When I was growing up I remember being outdoors all the time. Playing with other kids from the neighborhood – hide and seek, jumpsie, skateboarding and rollerblading. There was non of this staying inside to play video games! Heck if I’d wanted to stay indoors to watch TV my parents would have though something was wrong with me, and if there’s wasn’t there’s no way I’d be allowed to just sit around and watch TV anyway.
Now as an adult I’d love to get back into that active outdoors lifestyle again. Living in a city such as Toronto sure does make it easy to get outside and do things!
I’ve been looking around for something to motivate me to get outside more and when I saw the heelys at Fritz’s Skate and Surf I thought “Well now this looks interesting!”. As I could certainly use a pair of heelys to whip around the neighborhood.
I’d go further than if I were just walking and I’d certainly get a bit of a workout as a result.
I actually like the wide selection of Healys and rollerblades at Fritz’s Skate and Surf. It’s a popular action sports shop in Miami. They have a wide selection of sporting goods from surfing gear to inline skates and all the accessories you can think of. They ship to both US, US military addresses, and Canada.
I think I’ll take a look through their selection of heelys and rollerblades to see if I can find any styles that I really like.
Did you rollerblade or skateboard as a child?
I roller skated as a young adult. Loved the speed. Now however after khee surgery my days on wheels are over, man i miss that fun!
There was no such thing as rollerblades when I was a kid. I think skateboards were around, but roller skates were the way to go, when I was a girl.
I’ll be interested to read how the Heely experiment goes. They look fun, but I think I’d fall and break something these days….
Rollerblades were not around when I was a child either. There were 6 children in our family. We played softball as a family many evenings. We also had a membership to the YMCA, so we did a lot of swimming. My mother limited the amount of time we could spend watching television. Now, I try to get out and walk in the neighborhood for exercise.
I played a lot of tennis. I grew up watch Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, and Chris Everett every summer on TV. I used to go outside and try to perfect their moves. Too bad I turned out so short! Now a days powering walking is nearly all the formal exercise I get.
I had roller skates. I even participated in national competitions as a roller skater. It was about 25 years ago. I also used them to play on the street and participate in local parties.
I had lots of good times on my skateboard and inline skates. Inline skates were new when I was just old enough to learn how to use them safely. My grandma talks about having metal, on-size-fits-all roller skate attachments for her shoes. She said she had a great time on those. I guess it is just a matter of what you are used to. I still have my first skateboard and my first pair of inline skates. Ah, the memories!