someone has some inline skates in classifieds, in my size pretty much(11.5 or so, his are 12)...i only skated like 4 times as a kid cause i always thought falling down sucked....but now that i look back i think that would be a decent leg work out etc...would help my balance too i think...where are some places to go and practice without others seeing you so you dont look like a fool

1/27/2008 5:11:44 PM

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"so you dont look like a fool"

too late

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1/27/2008 5:12:38 PM

you know what they say about the hardest part of rollerblading

1/27/2008 5:12:38 PM

uhh you could go to an actual skating rink or a school parking lot on a sunday or saturday when nobody is there.

1/27/2008 5:12:50 PM

I never got the actual real skates

just the ones where you wore your real shoes and strapped the skates on over them

I wasn't poor tho

1/27/2008 5:13:27 PM

anyone got some good places in the raleigh area to try?

1/27/2008 5:25:28 PM

you know what they say about the hardest part of rollerblading

1/27/2008 5:26:16 PM

whats the hardest part about rollerblading...obviously i dont know

1/27/2008 5:26:55 PM

Telling your parents you're gay.

1/27/2008 5:28:33 PM

ive got two pairs of speed skates back at my parents.

ive been thinking about breaking them out and going to the rink for a while

1/27/2008 5:30:13 PM

I love to rollerskate...I always get speed skates...I used to own a pair back in the day, but I grew out of them and none of my friends like it as much as I did so I never bought a new pair...but it's still really really fun...and it's an incredible work out...I went about a year ago to the place in cary...I can't remember the name of it though

here's me talking on my cell phone and skating at the same time...oh yeah I'm bad!
it's also a little blury

1/27/2008 5:34:27 PM

jellybeans??

haha i used to work there when i was like 14

1/27/2008 5:37:24 PM

so rollerskating is for fags? is that like a stereotype now or something? not that i give a fuck, but i hadnt heard that...seems like rollerskating isnt that popular anymore or something though, so i guess its plausible

1/27/2008 5:37:40 PM

for about the last decade

1/27/2008 5:38:10 PM

Anywhere in Cary Crossroads.

Open, paved, little traffic in some areas.

1/27/2008 5:39:12 PM

^^^^I tried to get a job there about a year ago too...they called me back, but then I realized i didn't wanna deal with spraying oder eaters in skates all night

[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 5:40 PM. Reason : ]

1/27/2008 5:39:32 PM

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"jellybeans"

or a parking lot


really just anywhere with pavement

1/27/2008 5:40:55 PM

come on alkatraz i'm a grown ass man i'm not skating in the middle of where a bunch of people shop...that would be so embarressing

[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 5:41 PM. Reason : also yall got any tips on not falling down]

1/27/2008 5:41:21 PM

not so much rollerskating (mostly for kids or cheesy dates), but roller blading has always been for either gay men or for pussies afraid to skate board

1/27/2008 5:42:12 PM

Well at Jellybeans you won't get road burn if you fall. However, you will have a bunch of kids half your age laughing at you because you can't skate.

So your choices...
Jellybean-less injury, more embarassment
Parking lot- more blood, little embarassment (unless you tell tww where you're going and people show up to make fun of you)



Also, rollerbladers always look like tools to me...and people in regular skates look gay....go for the speed skates, much better!




if you don't want to fall, then keep your center of gravity over the skates...the moment you over correct is the moment you fall down.

[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 5:44 PM. Reason : ]

1/27/2008 5:43:34 PM

rofl i should tell tww where i'm going to go so i can make fun of them when they show up to make fun of me

1/27/2008 5:44:57 PM

But honestly, if you wanna skate don't do roller blades. Grown men that wear rollerblades take it in the butt hole.

Rollerblades are for 12 year olds who think they look cool and chicks.

1/27/2008 5:46:50 PM

Ice or nothing.

1/27/2008 5:48:33 PM

well bummer.....i dont want to ride a bike cause my brake on the front wheel is fucked and it hurts my ass...dont want to ride a skate board, i cant really steer them...


do 23 year olds learn how to skate board anyways?

1/27/2008 5:48:39 PM

I think the actual rule is, you can't learn any new outdoors activities that kids half your age are doing until you're 40

1/27/2008 5:51:27 PM

well i want a new way to be physically fit and you wolfwebbers are ruining it

1/27/2008 5:54:34 PM

if you can do this...then it's okay if you rollerblade...someone has to embed

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1/27/2008 5:55:28 PM

1/27/2008 5:59:20 PM

right south of the free expression tunnel



Ooooooooooooooooohhhhhhh. yeah i went there.

1/27/2008 6:04:58 PM

sent stantheman a message telling him i didnt want the skates...i was really looking forward to this for like 30 minutes too...didnt know its such a gay thing to do now...i want a new way to exercise....i have an exercise bike at my disposal, i go to lake johnson quite a bit...dont want to ride my bike but i guess thats the only other thing i can do...

1/27/2008 6:08:44 PM

Just because it isn't popular doesn't mean it's gay.
If you want to do it... then do it. Don't care so much about what all these people say.
I think there's one night a week that a radio station does a late night thing at the Skate Ranch off Capital Blvd. (Atleast then there would be older people there to laugh w/ you if you fall... but just stay close to the wall until you get the hang of it again & you'll be fine).

1/27/2008 6:14:14 PM

i taught myself in my driveway

1/27/2008 6:16:28 PM

Marsh Creek Park has an outdoor inline hockey rink. The surface is much better than a parking lot.

Here's a map:
http://tinyurl.com/27akpj

[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 6:24 PM. Reason : tiny]

1/27/2008 6:23:44 PM

hmmm...i cant decide if i should get them or not...just noticed the last 3 posts in this thread...i dont get how i miss that for like 45 minutes though

1/27/2008 6:53:34 PM

well if you wanna learn to rollerblade don't let us losers on tww stop you

1/27/2008 6:55:09 PM

it just seems like an easy way to have fun and get exercise...seriously dont want to look goofy tho...

i wish there was a way you could practice and get good before you went in public

1/27/2008 7:02:02 PM