I recently posted a behindthescenes video titled These LA Aggressive Skater Girls Talked Straight Back In 1996    • 1990s LA Aggressive Skater Girls Talk...  . This video presents part 2 of that
summer evening in Los Angeles(LA). I was making a documentary feature film on aggressive rollerblading – inline skaters – "the boys". They were not skateboarders. In fact they were often made fun of by skateboarders. I found them good guys and the skater "pros" were on top of the world. Money. Fame. Top shelf alcohol. Lots of girls including some who also skated.

I admired the women who either hung out with the skaters or were skaters themselves. They were treated second class in a way but they never seemed to lose their sense of themselves – at least that's how it looked to me.

Many aggressive skater boys didn't believe in school education or in how the American political system worked so they didn't vote or stuff like that. But they were decent to each other and to me as I was making the documentary.

The skater women/girls in this scene were attending a party paid for by the LA Senate Clothing company. many famous professional aggressive inline skaters were there. The first woman speaking is Neda Gane Roy, an outspoken straight shooter. I am hopeful that one of my subscribers will tell me the name of the blonde female skater.

In the second scene in this clip Mary Nelson, also a wellknown skater, breaks down because she is thrown out of the party for apparently serving an alcoholic beverage to Aaron Feinberg (a professional legendary aggressive inline skater who was then 16 years old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_F....

One of my producers, Andrea Elliott, was hanging out with a cameraman. The folks at the party trusted her and she trusted them so they just told her how they saw things. Yes alcohol was involved but I believe that what they spoke about in this video is what they felt.

Aggressive inline skating was at its height with at least 10 million boys and some girls were desperate to learn the sport. It was on ESPN2 and the prime time and some folks thought that the sport was going to head to the Olympics.

In the 1990s Los Angeles was the home of team Senate, a clothing company that backed an incredible group of skaters. So when they had a party like was taking place this evening, everything was free including the drinks.

I want to thank these women for sharing how they felt that evening with my team.

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David Hoffman