March 28, 2025 • 65 mins
Fifty years of wheels, falls, triumphs, and community—all rolling together into one remarkable skating life story. When Jared Moneo first stepped onto a roller rink floor as a terrified seven-year-old boy with a crush on his gym teacher, little did he know he was beginning a journey that would shape his entire existence.
In this heartfelt conversation, Jared takes us through the evolution of his skating passion from those early days in Aurora, Illinois, where the rink became his sanctuary while his mother worked multiple jobs. He shares how the diverse skating culture of his youth—featuring nights of disco, R&B, and Motown—taught him about community and self-expression in ways that continue to influence his teaching philosophy today.
What truly sets Jared's story apart is his extraordinary resilience. Despite facing serious physical challenges including two broken necks (thankfully not from skating) and upcoming bilateral hip replacement surgery, his dedication never wavered. In perhaps the most remarkable demonstration of this commitment, Jared describes teaching himself the popular "G-slide" move while in a neck brace, using a shower curtain rod mounted in his kitchen for support. As he puts it, "I'm going to die if I can't skate."
As founder of 5280 Style Club (where "Style" stands for "Skate Together, Learn Excellence"), Jared has become a pillar of the Denver skating community. His journey through different skating disciplines—from speed skating to jam skating to artistic and ballroom skating—has given him a unique perspective on the sport's many facets. His humbling experience with artistic skating, which he once dismissed as "for nerds," taught him about edging, balance, and technical skills that transformed his approach.
Whether you're a lifelong skater, a newcomer curious about rolling, or simply someone who appreciates stories of passion and perseverance, this episode offers valuable insights into the power of community and the joy of movement. Ready to lace up your skates and join this vibrant, supportive world? As Jared says, "There is no limit in roller skating—no right or wrong, no penalties, no score to keep."
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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industry.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So sit back, relax and get ready for an exciting
journey into the world ofskating.
Welcome to this week's episodeof how Do you Skate.
I'm your host, sean Egan, andtonight's guest is also my
friend, jared Moneo.
So how are you doing, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I am doing absolutely fantastic, thank you.
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You're welcome.
So let's get to the beginning.
When did your skating start?
How old were you?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Sure, sure I was.
Wow, yeah, yeah, I was sevenyears old, uh, and I learned how
to skate out of sheer.
Terror for one, but butjealousy as well.
Um, and of course now I'm gonnahave to tell you the story.
Um, I don't know how much timewe have, but, um, as much as we
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need make a long story short.
Um, third grade, I believe itwas.
Uh, we went for a skate outingfor school.
Well, I was jazzed, because youknow me in third grade and the
gym teacher we're gonna getmarried, right.
So I had this like little crushon the gym teacher.
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One of my favorite song came on.
I looked out on the on thefloor and I hadn't gone on the
floor the whole session.
I stayed on the outside in asnack bar playing pinball
machines.
I would not get on the floorbecause I didn't want to be
embarrassed by falling Right.
So jam comes on.
(02:08):
I look at all my friends areout there skating with my future
wife, my gym teacher, and soI'm like no, no, no, no, no, no,
no.
So I got out there on the floorand out of sheer, I didn't, I
couldn't fall.
There was no way I could fall.
So and I didn't, and I kind ofshoved them out of the way and I
held the teacher's hand and weskated off into the sunset.
Them out of the way and I heldthe teacher's hand and we skated
off into the sunset.
And, as they say, the rest ishistory.
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I took to skating immediately.
My mom bought me my first pairof skates the next weekend and
here I am 50 years later.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay Now, did she get you like most of us started off
with, with the metal wheels, ordid you have like real skates
no I have metal wheels or didyou have like real skates?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
no, I have.
No, I I did skate on some ofthose, but no they were real
skates, they were.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, those metal wheel ones were brutal.
You, you hit the slightestlittle thing and you go flying
oh, it was horrible.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And then your feet would go to sleep too from the
vibration of the asphalt andwhatnot.
Oh yeah, it was.
They were horrible, horribleabsolutely so.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now, how often after that?
First thing, because when yousaid the rest is history, I
thought you were going to tellus you married your teacher.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So no, you know that never came to fruition.
We just we didn't see eye toeye.
Okay, never mind.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Um no I totally got the joke.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
All right, no, I went .
I basically the skating rinkwas a babysitter for my mom.
Ok, bless her heart.
She, she worked two jobs and itwas me and my little sister.
I took care of her and wediscovered the skating rink,
actually discovered us, and mymom just dropped us off.
(03:41):
She'd drop us off, give us 10,20 bucks and we'd be there like
all day, every session, from 10o'clock in the morning till six
to eight o'clock at night.
Um this and it was, you know,all weekend, a couple of nights
a week.
Um, I joined the speed team, um, that was a lot of fun, learned
a lot there, and then I justgot in the whole dancing thing
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and, yeah, here I am, startedcoaching.
I started my coaching andinstructing career late, like
just three, four years ago, um,competing and things.
So I had already been skatingmore than any human should, um,
before I started really gettingserious with it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Any human should before I started really getting
serious with it.
Yeah, Now did you grow up inColorado?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
No, I grew up outside of Chicago, in Aurora, illinois
.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Actually is where.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And what was the skating culture like growing up?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Because it's kind of cool to get like the history of
skating in different areas.
Yeah, so, where I lived, um, wewere very diverse.
Um, there was, I can remember,one night, um, it was very rock
and roll, pop music, if you will, back then, um, and then I
remember the good nights, um,were were mostly, you know,
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people of color, if you will, Idon't know.
Those were the best nightsbecause it was disco, it was R&B
, it was a lot of Motown, a lotof JB, a lot of dancing, and I
was just overwhelmed with joywhen I saw this.
I'm like, wait a second.
The other night, the nightbefore, everybody just skated
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around real fast.
What is this?
This is awesome, I have got toget into this.
So, um, that's when, you know,um, I, as soon as I got to age
14, 15, 16, my mom would let medrive, so I would drive to areas
that my mom would never even goin to go skating, and it upset
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her.
She was a little freaked out byit.
But I'm like, ma, you know, Iget along with everybody.
Um, I'm learning, I'm gettingbetter.
And then she, you know, metsome of my friends, you know,
and it was awesome, it was justa big.
I learned really, really earlyon about community.
Yeah, um, and what that means,especially in our sport.
(06:15):
Um, you know that's part of thewhole style thing is community,
you know skating together.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So yeah, and that's the one thing that I always
loved about skating is, if youskated, it wasn't really all
that dangerous, unless you didlike the street skating and
jumped over cars and stuff butfor the most part, I can go to
the roller rink and I can feelsafe and I've said before, like
you don't have cops sittingoutside the roller rink waiting
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for you to leave, like you dobars, so yeah, it's a lot safer.
And it's just.
It's always been like anamazing community and I think I
met you probably what a year ago.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I think it's been about a year or so ago, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, and it's just like and that's the one thing
I've loved about the skatingcommunity out here is that just
everybody's so welcoming, evento new people, cause I've seen
you out there and people want tolearn something and you teach
them and so oh yeah, that's whatit's all about.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You know and style skate together.
You learn excellence, it's,it's.
You know, I do have a program.
You know that people pay for it, so you can basically beginners
, but they learn soon, theyteach them their skills and then
they're ready to go to sessions.
And then, once they get thereand now the intimidation level
has come way down becausethey've learned some of these
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steps then they can go to themiddle.
They can start asking peoplehey, how do you do that?
Can you show me that?
And then they just startlearning by watching everybody
else.
And everybody is so welcoming,everybody is eager to teach.
So, yeah, I tell people all thetime don't be afraid, there is.
(07:54):
No, there shouldn't.
I understand the intimidation,but we all had to learn Exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We've all been there and we want you to skate because
we want you to come back and beour friend and have a great
time yeah, so yeah, I think thebiggest fear that people,
because even my girlfriend willtell me she doesn't want to fall
, so I think that's like thebiggest fear and it's funny
because the guy that taught me,the first thing he did was teach
me how to fall and then he keptknocking me over until I was
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comfortable with falling.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But it's like I hear that all the time, man, and you
know I I learned how to fall.
Do you know how many times I'veactually fell correctly?
I can probably count on my hand, you know, because it's one of
those things you're going andyou're you're focused on what
you're doing and then thingsjust happen quick and I guess
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I'm just slow with the twobroken necks, the signal doesn't
travel, I don't know, but Iusually end up on crutches or
out for a week or something.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So now, did the broken necks happen from skating
?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
no, no, they did not one.
Uh.
So I was into some extremesports when I was a little
younger, okay, and um onehappened snowmobiling.
We were filming some footagefor a movie and I broke my neck,
and then the second one was atwork, um just a couple years ago
oh, that sucks, I sucks, Idon't want your job.
Yeah, no, it sucked it did.
(09:27):
I don't recommend it to anybodyreally.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I think I told you the story of how I learned how
to G-slide.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I don't think you have.
Oh my gosh, go ahead, should wego?
Into that, or is?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
that coming.
So I'm, I'm on the couch forthree months with a broken XC
collar.
I'm I got myself in a nicecomfortable position watching
movies and stuff.
Well, I decided to watch someskate videos one day.
Now I have been trying to learnG slide by watching others
right Skating together and Ijust couldn't get it.
I couldn't understand it.
(10:06):
So my skate hero, um ReggieDillon, and St Louis juice I I
came across a seven partinstructional video on how to do
the G slide and I watched thatand it was amazing.
Reggie is explains everythingreally good.
He's a he should be aninstructor and he's not.
(10:28):
He's.
He's my favorite skater in thewhole world.
But as soon as I realized, or assoon as I learned, that it's a
six count step, I hit, I was onit.
I'm like, oh my gosh, I get itnow, once I can count.
You know, make it a count, thenit's a little easier.
So, uh, I got on the bus causeI couldn't drive.
(10:51):
I hopped the bus into Frisco,went into Walmart, I got myself
one of those, um, thoseextendable shower curtain rods
Okay, right, and I brought ithome and I put it in the kitchen
in between, um, uh, thecounters, the counter and the
refrigerator I think is what itwas it's small kitchen and I got
(11:14):
it real tight and I got me achair and I sat down in a chair,
I put my skates on and I heldonto that bar and I learned how
to G slide in my C collar with abroken neck, um, cause I just
couldn't take it anymore.
I couldn't, just I was sittingthere, it was.
It was probably at this pointabout 10 weeks.
(11:35):
Yeah.
Um, and I've been sitting withno skating and and you know me,
I mean, I skate six days a week.
Um 10, 10 weeks.
It's like, oh, I'm gonna die.
So, yeah, I, that's one of myfavorite stories.
I learned g slide in my kitchenwith a broken neck in my
pajamas too, but um, so that,that, that was fun, that was fun
(11:57):
so yeah, I take that now and II just I want everybody to know
it.
it's my favorite step andeverybody loves it and we get
more and more people doing it.
It's great.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, it's funny how many times we hear excuses, but
with some of the stuff I've beenthrough and the stuff you've
been through and we still showup to skate is kind of and we're
older than a lot of the peoplethat make the excuses.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
We are, we are, we are.
I just got news today that I amnow an urgent candidate for
bilateral hip replacements.
I just got that phone calltoday, so hopefully in the next
few months I can get that done.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And I'm just going to let our audience know, it's not
from skating.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
No, heavens no, no, probably not.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
We don't want to scare them away too quickly,
right right, right, no, no, it'sno.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Actually, I feel better when I skate yeah um,
it's when I'm walking andlifting and stuff at work is
when it really bothers me.
But when I get on my skates, um, it's just different.
You know, I get more of theside to side rather than forward
and backward movement of my, ofmy legs.
So it it, it it's not so bad,um, but you know, if we get into
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a lot of um, you know twisting,you know a lot of hip action
stuff, you know I I go homepretty sore.
But it's skating man, you justdo it.
I mean, even if I have to beputting a body cast, at least
put some trucks on my feet, youknow or at least on the backside
, so we can push you around youknow, plaster them in there.
You know it's just.
(13:29):
You know you got.
I gotta be able to roll soexactly skaters now you said you
did the speed team.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Like was that before?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
you started to get into the jam skating.
That was way before, way beforeI started at seven.
So I must have been eight, nineand ten years old.
