Great Atlanta Night Skate Video

I didn't mean to scare you away from Atlanta night skates! That was not my intention. I just haven't seen that many great night skate videos and I loved these. The Monday night beginner skates are (or used to be) much gentler and totally doable if you haven't done much roadskating, especially downtown roadskating. There's a lead and a sweep, and they wait at the top of hills for everybody to catch up, etc.

These videos are obviously from a group of downtown Atlanta street skating veterans. Of all the Aprr nightskates I've attended there was plenty of reflective material, and enough helmet lamps and blinkies to light up Turner Stadium. There's also usually somebody from the National Skate Patrol, complete with whistle.

This was a 40th Birthday skate, so was a bit more informal. When you do A2A, Mike (notice the 'when' :-)), you will get the chance to skate with maybe a hundred or so skaters from all over the country and world through the streets of Atlanta. It's never a good idea to blast it out on that Friday night skate because the last thing you need for A2A Sunday is fresh roadrash and busted skates! But there are plenty of gentler skaters that the leaders wait on, along with the police escort.