COME TO MOONLIGHT THIS THURSDAY, JULY 20 FOR THE 8-11PM SESSION FOR EXCITING GIVEAWAYS AND SNEAK PEAKS OF THE MOVIE!

VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS is the visually spectacular new adventure film from Luc Besson, the legendary director of The Professional, The Fifth Element and Lucy, based on the ground-breaking comic book series which inspired a generation of artists, writers and filmmakers.

In the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha—an ever-expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence and cultures with each other. There is a mystery at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

Thank you to everyone that came out for our Bowie Skate night last week.  It was another fun filled night of skating.  LA Weekly was here and put up a great pictorial online.

Our next big event will be our 6th Annual Harry Potter Skate Night on Saturday April 8 from 8-11pm.  This event is for all ages, Witches and Wizards and even Muggles are welcome to join in the fun!  There is no pre-sale on this event, but LADA does fun activities with everyone in line.  We do sell out to capacity every year so we welcome you to get in line starting at 6:30pm.

 

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ROLLER SKATING  HOLIDAY Gift IDEAS & SALES

*Purchase two books and receive a free tote bag! 

You can place your order with Rhonda by calling 402-483-7551 x18.  

ITEM LISTING	PRICE
Book: Titans & Heroes	$10.00
Book: The History of Roller Skating	$10.00
Book: Roller Skating Through the Years & Receive 1 Museum Mug Free!	$12.00
One Museum Mug, Patch, and Logo Pin	$8.00
NEW T-SHIRTS!
Vintage Hockey T-Shirt – Tan	1/$12  2/$20
Vintage 1918 Speed Nationals T-Shirt – Brown	1/$12  2/$20
Vintage 1927 Tent Rink T-Shirt – Navy	1/$12  2/$20
Skating Franks T-Shirt – Teal	1/$12  2/$20
RSROA Original Logo T-Shirt – White	1/$10  2/$15
Museum Logo T-Shirts (various colors) – Limited Quantities and Sizes	$7.00

 

 

There will be no public session on Thursday, November 3, 2016.  Someone has bought out the rink for a private event.

The Roller Skating Association International encourages kids to become physically fit and active 365 days a year. This year’s theme is encouraging kids to get active and show their moves in the rink. #mysk8moves is a movement aimed at reminding kids that a healthy lifestyle and physical fitness can still be fun. This October member skating rinks will be hosting month-long events celebrating the health benefits and entertainment that roller skating provides while highlighting all the fun that can be had.

America’s favorite pastime, roller skating, is a way to show your individuality in the form of movement. Are you a jam skater? Shuffle skater? Speed Skater? What are your moves? Roller Skating gives kids the opportunity to socialize, get active, and have fun in a safe environment.

The RSA wants people to know that roller skating is one of the few activities that provides a complete aerobic workout for over 640 of the body’s muscles – especially the heart. Families, kids, and teens are encouraged to dedicate themselves to achieving an active lifestyle. To find your nearest skating rink, please go to www.rollerskating.org and click on Locator.

Roller Skating has long held the support of The President’s Challenge Program and Let’s Move Program with the mission of keeping kids active and healthy in a safe environment. The President’s Challenge is a program that encourages all Americans to make being active an important part of their everyday lives. No matter what your activity or fitness level, The President’s Challenge Program can help motivate you to improve. For more information, please visit www.presidentschallenge.org or call 1-800-258-8146. Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. For more information visit http://www.letsmove.gov.

Trey Knight has been on roller skates most of his life starting out on the neighborhood streets and local roller rinks for birthday parties and public sessions.

He soon became a full time athlete, by the age of 10, training and qualifying for the National Championships for 14 consecutive years, including 4 years qualifying for the World Championships, receiving 9 US National titles, 7 International titles. These include the Gold medal and 2 bronze at the World Championships, 2 Gold medals at the International German Cup, as well as 2 Gold Medals at the South American Championships. He was also part of the final US Olympic Festival team members 1993 and 1994, the last 3 years of the games. Trey and his partner received the bronze medal, silver and then the gold medal the following year.

In addition to winning the 1995 World Championships, Trey trained in multiple disciplines. He passed the highest level gold testing in three different disciplines, International Dance, Freestyle and Figures. Trey also qualified for the US Olympic training Center in Colorado Springs 6 consecutive years. At the training center he was able to train with the absolute best teachers from the USA as well as the world. Jumps, spins, speed, street, jam, disco, ballroom, partnering, and stunts on skates, he does it all.