I can remember because 11 isthat horrible trip to Arizona
For about four years.
There I was on the speed teamand I did pretty good, but I was
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really really small.
I was always the shortest kidin school, so I was really
really really small.
But I could move my feet realfast, um, so I was pretty quick.
But if I got into more than um,I can't remember the distances
we did back then, um, but alonger distance I, they just ate
me up cause they're longstrides, you know.
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So that only lasted a shortwhile, um.
And then, you know, I also rodemotorcycles then as well.
So I did a lot of motorcycling,a lot of skating.
I did take a couple of yearsoff.
I, you know, had to do the dadthing, you know.
But but no, it's always been,it's always been a part of me.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Nice.
Now you mentioned a horribletrip to Arizona.
Do you want to elaborate onthat?
Oh yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're not going to get into
that.
That's not state related.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Let me just tell you city slickers from outside of
Chicago going out to the desertin Arizona to go camping for a
summer, you can work out toowell.
Did not work out well, no, noyou don't exactly have scorpions
in chicago no scorpions.
We have the scorpions, but notscorpions.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah right, right, nice.
And then so you said like 14,15, you started, uh, with like
the jam skating really gettinginto, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You know we didn't.
I don't even think we called itjam skating back there.
You know it was just rhythmskating and dancing and rexing,
you know shuffling and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That's what I do, it as rexing.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's old school stuff.
I've always known it asshuffling, you know, because
there's so many different stylesof shuffling, you know, for
each region of the United Statesit kind of has their own little
thing, but the whole rhythmskating thing, just, you know,
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for the longest time it was anindividual thing and the way I
grew up and you know my, myhistory and things like that it
it really helped me with myconfidence and my self-esteem
and it was something that Icould do.
However, I wanted to do it.
You know there weren't anyrules.
Yeah.
And, um, I dug that and it keptmy mind busy and watching the
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big kids do it and then tryingto do it myself.
It was just a great confidencebuilder growing up.
When jam skating came out likebreak dancing on skates man, I
lost my mind because I was abreak dancer in the mid 80s when
it was really popular.
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I danced with the crew.
I lived in Denver then andtrying to convert it to skates
did not go real well, so I neverreally thought about it.
And then I saw you know Jamesabout it.
(17:11):
And then I saw you know, uh,james, uh, what is it james?
Is it wilson or who's the?
Who's the jam skate academy guydown in florida kiss me,
florida, I don't know, I can'tremember.
I think he anyway.
Anyway, he really brought jamskating to light.
Um, Um, that kind of it waslike grunge music in the music
industry.
Jam skating came out.
It's like what is that?
(17:32):
So I went through that wholething too.
Um, that was a lot of fun, Um,and I think that might've been
where my knees started going, oh, cause that's a lot of a lot of
stuff going on, but it was alot of fun.
And now you know, I, I as I gotin my thirties and forties you
know I was still doing it, justnot as much.
(17:53):
Um, then you get into yourfifties and then you break your
neck and it's.
It's slowed me down a littlebit, you know, but I still have
all the passion that I had fromday one.
I still feel every time I'mdriving to the rink here in just
about an hour, you know I'll beheading to the rink.
(18:16):
Which one Going to?
Aurora tonight.
Westminster for me tonight.
I haven't been doing a lot ofskating here lately.
We've been going through alittle personal storm.
Um so, and you know, with myphysical condition I just
haven't skated a whole bunch.
Um, I'm down to like once aweek maybe and it's kind of nice
(18:36):
.
I'm getting some things doneand getting healed up a little
bit.
Um, you know, friday night, whynot?
You know I have my.
Let's see if we can get her onhere.
There's my little baby.
Aw.
Right there.
(18:57):
So yeah, I've been hanging outwith her at night.
Oh, she's going to say hello.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Say hi, she's probably trying to figure out my
face.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, that's Zoe.
And so we had to give up herbrother this past week to Jantel
, and so I've just been kind ofhanging out with her.
We've been having a lot of funI mean getting a lot of
motorcycle racing watched andit's been good.
I can't wait to get out theretonight.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Nice, now, which is your favorite rink?
Because I know, because youteach at the Wagon Wheel right
For four more weeks.
Yes, okay, so which is one ofyour favorite rinks, or?
What you're in trouble, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Here in Colorado.
Well, that's a loaded question,man, I'm not trying to get you
in trouble.
Even with my history, ourhistory, skate City and I have
quite the history and it's stillongoing.
However, I skate at Skate Cityfour nights a week.
(20:01):
Yeah, I respect the ownerimmensely, immensely.
I have nothing but the utmostrespect for him.
Um, the floor, floor wise, youknow, wagon wheel has the best
floor in the state period.
Um, it's, it goes withoutsaying, everybody knows it.
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Um, as as far as vibes go, youknow, friday night, sunday night
, used to be my favorite night.
Yeah, and um, it's, it's, it'sour premier adult night here in
Denver.
Um, but I I'm finding Fridaysare a little less chaotic.
(20:41):
Okay, um, and it, it's, it'sjust a really good vibe.
The music pops, you know, wegot dj dough boy.
Um, he's a great dj.
Um, we've got some fantasticskaters, um, that come out on
friday night.
They come out on sunday too, um, but sunday's been getting a
little chaotic.
Um, the etiquette, you know,and that's, that's probably
(21:05):
another topic for anotherpodcast, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I don't want to get myself in trouble.
I don't want to get myself introuble now, and that's the
funny thing is like we're askating community, so we should
be supporting each other and notnot getting that, absolutely we
do.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
We do need to support each other, we need to teach
each other.
Yeah, and that's where myprogram came in and that was one
of the things you know, when Isat down with skate city and
they were really excited to havethe program in there, that was
kind of one of the things that Ibrought up was, you know, this
program also will teach peoplesome etiquette.
Yeah.
Um, there's a lot to learn whileyou're out there on hands
(21:44):
training type thing.
But I think just simply, ifpeople, some certain people,
would just kind of let peopleknow hey, we do that kind of
stuff in the middle.
Yeah, Um or, you know, be awareof your surroundings.
I don't mind the sitting on thewall, I don't mind that at all.
(22:08):
I think it's really excitingrushing by while they're sitting
there and they get a rush too.
Um, but doing your line dancingand your dance moves there on
the wall is dangerous, yep.
And then if somebody's 10, 15feet out from you videoing um is
(22:28):
very dangerous, especially when, like, blow the whistles
playing and people are comingaround that corner at 100 miles
an hour, it gets dangerous and Ihave a problem with that.
You know, um, we've had thisdiscussion before, um, you know
there are people who don't comeout skating because, you know
they fear for their life yeah um, and that's not right.
(22:49):
We need to build skaters, notscare them away exactly so
friday night's my night.
Um, I can't wait to get outthere tonight.
Um, I'm hoping to get someballroom in tonight.
We haven't done much ballroomaround here lately.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Well, it's funny because the song blow the
whistle.
A lot of people don't know thattoo short.
Used to go skate all the time.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, like he wouldbe at the roller rink with us
because I'm from the Bay area.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
So, yeah, yeah, no that rap music in general, rap
artists in general, that's wherethey.
That was for a long time backin the day.
The only place they could rapand have their gigs was at a
roller rink yeah um, so yeah, no, a lot of these guys are
rollers og rollers, not new onesyeah, exactly a lot of the new
artists.
Today they're taking up skatingbecause it's really really cool
(23:44):
yeah and it looks good invideos oh, yeah, oh, absolutely
yeah.
Um, there's some amazing umartists out there who have just
now started skating and they'regetting it and I love watching
it, man, I love seeing it.
You know, um, they put the,they put the work in, you know,
and they want to learn and theyhave to master the craft.
(24:04):
I mean, they're rap artists,you know.
They have a lot on the line.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
So to watch them put the work in, man, that's awesome
because they don't have to yeahexactly um I was gonna say the
nice thing about, like jamskating or artistic skating, the
style that you do where I dothe speed skating.
So we have rules and that kindof stuff where what you guys can
(24:28):
accomplish same thing withfigure skaters or, you know,
skateboarding or freestyle youguys don't have limits to what
you can do.
No, so just your imagination,yeah, and new things being
invented all the time and itcracks me up when someone says,
oh, I know how to do everything.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I'm like really no, there's no such thing, man.
There's no such thing exactly.
And that came, that became.
I had a very humblingexperience here a couple years
ago when I started coachingartistic.
I was an apprentice coach withskate city and I um studied, if
you or worked under one of themost amazing skaters I've ever
(25:06):
met, and she was a worldcompetitor and an amazing coach.
But coming from a rhythmbackground, I always viewed
artistic skating, as you know,for the nerds.
You know oh, you guys can'treally skate, so you got to do
this and then I'd watch you know, little girls do figures when I
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was young and go oh my gosh,are you kidding?
That is so silly, how easy isthat?
Up until I was a two year Iguess it's been three years now
I remember getting on thatfigure circle in my low-cut
speed skates because that's allI had and that's all I've skated
(25:50):
in.
Right, I couldn't do it I.
I couldn't hold an inside edgeon figure number two.
I've been skating for 48 yearsand I can't go.
figure number two um, that'swhen I, you know, she told me
about how the plates work andthe boots and what have you.
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So I did some studying and I,you know, I threw down some coin
on some skates because theywere a tool for me.
If I'm going to be coaching andcompeting, I need to learn this
stuff.
And artistic skating is themost hardcore roller skating
I've ever done.
I've done Derby, I've donespeed.
I've been a skater for 50 years.
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Artistic skating is the mosthardcore skating I've ever done.
It's not for everybody.
It is not easy.
It's not as easy as they makeit look.
Not easy.
It's not as easy as they makeit look.
Um, I coached eight year oldgirls that do things that I was
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just now learning how to do Um,so it was very humbling but I
learned so much.
It helped me with my rhythm,skating, um, and dancing and
things.
I took so much from there thatI can now teach to others and it
makes sense because of thatcoach that I had she, she, in my
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opinion and I'll say it righthere in your podcast so that
everybody knows and hopefullythere's a lot of people
listening Erin Gaber is theauthority on roller skating.
In my opinion, anything thathas to do with roller skating,
she would be my go-to.
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We don't talk right now forsome silly reasons, but I
learned so much from her and itopened my eyes.
It helped me extend myimagination with roller skating
because I learned edging.
You know, I didn't know whatedging was.
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I thought it was, you know,some kinky thing that we did,
but no, that's a, that's, that'sskating dude.
Yeah, and it was like wow, whata difference the skates make a
difference in the edge pressureand things like that.
I learned so much, um, and I'mso grateful to have that time
with skate city and aaron um hi,aaron for this we'll get her to
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listen.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
So now, what exactly is edging?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
edging, edging.
You got inside and outsideedges on your wheels, okay, on
your skates, um, we can producegreat power through our edging.
Through edging, um, I I knew Iwas doing it when I was getting,
but I didn't know what it waswhen I, when I was taught what
it does and why it happens youknow that your cushions, it's
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all physics it made a lot ofsense to me and I was able to
use that knowledge and doeverything I've been doing do it
different and do it better, doit more efficient, to give me a
little more time, to give me alittle more energy, roller
skiing we can go on for hours.
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You know how I go on.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Exactly.
That's why you're a perfectguest.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
It is the most beautiful sport I've ever had
the honor of doing.
I mean it's.
There is no limit, there is noright or wrong.
You know there are no fouls.
You know there are no penalties, there's no score to keep.
You know there's no winning,there's no losing, it's just
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striving forward and I've seenit with my students.
It carries over in life.
You know, in every aspect oflife, whether it be school,
whether it be work, whether itbe family, whether it be a death
in the family I had a gal.
That's another story, but it isa very emotional physical and
(30:03):
mental sport.
It's very spiritual for mepersonally, but I've heard it
from a ton of my students aswell that it it's a great escape
.
Yeah.
It doesn't solve problems, ofcourse, Right, we don't.
I don't want to hear anybodyuse roller skating as an excuse
to.
Well, it didn't fix my problem.
Well, no, it's not going to fixyour problem, but it lets you
process it, maybe a littledifferent.
(30:24):
You know, get your mind off ofthe actual stress and the
anxiety of it and think about itas you're using your mind,
being creative.
