Nov 2008 - Beach Bladers of South Florida

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Fall Skate Clinic Nov 16
Steeri ng
Comm ittee
The people list ed
b el ow g u id e c lu b
ac t i v it i es .
Brenda Nagel
Dewi Spence
Gene Cook
Jim Dolan
Joel Epstein
Lenny Willcox
Robin Siegel
Roger Kurtz
Newsletter
Candice Richard
Gene Cook
Webmaster
Rob Dallison
Inside this issue:
Skate Calendar
2
National Consolidated
3
5 Things To Drop
4
Is This Skate Right 4 U
4
Who’s That Under That
Helmet?
5
November Birthdays
5
Great EsSkate News
6
11th Annual Trail Skate
6
GES Mail Registration
7
Membership Application 8
Sign up now for a new Beach Blader skate clinic
at Birch State Park on November 16th. There is
no charge for the clinic and an average of more
than 20 skaters has taken part in each clinic offered this summer. Start
time for the clinic is
8:30 am. at the parking
lot of pavilion 3 on the
west side of the park.
Please plan to arrive
early because the clinic
must start on time in
order to cover all the
material with so many
skaters of different levels.
Skate
instructors
for these events
are
Lenny
Willcox;
Lenny Sez Jump!
Bont skate distributor
and
IISA
Level One skate instructor. Recently Lenny finished the 87 mile Athens to Atlanta ultra marathon with a amazing time of 4:53 Assisting Lenny
is Nino Rodriguez, coach for the Broward County
Derby Grrrls Roller Derby team. Nino and Lenny
point out that skaters at every level will benefit
from the clinic.
The clinic is divided into three parts:
Basic: including Leg Strength Drills, Stretching,
Dry land (skates off) Skating Drills, Proper Skating Position, Classic Push, Weight Transfer, Arm
Swing and Crossovers.
Advanced: including Plyometrics, Double
Push, and Drafting
Racing; Pack Awareness, Race Starts, Tactics
and Training Anaerobic vs. Aerobic skills. Attendees should bring water, a towel, sneakers and
be prepared to have fun.
To sign up for the clinic please go to: http://
inlineskating.meetup.com/83/calendar/
and RSVP. If you have not joined the
Beach Bladers Meetup site please sign up to
the Beach Bladers Meetup site. You must do this
even if you are a current Beach Blader member
after you have signed up on the site then you can
RSVP to sign up for clinic.
Skate exercises to improve skill and balance
18 Years Of Service, Thanks Tim
Tim Roethele, webmaster of the Beach Bladers
website since 1999 retired last month. Tim has
been a Beach Blader since the
club's inception more than 18 years
ago. He was the clubs first treasurer, published the club newsletter
for several seasons and sold countless T-shirts. As an IISA skating
instructor, Tim hosted clinics for
new skaters and brought many new
members into the club with his
boundless energy and enthusiasm
for the sport.
Tim Roethele
Currently he is the webmaster of
the Everglades Chapter of the Photographic Society of America and an avid windsurfer.
We also want to welcome our new webmaster, Rob
Dallison who takes over the digital reins for the
Beach Blader website and Jim Dolan who serves
as organizer for the Beach Blader Meetup site following the retirement of Anna Schafer as the first
organizer
Our thanks go to Tim, Rob, Jim, Anna and all the
other volunteers that make the Beach Bladers of
South Florida a fun and safe environment for inline
skating
Volume 18, Issue 11
Page 2
November 2008
SUN
MON
TUE
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
1
2 1st Sunday
Skate & Brunch
9:30 Level C
Downtowner
3Deer Creek
Muddy Waters
Deerfield Beach
7pm host Roger
9Skate 'N Bike 10
Skate meet @
Fritz’s Skate &
Bike 9:30 am
Miami Beach
16 Skate Clinic
4
17
Deer Creek
Muddy Waters
Picnic 8:30 AM
Birch State Park Deerfield Beach
7pm host Roger
Sunrise at A1A
5 Pompano
6
Air Park
7:00 PM
Host Gene
11
Pheasant
Walk Practice
Skate 7 pm
Host: Gene
Level A
18
12Pompano 13
25 Pheasant
Pinellas Skate
Weekend - St.
