MGoFriday POSBang! 1980s Roller Disco style
Happy MGoFriday! For those of you old enough to remember roller skating to disco music back in the late 70s and early 80s here's a video that will bring back some memories. For you young pups you don't know what you missed...before the internet, texting, cell phones and computers we actually went out of the house and hung out with our friends IRL...omg I know right?
So many great memories...we would go out on Friday & Saturday nights to the local roller skating places and met so many girls back then. Constantly had blisters on my feet from roller dancing and spent a fair amount of money on new wheels or low friction bearings etc for my skates.
Growing up in Flint I went to a place on the east side I can't remember name now (played mostly funk) and another one out in Flushing.
Was great fun and good exercise...I still think I'd be pretty good if I tried it again but no way would I do this without a helmet haha.
Anyone else have any good roller disco memories?
(the way these guys skate is pretty much ow many of us hardcore skaters did it back in the day)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL62C707D4DB3A34DD
*Typical Friday night play list of dance funk
Me and my friends would go to Skateland in Woodhaven back in the late 70's early 80's. Another Brick in the Wall and Fool in the Rain were two songs I remember they always played. Not disco obviously but still pretty cool. Good times!
My haunts would play genre music on a given night ... rock night, funk etc. Brick in the wall was huge...they used to let the fog blowers loose on that one
I remember how awesome I thought skateland was in elementary school, and how awful I thought it was in high school. That was the 90s though. Probably was awful.
Happy National Go for Broke Day, MGoBloggers! Take That Risk and GO BLUE!
Bang away homies
Going to pick up my new mountain bike and hoping to be able to try it out this weekend. Trails might not be dry enough yet.
Where do ride? SE Mi or elsewhere? I rotate between DTE in Chelsea, the Poto, and Brighton Rec area. I'm one of the old farts out there , but its a good ride when none of you whippersnappers pass me and my feet stay clipped in the whole way.
Those are all trails I have been wanting to check out but up until just recently I didn't have others to ride with and don't really like trying out new trails by myself. I ride my local trails in Jackson by myself mostly but have been to Ft. Custer in Battle Creek a few times.
i have some great memories (and a few scars) riding poto during my time at UM. I spend more time pedaling on the road rather than dirt these days, but still in the saddle! Doing a 61-mile ride with some buds this weekend.
1. there is no reason to pos-bang. requesting neg bang.
2. as a hockey player, i was way too snooty to ever be caught dead in a roller rink. puu-leease. (provoking more neg bang).
3. i guess roller derby is still a thing now? i remember as a kid i always thought it was a cylindrical form of pro wrestling. do they still do the bit where the way to score is that some person with a special helmet gets shot around the pack and after some unknowable event, would throw their helmet down and 'call off the jam'?
4. in a world where our entertainment is more and more sedentary, good for those folks getting out and moving around some, meeting humans face to face. with AI on the horizon, our world and how we interact is not only changing now, but also i think is going to radically change in the next decade or so. kind of like that michigan marching band CD from 25 years ago re: you'll only find great blues songs in the records section of your local libraries, you will only hear/see about people interacting face-to-face on the TV you watch as your driverless car takes you to work/school/etc.
have a great weekend.
NO negbang for you! What? You think you're special because you're snooty? Haa! You don't get what you want just because you want it.
Things my wife says when I ask her to bang me.....
The "unknowable event" was actually pretty knowable-the person with the helmet got 1 point for each member of the opposing team they passed during the "jam" . Pretty straightforward.
i was kidding. next time i'll add the /s so nobody is fooled.
XM.....
This is awesome. Picking up girls at the skating rink was awesome. I can’t imagine only texting to communicate with a girl. Going to Movies was awesome a well. I was recently told by multiple teenagers that “movies are dumb” and “why would you waste 2 hours of your life watching a movie with a girl”. Times change I guess.
Remember the couples skate? They would turn down the lights and guys/girls would go to opposite sides and wait for the music to start. Me, personally, I would scope out who I was interested in and zoom over to them immediately. It worked out great for both parties as they girls didn't want to be left stranded / unasked and the guys sure as hell didn't want to be rejected. You skated together for a song or two then either went your separate ways if it wasn't a fit or you went over and had a pop or something together. It was a great way to learn how to interact with the opposite sex.
Sure do. I still have a picture of me with my so called girlfriend from 4th grade at the skating rink.
I fear for our reproductive future.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/
From a general economic demography standpoint, there's an argument that economies don't thrive and grow with populations that are stagnant.
Ahh yes, roller skating... Watching that video makes it look so, ahem, ... LOL!! It tailed off in the mid-late 80's, but the 70's and early 80's still had rinks almost everywhere. I think it's making a mini-comeback, but not for me. I was never hardcore with it, but I'd prefer roller blades and some hockey - even in my somewhat more advanced age.
...as opposed to "wrongeous" breasts?
Nicely done.
I see there are some super sensitive people on MGoBlog. I am sorry to have typed the word "breasts."
*eye roll*
aka "Moobs"
When Linda Blair went from The Exorcist to Roller Boogie
Linda who now?
/s
Guy behind her seems to be enjoying the view
After the roller disco,I would go to the malt shop.
I am "running" the Big House 5k on Sunday.
Me after I am done
Loved the slow skate girls choice. Guys line up on the wall and stick your hand out. If a girl slaps it she liked you and you could join her for the slow skate
Never did that...would have sucked to be left hanging!
Much better than Tinder
This seems like a posbang for olds. I’m just going to take a Werther’s from the dish and leave.
Boogie down -- GO BLUE!
I remember middle school skating parties. “Couples skate!” Holding your girlfriend’s hand on the bus ride home.
Still listening to Commodores, Earth Wind & Fire today.
Just can’t remember name of rink between Whitehall and North Muskegon on old US 31 ... getting old I guess.
I think it was called Skate Zone.
Roller Girl!!
Nice. I love that movie and recently received the blu-ray from Amazon.
It was CLC on the east side (Davison rd). I question your Flint roots if you don’t remember that.
I grew up off of Center and Richfield road, so it was about 5-8 min to drive there.
There was that one but wasn't there one over off of Ballenger near Miller Rd at the old Zody's/Yankee's store next to channel 66? I'm old dood I can't remember names and I grew up over off Ballenger & Flushing so pbbbbt
Edit: It was called Rollerworld...heavy funk / disco
Bang Bang! Go Blue!!
I know this is roller heavy today ...BUT the stadium is open tomorrow, and fine young student athletes will be taking the field for our enjoyment. People hate on the Hoke years, but his nighttime open practice was special for me. My first time on the field with live action. Blake Countess almost took me out while getting tackled out of bounds.
Our first look at Mr. Peppers.
Will they allow parents to bring small children onto the field tomorrow once the practice ends?
don't know Eli--last August's open practice did feature this and people loved it (accept for the long lines at the stairs to get down on the field). I'm not working the event --NCAA gymnastics instead -- so I didn't receive the email with particulars about what's happening post practice.
Ok. Thank you very much for the reply.
The first time I ever fingered a girl was at a skating rink.
Good times.
Shocked there was no anal segue here
Surprised that "at" was not replaced with "on"
That's what school dances were for. Too dangerous on skates.