You know, it's just a beautifulsport and I will do anything I
can, um to prolong the sport.
Um, the owner of skate city,his main mission right now is to
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get it an Olympic sport.
Um, and it's not for any kindof glory, it's just to sustain
the sport forever.
You know, and you hear iteverybody who's listening here
why isn't it an Olympic sport?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I I mean, we got break dancing already, we got
break dancing in the olympicsnow.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
So yeah yeah well, I think that was a trial.
I don't know if we're gonna doit again or not, but australia
made a mockery of it.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I'm just gonna say, well, yeah unfortunately, that's
the only.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Were they the only?
Because I didn't see any otherbreakdancing in the Olympics.
There was.
I didn't watch the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
There was other breakdancers but, because of Ray
Gunn or whatever, she stole allthe spotlight and she got like
a zero.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Right, right.
No, that was absolutelyhorrible.
I was excited, I was excitedthat it was there because it is
a sport, your heart rateincreases.
It's a sport.
Yeah.
So that would have been cool,but why roller skating isn't is
beyond me.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And there's like so many different variations
because we got speed skating,figure skating and hockey in the
.
Olympics for the winter.
So I mean, and you justtranslate that to summer, you
can put in derby, because thatwould be really fun.
Let out aggressions on othercountries.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Derby keeps score, there's a time limit, there are
a bunch of rules.
I refed derby for a little bitA lot of rules.
You know that could definitelybe a huge sport actually.
I think.
I think that would be verypopular actually.
Yeah, and it is growing.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I found out one of the guests I had on is actually
they have a roller derby team inmy hometown and this is where I
grew up skating and didn't evenknow we had a derby team, wow
so it's just, it's one of thosesports and there's a lot here in
denver yeah, there are there'squite a few clubs here, cheyenne
, so it's one of those sportsand there's a lot here in Denver
.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, there are.
There's quite a few clubs here,cheyenne.
It's exciting.
It's not your dad's rollerderby anymore, but it's exciting
man.
It's really exciting Once youlearn the rules and know what's
going on.
It's cool man.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Yeah, and I think that's why the X Games has a lot
of skating in it.
So I think that's why, like the, X games has a lot of skating
in it.
So I think that kind of maybe,but like if you can make the X
games and place in the X gamesand you're ready for the
Olympics, that's all I'm saying.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
You know, and that you know.
That's interesting though too.
You know that park skating.
You know they used inlines.
They actually used quads in thepipe years ago.
I remember seeing some peoplestill do, they do, and I am
amazed by that.
Now I can go to a park and Ican do, like the snake thing you
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know, back and forth, I don'tdrop in.
I can do it on my bmx bike, I Ican't do it on skates or I
won't do it on skates.
It's just weird to me.
Um, so when I see people doingit, dude, I cheer, I, I hoot and
holler, because it's somethingthat I, I'm sure is
psychological.
(33:48):
Um, because I know how to do ityeah I think my brain just keeps
me from doing it, to try tostay safe, stay in one piece.
But um, you know it's, it'sjust another one, another aspect
of skating, you know, and again, there, there's no limit,
there's no limit.
It's a little more dangerous,but um, as long as you're padded
(34:14):
up though as.
Long as you're padded up yeah,yeah, I'm not.
I won't be out there anytimesoon.
I I went and saw a couple ofcompetitions here in Denver and
it was.
It was just mind blowing,absolutely Mind blowing.
They were doing stuff that Iwould.
I would never, ever attempt ina park.
Just craziness and that's all.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
But because of some of the stuff that I do, cause I
was planning on doing Derby, butbecause of some of the
medications I'm on, I can't takethat risk of so yeah, so it's
like a lot of it got limited forme, which kind of sucks, cause
I was playing rink hockey at askate city Westminster and so I
mean, and my 17 year old was too, so we were out there together
(34:56):
playing which was fun so fun,but, boy, you felt it the next
day, didn't you?
not really.
It's funny, because I found Ican skate better backwards on
quads than I can in lines right,right but, then, my my in lines
.
My smallest wheel is 100millimeter wheels, so it's a
little more awkward on biggerwheels.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Right right, right right right, but no, I was going
to get into that, but it's fun,it's different.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
And then you know chase, right from westminster
yeah, he was the coach and he'slike oh, you're actually doing
better than I thought you would.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I'm the oldest person out there yeah, so he tried to
get me to come, but I was justso busy at that point.
Um, you know, but we'll seewhat happens in the future.
A lot of things have beenhappening here this past week or
two, yeah, um, so I don't know,we'll see.
I'd like to get involved, butthat depends on skate city
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exactly.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
So now are you teaching at the wagon wheel, or
are you still?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I am now just doing um the saturday and sunday
mornings for just another fourweeks um april.
April will be sorry, april willbe it.
Um at the end of april, um,I'll be done.
I'll be done at the wagon wheel.
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A little bittersweet, a littleemotional.
Sorry, no worries, that'sanother story.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I mean, that's what the podcast is for is to
actually get the stories,Because when I started it, it
was about the skating, and thenit was like people's stories are
so much.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
The stories are awesome, awesome, aren't they?
Yeah people's experiences.
You know, when I went back, uh,the last storm that we
experienced back in september, Iwent back home, um home to
illinois, and I hung out with mymom for a month.
The whole month I googled.
I google mapped my home rinkbecause I knew we were kind of
(37:01):
close to aurora.
I didn't know exactly how faraway we were yeah, so I googled
it.
It was only an hour away okay soI made a whole day and I I left
.
I left illinois in 1979 andfrom that point to now, actually
up until September, on aregular basis I would dream
(37:24):
about my old houses, my oldschools, my old neighborhoods,
you know.
I would dream about going upand knocking on the door of my
house and asking to walk in.
I took I was longing for forthis and I did it.
And when I went back I did allthe memories of neighborhoods
and friends.
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But then I went to my rinkwhere I started, where I learned
how to skate, and as soon as Iwalked in the front doors I felt
like I was a kid again.
Everything seemed big.
You know what I mean.
Um, the memories just startedflowing and getting emotional.
And I walk into the pro shopand I stood right in the spot
(38:09):
where I tried on my first pairof skates and I lost it.
I just could not hold back theemotion.
And it was so funny becausePatty Patty, the great manager
of Aurora Skate Center, aurora,illinois, got to go check them
out.
She came over.
She's like sir, are you okay?
I said yeah, I'm good.
(38:29):
She's like do you need some iceor something?
Did you fall, are you okay?
I said no, I said I skated hereback in the 70s.
And she says, ok, I understand,I know what's fixing to happen
here.
And then somebody else overheardthat conversation and came over
and said congratulations, man,congratulations.
(38:51):
I got to do the same thingabout five years ago and we just
started talking.
You know, we talked for about ahalf an hour.
I'm like right, I'm here toskate, so let me get to skating.
So I walk out and putting on myskates and the memories are
just just running rampant.
Well, I'm noticing that thereare people a little older than
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me out there skating and peoplemy age.
So I went ahead and you know,you know me.
I just say hello to everybodyand start talking.
So I just say, hey, my name'sjared.
They introduced themselves.
I said, hey, I used to skateback here in the 70s.
They're like oh, yeah, we'vebeen skating here since the 70s.
I said, hey, what school didyou go to?
And they told me I'm like oh mygod.
(39:34):
I said, did you used to liveover by?
So?
And so they're like yeah, Isaid I.
I think we might've gone toschool together Like shut up.
I said no, man, my name isJared Moneo.
I ran track, played basketball,played soccer and I skated and
rode motorcycles.
Like, oh my God, we rememberyou.
You used to wear a Suzuki shirtto school all the time, didn't
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you?
I said, said yes, that was me.
And, oh my god, we startedtalking and memories and things
like that.
Now I'm an hour at the skatingrink and I don't even have my
skates on yet.
Um, it was just amazing.
It was an amazing experience.
I finally skated and then thememories float again and, um,
that was a really coolexperience in in the midst of my
(40:18):
storm.
It was a.
It was a storm.
I had skating to bring me outof it again.
Yeah.
And um it w, it was awesome, itwas great.
Then I came back home andthings were great and going
through another life change.
It's just yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
And that's always been the nice thing.
It's when I get like, when Ihave a rough moment and I got
stuff to work out in my head,I'll go to the roller rink and
put on headphones, becauseskating and able to do that just
makes it so much easier.
So now the important questionis did you ever run into your
gym teacher again?
Speaker 3 (40:58):
You know, I never have, never, never have Mrs Hall
.
I'll never forget her name.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
She was already married at the time.
I think she was already married.
You didn't have a chance.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
No, no Little did she know Her loss, her loss.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Which is funny, because I had a crush on my
third grade teacher teacher too,and I think it's got to be the
third grade teacher thing.
It must be.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
It must be.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
And her name was Mrs Trank Walter, and she is
actually divorced now and stilllooks good.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Just going to say.
But so now, other than your gymteacher, who was your biggest
influence for skating?
Speaker 3 (41:44):
My, my biggest influence on skating um were two
people who are still very mucha part of the skate community Um
, Leo white, um, out of St Louis, Um, my ballroom king, and
Reggie.
Reggie Dillon has been my skatehero.
(42:06):
I refer to him as my nationalskate hero.
Xavier Xavier here, our Xavieris like my local hero.
I love watching him skate, himand Jabbar together.
I always tell people I want toskate him and Jabbar together.
Um, I always tell people I wantto be like them when I grow up
and stuff.
Um, but, uh, Leo was huge forme.
(42:26):
I remember watching Leo yearsand years and years ago skating
on his one wheel.
You know I'm like man, thatguy's crazy, that guy's crazy.
So I just kind of watched themover the years.
And then, you know, I metsomebody who wanted to get into
ballroom skating and I knew Leodid that and I never had the
interest before.
And here about again, aboutthree years ago four, I guess,
(42:49):
about four or five years now Istarted ballroom skating and
fell in love with it, man,Because it was again something,
something new, something thatwas very challenging.
Um, because up until artistic,that ballroom had been the
hardest thing that I've done onskates, um.
But those two guys right there,along with aaron um, have got
(43:13):
to be three of the most solidskaters I've ever known and had
the pleasure to skate with.
Learned a lot from those folks.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
That's awesome.
And now is ballroom.
Like the way I'm thinking of it, like you're skating with a
partner, or yeah, yeah, okay,yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
You know, we, we do a lot of pair skating.
You know there's a lot ofdifferent styles of that too.
Backward skating is verypopular to skate in hold, but
there's different.
You know there's steps for, youknow, going backwards, and then
there's ballroom and and, andyou know it's, it's.
It's very different because nowyou have another body connected
to you, um, that you have tokeep track of.
(43:50):
You know, and when I waslearning ballroom, I was skating
with Christina back then and,uh, I lived up in the mountains
and she lived down here, so Iwould take my, my stepdaughter
at the time.
I'd take, she was askateboarder, so I'd take her to
the skate park and then therewas always a little flat spot
there that I would go ahead andI'd practice my ballroom okay
(44:12):
well, you practice ballroomalone.
It's not the same.
It's not the same once you getin hold.
It's not the same.
It's not the same.
Once you get in hold, it'scompletely different.
It is, I mean, it was good toknow the step, I guess, but it
was like relearning it all overagain when you had somebody on
your arm.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
So that was a.
That was a great learningexperience.
And you know, I actually won acouple gold medals ballroom
dancing one with Christina andone with Adrian.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
Yeah, yeah, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
So they have some pretty good competitions for
ballroom skating.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Yeah, we did a national competition, Adrian and
I here at Colorado Springs,down at Xfinity.
Okay.
Now Pepsi, something or other.
That was the A, a, a R S.
And then, um, christine and Idid a local um skate city, had
the their like, uh, artistic,invitational type thing was more
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of a local intramural, if youwill, um, but we got to do some
ballroom um there as well andthat was really cool to to bring
that to show people that, causeyou don't see it a lot here in
Denver.
Um, definitely not.
I mean, really, the only timeyou would see it in Denver is at
an adult night.
Nobody during the afternoonsessions are doing it.
(45:30):
Um, nobody at wagon wheel,nobody at roller cities does it,
you know.
So you don't.
People aren't exposed to it,the artistic folks don't see it,
cause they don't even go to therink.
