Activity once considered old fashion, now making a major comeback. Roller skating, Google searches show interest in roller skating spike during the pandemic and data shows the highest spike happened between March and May of 2020. Now a Gastonia businesses benefiting from all the interest WCNC Charlotte’s traditional Woodard explains how Kate Skating Center
Is keeping the sport alive and this afternoons where’s the money? This is where it all started for claim. All a member of the 2006 US Olympic speedskating team. But I was a young child growing up indicates ring three and four times a week. And that’s really where my passion started, mall says. In
The early to mid 2000s, the sport saw a decline in interest, but the pandemic has put roller skating back on the map. We have a really rich tradition in the area for for speed skating. This goes back a long time. Our goal is really to grow the sport again.
According to Google searches globally, the sport has more than doubled between March and May and shot back up again over winter. Kates Skating Center says their overall sales have increased nearly 45% since 2018, and we’ve already seen a spike. I really see it coming back up. The interest is definitely heightening. Mall says
They’re starting a team to expand the sport in the area, training new athletes and encouraging new roller skaters like me to lace up. I’m ready to race. This is the songs you don’t let me fall. I did it. He says there couldn’t be a better time to try something new.
This has been a part of my heart. Forever skating has always been in me and so that that’s the primary reason that I that I wanted to be involved in this program. He says he’s hopeful their program would interest a range of different people who are willing to let the good times roll.
Michelle Woodard WCNC Charlotte.
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