Message from Pilot Girl

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Like Finding a Long Lost Friend

It was truly LOVE at first sight. I stepped into the rink after nearly 15 years of being away.

The music still sounded good, the skates still looked the same, (you know those brown and orange ones!) but something was so different this time. I walked around to the opening of the rink floor and I saw older bodies this time, bodies that looked as if they had been skating since there were 10 years old. Their movements were so fluid, poetic, skillful and honestly just sexy. (I know yall feel me!) In that moment, I realized skating had a place after high school. How did I let this beautiful space in time slip away from me?

I never stopped loving the rink or the roll. Just the timing of life took me away from it all. Life started happening to me, you know college, jobs – LIFE.

As a child, skating is your friend. You see it when you can, enjoy it for what is and often fly through life under estimating its value. Now that I am an adult, supposedly older and wiser (and I’m sure you can relate) I can treat it like my lover. I can be close to it, spend all my time and money to be with it, as my lover it requires attention and will need me to be there for it in good times and bad.

Today I am making the promise to stand by its side. I want all of you to participate in the relationship and share our love. The love of the rink, the ability to skate and PASSION to take your roll on the road is why I hope you are here. Let this be our place to meet each other in the middle and express our love for each other. Should you ever need me, just HOLLA and I’ll be there. So come on – let’s get this party stared and let’s go getyoursk8on.com

Much Love,


PS: I would like to dedicate the birth of this inspiration to someone very special. Thank you for sending me back to the rink. Skating HAS CHANGED MY LIFE. We didn’t find each other the way we did without the universe having a greater plan. For your friendship, I am forever grateful.



Never Alone When On A Roll

Over the years, some of you have seen me trying to hang and "get my skate on." I'm Philly, from Cali near Oaktown and San Frandisco. The door to skating was opened to me about 20 years ago as a young family cat, hoping my 2 kids would learn basic motor skills (and of course to keep them busy and out of my hair). SURPRISE, SURPRISE, but I was the one who got “hooked and caught up ” in skatopia. It was totally amazing to me that I looked forward to going to THEIR SKATE LESSONS so I could get my skate on. The kids now grown, have long since lost interest in skating. But I am stuck forever in time, like a kid, all geeked up and ready to roll – any day, any time and anywhere.

When I started skating, I always got so hyped learning new moves, improving, and feeling great knowing it was good exercise (much more fun than running). Eventually I noticed that it was therapy for me. No matter how crappy I felt or how bad a beat down I was catching from life – skating lifted me, made me feel good, forget my problems, and get a good night sleep. Better than any pill.

Unfortunately, for a number of years, I skated at a rink with no soul, flava and to boot - lousy music. But one day a brotha showed up at this rink. I was blown away by his
“dance skating”. I hadn't seen anything like it. I knew I had to get this brotha to teach me.
The first suggestion he made was that I start rollin' at Cal Skate on Sunday nights.
I have been there ever since. By the way, this brotha is none other than
Richard Humphrey, my mentor and good friend.

Something else about skating is the incredible richness and diversity. It’s filled with so many different styles, moves, themes, acts, dances, charades and whatever. The same step or move, can be done and taught in a thousand different ways. There is something for everyone. You can roll around, you can dance, take it backwards… you can even attempt to PIMP that JB flava and skid across the floor as they do in Detroit! But the best part is the people who skate. In my various trips all over the country, skaters have always shown me love and made me feel at home.

Skating has lasted longer than 2 marriages and the kids. Am I alone now? Perhaps, but I don’t feel like it because I have
a mistress – skating. She’s always there for me, never gives me drama, always makes me feel good all over, keeps me young and healthy, and introduces me to so many fine people. So, friends, brotha’s and sista’s, skate family, my ultimate advice to y’all is simple - “Roll 'til you're old."

Take care and BE SAFE,

Philly