If you want to see Atlanta culture in its purest form, pull up to Cascade on a Monday night! FreddyO was in the building at the Cascade Fun Center as the city’s best roller skaters took over the floor, gliding, spinning and dancing on eight wheels like they were floating on air. This is not your regular family skate night, this is a whole art form, and the A is leading the way.
Cascade Skating Rink out on Cascade Heights is sacred ground in this city. The same rink made famous on the big screen in the movie ATL has been the heartbeat of southwest Atlanta skating for generations, where everybody from the neighborhood kids to your auntie learned how to roll bounce. On adult nights the floor belongs to the serious skaters, with their own custom skates, their own crews and moves with names, sliding backwards and dipping low without ever breaking stride.
What makes Atlanta skating special is the style. It is part dance, part sport and all soul, moving to the R&B and old school records the DJ keeps spinning, every crew trying to out-style the next. People come from all over the South just to skate this floor and be part of this scene, because there is nothing else like it anywhere. This is the kind of Black Atlanta tradition that gets passed down from generation to generation, right here on the southwest side.
Press play and watch these skaters work, then tell us in the comments: can you hang on the Cascade floor, or are you holding down the wall? Either way, this is Atlanta at its finest.
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