Petersburg. FL
Walk Practice
Skate 7 pm
Host: Gene
Level A
Friday
Skate meet @
Fritz’s Skate &
Bike 6:30 PM
8
14
15
st
Air Park
7:00 PM
Host Gene
Level A
19Pompano 20
Air Park
7:00 PM
Host Gene
2311th Annual 24
71
26 Pompano 27
2111th Annual 22 11th Annual
Pinellas Skate
Weekend - St.
Petersburg. FL
Pinellas Skate
Weekend - St.
Petersburg. FL
28
29
Air Park
7:00 PM
Host Gene
Level A
30 Beach 2
Beach Skate
Boca Raton
9:30 AM Level C
For more directions go to www.beachbladers.com) our favorite skate locations include:
Deer Creek: I-95 to Hillsboro West exit in Deerfield Beach. Continue west 1.4 miles and just after Century Blvd turn
right into the Shops of Hillsboro Blvd Shopping Center. Park at the west end
Pheasant Walk: I-95 to Yamato west. Turn N on Military, cross Clint Moore and continue north to the 2nd light, turn right on Pheasant
Way. Follow Pheasant Way to end ( 1 mile) turn left at stop sign onto Spring Tree . Follow Spring Tree to 17341 ( left) and park.
Pompano Air Park: I-95 to Copans. Go east to Federal, then south. Turn west on NE 10th St. Park in the golf course parking lot.
1st-Friday Skate: Meet at Fritz’s Skate & Bike Shop at 726 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach.
Lake Trail in Palm Beach: I-95 to Okeechobee. Go east to Flagler Drive. Turn north and cross the 2nd bridge (Royal Poinciana) over
the Intracoastal. Turn left at Bradley St., go 1 block and park on Sunset St. across from the park.
Rio Vista in Fort Lauderdale: Take I-95 to Broward. Go east to Andrews and turn south. Cross the bridge and take the first right at the
bottom. Go 1 block and turn right. Park near the Downtowner Restaurant (metered parking) or 2 blocks south on Andrews and SW
6th Street (free parking) across from Publix. We leave from S New River Drive E and SE 1st Ave. across from the county jail.
Delray Beach Skate: I-95 to Atlantic Exit in Delray. Go east to NE 1st Ave and turn north. Go 1 block and park in the public area
Hugh Taylor Birch State Park I-95 to Sunrise Exit East , cross the Intracoastal Bridge and turn left after 1st stop light into the park.
Parkland/Coral Springs: from the Sawgrass Expressway 869 take the Coral Ridge exit north (towards Heron Bay) Make a right turn
after 1/4 mile into the Starbucks parking lot at 6051 Coral Ridge Drive, Coral Springs, 33076 (954-752-0213)
Beach 2 Beach Skate: I-95 to Palmetto Exit. Go east to Federal and turn south. Turn east on Camino Blvd and then
take an immediate left into the Citibank parking lot
Volume 18, Issue 11
Page 3
2008-2009 Skating Event Schedule
Event
Dates
Event
Event Name
Location
1-2 Nov Houston, TX
Houston Inline
Marathon
16-Nov
San Diego,
CA
Silver Strand
Half Marathon
21-23 Nov
Pinellas Park,
FL
Bill Jackson
Pinellas Trail
Skate
6-10 Dec
Tampa, FL
Florida Skating
Adventure
2-6 Feb
2009
Miami, FL
Naomi Grigg
5-Day Slalom
Retreat
6-8 Feb Miami Beach, 9th Annual Great
FL
EsSkate
2009
13-15
Mar. 2009
Thonotosassa,
FL
Round
18-19
Rock, TX
Apr 2009
Squiggy Classic
Inline
Texas Road
Rash
Event
Type
Websites and/or contacts for more details
Skate
Tour and http://www.active.com/page/Event_Details.htm?