Um, so it was really cool toget it out and hearing the
people hoot and holler a littlebit, you know, and we're doing
spins and things.
It was really cool, really cool.
(45:51):
So, yeah, I fell in love withit.
Man, that's, that's kind of mymain thing right now.
Now are you still teaching it atall now, are you still teaching
it at all?
Um, trying, you know I'm tryingto get people up to that level,
yeah, you know.
So, um, I do have a couplestudents that have been around
from my beginning at skate citywho still come on out and um, we
dabble with it a little bit.
(46:12):
I've been wanting to do someworkshops and things.
It's just time.
You know time and now, a placeto do it.
I won't have up after april, Iwon't have a place to do any of
it.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
So yeah, so now is it like the end of the road for
you as far as teaching goes, orokay?
Speaker 3 (46:29):
no, no, no, I've been putting off some things.
Um that we wanted to kick offat beginning of the year, um,
with me and my my girlfriend.
Um, we decided to do it slow.
Um, unfortunately, it's beentoo slow because now things have
(46:50):
happened and things havechanged.
I have a website ready tolaunch that I was going to do a
virtual lesson.
You know, do some videos, postsome videos and things.
So no, it's not done.
Um, it's just going to do avirtual lesson.
You know, do some videos, postsome videos and things.
So no, it's not done.
Um, it's just going to be alittle harder.
You know, I gotta start fromscratch again.
Um, I've done it before andI'll do it again.
Um, I do want people to know.
(47:12):
Um, 5280 style Style Club isn'tlike a crew.
Yeah.
We're not a competing crewcompeting against other crews in
town.
5280 Style Club came about fromthat acronym, style, which was
(47:34):
an actual program in the AARS,the artistic roller skating
association.
Um, it was a program focused onsessions, skating, so stuff
that you would see at adultnight the dancing, the rhythm
skating part of it, whichunfortunately doesn't use a lot
(47:55):
of the rink unless you'reshuffling, right, yeah, so a lot
of what we do rhythm skating isbecause it's during session.
We do it in the middle.
So it was an opportunity tobring a lot of the middle work
into the shuffle skating,because in artistic skating you
need to use the whole floor andXfinity is rather large.
(48:19):
So practicing at Skate CityAurora is different than
performing at Xfinity, becauseyou have marks that you have to
hit.
Right Now those marks have tobe made bigger, which means you
have to go faster.
Anyway, style was that Skatetogether, you learn excellence.
(48:42):
I fell in love with that, somuch so that I trademarked it.
It's mine, I, I own style as atrademark and I use that in my
advertising and things.
But what it is, it's a learn toskate program Everywhere, from
very beginner, three-year-old,70-year-old, it doesn't matter
(49:05):
beginning to skate, learning howto skate up to elite level,
basic fundamentals thateverybody needs to learn.
But then as your interests grow, whether it be ballroom, rhythm
, jam, speed, artistic, whateverthat may be, there's different
(49:28):
fundamentals that you need tolearn.
Even with different maneuvers,there are steps to learning
those maneuvers.
So it's like an onion.
There's a lot of layers to justa simple arch and I say arch and
people go what the hell is anarch?
Arch is an actual artistic term.
It's a fancy way of sayingstanding on one foot, putting
(49:51):
your weight on one foot, on yourengaged, gauged foot.
So just from an arch you getpivots, you get um, mohawks you
get.
You know it.
It just builds just off thatone simple little maneuver.
So it's more of a learn toskate pro, it is a learn to
(50:11):
skate program.
Yeah, um, that goes, you know,like I said, from beginning to
into all the dancing andballroom and all that stuff.
I'm spinning, jumping, um, andit's a program that I don't know
if I'm at liberty to say any ofthis stuff or not, but skate
city was very excited to have umat all 11 of their rinks.
(50:35):
Our skate community was veryreceptive to it.
They were very excited that Iwas coming back um because there
was a fallout um with the headcoach of skate city back in
february, um last february.
That caused me to not be thereanymore.
So it was exciting to be backand then, unfortunately, due to
(50:56):
a certain individual's drama,that didn't happen so I had to
start all over again.
So we started again, slower thistime.
I reached 70 students in myfirst eight nine weeks last year
when I started this.
This year, much slower, I'vegot about 10 returning and
(51:42):
growing each week.
I think I'm up to about 20students total right now.
That's comfortable.
It's comfortable.
I was, I was overwhelmed, so Icalled a friend in to come help
for a few weeks Um, and that wasa big help.
But it's a great program.
It's not over Um.
I'm just taking another pauseUm.
So if anybody out there hassome room for rent um storefront
, whatever, a garage, I'mlooking for a space um.
Um doesn't need to be big.
So as we like to say, you'redoing a reset yeah, yeah, you
(52:06):
know, it was nice when I had therink at my disposal.
Yeah, um, I made it kind ofeasy.
Um, I don't have that right now, so it's okay, it's all good.
It's all good.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Things happen for a reason all good Things happen
for a reason, and usually thenext door.
Speaker 3 (52:21):
The next door is much bigger, it is and it's going to
be a lot easier to walk through.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Yeah, you know it's it's again another discussion,
but well then we'll have to haveyou back on once you reset, so
that way we can find out what'sgoing on.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
No, I'm doing really good, um I'm.
My spirits are high, not likelast time you know last time was
pretty dark.
This time it's like, hey, youmade your choice, I'm gonna go
on with my life and this is whatmy life is.
Skating has been my life man.
Yeah, um, my pretty much mywhole life and it's it's been
good to me.
The people have been good to me.
My skate community got, um, mypretty much my whole life and
it's it's been good to me thatpeople have been good to me.
(53:01):
My skate community got methrough my, my divorce.
Um, friends you know showed up,you know, and they cared.
Um, it was good to go to therink and get that, get that, I
don't know that.
Uh, compassion, get the, thecaring, the feeling, the support
(53:25):
, support, there you go, support.
Um, yeah, we have a greatcommunity here in Denver, great
community that's growing.
Um, our, our second annual umparties coming up here next
month.
I'm ready for that one.
(53:58):
Almost we could turn this intoheck, a four-day event and use
the whole city simultaneously,type thing.
If we can grow it, most ofthese parties that we go to,
there's 1,500 people, 2,000people at these parties inside
of one rink.
What if we got, I don't know,10,000 and split them between
(54:23):
six, six ranks?
Speaker 2 (54:24):
all at the same time or just rent ball arena yeah,
but that's, that's not the same.
Speaker 3 (54:31):
This is not the same.
Yeah, you know that's one big,huge event, that's, that's cool.
But to maybe rotate the djsfrom rink to rink each night, to
give because you know, here inDenver each rink has its own
little vibe, has its own certainvibe If we could introduce
(54:53):
something different each nightto each of those rinks and
expose a little differentculture to their skating.
I think that would be awesome.
I think that's something thathasn't been done before.
Yeah, so we'll see.
There's another idea out there,folks.
Speaker 2 (55:13):
We definitely one rink needs to have a night for
adults with rock music.
Speaker 3 (55:19):
Well, Sean, you haven't been coming on our
Monday nights, have you?
Speaker 2 (55:25):
No, because you stopped for a little while and
then so it's monday night rocknight we.
Speaker 3 (55:28):
We started again at the beginning of the year okay
and I've been, I've beenbasically being the dj.
Just go from spotify request,only it gotten out of the point
where you know six to seven hasalways been kind of oldies night
you know, we still have theolder crowd that comes out that
have been skating there for 50years, right seven to eight.
(55:50):
I'll ramp that up a little bitbecause I have some folks that
come in that want to listen tosome classic rock.
That's what they used to do asa kid.
So yeah, dude, we got whitesnake, billy squire, lover boy
um okay, journey um reo.
I mean we're playing I'm ledzeppelin, we got Whitesnake,
billy Squire, loverboy, journey,reo.
I mean we're playing LedZeppelin, I've been playing a
lot of rock and roll and then weget into.
(56:12):
Then we start getting into somedance stuff, getting into some
R&B, disco, r&b funk.
Then that last hour we've beengoing later too, it's six to
nine, but we've been going tolike 9, 30 ish type thing,
because everybody's been havinga good time on a school night on
a school night.
Yep, yep, you betcha, you betcha, um.
(56:35):
So it's been a really goodnight, it's been a really good
time.
I don't know if that's gonnacontinue or not.
Um, you'd have to stay tuned,or, you know, go search uh, go
uh on to uh skatewagonwheelcom.
Um, I'm sure she'll postsomething there okay it's been a
really good.
It's been a really good time,man.
Um, I'm planning on being thereagain on monday, okay?
I haven't heard differently, socome on out man this is a rock
(56:57):
and roll and skate there we goand now a little bit, a little
something for literallyeverybody, whatever your musical
taste is.
You will hear it on a mondaynight um we're at wagon wheel.
Yeah, it's crazy.
I mean, uh, what's the um?
Somebody turned me on to a bandcalled uh the green and they
(57:19):
compared.
They call it like polynesian orHawaiian reggae or something.
It's like reggae music, butit's a little, I don't know,
mellower, a little slower, Idon't know, but it's been, it's
pretty cool Nice.
You know we get a lot ofalternative, a lot of punk,
everything.
People have been requestingthings that I haven't heard of
(57:41):
in decades, so it's been a lotof fun, a lot of fun yeah, it
was one of those days where Iheard some songs, like I heard
the butthole surfers earlier.
Speaker 2 (57:49):
I'm like dude.
I have not heard that songprobably in 20 years, right,
right, you know, especially at arink.
You don't hear that stuff at arink this is at a supply house
for hvac, so nice, all rightwell, I'm like I walked in.
I'm like I'll put that on thelist.
I'll put that on the list formonday so now, earlier you
mentioned, you dropped some coinon some skates.
(58:10):
What are you skating on now?
Speaker 3 (58:12):
um, I have uh rydell 3200s.
Okay, um, color labbed.
Um, if any of y'all out thereknow me, I'm orange and purple.
So I got inner sole, innerpanel purple, outer panel orange
or black, orange tongue, orangeheel, orange vents.
Yeah, pretty simple.
Speaker 2 (58:34):
There you go.
So now, what is your advice toupcoming skaters?
It doesn't matter what age theyare, because people pick up
things different times in theirlives, and I've seen a lot of
older skaters getting out therenow too they do and I have, um,
a lot of my students are olderactually.
Speaker 3 (58:53):
Um, I'm seeing a lot more adults out there.
Um, learning.
Keep going really.
Um, it's very.
It's a.
It's a terrifying thing to putwheels on your feet.
So stay focused, stayintentional, do a lot of sit-ups
(59:18):
and stand on one foot a lotwhen you're at home, when
you're're at work, playing videogames, folding laundry,
brushing your teeth, whatever itis stand on one foot.
This balance and being able toget your weight centered in
between your axles is key.
Nothing happens in rollerskating without balance, and
(59:42):
physics, physics will always bethere.
It's the balance.
Balance has to be first and wesee it all the time.
As soon as they learn how to doa crossover, they're ready for
jumps and spins.
Yeah.
Because they're eager to learnand they see people do it and it
looks easy.
Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
It's not easy, so baby steps balance and let the
skates do the work.
There you go.
So now, how can my listenersfollow you or find you, or?
Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
Right now, really, I'm just 5280.
Style Club Facebook, instagram.
Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
I do have a group page that is for members.
Um, that I've been kind ofopening up to some other folks.
But yeah, 5280 style club, comecheck us out.
Um, if you got some videos todrop on there, we can drop some
videos on there.
Um, I try to keep it clean,though, as possible, um, cause
my mom's still alive and shesees these things too.
(01:00:44):
So there you go.
She loves my.
She loved my.
Mom loves skating.
She loves it.
Every time I go visit she wantsto go watch her favorite
skaters, griffin brothers lovethose guys I want to get them.
He loves the griffin brothers.
Well, when I told her, okay,when I was in that competition a
(01:01:08):
couple years ago, they werethere, I skated with the griffin
brothers so I got to meet them,get pictures and I told them
the story about my mom lovingthem um, more so than me, I felt
, you know, and I I took it kindof personal there, but um, so I
asked them when I met that onemy guys, you know, my mom is
like your number one fan.
(01:01:29):
When I was out there visitingwith her every single morning
she would show me one of yourvideos.
