skating
Song sparks 200-person brawl at Virginia skating rink
Everybody was kung-fu fighting! A brawl involving 200 people erupted at a Virginia roller skating rink around 12:30 a.m. Sunday, WDBJ reported. Witnesses told WFXR that a song ignited local...
Now you can ice skate outdoors — even in a heat wave
Ice skating without the ice? That’s the idea at Mel’s Rink Governors Island. The new outdoor skating spot — run by Mel’s Rink Foundation, a charity that teaches skating to...
This elderly skater is making his town furious
Geoff Dorman is a 79-year-old man who loves to rollerblade, and makes sure to get in 12 hours of blade time a week for the exercise. He does this despite...
Old ladies' hula-hooping, rollerskating tricks put young pups to shame
Three ladies who call themselves “the skating hula hoopers” prove it’s never too late to have fun. Edna Davoll, 79, and her two friends, Joan and Donna, skate all over...
These roller derby bombshells are the baddest beauties in NYC
On a summer Saturday in 2007, I played my first roller derby bout in a sweltering parking lot outside an upstate nightclub. It was 95 degrees, and we had to...
There's a roller-skating craze in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya — A flock of speed skaters flashed across a parking lot past children learning to roller skate and hundreds of other people who had gathered to skate or...
Kingsbridge skating complex plan on thin ice
Does Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. regret torpedoing the Kingsbridge Armory project four years ago? For the inferior replacement plan he champions is now endangered by similar politicking. On...