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Angie McClendon has been roller skating since she was 5 years old. Now 61, she's a veteran of the Detroit skating community. McClendon is a Detroit style skater – every move is rhythmic, following and ...

MIND-BLOWING Disco Skating showcases smooth roller skating movement combined with rhythm, style, and nonstop dance-inspired ...

Milwaukee's Roll Train teaches JB style skating while preserving Black culture. Terrence Clarke has been roller skating since he was 12 years old. With his partner, Ellen Fine, he runs Roll Train, ...

My teenage daughter, an unabashed figure-skating obsessive, clued me into Stars on Ice, though judging by the sold-out arenas, she was far from alone. Part athletic feat, part theatrical spectacle, ...

A new $1.7 million reinvestment project is bringing a bit of boardwalk culture to the heart of Kansas City’s historic 18th & ...

As the Winter Olympics gets underway, figure-skating fans know fashion is as much a part of the beauty of figure skating as quadruple jumps and flying spins. Skating costumes have evolved over the ...

The idea to start the Rink, a roller-skating center on the South Side, came to Carmen Clark and Nate Simpson simply — they were exhausted from driving to the suburbs for family fun and decided they ...

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