Can you do that?
Can you do that?
No, mom, only they can and theydo it well.
So I asked them if they wouldmessage my mom.
Only they can and they do itwell.
So I asked them if they wouldmessage my mom and they did, and
(01:01:50):
it was awesome.
It was awesome.
Um made her day.
Um, so, yeah, 52, where were we?
Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
I can't remember what you just asked me 52 5280 style
club is how to get a hold ofyou 52 80 style club.
Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
Right now is it um drop some vids, come say hello,
um come learn, come roll with usthere you go.
Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Well, I appreciate you coming on the show today.
Yeah, man, anytime anytime manall right, thank you.
All right, thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 2 (00:39):
So sit back, relax and get ready for an exciting
journey into the world ofskating.
Welcome to this week's episodeof how Do you Skate.
I'm your host, sean Egan, andtonight's guest is also my
friend, jared Moneo.
So how are you doing, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I am doing absolutely fantastic, thank you.
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You're welcome.
So let's get to the beginning.
When did your skating start?
How old were you?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Sure, sure I was.
Wow, yeah, yeah, I was sevenyears old, uh, and I learned how
to skate out of sheer.
Terror for one, but butjealousy as well.
Um, and of course now I'm gonnahave to tell you the story.
Um, I don't know how much timewe have, but, um, as much as we
(01:24):
need make a long story short.
Um, third grade, I believe itwas.
Uh, we went for a skate outingfor school.
Well, I was jazzed, because youknow me in third grade and the
gym teacher we're gonna getmarried, right.
So I had this like little crushon the gym teacher.
(01:46):
One of my favorite song came on.
I looked out on the on thefloor and I hadn't gone on the
floor the whole session.
I stayed on the outside in asnack bar playing pinball
machines.
I would not get on the floorbecause I didn't want to be
embarrassed by falling Right.
So jam comes on.
(02:08):
I look at all my friends areout there skating with my future
wife, my gym teacher, and soI'm like no, no, no, no, no, no,
no.
So I got out there on the floorand out of sheer, I didn't, I
couldn't fall.
There was no way I could fall.
So and I didn't, and I kind ofshoved them out of the way and I
held the teacher's hand and weskated off into the sunset.
Them out of the way and I heldthe teacher's hand and we skated
off into the sunset.
And, as they say, the rest ishistory.
(02:33):
I took to skating immediately.
My mom bought me my first pairof skates the next weekend and
here I am 50 years later.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay Now, did she get you like most of us started off
with, with the metal wheels, ordid you have like real skates
no I have metal wheels or didyou have like real skates?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
no, I have.
No, I I did skate on some ofthose, but no they were real
skates, they were.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, those metal wheel ones were brutal.
You, you hit the slightestlittle thing and you go flying
oh, it was horrible.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And then your feet would go to sleep too from the
vibration of the asphalt andwhatnot.
Oh yeah, it was.
They were horrible, horribleabsolutely so.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now, how often after that?
First thing, because when yousaid the rest is history, I
thought you were going to tellus you married your teacher.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So no, you know that never came to fruition.
We just we didn't see eye toeye.
Okay, never mind.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Um no I totally got the joke.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
All right, no, I went .
I basically the skating rinkwas a babysitter for my mom.
Ok, bless her heart.
She, she worked two jobs and itwas me and my little sister.
I took care of her and wediscovered the skating rink,
actually discovered us, and mymom just dropped us off.
(03:41):
She'd drop us off, give us 10,20 bucks and we'd be there like
all day, every session, from 10o'clock in the morning till six
to eight o'clock at night.
Um this and it was, you know,all weekend, a couple of nights
a week.
Um, I joined the speed team, um, that was a lot of fun, learned
a lot there, and then I justgot in the whole dancing thing
(04:05):
and, yeah, here I am, startedcoaching.
I started my coaching andinstructing career late, like
just three, four years ago, um,competing and things.
So I had already been skatingmore than any human should, um,
before I started really gettingserious with it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Any human should before I started really getting
serious with it.
Yeah, Now did you grow up inColorado?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
No, I grew up outside of Chicago, in Aurora, illinois
.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Actually is where.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And what was the skating culture like growing up?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Because it's kind of cool to get like the history of
skating in different areas.
Yeah, so, where I lived, um, wewere very diverse.
Um, there was, I can remember,one night, um, it was very rock
and roll, pop music, if you will, back then, um, and then I
remember the good nights, um,were were mostly, you know,
(05:04):
people of color, if you will, Idon't know.
Those were the best nightsbecause it was disco, it was R&B
, it was a lot of Motown, a lotof JB, a lot of dancing, and I
was just overwhelmed with joywhen I saw this.
I'm like, wait a second.
The other night, the nightbefore, everybody just skated
(05:28):
around real fast.
What is this?
This is awesome, I have got toget into this.
So, um, that's when, you know,um, I, as soon as I got to age
14, 15, 16, my mom would let medrive, so I would drive to areas
that my mom would never even goin to go skating, and it upset
(05:53):
her.
She was a little freaked out byit.
But I'm like, ma, you know, Iget along with everybody.
Um, I'm learning, I'm gettingbetter.
And then she, you know, metsome of my friends, you know,
and it was awesome, it was justa big.
I learned really, really earlyon about community.
Yeah, um, and what that means,especially in our sport.
(06:15):
Um, you know that's part of thewhole style thing is community,
you know skating together.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So yeah, and that's the one thing that I always
loved about skating is, if youskated, it wasn't really all
that dangerous, unless you didlike the street skating and
jumped over cars and stuff butfor the most part, I can go to
the roller rink and I can feelsafe and I've said before, like
you don't have cops sittingoutside the roller rink waiting
(06:42):
for you to leave, like you dobars, so yeah, it's a lot safer.
And it's just.
It's always been like anamazing community and I think I
met you probably what a year ago.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I think it's been about a year or so ago, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, and it's just like and that's the one thing
I've loved about the skatingcommunity out here is that just
everybody's so welcoming, evento new people, cause I've seen
you out there and people want tolearn something and you teach
them and so oh yeah, that's whatit's all about.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You know and style skate together.
You learn excellence, it's,it's.
You know, I do have a program.
You know that people pay for it, so you can basically beginners
, but they learn soon, theyteach them their skills and then
they're ready to go to sessions.
And then, once they get thereand now the intimidation level
has come way down becausethey've learned some of these
(07:32):
steps then they can go to themiddle.
They can start asking peoplehey, how do you do that?
Can you show me that?
And then they just startlearning by watching everybody
else.
And everybody is so welcoming,everybody is eager to teach.
So, yeah, I tell people all thetime don't be afraid, there is.
(07:54):
No, there shouldn't.
I understand the intimidation,but we all had to learn Exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We've all been there and we want you to skate because
we want you to come back and beour friend and have a great
time yeah, so yeah, I think thebiggest fear that people,
because even my girlfriend willtell me she doesn't want to fall
, so I think that's like thebiggest fear and it's funny
because the guy that taught me,the first thing he did was teach
me how to fall and then he keptknocking me over until I was
(08:24):
comfortable with falling.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But it's like I hear that all the time, man, and you
know I I learned how to fall.
Do you know how many times I'veactually fell correctly?
I can probably count on my hand, you know, because it's one of
those things you're going andyou're you're focused on what
you're doing and then thingsjust happen quick and I guess
(08:50):
I'm just slow with the twobroken necks, the signal doesn't
travel, I don't know, but Iusually end up on crutches or
out for a week or something.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So now, did the broken necks happen from skating
?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
no, no, they did not one.
Uh.
So I was into some extremesports when I was a little
younger, okay, and um onehappened snowmobiling.
We were filming some footagefor a movie and I broke my neck,
and then the second one was atwork, um just a couple years ago
oh, that sucks, I sucks, Idon't want your job.
Yeah, no, it sucked it did.
(09:27):
I don't recommend it to anybodyreally.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I think I told you the story of how I learned how
to G-slide.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I don't think you have.
Oh my gosh, go ahead, should wego?
Into that, or is?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
that coming.
So I'm, I'm on the couch forthree months with a broken XC
collar.
I'm I got myself in a nicecomfortable position watching
movies and stuff.
Well, I decided to watch someskate videos one day.
Now I have been trying to learnG slide by watching others
right Skating together and Ijust couldn't get it.
I couldn't understand it.
(10:06):
So my skate hero, um ReggieDillon, and St Louis juice I I
came across a seven partinstructional video on how to do
the G slide and I watched thatand it was amazing.
Reggie is explains everythingreally good.
He's a he should be aninstructor and he's not.
(10:28):
He's.
He's my favorite skater in thewhole world.
But as soon as I realized, or assoon as I learned, that it's a
six count step, I hit, I was onit.
I'm like, oh my gosh, I get itnow, once I can count.
You know, make it a count, thenit's a little easier.
So, uh, I got on the bus causeI couldn't drive.
(10:51):
I hopped the bus into Frisco,went into Walmart, I got myself
one of those, um, thoseextendable shower curtain rods
Okay, right, and I brought ithome and I put it in the kitchen
in between, um, uh, thecounters, the counter and the
refrigerator I think is what itwas it's small kitchen and I got
(11:14):
it real tight and I got me achair and I sat down in a chair,
I put my skates on and I heldonto that bar and I learned how
to G slide in my C collar with abroken neck, um, cause I just
couldn't take it anymore.
I couldn't, just I was sittingthere, it was.
It was probably at this pointabout 10 weeks.
(11:35):
Yeah.
Um, and I've been sitting withno skating and and you know me,
I mean, I skate six days a week.
Um 10, 10 weeks.
It's like, oh, I'm gonna die.
So, yeah, I, that's one of myfavorite stories.
I learned g slide in my kitchenwith a broken neck in my
pajamas too, but um, so that,that, that was fun, that was fun
(11:57):
so yeah, I take that now and II just I want everybody to know
it.
it's my favorite step andeverybody loves it and we get
more and more people doing it.
It's great.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, it's funny how many times we hear excuses, but
with some of the stuff I've beenthrough and the stuff you've
been through and we still showup to skate is kind of and we're
older than a lot of the peoplethat make the excuses.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
We are, we are, we are.
I just got news today that I amnow an urgent candidate for
bilateral hip replacements.
I just got that phone calltoday, so hopefully in the next
few months I can get that done.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And I'm just going to let our audience know, it's not
from skating.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
No, heavens no, no, probably not.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
We don't want to scare them away too quickly,
right right, right, no, no, it'sno.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Actually, I feel better when I skate yeah um,
it's when I'm walking andlifting and stuff at work is
when it really bothers me.
But when I get on my skates, um, it's just different.
You know, I get more of theside to side rather than forward
and backward movement of my, ofmy legs.
So it it, it it's not so bad,um, but you know, if we get into
(13:08):
a lot of um, you know twisting,you know a lot of hip action
stuff, you know I I go homepretty sore.
But it's skating man, you justdo it.
I mean, even if I have to beputting a body cast, at least
put some trucks on my feet, youknow or at least on the backside
, so we can push you around youknow, plaster them in there.
You know it's just.
(13:29):
You know you got.
I gotta be able to roll soexactly skaters now you said you
did the speed team.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Like was that before?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
you started to get into the jam skating.
That was way before, way beforeI started at seven.
So I must have been eight, nineand ten years old.
I can remember because 11 isthat horrible trip to Arizona
For about four years.
There I was on the speed teamand I did pretty good, but I was
(13:59):
really really small.
I was always the shortest kidin school, so I was really
really really small.
But I could move my feet realfast, um, so I was pretty quick.
But if I got into more than um,I can't remember the distances
we did back then, um, but alonger distance I, they just ate
me up cause they're longstrides, you know.
(14:20):
So that only lasted a shortwhile, um.
And then, you know, I also rodemotorcycles then as well.
So I did a lot of motorcycling,a lot of skating.
I did take a couple of yearsoff.
I, you know, had to do the dadthing, you know.
But but no, it's always been,it's always been a part of me.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Nice.
Now you mentioned a horribletrip to Arizona.
Do you want to elaborate onthat?
Oh yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're not going to get into
that.
That's not state related.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Let me just tell you city slickers from outside of
Chicago going out to the desertin Arizona to go camping for a
summer, you can work out toowell.