Trey was then in high demand as a private, group, guest teacher and choreographer, nationally and internationally for 7 solid years until moving to Los Angeles to focus on the entertainment industry. Based in San Francisco at the time, Trey trained national/world champions in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Miami, San Antonio, Santa Clara, San Jose, Italy, Germany, Argentina, and France. He also established 2 new skating clubs from ground up in Santa Clara as well as in Milpitas, CA.

Three weeks after moving to Los Angeles, Trey booked his first major film, a roller disco scene with Mike Myers and Beyonce, in Austin Powers ‘Goldmember.’ While focused on creating his avant-garde extreme dance company Stilt World, he continued booking many different skating jobs choreographing, performing, casting the best skaters available for entertainment as well as consulting national and world champions. Working with celebrity and commercial brands, recently on camera principle with Gwen Stefani, Elle King, live with Katy Perry at the Cannes Film Festival and commercial choreographer for Dr. Pepper and Apple he has blended his expertise seamlessly into the professional entertainment industry.

Trey has now shifted his focus merging 15 years working in the entertainment industry, performing in 37 countries, teaching , choreographing, beginners, kids, adults, pro, national and world champions, he is bringing this all together in Knight Rollers. Starting with a new concept roller jam disco class at the famous Moonlight Rollerway, the roller skating rink to the stars.

Founder of Knight Rollers, Trey will be available for casting, choreographing, all levels, styles, disciplines of roller skating for live stunt shows, TV, film, commercial, music video, industrial, corporate, and private events.

Knight Rollers’ Roller Jam Disco class is a fun, challenging, new skating workout taught by world champion, Trey Knight, every Wednesday evening at 7pm for only a $20 fee.  You receive the one hour class and can stay to skate the 8-11pm Rainbow Skate session..

Come learn correct skating techniques which include forward, backward, turns, spins, and different exercises. You will build strength, balance and coordination. Available for all level of skaters. 

The class begins with a warm-up, into strength building with proper skating technique and then concludes by learning roller dance choreography! Yes that’s right! Each week you will learn roller dance choreography. Breaking down different roller dance moves, setting it to music and performing it under the disco ball!

So throw on something that makes you feel good and come get fit while learning something new!

The President’s Council for Physical Fitness and the American Heart Association both know that roller skating is an excellent form of aerobic activity for all ages, but did you know that…

• Roller skating for just 30 minutes produces a heart rate of at least 148 beats per minute
• The average person can burn up to 600 calories with just one hour of vigorous roller skating at 10 miles per hour
• Roller skating causes 50% less stress to joints than running

But what’s even more…roller skating is safer than many activities your kids participate in at school!

According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, roller skating is…

• 2x safer than school playgrounds
• 3x safer than football or baseball
• 4x safer than basketball
• 5x safer than riding a bicycle

Check out the  infographic outlining the fun facts and figures all about roller skating and feel free to share with your local schools, friends and family.

 

This is a guest post from Alan Bacon, excerpted from “Rolling Through Time“, the official newsletter of the National Museum of Roller Skating, dated August 31, 2016. 

What is a week like at the National Museum of Roller Skating? Who actually shows up? What are their reactions? The second week of July I was fortunate enough to experience these reactions first hand by serving as a volunteer docent to almost 400 visitors that week. Most importantly, I rediscovered that the roller skating industry has a jewel of a museum.

I first visited the museum in Lincoln for the first time several years ago; I was impressed. Those experiences prompted me to get more involved as the years passed. But this summer I wanted to go back with a new set of eyes, and to reevaluate my commitment to the museum. Since the museum was between curators and could use some help during Nationals, this was the time to go.

I was impressed again, but at a new level. Every visitor I had a chance to meet at the museum was pleasantly surprised. “WOW” was a common reaction. “I didn’t know.” Even teenagers, whether competitive skaters or not, were impressed.

Around 300 Derby competitors, mostly Jr. Derby, in town for competition visited the museum that week. Most of them were relatively new to roller skating, and it was fun to watch their excitement of seeing the museum for the first time. I showed them the museum’s Derby artifacts and explained to them how Derby began in the 1930s as a 3,000-mile race, patterned after the marathon speed skating races (derbies) of the early 1900s. They, in turn, taught me more about modern Derby history. The museum became a gathering place. Multiple teams ended up visiting the museum at a time, and the space gave them a chance to meet other competitors and share their recent experiences. They were still bumping in to each other, but now they had a chance to talk. The museum buzzed with conversation. At one point I thought we were having a Section I social. A derby team from Olympia, Wash., was meandering around the museum, when John and Diane Gustafson from Auburn, Wash., appeared. Some of the derby ladies had skated speed for them and a reunion commenced with lots of hugs. Then family and friends of Tom and Janis Hughes from Anchorage, Alaska, walked in.

