Mar 10 2008
I am a nude roller skating survivor
In the 34+ years since I last strapped on a pair of roller skates, a few things have changed. Back in my high school days, when I was on the varsity swimming team, I was a 6-foot, 4-inch mass of sinewy muscle, proably about 4% body fat, and able to bury my fellow high school football player jock friends in endurance, upper-body and leg strength, and pretty much everything else. My friends and I roller skated almost every weekend at some of the many huge new roller rinks that sprouted up around the Chicago area in the early 1970’s, and of course, I was still more than two decades away from discovering nudism.
Today, I’m sorry to report that although I am still 6′ 4″, I am a typical doughy middle-aged white guy, whose chiseled musculature from high school is now just a memory on an atrophied, fleshy bodkin. But, that didn’t keep me and 25 other nudist friends from our first-ever nude roller skating party last night.
We had a blast. Most of us had, like me, not strapped on a pair of skates in at least a couple of decades. And amazingly, none of us made fools of ourselves (other than the very act of skating around in circles for two hours without a stitch of clothing on), and there were very, very few spills and no broken bones, split skulls, or compound fractures.
The rink owner was gracious and accommodating, too. He said it was the first time he’d ever hosted a nudist group in the 30 years he’s owned his rink. His DJ, however, said with a wink that, “unofficially,” there had been a nude skating party there in the past — and it seemed as though he had a set of keys to the place.
Everyone enjoyed the evening, and we are planning to make the nude skating night an annual event for the club. We also snapped some group photos, which we will submit to AANR for publication in The Bulletin in an upcoming issue.
I haven’t strapped on roller skates in about 34+ years either but nude skating sounds like great fun!
No floor burns, huh? Way to go!
I wonder sometimes what goes through the heads of these places that allow nude skating, bowling, motel pool parties, etc. They must think we’re nuts but, well, a buck’s a buck I guess. It’s just good that they allow us the chance. I bet we leave the place in a better condition than a rock band or football team would! I’ve been on weekend trips with kid’s hockey teams that were downright scary.
Wouldn’t it be nice if various hotels, indoor water parks, etc, would have occasional clothing optional weekends? There’s a market, maybe they don’t know. Maybe they fear public reaction. Probably, they just think we’re sick.
Yeah, we’re sick. Watch the 6 o’clock news and see who’s sick.
Whoa, gettin’ political here, I’ll drop it.
Congrats on a fun time, shows once again, everything’s more fun nekked! -Steve
A friend of mine who used to have season tickets swears that our local water park has an unadvertised clothing-optional night. I’ve asked her to let me know if it comes around again.
AWESOME!!!
I would love to try some indoor circle skating sometime. Lucky!!
BTW, do a google search for clovis water park nudist day and see what happens if a water park in the U.S. advertises a nudist day. Ouch.
A nude water park would be incredible! But there better be plentyof water on the slides. I’ve been down a slide bare-butted that had dry spots and, well, we won’t go there…