Did not work out well, no, noyou don't exactly have scorpions
in chicago no scorpions.
We have the scorpions, but notscorpions.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah right, right, nice.
And then so you said like 14,15, you started, uh, with like
the jam skating really gettinginto, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You know we didn't.
I don't even think we called itjam skating back there.
You know it was just rhythmskating and dancing and rexing,
you know shuffling and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That's what I do, it as rexing.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's old school stuff.
I've always known it asshuffling, you know, because
there's so many different stylesof shuffling, you know, for
each region of the United Statesit kind of has their own little
thing, but the whole rhythmskating thing, just, you know,
(16:01):
for the longest time it was anindividual thing and the way I
grew up and you know my, myhistory and things like that it
it really helped me with myconfidence and my self-esteem
and it was something that Icould do.
However, I wanted to do it.
You know there weren't anyrules.
Yeah.
And, um, I dug that and it keptmy mind busy and watching the
(16:27):
big kids do it and then tryingto do it myself.
It was just a great confidencebuilder growing up.
When jam skating came out likebreak dancing on skates man, I
lost my mind because I was abreak dancer in the mid 80s when
it was really popular.
(16:47):
I danced with the crew.
I lived in Denver then andtrying to convert it to skates
did not go real well, so I neverreally thought about it.
And then I saw you know Jamesabout it.
(17:11):
And then I saw you know, uh,james, uh, what is it james?
Is it wilson or who's the?
Who's the jam skate academy guydown in florida kiss me,
florida, I don't know, I can'tremember.
I think he anyway.
Anyway, he really brought jamskating to light.
Um, Um, that kind of it waslike grunge music in the music
industry.
Jam skating came out.
It's like what is that?
(17:32):
So I went through that wholething too.
Um, that was a lot of fun, Um,and I think that might've been
where my knees started going, oh, cause that's a lot of a lot of
stuff going on, but it was alot of fun.
And now you know, I, I as I gotin my thirties and forties you
know I was still doing it, justnot as much.
(17:53):
Um, then you get into yourfifties and then you break your
neck and it's.
It's slowed me down a littlebit, you know, but I still have
all the passion that I had fromday one.
I still feel every time I'mdriving to the rink here in just
about an hour, you know I'll beheading to the rink.
(18:16):
Which one Going to?
Aurora tonight.
Westminster for me tonight.
I haven't been doing a lot ofskating here lately.
We've been going through alittle personal storm.
Um so, and you know, with myphysical condition I just
haven't skated a whole bunch.
Um, I'm down to like once aweek maybe and it's kind of nice
(18:36):
.
I'm getting some things doneand getting healed up a little
bit.
Um, you know, friday night, whynot?
You know I have my.
Let's see if we can get her onhere.
There's my little baby.
Aw.
Right there.
(18:57):
So yeah, I've been hanging outwith her at night.
Oh, she's going to say hello.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Say hi, she's probably trying to figure out my
face.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, that's Zoe.
And so we had to give up herbrother this past week to Jantel
, and so I've just been kind ofhanging out with her.
We've been having a lot of funI mean getting a lot of
motorcycle racing watched andit's been good.
I can't wait to get out theretonight.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Nice, now, which is your favorite rink?
Because I know, because youteach at the Wagon Wheel right
For four more weeks.
Yes, okay, so which is one ofyour favorite rinks, or?
What you're in trouble, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Here in Colorado.
Well, that's a loaded question,man, I'm not trying to get you
in trouble.
Even with my history, ourhistory, skate City and I have
quite the history and it's stillongoing.
However, I skate at Skate Cityfour nights a week.
(20:01):
Yeah, I respect the ownerimmensely, immensely.
I have nothing but the utmostrespect for him.
Um, the floor, floor wise, youknow, wagon wheel has the best
floor in the state period.
Um, it's, it goes withoutsaying, everybody knows it.
(20:21):
Um, as as far as vibes go, youknow, friday night, sunday night
, used to be my favorite night.
Yeah, and um, it's, it's, it'sour premier adult night here in
Denver.
Um, but I I'm finding Fridaysare a little less chaotic.
(20:41):
Okay, um, and it, it's, it'sjust a really good vibe.
The music pops, you know, wegot dj dough boy.
Um, he's a great dj.
Um, we've got some fantasticskaters, um, that come out on
friday night.
They come out on sunday too, um, but sunday's been getting a
little chaotic.
Um, the etiquette, you know,and that's, that's probably
(21:05):
another topic for anotherpodcast, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I don't want to get myself in trouble.
I don't want to get myself introuble now, and that's the
funny thing is like we're askating community, so we should
be supporting each other and notnot getting that, absolutely we
do.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
We do need to support each other, we need to teach
each other.
Yeah, and that's where myprogram came in and that was one
of the things you know, when Isat down with skate city and
they were really excited to havethe program in there, that was
kind of one of the things that Ibrought up was, you know, this
program also will teach peoplesome etiquette.
Yeah.
Um, there's a lot to learn whileyou're out there on hands
(21:44):
training type thing.
But I think just simply, ifpeople, some certain people,
would just kind of let peopleknow hey, we do that kind of
stuff in the middle.
Yeah, Um or, you know, be awareof your surroundings.
I don't mind the sitting on thewall, I don't mind that at all.
(22:08):
I think it's really excitingrushing by while they're sitting
there and they get a rush too.
Um, but doing your line dancingand your dance moves there on
the wall is dangerous, yep.
And then if somebody's 10, 15feet out from you videoing um is
(22:28):
very dangerous, especially when, like, blow the whistles
playing and people are comingaround that corner at 100 miles
an hour, it gets dangerous and Ihave a problem with that.
You know, um, we've had thisdiscussion before, um, you know
there are people who don't comeout skating because, you know
they fear for their life yeah um, and that's not right.
(22:49):
We need to build skaters, notscare them away exactly so
friday night's my night.
Um, I can't wait to get outthere tonight.
Um, I'm hoping to get someballroom in tonight.
We haven't done much ballroomaround here lately.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Well, it's funny because the song blow the
whistle.
A lot of people don't know thattoo short.
Used to go skate all the time.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, like he wouldbe at the roller rink with us
because I'm from the Bay area.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
So, yeah, yeah, no that rap music in general, rap
artists in general, that's wherethey.
That was for a long time backin the day.
The only place they could rapand have their gigs was at a
roller rink yeah um, so yeah, no, a lot of these guys are
rollers og rollers, not new onesyeah, exactly a lot of the new
artists.
Today they're taking up skatingbecause it's really really cool
(23:44):
yeah and it looks good invideos oh, yeah, oh, absolutely
yeah.
Um, there's some amazing umartists out there who have just
now started skating and they'regetting it and I love watching
it, man, I love seeing it.
You know, um, they put the,they put the work in, you know,
and they want to learn and theyhave to master the craft.
(24:04):
I mean, they're rap artists,you know.
They have a lot on the line.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
So to watch them put the work in, man, that's awesome
because they don't have to yeahexactly um I was gonna say the
nice thing about, like jamskating or artistic skating, the
style that you do where I dothe speed skating.
So we have rules and that kindof stuff where what you guys can
(24:28):
accomplish same thing withfigure skaters or, you know,
skateboarding or freestyle youguys don't have limits to what
you can do.
No, so just your imagination,yeah, and new things being
invented all the time and itcracks me up when someone says,
oh, I know how to do everything.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I'm like really no, there's no such thing, man.
There's no such thing exactly.
And that came, that became.
I had a very humblingexperience here a couple years
ago when I started coachingartistic.
I was an apprentice coach withskate city and I um studied, if
you or worked under one of themost amazing skaters I've ever
(25:06):
met, and she was a worldcompetitor and an amazing coach.
But coming from a rhythmbackground, I always viewed
artistic skating, as you know,for the nerds.
You know oh, you guys can'treally skate, so you got to do
this and then I'd watch you know, little girls do figures when I
(25:29):
was young and go oh my gosh,are you kidding?
That is so silly, how easy isthat?
Up until I was a two year Iguess it's been three years now
I remember getting on thatfigure circle in my low-cut
speed skates because that's allI had and that's all I've skated
(25:50):
in.
Right, I couldn't do it I.
I couldn't hold an inside edgeon figure number two.
I've been skating for 48 yearsand I can't go.
figure number two um, that'swhen I, you know, she told me
about how the plates work andthe boots and what have you.
(26:10):
So I did some studying and I,you know, I threw down some coin
on some skates because theywere a tool for me.
If I'm going to be coaching andcompeting, I need to learn this
stuff.
And artistic skating is themost hardcore roller skating
I've ever done.
I've done Derby, I've donespeed.
I've been a skater for 50 years.
(26:31):
Artistic skating is the mosthardcore skating I've ever done.
It's not for everybody.
It is not easy.
It's not as easy as they makeit look.
Not easy.
It's not as easy as they makeit look.
Um, I coached eight year oldgirls that do things that I was
(26:52):
just now learning how to do Um,so it was very humbling but I
learned so much.
It helped me with my rhythm,skating, um, and dancing and
things.
I took so much from there thatI can now teach to others and it
makes sense because of thatcoach that I had she, she, in my
(27:15):
opinion and I'll say it righthere in your podcast so that
everybody knows and hopefullythere's a lot of people
listening Erin Gaber is theauthority on roller skating.
In my opinion, anything thathas to do with roller skating,
she would be my go-to.
(27:36):
We don't talk right now forsome silly reasons, but I
learned so much from her and itopened my eyes.
It helped me extend myimagination with roller skating
because I learned edging.
You know, I didn't know whatedging was.
(28:00):
I thought it was, you know,some kinky thing that we did,
but no, that's a, that's, that'sskating dude.
Yeah, and it was like wow, whata difference the skates make a
difference in the edge pressureand things like that.
I learned so much, um, and I'mso grateful to have that time
with skate city and aaron um hi,aaron for this we'll get her to
(28:20):
listen.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
So now, what exactly is edging?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
edging, edging.
You got inside and outsideedges on your wheels, okay, on
your skates, um, we can producegreat power through our edging.
Through edging, um, I I knew Iwas doing it when I was getting,
but I didn't know what it waswhen I, when I was taught what
it does and why it happens youknow that your cushions, it's
(28:49):
all physics it made a lot ofsense to me and I was able to
use that knowledge and doeverything I've been doing do it
different and do it better, doit more efficient, to give me a
little more time, to give me alittle more energy, roller
skiing we can go on for hours.
(29:10):
You know how I go on.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Exactly.
That's why you're a perfectguest.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
It is the most beautiful sport I've ever had
the honor of doing.
I mean it's.
There is no limit, there is noright or wrong.
You know there are no fouls.
You know there are no penalties, there's no score to keep.
You know there's no winning,there's no losing, it's just
(29:37):
striving forward and I've seenit with my students.
It carries over in life.
You know, in every aspect oflife, whether it be school,
whether it be work, whether itbe family, whether it be a death
in the family I had a gal.
That's another story, but it isa very emotional physical and
(30:03):
mental sport.
It's very spiritual for mepersonally, but I've heard it
from a ton of my students aswell that it it's a great escape
.
Yeah.
It doesn't solve problems, ofcourse, Right, we don't.
I don't want to hear anybodyuse roller skating as an excuse
to.
Well, it didn't fix my problem.
Well, no, it's not going to fixyour problem, but it lets you
process it, maybe a littledifferent.
(30:24):
You know, get your mind off ofthe actual stress and the
anxiety of it and think about itas you're using your mind,
being creative.
You know, it's just a beautifulsport and I will do anything I
can, um to prolong the sport.
Um, the owner of skate city,his main mission right now is to
(30:45):
get it an Olympic sport.
Um, and it's not for any kindof glory, it's just to sustain
the sport forever.
You know, and you hear iteverybody who's listening here
why isn't it an Olympic sport?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I I mean, we got break dancing already, we got
break dancing in the olympicsnow.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
So yeah yeah well, I think that was a trial.
I don't know if we're gonna doit again or not, but australia
made a mockery of it.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I'm just gonna say, well, yeah unfortunately, that's
the only.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Were they the only?
Because I didn't see any otherbreakdancing in the Olympics.
There was.
I didn't watch the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
There was other breakdancers but, because of Ray
Gunn or whatever, she stole allthe spotlight and she got like
a zero.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Right, right.
