– [Michelle] When I’m skating with these women, I feel on fire. I love roller skating so much that I decided that I was gonna bring it back for everyone. I’m Michelle Steilen, better known as Estro Jen, and I’m the Founder of Moxi Roller Skates. There are 21 skaters on the Moxi Skate Team World Wide, but some of them are Pigeon, Indy Jamma Jones, Smelly and Legs. Anything that’s experimental or outside of what you’ve
Probably seen on roller skates is what we do. Roller skating was really, really big until I was born, and then it really kind of dropped off when Rollerblades came in. Roller skate innovation just stopped. Roller derby was the next new sport to come to the roller skating industry.
The skates that they were selling to roller derby skaters were made for speed. The skates that we’re making now are made for secure landings for high flying tricks. A few years ago there weren’t gals doing back flips and on wheels, and now there are.
And I’m amazed at what my body can do, I really am. We are chasing our dreams. We’re chasing that feeling, that wonderful floaty feeling of being alive and you will get that from roller skating. It’s this strange new feeling that’s refreshing. Ah, this is where I’m supposed to be. – What, what!
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