On TikTok, people film themselves gliding down piers or sun-soaked leafy suburban streets in their skates, wearing flared jumpsuits, t-shirts tied at the waist or string bikini tops. Or, more recently,
Ana initially learned to skate as a child, but she returned to the hobby with gusto three years ago. Unbeknownst to her, it would turn her into an internet star -- since starting her account, she has amassed 1.3m followers and tens of millions of views. “I think I was just at the right place at the right time,” she says, noting that while skate content was sparse on TikTok when she had just arrived, the amount of roller skating videos has boomed considerably in the past few months.
The tag began on Instagram in early May, started by Yanka Dietvorst , a skater from Antwerp, Belgium. Craving a creative outlet during lockdown, she decided to put together a colour palette to match her yellow roller skates and post it online as a challenge for others. This challenge took off, even spawning a spin-off tag for the hula-hooping community. Dietvorst’s love of roller rink Americana shines through her Instagram, so much so that people often mistakenly think she is from the US.
So why have global lockdowns amid the Covid-19 pandemic intensified interest in roller skating? On a practical level, the pastime is an ideal way to get fit; it doesn’t require any other equipment and can be done in most outside settings at a social distance.
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