Unfortunately no classes at all where I am (except for the one I've just started myself). I'm from Sweden, and the only–as far as I know–physical skate store in this country recently gave up. (OK, they were too far away for me anyway; would have needed a night at a hotel for that trip...) Nevertheless, I'm really committed to work for a revival of roller skating in Sweden! 🙈😁

@Leslie Werner Totally–we'll be here! 🥰 (Or... you go for a teacher who's actually experienced, haha. But I do see that they ARE learning–and gaining confidence–and I keep it all very relaxed and up to them what they feel ready for. As for my advancement of roller skating teaching skills, I'm banking on Sk8shot to be the guru's gurus... 😆)

🎶 Groovy style, I guess... 🎶 😁 When I started skating–a looong time ago–in Sweden, there was no knowledge at all available, so we all created our own individual style as best we could. I was more of a dancer, all into the groovy music, whereas a really short and light-weight Asian guy could do incredibly fast moves with his (quite noisy) skates, another guy would do some acrobatics and a couple of girls really fast spins. And a new guy came from Gothenburg and seemed to have a bit of figure skating qualities. So completely different styles to us! 😆

Haha, yeah, that would be something! 🤩 "A bit" far to me from Sweden, though... 😔 Lots of people doing it there? Rinks?

Nah, I'm the exact opposite: I NEED the music and atmosphere for my skating. With the right music, I feel I can come up with pretty much anything–carried by this magic–and I'm not afraid of anything. Of course it's NOT as nice if it's too crowded, that I do relate to. (But I've never run anybody over, even when there's been lots of kids! 😇)

Hi! Sweden here. I roller skated in the early 80s, but actually only 1–2 years, since all the cool places were suddenly closed – hashtag grief. I did skate a lot, though, and never lost the passion–so when I've been in NYC especially, I've made sure to skate a couple of times in The Roxy. And some time ago there was actually a great rink outside of Stockholm where I took my daughter a few times (unfortunately they played crappy music, otherwise it would have been perfect), but it died during the pandemic. 😔 Now I'm in a part of Sweden where there's no roller skate culture whatsoever, but have decided to make this activity great again! Trying to start a part-time rink, but so far only gotten to give an introduction class (gonna be session 5 this week!). On our first lesson, I made great use of Sk8 Studios thing with starting on a carpet, so brought two long ones from home, and also the penguin process to start them off. Man, did that work out great! Big thank you! So yeah, they'll be the guru's gurus for sure... ❤️❤️❤️ As for me, I've only practised "learning by grooving". 🕺🕺 I do look–and feel–quite free and uninhibited out there, but am in reality not that technical. I haven't actually KNOWN anything about skating until recently, through the internet, although my BODY still does seem to know a thing or two. Now wanna tackle all the weaknesses that are there after all–not least so I can teach these skills, of course! Great place, this! 🤩