Race event_id=1602785
Race
Social
Skate
Tour
Social
Skate
Tour
Skate
Retreat
Social
Skate
Tour
http://www.kozenterprises.com/Running/
halfdf84.htm
http://www.skatetampa.com/
trailskate.htm
http://www.zephyradventures.com/
locations_Florida_Skating_Tour.htm
http://www.skatefreestyle.com/workshops/
florida_slalom_retreat.asp
http://www.thegreatesskate.com/
index.php5
Skate
Tour and
Race http://www.squiggyclassicinline.com/
Race
http://www.ci.round-rock.tx.us/roadrash/
Save the dates
February 6-8, 2009,
Royal Palm Hotel Miami
Beach
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Volume 18, Issue 11
Dewi Spence,CPT:
5 THINGS TO DROP THIS FALL
Fall is the season to let go of things that hinder instead of help your health. Lose five things listed here and
gain huge paybacks in your health and fitness.
For the full list and article, go to http://
fitphilosopher.blogspot.com.
1. Belly fat
Fat serves many important functions around the body and there are many types of fat. As we age, even
our bones accrue increased fat deposits. Visceral fat, however, as belly fat is known, is dangerous. Visceral fat secretes hormones that disrupt metabolic processes which otherwise keep the body healthy. Excess fat around your waist also indicates that fat is accumulating in and around your internal organs.
Just one of these organs, the liver, is responsible for so many life-or-death functions in the body, that one
scientist was heard to comment that if he had to make a choice for his own life, he would opt to be at the
controls of a Boeing 747 without prior flight instruction than in charge of the liver’s mind-bogglingly wideranging functions in the body. A fatty liver is a compromised one and therefore an exacerbating or causative factor in many diseases. But it is not the only organ susceptible to dysfunction from visceral fat.
2. Diets
Any form of temporary calorie restriction is ineffective for long-term weight loss and causes a loss of
muscle tissue especially if calories are severely
restricted. Many dieters don’t have energy as a
result of insufficient calorie intake and therefore
forego exercise which furthers muscle loss as the
body realizes that it does not need the
“unnecessary” muscle tissue.
Muscle is very expensive for the body to carry
around - it uses up to 25 times as many calories to
maintain and rebuild muscle; as a result, the first
opportunity your body - the ultimate efficiency expert - has to get rid of muscle tissue it feels is expendable (especially under near-starvation conditions) it will do so.
3. Self-Chastising
A perfectionist “all or nothing” attitude is counterproductive when it comes to making any form of
positive change and is certainly so when it comes
to fitness. If you start a fitness and nutrition program feeling that you can never/must never slip
up, you’ll set yourself up for failure from the word
“go”. You slip up when your motivation wanes.
Berating yourself just further de-motivates you.
The best way to motivate anyone – yourself included – is by focusing on what you are doing
well. Self-acceptance is often a surprising - but
consistently tried and true instrument of success in
any motivational toolbox.
How To Tell If The Skate Route Is For You
Now you can use the chart below to help you decide which
skates will be a right fit for your ability. Our skate venues will
carry a rating from A to F (with A being the easiest) so you
will know what to expect before heading out.
Skate
Rating
A
B
Course
You can skate 5-10 mph, but
can't stop without assistance of
street furniture, grass or just falling down
Little or no
traffic, level
terrain,
closed loop,
assistance
available
Closed loop,
some traffic,
level terrain,
assistance
available
Open course,
some traffic,
mostly level
terrain, little
or no assistance available
Moderate
traffic, hills,
10-12 mile
distance
skate
Moderate
traffic, hills,
12+ mile
distance
skate
All of the
above could
be asked to
help other
skaters
You can skate 9-12 mph for at
least 30 minutes but can't stop
without assistance of street furniture.
You can skate 10-14 mph for at
least 30 minutes and can stop
without assistance on level terrain
C
D
Read more at: http://fitphilosopher.blogspot.com.
E
Dewi Spence is a personal trainer who helps clients discern “fitness truth” from “fitness fiction”.
Have a question about fitness? Email Dewi with
your
f itness
concerns
at
d e wi [email protected].