I met people from Lincoln to Barbados, and across North America. One older woman was particularly excited about the display of Nebraska rinks in the showcase near the entrance. She kept pointing at the historic rink pictures and saying, “I remember that rink”, or “I knew the people who owned that rink.” One older man from Pennsylvania was also excited to see the rink stickers from his home state, and to recall the memories from the many rinks he frequented as a younger skater. It was evident that roller skating had a meaningful impact on both lives. It was also a little disappointing to see some local children who had skated once or twice in their lives, who liked their skating experiences, and who like the museum, but nevertheless, would probably never see skating as meaningful to their lives as many in previous generations.

Children also found the museum to be worth their day. One morning during my visit, a local eight year old came with his grandmother; it was a summer outing for them, like for many local families that week. He had visited before with his class from school. He walked through the door and immediately turned to the right and put a quarter in the loud band organ, an enjoyable experience for all ages that startled most visitors who had never heard one before. Then he showed his grandmother the wheel display and demonstrated how the wheels turned, and turned, and turned. Kids seem to like the opportunities to interact with the artifacts displayed. He took her to the showcase with all the animals on skates, another young children’s favorite display. You never know what a classroom of young children might take away from a field trip, but he was the guide for his grandmother, and it was fascinating the bits of information he remembered about various displays that he was so eager to share with her.

One daycare also stopped in. The room was filled with boisterous kids, some running around. Late one afternoon a single, precocious boy about 12 showed up. He asked if he could bring his bike inside, explaining to me that his mother lets him travel around town up to 8.9 miles from home. He listed for me all the museums and special local sites he had biked to this summer. He spent a lot of time looking up information on his phone, including about the museum, and letting me know various stats about many things. I told him he could be the next Plimpton and invent a new generation of skates. As he was leaving, right next to the front door, was a poster with 15 national flags on it. He paused and identified all of the countries. You never know what seeds might be planted in a young person’s mind by a visit to a museum.

A group of adult male speed skaters came in towards the end of the week, just as Nationals was transitioning from derby and slalom, to hockey and speed. They had been to Nationals many times over the years, and to the museum. They were most excited about the wheel collection, but not to spin them around. They had lived through and competed with some of these wheels. These wheels were personal. These were not something to play with but to tell stories about. They did the talking, and I did the listening. They need to be consulted the next time the display is updated; they had strong suggestions and great debates about what wheels needed to be added.

Lastly, I experienced three semiprofessional museum goers. One couple had been on the road for eight months, seeking out a variety of museums. She took copious notes for a blog she is writing; he took many pictures for it. The very last person I guided through the museum on Friday afternoon said he has visited around 2,000 museums. He, along with the previous couple, was the only one to spend two hours and systematically document the museum. And yes, all three of these “pros” were impressed, too.

Most people, no matter how excited about the displays, get museum fatigue in less than an hour. I didn’t have to explain to the museum “pros” what Vaudeville was, as was necessary for even most adults. Without a guide, even with good written and displayed captions, the average visitor doesn’t seem to be able to put in context the Frank family, for example. They are just a picture of a couple doing fancy tricks on skates, wearing unusual costumes. At a Civil War site with my family this summer, I spent 80 dollars to have a private tour of the battle site with an interpreter. This museum offers the same service for free.

The museum might not have a lot of extra open space like some museums, but it is a tremendous storehouse of artifacts and information. No group, not even the two semiprofessional museum goers, couldn’t take it all in. During the quiet times that week I could lean up against the souvenir counter in the back and look out across the museum, and begin to appreciate the thousands of hours former curators and others have spent in collecting, organizing and displaying the artifacts. Also, I could begin to appreciate the confidence that so many historic figures in roller skating and their descendants have put into the museum by donating their precious personal belongings to the museum. This museum, like any museum across the country that doesn’t have government funding and a large endowment, struggles for funding. But all the money in the world could not replace the precious artifacts and documents stored there. They truly tell the story of our sport and industry.

 

For more information on the National Museum of Roller Skating check out their website or follow them on Twitter and Facebook.  And if you are lucky enough to go, take a selfie with Dominic’s Hammond Organ on display there and send it to us!