Since the start of Rolla Skate Club almost three years ago, finding a venue to host their in-person rollerskating classes turned out to be a ride. From having classes at parking lots, tiny yoga studios, and art galleries, to settling into the late “Skate Church” at...
This post is written and compiled by settlers, working and living on the traditional, ancestral, unceded and stolen territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. National Truth and...
Join the Rolla Team for the next stage of this amazing journey! We are opening a brand new full time Rolla Skate Club at Rollerland at the PNE in December 2021 located in East Vancouver, BC Canada. Read more here. Come roll, learn and grow with us....
Hey Beautiful Rolla Humans! We’re here today to share some BIG news with you. One of those is pretty crummy but we hope that the other piece of news is so amazingly awesome that it will make the crummy stuff worth it. But first, let’s start this story from the...
Hailing from all the way across the pond is super duper online skater - Amandine Thierree! Amandine is Rollin’ in as our Online Skater Spotlight nominee all the way from the UK. She’s conquering the great outdoors on her 8 wheels as she regularly practices outside....
Rollin’ in from Vancouver is one of our in-person members, Kat "Alotta Java" Boucher! A Canadian Armed Forces Veteran, an ER nurse, and derby skater: In-person Rolla member Kat is the very definition of a badass! Kat, who goes by the skater name Alotta Java, is a...
Skate Fantacee is an incredible rink skater, experienced teacher, Riedell Superstar, and hands down one of the most lovely humans you’ll ever meet. She is an inspiring leader in the rollerskate community - working hard on the #saveourrinks campaign and the founder of...
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Have you experienced sexual harassment while roller skating? If you present as female or gender diverse, have rollerskates, and have ever skated outside, then the answer is almost certainly yes. Doubly so if you are a person of colour – BIPOC skaters receive more comments, abuse, and harassment from both passersby and police/park attendants/security guards than white skaters do. For anyone who’s experienced this discomfort, annoyance, and even fear, we’re here to help!
With roller skaters joining us at Rolla Skate Club online from all over the world, we get a lot of questions like “how can I get better at rollerskating, faster?” The simple answer to getting better at rollerskating is to get stronger! (Well, that and plenty of time...
Rollin’ in from North Delta is one of our in-person members, Ryan a.k.a. Mojito! The first skater to complete our inaugural Alphabet Challenge, Mojito is an avid fan of Rolla’s dance classes and has lots of big roller skating goals including landing some exciting...
Say hello to one of our amazing online members joining us virtually all the way from Apopka, Florida, U.S.A.: Yvonne a.k.a. Cup-Skates! In addition to her roller skating passion, Yvonne also loves decorating cakes, which is where her amazing skater name comes from....
It's Summer Time and things are heating up here at Rolla Skate Club Vancouver. And as the days get warmer, we're pulling out our shorts from the back of our closets and most of us are getting a bit of a surprise.. The last 12 months of Covid restrictions and...
As rollerskaters we are deeply connected to the land we skate on. We viscerally experience the contours of the land as it rolls under our wheels, the rocks or twigs that we do our best to avoid while out on a trail skate, being held weightless in the air as we drop...
Check out Rolla Skate Club co-founders Luludemon & BiznessTime, using their government names! They sat down with the Into the Wild Podcast to chat about what it's like to have a business partner. Find the podcast here or play it below, and add it on your...
If you've ever emailed Rolla Skate Club with a question about a Rolla class or an online membership then you've probably already met Brady aka Goldie Lox & Bagel. Brady is our current "Director of Customer Happiness" which means that she answers every email,...
Meet one of our lovely online Rolla Skate club members - who got nominated for Skater Spotlight for her dedication to our Rollerskating 101 virtual program 🙂 Your name, skater name, or how you like to be called: Nadia AKA MapleTee. Your social media handle:...
We love our members, and we love to bring you their interesting stories in our Rollerskater Spotlight. Coming at you from Vancouver, one of our lovely in-person members, Angella, was nominated by her coaches due to her passion for learning new rollerskating skills and...
We all know that feeling. You're watching a video of someone on rollerskates - they're cruising along beside the beach with the wind in their hair. It looks effortless. It looks good. "How do I look that good on rollerskates?" you ask yourself. Well we've spent the...
"Holy crap, I feel like I've just been hit by a train!" announced LuluDemon as the jam ended. She rolled back to the team's bench, "Who is that skater?" "That's Freight Train!" her teammate replied. It was 2014, and Houston had travelled up to Vancouver, Canada, to...