Kia ora my name is leticia and i’m reporting for kia kids news here’s the news roller skating has a blown up during clover 19 and let’s find out why thanks to the video sharing at tiktok roller skating is booming moleskine teachers are busier than ever even teachers who are mums like sarah
What’s your background and what do you know about skating i’m a competitive skater and i’ve skated for 17 years so i teach high level national competitive skaters lock towns made recreation and beginners so much more popular so we have a lot more kids wanting to learn how to skate
And a lot more adults too and why do you think that is ticked up 100 ticked up how many views do you have on tick-tock uh i had one video that hit half a million other than that i’m not too sure i am checked sarah’s tick tock not only has half a
Million views it’s got 50 000 likes and over a thousand comments what do people think when they see you skating with a baby most people freak out um but after a while they realize that i’m pretty safe on my skates and then they just want to know when he’s gonna skate with me
What’s your favorite thing about skating kind of just the flow of it and feeling the wind in your hair what attracted you to skate in sort of a more girls environment just the fun of it yeah i just like skating i don’t really care about what like if there’s girls training
When did you notice the rise of like skating definitely over locked down and with everyone in a pandemic i think everyone was just looking for a hobby people are kind of coming back to a nostalgic kind of sport that they did when they were little kids
Or that they want to bring their kids into my daughter went to a skating party a few months ago and since then she’s been roller skating mad have you ever tried to get your parents to skate with them yes a lot of times i’ve told mum please mommy please come
You stay with us and then she’s like no i have to look after willow she’s not allowed to skate she’s two What’s your favorite thing about roller skating i like how you can do a lot of different tricks and i can’t wait to learn them all what’s your favorite move probably like glides i like scissors what are you doing now to like harness the rise in popularity i am doing skate camp
And we are booked out every day do you think skating will still be popular like after covert and everything well i’m hoping it does because i certainly enjoy it and i feel like this is the moment that i’ve been waiting for my whole life is for people to discover that
Skating is very cool and that it’s fun to do and that anyone can do it so parents can do it with kids or like whole families can come and skate do you enjoy skating or video games more probably skating i like skating because it’s fun and it’s better than walking
What’s the feeling you get when you skate happiness yeah same and there you have it rollskin is the next big craze i’m a teacher reporting out from care kids news
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