Yo! New wheels and bearings! Yes, they are dope.

I am still kind of giggly about it all, actually. Yes, yesterday, finally, I got my new wheels and bearings.

Just so's you know, here's what I've been skating on:

http://www.amazon.com/RollerDerby-Cobra-Roller-Skates/dp/B0000C08MX

I got them cuz they looked cool, had a cool name, and were 40 bucks at Sports Authority. But, see how thin the wheel rims are? Yeah, that pretty much means they suck. So, I'd be at practice, sweating, skating my ass off, and still couldn't get up any decent speed. Luckily I'm relatively smart and it only took having three or four skaters point out to me that my wheels are slow to make me want to do sumpn' about it.

So, Belle N. Somebashin' got new wheels at a skate shop in the citay. I followed suit and went here:

http://www.divisioneast.com/de2006/home.html

Which is right in my town, so it's tres convenient. Can words express how very cool this place is? Let me try: it's so, so, so, so, so cool. But then again, I am probably just relishing the fact that I got to TALK TO THE SKATER BOYS! That's so huge. I have always loved them from afar. Since elementary school in fact, but I never dared approach. But now I'm a roller girl and I needed super grippy outdoor wheels and Bones Swiss bearings lubricated with speed cream, so, word.

AND, lucky me, I was the first roller girl to darken their door, so I got a roller girl discount, AND AND, they totally want to sponsor us! Which means there are FUTURE reasons to talk to skater boys!

The fine gentlemen who sold me the wheels put them on my skates for me. They had many questions about roller derby. "Yo, you do any tricks? You seen that movie, Roll Bounce? YO, when you get new boots, you should like, trick them out and shit. Like put your own personal stamp on them. This one dude in roll bounce had SPINNERS on his wheels yo. I was like, WHOA. Yo, AnTOnio... put these bearings in these wheels, man... So like, you flip girls over the rails and shit? Are the girls all tatted up and shit? Maybe we should sponsor some roller chicks..."

I, of course, being a total dork, committed a faux pas. They said we were like the Suicide Girls, and I made some comment about them being softcore porn, cuz that's the only Suicide Girls I know, but it turns out they actually started as skater girls. Soooo.... yeah. My bad, Suicide Girls. But, way to sell out into softcore porn...

The new wheels are definitely sooooo much better than the old ones. Sadly I didn't really get a chance to get used to them as I was relegated to the beginner's group by the capn's. I understand why but I think I'm better than beginners now, and next week I'm totally practicing with the pack. Because why? Because that is how I roll.