Description Of Your Skating
Ability
F
Can skate at Level C and can
stop with confidence while going
down hills or bridges
Can skate at Level D for more
than 1 hour and can stop with
confidence while going down hills
or bridges
Can skate at Level E and instruct
others on skating technique and
how to stop using a heel brake.
Conditions
Volume 18, Issue 11
Beach Blader News
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Who is That Under That Helmet?
By Candice Richard: Too often we know each other by our skating gear and first names. This is a glimpse of the of
Beach Blader living under the helmet.
.Meet
Donna
W ei dem a
of
H a l l a n d a l e , going past South Pointe. I remember Hurricane Andrew in
[email protected]
1992: the sand was 3-4 feet deep on Ocean Drive. Every
When did you start to skate?
night the skaters shoveled. It took us 10 days to clear a
It was my birthday, I was
path from 5th to 10th so we could skate again.
maybe 45, and I was skating
on South Beach in quads,
What do you do when you’re not skating?
and a little boy shouted,
I’m a nurse practitioner working in student health at Florida
“Mommy, look at that old lady
International University. I ride my motorcycle, a Harley 883
on those old skates!” So I
Sportster. I’m planning to move to Arkansas, where I own
went right to Fritz’s and
several homes and a piece of land, but I’ll keep my condo
bought Rollerblade Aeroin Hallandale and be a snowbird.
Marie, Donna and Andrea
blades, the first pair sold at
Fritz’s. I wore them for 20 years.
I don’t skate like I used to. I have a plate in my wrist now
from the last time I broke a bone—I’ve broken two wrists, a
Andrea Franklin, Tina Salafatinos, Jose Des Andres and knee and an ankle skating—and that’s slowed me up a litFrancisco Lopez were all part of that group. I was the old- tle. And my Aeroblades are gone now, and with it my pasest; that’s where I got the name DonnaMama. We went to sion for skating. But that doesn’t mean I’ve given up; I
Philly to skate and then the Philly club came to South bought a pair of Bonts to replace them.
Beach, and that was the start of the Great EsSkate. We got
the police department to work with us because one of the What would people be surprised to learn about you?
skaters was a commissioner. We’d skate to La Gorce Park That I’m a Vietnam vet. I was an Air Force medic in 1966 in
and back on Sunday afternoons—basically, that’s the First Vietnam. I got out of the service and got a job as a flight
Friday route. Then the city gave us a disc jockey at 10th, attendant for Eastern Airlines—that’s how I got to Florida.
and we’d skate to disco music, 20 to 30 people in a long Then I went to nursing school, graduating in 1972. I moved
train at 10th Street. That’s how Halloween got started. Eve- to South Beach in 1979. I bought a condo on Ocean Drive
rything now is an offshoot of what we did back then.
for $14,000
I had a passion for skating. I went to every race. I went on
three Zephyr Tours. I got every certification. I taught skating
on South Beach every Sunday for ten years; I must have
taught 3,000–4,000 people to skate.
We started the Skate Patrol to save skating. The grinders
were messing up, giving skaters a bad name. The Miami
Beach commissioners made it illegal to skateboard on Lincoln Road and to skate on the sidewalk on the west side of
Ocean Drive—those are both still illegal!—and we were
afraid they were going to stop all skating, so we went to
commission meetings and we fought that.
We started the Skate Patrol and ended up teaching the
cops to skate. Tina and I taught nine of the Miami Beach
police patrol to skate. Tony LaMacchio is the only one who
stuck with it.
Skating was my social life for many, many years. We got
parts in movies they were filming on South Beach. We did
bar mitzvahs and the Macy’s Day Parade. Bizzy (Jenkins)
made sure we did the Orange Bowl Parade. We did a skate
race on the grounds of the Grand Prix during half time.
It was a great time—South Beach was growing, but things
were still pretty simple. I remember mooning the ships
BBOSF November Birthdays
Best wishes to our November Babies!
Member Name
Marshall Tack
Mark Weber
Gail Perfect
Tina Ross
Craig Rice
Kiriam Alaschavez
Bizzy Jenkins
Jill Powell
Henry Portner
Date
8
11
12
13
19
20
26
26
26
Volume 18, Issue 11
Beach Blader News
9th Annual Great EsSkate Has Record Early Registration
Early registration is over for the 9th Annual Great EsSkate planned for Friday
through Sunday, February 6–8, 2009.