No, that was absolutelyhorrible.
I was excited, I was excitedthat it was there because it is
a sport, your heart rateincreases.
It's a sport.
Yeah.
So that would have been cool,but why roller skating isn't is
beyond me.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And there's like so many different variations
because we got speed skating,figure skating and hockey in the
.
Olympics for the winter.
So I mean, and you justtranslate that to summer, you
can put in derby, because thatwould be really fun.
Let out aggressions on othercountries.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Derby keeps score, there's a time limit, there are
a bunch of rules.
I refed derby for a little bitA lot of rules.
You know that could definitelybe a huge sport actually.
I think.
I think that would be verypopular actually.
Yeah, and it is growing.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I found out one of the guests I had on is actually
they have a roller derby team inmy hometown and this is where I
grew up skating and didn't evenknow we had a derby team, wow
so it's just, it's one of thosesports and there's a lot here in
denver yeah, there are there'squite a few clubs here, cheyenne
, so it's one of those sportsand there's a lot here in Denver
.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, there are.
There's quite a few clubs here,cheyenne.
It's exciting.
It's not your dad's rollerderby anymore, but it's exciting
man.
It's really exciting Once youlearn the rules and know what's
going on.
It's cool man.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Yeah, and I think that's why the X Games has a lot
of skating in it.
So I think that's why, like the, X games has a lot of skating
in it.
So I think that kind of maybe,but like if you can make the X
games and place in the X gamesand you're ready for the
Olympics, that's all I'm saying.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
You know, and that you know.
That's interesting though too.
You know that park skating.
You know they used inlines.
They actually used quads in thepipe years ago.
I remember seeing some peoplestill do, they do, and I am
amazed by that.
Now I can go to a park and Ican do, like the snake thing you
(33:28):
know, back and forth, I don'tdrop in.
I can do it on my bmx bike, I Ican't do it on skates or I
won't do it on skates.
It's just weird to me.
Um, so when I see people doingit, dude, I cheer, I, I hoot and
holler, because it's somethingthat I, I'm sure is
psychological.
(33:48):
Um, because I know how to do ityeah I think my brain just keeps
me from doing it, to try tostay safe, stay in one piece.
But um, you know it's, it'sjust another one, another aspect
of skating, you know, and again, there, there's no limit,
there's no limit.
It's a little more dangerous,but um, as long as you're padded
(34:14):
up though as.
Long as you're padded up yeah,yeah, I'm not.
I won't be out there anytimesoon.
I I went and saw a couple ofcompetitions here in Denver and
it was.
It was just mind blowing,absolutely Mind blowing.
They were doing stuff that Iwould.
I would never, ever attempt ina park.
Just craziness and that's all.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
But because of some of the stuff that I do, cause I
was planning on doing Derby, butbecause of some of the
medications I'm on, I can't takethat risk of so yeah, so it's
like a lot of it got limited forme, which kind of sucks, cause
I was playing rink hockey at askate city Westminster and so I
mean, and my 17 year old was too, so we were out there together
(34:56):
playing which was fun so fun,but, boy, you felt it the next
day, didn't you?
not really.
It's funny, because I found Ican skate better backwards on
quads than I can in lines right,right but, then, my my in lines
.
My smallest wheel is 100millimeter wheels, so it's a
little more awkward on biggerwheels.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Right right, right right right, but no, I was going
to get into that, but it's fun,it's different.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
And then you know chase, right from westminster
yeah, he was the coach and he'slike oh, you're actually doing
better than I thought you would.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I'm the oldest person out there yeah, so he tried to
get me to come, but I was justso busy at that point.
Um, you know, but we'll seewhat happens in the future.
A lot of things have beenhappening here this past week or
two, yeah, um, so I don't know,we'll see.
I'd like to get involved, butthat depends on skate city
(35:52):
exactly.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
So now are you teaching at the wagon wheel, or
are you still?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I am now just doing um the saturday and sunday
mornings for just another fourweeks um april.
April will be sorry, april willbe it.
Um at the end of april, um,I'll be done.
I'll be done at the wagon wheel.
(36:17):
A little bittersweet, a littleemotional.
Sorry, no worries, that'sanother story.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I mean, that's what the podcast is for is to
actually get the stories,Because when I started it, it
was about the skating, and thenit was like people's stories are
so much.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
The stories are awesome, awesome, aren't they?
Yeah people's experiences.
You know, when I went back, uh,the last storm that we
experienced back in september, Iwent back home, um home to
illinois, and I hung out with mymom for a month.
The whole month I googled.
I google mapped my home rinkbecause I knew we were kind of
(37:01):
close to aurora.
I didn't know exactly how faraway we were yeah, so I googled
it.
It was only an hour away okay soI made a whole day and I I left
.
I left illinois in 1979 andfrom that point to now, actually
up until September, on aregular basis I would dream
(37:24):
about my old houses, my oldschools, my old neighborhoods,
you know.
I would dream about going upand knocking on the door of my
house and asking to walk in.
I took I was longing for forthis and I did it.
And when I went back I did allthe memories of neighborhoods
and friends.
(37:45):
But then I went to my rinkwhere I started, where I learned
how to skate, and as soon as Iwalked in the front doors I felt
like I was a kid again.
Everything seemed big.
You know what I mean.
Um, the memories just startedflowing and getting emotional.
And I walk into the pro shopand I stood right in the spot
(38:09):
where I tried on my first pairof skates and I lost it.
I just could not hold back theemotion.
And it was so funny becausePatty Patty, the great manager
of Aurora Skate Center, aurora,illinois, got to go check them
out.
She came over.
She's like sir, are you okay?
I said yeah, I'm good.
(38:29):
She's like do you need some iceor something?
Did you fall, are you okay?
I said no, I said I skated hereback in the 70s.
And she says, ok, I understand,I know what's fixing to happen
here.
And then somebody else overheardthat conversation and came over
and said congratulations, man,congratulations.
(38:51):
I got to do the same thingabout five years ago and we just
started talking.
You know, we talked for about ahalf an hour.
I'm like right, I'm here toskate, so let me get to skating.
So I walk out and putting on myskates and the memories are
just just running rampant.
Well, I'm noticing that thereare people a little older than
(39:13):
me out there skating and peoplemy age.
So I went ahead and you know,you know me.
I just say hello to everybodyand start talking.
So I just say, hey, my name'sjared.
They introduced themselves.
I said, hey, I used to skateback here in the 70s.
They're like oh, yeah, we'vebeen skating here since the 70s.
I said, hey, what school didyou go to?
And they told me I'm like oh mygod.
(39:34):
I said, did you used to liveover by?
So?
And so they're like yeah, Isaid I.
I think we might've gone toschool together Like shut up.
I said no, man, my name isJared Moneo.
I ran track, played basketball,played soccer and I skated and
rode motorcycles.
Like, oh my God, we rememberyou.
You used to wear a Suzuki shirtto school all the time, didn't
(39:55):
you?
I said, said yes, that was me.
And, oh my god, we startedtalking and memories and things
like that.
Now I'm an hour at the skatingrink and I don't even have my
skates on yet.
Um, it was just amazing.
It was an amazing experience.
I finally skated and then thememories float again and, um,
that was a really coolexperience in in the midst of my
(40:18):
storm.
It was a.
It was a storm.
I had skating to bring me outof it again.
Yeah.
And um it w, it was awesome, itwas great.
Then I came back home andthings were great and going
through another life change.
It's just yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
And that's always been the nice thing.
It's when I get like, when Ihave a rough moment and I got
stuff to work out in my head,I'll go to the roller rink and
put on headphones, becauseskating and able to do that just
makes it so much easier.
So now the important questionis did you ever run into your
gym teacher again?
Speaker 3 (40:58):
You know, I never have, never, never have Mrs Hall
.
I'll never forget her name.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
She was already married at the time.
I think she was already married.
You didn't have a chance.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
No, no Little did she know Her loss, her loss.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Which is funny, because I had a crush on my
third grade teacher teacher too,and I think it's got to be the
third grade teacher thing.
It must be.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
It must be.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
And her name was Mrs Trank Walter, and she is
actually divorced now and stilllooks good.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Just going to say.
But so now, other than your gymteacher, who was your biggest
influence for skating?
Speaker 3 (41:44):
My, my biggest influence on skating um were two
people who are still very mucha part of the skate community Um
, Leo white, um, out of St Louis, Um, my ballroom king, and
Reggie.
Reggie Dillon has been my skatehero.
(42:06):
I refer to him as my nationalskate hero.
Xavier Xavier here, our Xavieris like my local hero.
I love watching him skate, himand Jabbar together.
I always tell people I want toskate him and Jabbar together.
Um, I always tell people I wantto be like them when I grow up
and stuff.
Um, but, uh, Leo was huge forme.
(42:26):
I remember watching Leo yearsand years and years ago skating
on his one wheel.
You know I'm like man, thatguy's crazy, that guy's crazy.
So I just kind of watched themover the years.
And then, you know, I metsomebody who wanted to get into
ballroom skating and I knew Leodid that and I never had the
interest before.
And here about again, aboutthree years ago four, I guess,
(42:49):
about four or five years now Istarted ballroom skating and
fell in love with it, man,Because it was again something,
something new, something thatwas very challenging.
Um, because up until artistic,that ballroom had been the
hardest thing that I've done onskates, um.
But those two guys right there,along with aaron um, have got
(43:13):
to be three of the most solidskaters I've ever known and had
the pleasure to skate with.
Learned a lot from those folks.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
That's awesome.
And now is ballroom.
Like the way I'm thinking of it, like you're skating with a
partner, or yeah, yeah, okay,yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
You know, we, we do a lot of pair skating.
You know there's a lot ofdifferent styles of that too.
Backward skating is verypopular to skate in hold, but
there's different.
You know there's steps for, youknow, going backwards, and then
there's ballroom and and, andyou know it's, it's.
It's very different because nowyou have another body connected
to you, um, that you have tokeep track of.
(43:50):
You know, and when I waslearning ballroom, I was skating
with Christina back then and,uh, I lived up in the mountains
and she lived down here, so Iwould take my, my stepdaughter
at the time.
I'd take, she was askateboarder, so I'd take her to
the skate park and then therewas always a little flat spot
there that I would go ahead andI'd practice my ballroom okay
(44:12):
well, you practice ballroomalone.
It's not the same.
It's not the same once you getin hold.
It's not the same.
It's not the same.
Once you get in hold, it'scompletely different.
It is, I mean, it was good toknow the step, I guess, but it
was like relearning it all overagain when you had somebody on
your arm.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
So that was a.
That was a great learningexperience.
And you know, I actually won acouple gold medals ballroom
dancing one with Christina andone with Adrian.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
Yeah, yeah, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
So they have some pretty good competitions for
ballroom skating.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Yeah, we did a national competition, Adrian and
I here at Colorado Springs,down at Xfinity.
Okay.
Now Pepsi, something or other.
That was the A, a, a R S.
And then, um, christine and Idid a local um skate city, had
the their like, uh, artistic,invitational type thing was more
(45:09):
of a local intramural, if youwill, um, but we got to do some
ballroom um there as well andthat was really cool to to bring
that to show people that, causeyou don't see it a lot here in
Denver.
Um, definitely not.
I mean, really, the only timeyou would see it in Denver is at
an adult night.
Nobody during the afternoonsessions are doing it.
(45:30):
Um, nobody at wagon wheel,nobody at roller cities does it,
you know.
So you don't.
People aren't exposed to it,the artistic folks don't see it,
cause they don't even go to therink.
Um, so it was really cool toget it out and hearing the
people hoot and holler a littlebit, you know, and we're doing
spins and things.
It was really cool, really cool.
(45:51):
So, yeah, I fell in love withit.
Man, that's, that's kind of mymain thing right now.
Now are you still teaching it atall now, are you still teaching
it at all?
Um, trying, you know I'm tryingto get people up to that level,
yeah, you know.
So, um, I do have a couplestudents that have been around
from my beginning at skate citywho still come on out and um, we
dabble with it a little bit.
(46:12):
I've been wanting to do someworkshops and things.
It's just time.
You know time and now, a placeto do it.
