Lace up your skates and if you don’t have any that is okay because the roller derby league in the capital city they want to help you get a pair that’s right new this morning nikki johnson joins us live from the capital ice complex to show us
Where the league plans on putting a spin on this summer good morning nikki good morning josh and alicia you know the bizman bombshells are having so much fun now that they can skate again they just announced the return of roller skate rentals and it’s making a comeback and it’s happening all
Right here this summer the bizman bombshells have been skating in the community for 10 years now but when covet hit just like a lot of things they had to stop until just a few months ago and now they want others to join in on the fun
All of us love roller skating so we want to be able to share that with the community that we’re in we know there’s a huge interest in the community for roller skating and that’s why we wanted to do this mansion grant in the first place was to
Be able to offer this to a larger group of people the plan is to purchase 50 nylon quad skates with the help of a matching grant from bismarck parks and rec and with additional fundraising hope to have more skates for folks by the summer normally we’ve done the roller rink
Nights at capitol ice complex or vfw sports center so hopefully in the summer we’ll do the same thing they’re still looking for a place to have open skate nights for next winter and who knows maybe from attending one of the nights you’ll end up on the team
Just like pami whammy i was actually didn’t even hear about them before i went on a roller skating night and so i was just skating there with my son and one of the girls were here and they like hey would you like to come to practice and i’m like okay i didn’t
Really know what i was getting into but i knew that i’d love to skate both freilick and ashley messner or honey basher as she’s known in the rink are teachers during the day but by night they get to let off a little steam i love that it’s
One or two nights a week that’s just for me because like i have family and all i know is on wednesday nights like i’m gonna go and if this is like mommy’s time as part of the women’s flat track derby association the team has a seven tier process to go
Through before competing again due to coveted restrictions um we are currently sitting at four and that’s in relation to the positivity rate of your region so right now we can practice together um we can have some minimal contact but yeah we’re back practicing no games yet reena says along with the skate nights
The team also plans to offer some new skating programs as well and for more information on how you can help the roller derby league get some of those new roller skates you can just click on this story at kxnet.com and josh and alicia i’m not sure if you knew this or not
But about 10 years ago i was a part of the roller derby league when it all began so i might just have to strap on some skates and enjoy the bombshells well i was wondering why you didn’t have skateboards love roller skating but it should be pretty fun
That’s actually you guys in the studio she does she’s got ice there so i guess maybe we can we can let it go this time but next time we expect to see nikki on skates yeah absolutely
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