it's like, depending upon what area your
car is from, you kind of dressup in that style and then you

(01:00:57):
skate with that style.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
So we got uh, the guys here in victoria, uh, they
do the texas ride through, uh,texas the car.
So yeah, bobby sparkman and hiswife and sabrie, they're
awesome I'm talking about.
They go everywhere, everywhereand it'll be.
I could probably talk to themtoo about maybe doing I'm pretty

(01:01:19):
sure they'll be game becausethey're all for anything, for
kids too, and that's what I wantis more of the youth coming out
, even if they're gangbangers.
Why not Get them out?
Get them to do somethingdifferent, maybe get them out of
that, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Yeah, and especially kids.
I mean, that's our futuregeneration of skating.
We need to pass on what we knowdown to them.
And, um, we've got some amazingkids because we got, like, I've
got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, like eight or nine
roller rings within drivingdistance from here.

(01:01:54):
Really, no, yeah, colorado hasa bunch, and um, I've seen some
big, big uh groups that go outto these rinks though, right uh,
there's groups and then likeaurora's, like our main jam
session one, my friend, dj doughboy.
He's the one that does the adultskate on friday and sunday

(01:02:15):
nights.
That's where a lot of the jamskaters go.
Friday night's kind of mellowat the rink I usually go to.
So it's kind of like if youwant to try stuff there's a lot
more room to try stuff.
And they started a thing calledFlow Motion which is 45 minutes
after the rink closes afteradult skate, where you can go
and my friend Will actuallyhelps people like learn

(01:02:36):
different tricks and all thatkind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Do you get a lot?
Just people go in there to tryto learn uh, flow motion.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
You get maybe like four or five people.
Sometimes it's only one person.
He just gets the whole ring tohimself for 45 minutes.
But I mean it's cool because wealways support each other.
It's it's always that I meanlike I bump into somebody, I'm
like, hey, sorry, they're like,oh, that's cool Because it's

(01:03:02):
like on a freeway, nobody knowsthey don't use blinkers, they
just come over all of a sudden.
You're like what the hell?
So, and especially with kids,because we have adult skates, I
usually go to the adult skatesbecause I can skate faster.
With the kids there.
I can't skate as fast as I wantto because they're like getting
on the one way street, goingthe wrong direction.

(01:03:24):
But I mean it's just, it's justgiant and it's like I can just
see you where you're at and withwhat you're doing and posting
and getting your followers onTikTok.
Um, like you've got that likeopportunity to really turn
skating around and bring skatingto a bigger level in Victoria,
just cause.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
I hope I can do that, man.
I really do.
It'd be.
It'll be a pleasure to do itwith any you know honestly, like
I.
I would like to do help people.
I you know, help me, I'll helpyou.
You help me, you know we bothfall together.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
It's funny, though, cause it's like gotta, we're
both gen xers, we gotta go theold school method where you're
making flyers and you're puttingthem up in shops and that kind
of stuff for people to see, asopposed, especially like a lot
of the kids go.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
so and then my sister works at a school too, so I
could be like, hey, sis, takethese, they don't, they don't do
like activities for the schoolbecause like out here they do
fundraisers with the schools anddifferent programs and stuff
anything, anything at all.
There is nothing telling you,victoria, for being such a big
town.
They don't do anything foranybody here, so it's just it

(01:04:34):
really sucks.
You know, if it wasn't for misscrystal Crystal renting out the
hall and then trying to make anadult night for the adults to
go skating, I wouldn't have everknown, really, that there was
adult nights.
Mind you, there's no adultnights, we don't have adult
nights, it's just open session.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Yeah, what time does the open session end usually?
10 o'clock 10 o'clock, so theyhave parties during that time.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
So from 7 to 10 o'clock you have a bunch of
little mocosos running aroundand skating the wrong way, like
you said.
It's like oh gosh, you know,and I'm trying to tell them
you're skating the wrong way.
Where's the floor guard?

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
But then it's like I don't know why they don't.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
They should do like one night a week from 10 to 12
doing adult skate.
If we got more adults in maybethey would.
Maybe they would.
It would be nice to do it.
I know Kelly said that they didit before Tuesday nights.
I want to say Tuesday nightskates.
It would be nice to do that.
I was never lucky enough tojoin any of those, but I was uh,
I was lucky enough to join thelast two adult nights that the

(01:05:46):
lady rented out the hall theskating rink just to have it,
and it was nice.
uh, no, kids, that's what madeit even better.
Um, but, like I said, when Ifirst went out there, I was like
I going to make an ass out ofmyself, and I did.
I fell most of the night, Idied about eight times and arose
again.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
But that's the whole point.
Like when you're learning newstuff, you're going to be an ass
when you're skating anyway.
So I just don't care whatpeople think.
Exactly, exactly as you cantell Now what would be your
advice to people that want tostart skating, especially?

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
since we're of the older genre.
My advice would be don't letanybody ever make you feel like
you can't do something that youcan do, and always feel like you
can do something even thoughyou can't do it.
You know, nobody's perfect andit's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
It's okay to fall it really is.

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
So now, how can my listeners follow you?
Uh, they could go to let me see.
You know, I've been thinkingabout this lately and I'm gonna
tell you.
Uh, because my kids are like,oh, you're trying to get all
these following tiktok.
I started thinking like, do Ireally want to have to keep
making videos every day, to beposting I?
I like I'm thinking this year Ijust want to do maybe once or

(01:07:07):
twice a week, maybe postsomething.
But now you've given me ideasto like want to push for more.
So I don't know what I'm gonnado.
But yeah, they can find me onTikTok.
I go by Ms Sandra Citas, notSandra.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Citas.
Okay, correct the person who'sfrom the.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
British Isles.
Okay, but yeah, no, you canfind me on YouTube, instagram,
facebook and TikTok, and it'sall the same.
Ms Sandra Citas, you'll see myname.
My name is Sandra Rankin.
Yeah, I know my last name is sofunny, right?
Because you say Sandra and thenyou go with Rankin.
It's weird.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
I knew a lot of Rankins in California.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
You know what?
That's another different topicright there.
But I never knew my grandpa andI know he was from California
and he's a Rankin and I knowhe's a white man, a German white
man.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
So I probably know a lot of your cousins.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
We never met him, you know.
So I would love to, you know,find my family, hopefully one
day, but right now I'm not in norush for it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
We lived without it all our life, so it's not going
to hurt me not knowing it, soI'm okay with it.
You know, I got my dad, I gotmy mom, so I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
There you go Well.
I appreciate you coming on theshow today.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
It was a pleasure, my first time, so a little nervous
Got me sweating over here.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
Well, thank you, no, thank you no, and thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
It was a honor to be asked to do this with you like.
Honestly, it was a big honorand a big blessing for me I
appreciate that you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Thank you, thank you.