I won't have up after april, Iwon't have a place to do any of
it.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
So yeah, so now is it like the end of the road for
you as far as teaching goes, orokay?
Speaker 3 (46:29):
no, no, no, I've been putting off some things.
Um that we wanted to kick offat beginning of the year, um,
with me and my my girlfriend.
Um, we decided to do it slow.
Um, unfortunately, it's beentoo slow because now things have
(46:50):
happened and things havechanged.
I have a website ready tolaunch that I was going to do a
virtual lesson.
You know, do some videos, postsome videos and things.
So no, it's not done.
Um, it's just going to do avirtual lesson.
You know, do some videos, postsome videos and things.
So no, it's not done.
Um, it's just going to be alittle harder.
You know, I gotta start fromscratch again.
Um, I've done it before andI'll do it again.
Um, I do want people to know.
(47:12):
Um, 5280 style Style Club isn'tlike a crew.
Yeah.
We're not a competing crewcompeting against other crews in
town.
5280 Style Club came about fromthat acronym, style, which was
(47:34):
an actual program in the AARS,the artistic roller skating
association.
Um, it was a program focused onsessions, skating, so stuff
that you would see at adultnight the dancing, the rhythm
skating part of it, whichunfortunately doesn't use a lot
(47:55):
of the rink unless you'reshuffling, right, yeah, so a lot
of what we do rhythm skating isbecause it's during session.
We do it in the middle.
So it was an opportunity tobring a lot of the middle work
into the shuffle skating,because in artistic skating you
need to use the whole floor andXfinity is rather large.
(48:19):
So practicing at Skate CityAurora is different than
performing at Xfinity, becauseyou have marks that you have to
hit.
Right Now those marks have tobe made bigger, which means you
have to go faster.
Anyway, style was that Skatetogether, you learn excellence.
(48:42):
I fell in love with that, somuch so that I trademarked it.
It's mine, I, I own style as atrademark and I use that in my
advertising and things.
But what it is, it's a learn toskate program Everywhere, from
very beginner, three-year-old,70-year-old, it doesn't matter
(49:05):
beginning to skate, learning howto skate up to elite level,
basic fundamentals thateverybody needs to learn.
But then as your interests grow, whether it be ballroom, rhythm
, jam, speed, artistic, whateverthat may be, there's different
(49:28):
fundamentals that you need tolearn.
Even with different maneuvers,there are steps to learning
those maneuvers.
So it's like an onion.
There's a lot of layers to justa simple arch and I say arch and
people go what the hell is anarch?
Arch is an actual artistic term.
It's a fancy way of sayingstanding on one foot, putting
(49:51):
your weight on one foot, on yourengaged, gauged foot.
So just from an arch you getpivots, you get um, mohawks you
get.
You know it.
It just builds just off thatone simple little maneuver.
So it's more of a learn toskate pro, it is a learn to
(50:11):
skate program.
Yeah, um, that goes, you know,like I said, from beginning to
into all the dancing andballroom and all that stuff.
I'm spinning, jumping, um, andit's a program that I don't know
if I'm at liberty to say any ofthis stuff or not, but skate
city was very excited to have umat all 11 of their rinks.
(50:35):
Our skate community was veryreceptive to it.
They were very excited that Iwas coming back um because there
was a fallout um with the headcoach of skate city back in
february, um last february.
That caused me to not be thereanymore.
So it was exciting to be backand then, unfortunately, due to
(50:56):
a certain individual's drama,that didn't happen so I had to
start all over again.
So we started again, slower thistime.
I reached 70 students in myfirst eight nine weeks last year
when I started this.
This year, much slower, I'vegot about 10 returning and
(51:42):
growing each week.
I think I'm up to about 20students total right now.
That's comfortable.
It's comfortable.
I was, I was overwhelmed, so Icalled a friend in to come help
for a few weeks Um, and that wasa big help.
But it's a great program.
It's not over Um.
I'm just taking another pauseUm.
So if anybody out there hassome room for rent um storefront
, whatever, a garage, I'mlooking for a space um.
Um doesn't need to be big.
So as we like to say, you'redoing a reset yeah, yeah, you
(52:06):
know, it was nice when I had therink at my disposal.
Yeah, um, I made it kind ofeasy.
Um, I don't have that right now, so it's okay, it's all good.
It's all good.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Things happen for a reason all good Things happen
for a reason, and usually thenext door.
Speaker 3 (52:21):
The next door is much bigger, it is and it's going to
be a lot easier to walk through.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Yeah, you know it's it's again another discussion,
but well then we'll have to haveyou back on once you reset, so
that way we can find out what'sgoing on.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
No, I'm doing really good, um I'm.
My spirits are high, not likelast time you know last time was
pretty dark.
This time it's like, hey, youmade your choice, I'm gonna go
on with my life and this is whatmy life is.
Skating has been my life man.
Yeah, um, my pretty much mywhole life and it's it's been
good to me.
The people have been good to me.
My skate community got, um, mypretty much my whole life and
it's it's been good to me thatpeople have been good to me.
(53:01):
My skate community got methrough my, my divorce.
Um, friends you know showed up,you know, and they cared.
Um, it was good to go to therink and get that, get that, I
don't know that.
Uh, compassion, get the, thecaring, the feeling, the support
(53:25):
, support, there you go, support.
Um, yeah, we have a greatcommunity here in Denver, great
community that's growing.
Um, our, our second annual umparties coming up here next
month.
I'm ready for that one.
(53:58):
Almost we could turn this intoheck, a four-day event and use
the whole city simultaneously,type thing.
If we can grow it, most ofthese parties that we go to,
there's 1,500 people, 2,000people at these parties inside
of one rink.
What if we got, I don't know,10,000 and split them between
(54:23):
six, six ranks?
Speaker 2 (54:24):
all at the same time or just rent ball arena yeah,
but that's, that's not the same.
Speaker 3 (54:31):
This is not the same.
Yeah, you know that's one big,huge event, that's, that's cool.
But to maybe rotate the djsfrom rink to rink each night, to
give because you know, here inDenver each rink has its own
little vibe, has its own certainvibe If we could introduce
(54:53):
something different each nightto each of those rinks and
expose a little differentculture to their skating.
I think that would be awesome.
I think that's something thathasn't been done before.
Yeah, so we'll see.
There's another idea out there,folks.
Speaker 2 (55:13):
We definitely one rink needs to have a night for
adults with rock music.
Speaker 3 (55:19):
Well, Sean, you haven't been coming on our
Monday nights, have you?
Speaker 2 (55:25):
No, because you stopped for a little while and
then so it's monday night rocknight we.
Speaker 3 (55:28):
We started again at the beginning of the year okay
and I've been, I've beenbasically being the dj.
Just go from spotify request,only it gotten out of the point
where you know six to seven hasalways been kind of oldies night
you know, we still have theolder crowd that comes out that
have been skating there for 50years, right seven to eight.
(55:50):
I'll ramp that up a little bitbecause I have some folks that
come in that want to listen tosome classic rock.
That's what they used to do asa kid.
So yeah, dude, we got whitesnake, billy squire, lover boy
um okay, journey um reo.
I mean we're playing I'm ledzeppelin, we got Whitesnake,
billy Squire, loverboy, journey,reo.
I mean we're playing LedZeppelin, I've been playing a
lot of rock and roll and then weget into.
(56:12):
Then we start getting into somedance stuff, getting into some
R&B, disco, r&b funk.
Then that last hour we've beengoing later too, it's six to
nine, but we've been going tolike 9, 30 ish type thing,
because everybody's been havinga good time on a school night on
a school night.
Yep, yep, you betcha, you betcha, um.
(56:35):
So it's been a really goodnight, it's been a really good
time.
I don't know if that's gonnacontinue or not.
Um, you'd have to stay tuned,or, you know, go search uh, go
uh on to uh skatewagonwheelcom.
Um, I'm sure she'll postsomething there okay it's been a
really good.
It's been a really good time,man.
Um, I'm planning on being thereagain on monday, okay?
I haven't heard differently, socome on out man this is a rock
(56:57):
and roll and skate there we goand now a little bit, a little
something for literallyeverybody, whatever your musical
taste is.
You will hear it on a mondaynight um we're at wagon wheel.
Yeah, it's crazy.
I mean, uh, what's the um?
Somebody turned me on to a bandcalled uh the green and they
(57:19):
compared.
They call it like polynesian orHawaiian reggae or something.
It's like reggae music, butit's a little, I don't know,
mellower, a little slower, Idon't know, but it's been, it's
pretty cool Nice.
You know we get a lot ofalternative, a lot of punk,
everything.
People have been requestingthings that I haven't heard of
(57:41):
in decades, so it's been a lotof fun, a lot of fun yeah, it
was one of those days where Iheard some songs, like I heard
the butthole surfers earlier.
Speaker 2 (57:49):
I'm like dude.
I have not heard that songprobably in 20 years, right,
right, you know, especially at arink.
You don't hear that stuff at arink this is at a supply house
for hvac, so nice, all rightwell, I'm like I walked in.
I'm like I'll put that on thelist.
I'll put that on the list formonday so now, earlier you
mentioned, you dropped some coinon some skates.
(58:10):
What are you skating on now?
Speaker 3 (58:12):
um, I have uh rydell 3200s.
Okay, um, color labbed.
Um, if any of y'all out thereknow me, I'm orange and purple.
So I got inner sole, innerpanel purple, outer panel orange
or black, orange tongue, orangeheel, orange vents.
Yeah, pretty simple.
Speaker 2 (58:34):
There you go.
So now, what is your advice toupcoming skaters?
It doesn't matter what age theyare, because people pick up
things different times in theirlives, and I've seen a lot of
older skaters getting out therenow too they do and I have, um,
a lot of my students are olderactually.
Speaker 3 (58:53):
Um, I'm seeing a lot more adults out there.
Um, learning.
Keep going really.
Um, it's very.
It's a.
It's a terrifying thing to putwheels on your feet.
So stay focused, stayintentional, do a lot of sit-ups
(59:18):
and stand on one foot a lotwhen you're at home, when
you're're at work, playing videogames, folding laundry,
brushing your teeth, whatever itis stand on one foot.
This balance and being able toget your weight centered in
between your axles is key.
Nothing happens in rollerskating without balance, and
(59:42):
physics, physics will always bethere.
It's the balance.
Balance has to be first and wesee it all the time.
As soon as they learn how to doa crossover, they're ready for
jumps and spins.
Yeah.
Because they're eager to learnand they see people do it and it
looks easy.
Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
It's not easy, so baby steps balance and let the
skates do the work.
There you go.
So now, how can my listenersfollow you or find you, or?
Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
Right now, really, I'm just 5280.
Style Club Facebook, instagram.
Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
I do have a group page that is for members.
Um, that I've been kind ofopening up to some other folks.
But yeah, 5280 style club, comecheck us out.
Um, if you got some videos todrop on there, we can drop some
videos on there.
Um, I try to keep it clean,though, as possible, um, cause
my mom's still alive and shesees these things too.
(01:00:44):
So there you go.
She loves my.
She loved my.
Mom loves skating.
She loves it.
Every time I go visit she wantsto go watch her favorite
skaters, griffin brothers lovethose guys I want to get them.
He loves the griffin brothers.
Well, when I told her, okay,when I was in that competition a
(01:01:08):
couple years ago, they werethere, I skated with the griffin
brothers so I got to meet them,get pictures and I told them
the story about my mom lovingthem um, more so than me, I felt
, you know, and I I took it kindof personal there, but um, so I
asked them when I met that onemy guys, you know, my mom is
like your number one fan.
(01:01:29):
When I was out there visitingwith her every single morning
she would show me one of yourvideos.
Can you do that?
Can you do that?
No, mom, only they can and theydo it well.
So I asked them if they wouldmessage my mom.
Only they can and they do itwell.
So I asked them if they wouldmessage my mom and they did, and
(01:01:50):
it was awesome.
It was awesome.
Um made her day.
Um, so, yeah, 52, where were we?
Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
I can't remember what you just asked me 52 5280 style
club is how to get a hold ofyou 52 80 style club.
Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
Right now is it um drop some vids, come say hello,
um come learn, come roll with usthere you go.
Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Well, I appreciate you coming on the show today.
Yeah, man, anytime anytime manall right, thank you.
All right, thank you, thank you.
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