Yes! It is true. After hearing the hype over the MRB, finding out MJ has been skating on Sundays ever since his wife joined the team and watching a few Team Riedell videos, I had to. I purchased a pair of skates again. They arrived today to my surprise. I had been frantically checking the lowpricedskates.com website to see the status of my order like a eBay lunatic. The order wasn’t even showing up. I was going to make a call this morning if I still couldn’t find anything online. Sure enough, here they come in the hands of one of the storeroom guys. Luckily they were in an unmarked box, other wise i’m sure I would have gotten 3 kinds of hellish ridicule. I opened them up and had to try them on immediately. I feel like a giddy school girl! I haven’t touched skates since I quit djing at Summer Skateland years ago. To be honest, after the first thing I heard about the start up of the MRB, I’ve been looking for an excuse to get some. I even still see some of the guys that used to skate at the rink with me from time to time, out at the bars having a drink. Weekend before last, I went with MJ and family to East End where I donned a pair of “buddy skates” and hit the floor. It came back to me rather quickly, which was a surprise. By the time we left, and mind you i was worn out by this time, only an hour and a half later, i was already doing backward skating and turnaround quite effortlessly. I guess its true what they say, “it’s just like riding a bike…” It’s probably a bad thing I didn’t fall even once cause now that I have the speed skates I HAVE to appear like I know what im doing, and thats when it happens, when u get cocky. I’ll go and bust my ass big time. Well, now that I have real skates again, i’ll have to break them in something proper. Thursday night from 7-9 is when a group from the derby refs and some of the girls get together and go skating in Cordova or Rockin’ Raleigh. If you are reading this and have the fever, come and join us!!!! Shit, a few weeks from now, i’ll be back to full on Jam Skate status!