It is very sad to contemplate, if ever you connected with roller skating in any manner, recreational to competitive. We were a world of fun and friendship and rare achievement in many ways. A world many of us lived in for a few hours, a few nights a week.
The rink up above, in San Ramon, Ca is one I have wanted to visit sometime. It was about the only one left in the East Bay.
Has a sport ever so drastically shrunk and withered down to mere shadow memories?
Joy on wheels may one day stand for a high point in a way of life now virtually gone.
AI, an often stupid source of information, does its own stupid spinning when asked if the sport is dying, claiming it thrives in different ways. Pure hogwash. Once upon a time, hundred of skaters competed at the Pan Am Auditorium in LA. And that was just regionals. Today none compete in such an event.
Well, AI can also be, if you narrow down the question with numbers, forced to be more accurate. There were once maybe dozens of roller rinks in Southern Ca, why are there now almost none? Okay, AI, take that and give us the answer straight:
This paints the picture of a lost world I so fondly recall.
What killed artistic/competitive roller skating? My best guess: roller blades and the ice lobby
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