Nearly twice the number of skaters registered for the 9th Annual Great EsSkate
than for the 8th Annual Great EsSkate
early registration period.
Skaters are
starting to line up to EsSkate from the
maelstrom of economic, political cold
weather news. so you should get in on the
open registration fee before it’s too late.
Also if you volunteer to help during the
event you can receive a $10.00 rebate.
Registration can be online or by mail just
go
to
the
GES
web
s i t e Great EsSkaters on the road
www.thegreatesskate.com for more information.
As always, all event activities originate at our host hotel, which this
year is the Royal Palm, making it easy to meet up with old friends and
make new oneswww.thegreatesskate.com for more information during the first week
of October.
We have reserved the luxurious
R oy al
Palm
Hot el,
1545
Collins
Avenue, Miami
Beach,
FL
33139 as the
host hotel for
Great EsSkate
2009. It is on
the ocean and in
the heart of the
famous Art Deco District of Miami Beach (a/k/a South Beach). Lincoln Road Mall (which is neither a road nor
a mall) and Ocean Drive, both of which are
rollerblade friendly, are within walking distance. The hotel is an eight-mile cab ride
from Miami International Airport.
Check out all the details at
www.royalpalmmiamibeach.com/
http://
The special GES rate at this hotel is good
for Thursday, Feb. 5; Friday, Feb. 6; Saturday, Feb. 7; and Sunday Feb. 8, 2009, at
$189 plus tax per night. This is an incredible deal for a luxury hotel in Miami
Beach’s high season.
The number of hotel rooms available at this
price is limited. You can get the discounted
rate
by
going
to
http://
www.thegreatesskate.com/hotel.php5
Dog gone EsSkaters have fun
Page 6
11th Annual Trail Skate
Takes New Direction
Kick off the holiday season by burning off a gazillion
calories just before Thanksgiving. Bill Jackson’s Trail
Skate 2008, which in 11
years has grown to be the
second-biggest skate in the
Sunshine State, this year
goes in a whole new direction, quite literally. There
are more skate events, a
new host hotel and a new
route on the same beloved Pinellas Trail.
The weekend begins, for those who can swing it, at 1
p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, with a skate tour through Fort
Desoto Park, home of America’s Top Beach 2008.
The free buffet spaghetti supper, 6 p.m. at the wondrous Bill Jackson’s Shop for Adventure, is a chance
to greet fellow skaters, pick up the renowned goodie
bag and get last-minute directions. But don’t dawdle!
Cram in some more miles by skating the Skyway
Trail at 9 p.m. No, you can’t actually skate the length
of the ridiculously high Skyway Bridge, but just skating its foothills is thrilling. To get you in the mood for
the following day’s luau, Hawaiian attire will be rewarded.
Then sleep fast, because at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, you
drive the five miles to Gulfport (I told you this
was new!), leave your car and board a charter
bus to Tarpon Springs, beginning the skate
where we have ended in the past. You skate
some 37 miles back (lingering, perhaps, as you
roll through Dunedin and Clearwater), getting
into Gulfport anywhere from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.,
where you can browse the artsy shops, ride the
free trolley, hit the beach, buy lunch or collapse
in your car and head back to the hotel. At 7
p.m. we celebrate our triumphs and anesthetize our aches and pains at a free luau on the
beach at the host hotel. collapse in your car
and head back to the hotel. At 7 p.m. we celebrate our triumphs and anesthetize our aches
and pains at a free luau on the beach at the
host hotel.
You’re not done yet. Sunday at 8:30 a.m. there
is another chance to skate the Skyway Trail.
Return by kayak or make it a full skate tour. Or
skip the whole thing and sleep.
So many choices to make, so many calories to
burn. Sign up by September 15 for the lowest
rate. Go to http://www.skatetampa.com/
BillJacksonsTrailskate2008/GraphicHeaders/
TrailSkateEVENT.jpg for more details.
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