Roller skating is cool again. Some say it's due to the pandemic, which drew more to tie on skates. There's also nostalgia for the '70s, '80s and disco.
At a nondescript basketball court in Waltham, Massachusetts, the leaves take on an autumnal glow and the air is crisp. But there are no pickup basketball players. This is now a spot for people who roller skate.
That may be partly due to the pandemic, which drew more people to an accessible, social and physical activity that can be done outdoors. It's also part of a larger fashion and music throwback to the disco era of the '70s and '80s, the last time roller skating was so hot. In the 1990s, inline skates, a kind of roller skate, were all the rage, but their buzz had gotten quieter.
The filmmakers behind a 2019 HBO documentary, "United Skates," about roller skating as a vibrant Black subculture, told The Associated Press then that they expected to be chronicling the end of an era. But they found the opposite. As one young Black skater told them,"Skating's not dead. It just went underground."
"I've never seen people roller skating in grocery store parking lots before, and suddenly they're here," she said."I've been waiting for this moment my entire life." There are, of course, roller-skating influencers. Across all social-media platforms, you can find people posting roller-skating videos, tutorials and pretty pictures of skates.
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