NEVER MISS THE WATER, TILL YOUR WELL RUNS DRY…
November 19, 2008
When Chaka Khan sang these words more than a decade ago, I never thought that they would be more than just lyrics to me. For the past two years, my passion of roller skating has been starved and forced to feed itself only in moderation and small portions.
I moved from Detroit, MI (A skater’s paradise) to Chandler, AZ (A skater’s hell) for a number of reasons. At first it didn’t bother me not being able to enjoy R & B music at an adult session several times a week. I was new to the area, and there was so much to do like familiarize myself with the area and get to know people. However, as the months went by, I started to long for some Patrice Rushen cuts or the occasional Gap Band song when I did visit the rinks here. I was soon forced to put my IPod into overdrive and load up as much music possible and turn it up as loud as I could to drown out the wails of children and undecipherable lyrics that were un-skate able.
I begin to envy what I had so easily taken for granted before and started wishing for a miracle. No longer being able to “leave it on the wood”, now I had to “leave it on the epoxy-glide” (The blue stuff). That doesn’t even sound right. Now, instead of checking into a mental hospital, I travel five hours to California once a month or to the occasional out of town skate party just to get my roll on.
Some may ask, “Is it worth it?” Real skaters already know, “Of course it is!” But I’ll do whatever I have to do to get my roll on.
So when your rolling during the week get a slide, a split, a one-stop, a jack-leg or whatever you style calls for in for me! J
KP “DETROIT STYLE ALL DAY”
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Roller Funk: How long have you been skating?
Stalz Boogie: We’ve been
sk8ing together for about a year and some change now. Officially being
Roller Macks for a year Oct 10. I’ve known how to sk8 since age 7. Pretty
much the same goes for Promo, Garijefe, and Lump, but we didn’t really start
jamming until Summer 2006. People are impressed with how much we’ve grown as
sk8ers in so little time! For me, I’m a semi-pro dancer so the transition
was not hard at all. Roller Funk: What are your two favorite rinks? Stalz Boogie :
Without question there’s no place we’ve been to like Empire (RIP), but now
we can be seen spazzin out in Branch Brook, or mackin in Maryland at
Seabrook Skating Rink. We try to spread our mack love. Lol! Roller Funk: What is currently your favorite song to skate to? Stalz Boogie:
We actually have theme music created by yours truly, you can check out on
either the Roller Mack page or Stalz Boogie. Also I can safely say that
Maxwell’s “No One” of the Now album is bananas. Goo goo gaa gaa, Blow the
Whistle, black music, and Gnarls Barley has a track on their album called
“Online” on the St. Elsewhere album, it’s Butter, lol!!! |
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Roller Funk: How would you describe yourself?
Roller Funk: What was the best skate jam you ever attended and why? Roller Funk: If you could tell the skaters around the world just one thing, what would it be?
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