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Spinning lights, lights sparkling spinning turning burning crashing wooshing, feel like falling, twisting weightless windless in a vacuum, blinding streaking blurring breaking It was a clear day. I had finished my last exam of the semester a fews prior and was enjoying the luxury of sleeping in after many sleepless nights. But not this...
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Well, here we are. What a year it has been. The year gone by was groundbreaking in many ways. We had the latest AGM date ever, we held our first ever trivia night and, to top it all off, our locker was broken into, not once, not twice, but at LEAST three times. Incredibly,...
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Friends, Australians, Countrymen, lend me your ears! I come to bring news of the year that has been, and what a year it has been. As president of the Eltham roller skating club incorporated, I have been fortunate enough to oversee one of the clubs best years in recent memory. From the Southern Cross,...
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Arriving at the specially built, newly surfaced, 200m banked track instantly smothered all my visions of glory and grandeur. A speedskater is a finely tuned athlete with the grace, form and, of course, strength to match any world-class sports-person. I was not a finely tuned athlete with the grace, form or strength to match...
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It began innocently enough, the ‘local’ skating/diving equipment store – Bunn’s sportoo was organising the first ever region-wide roller hockey tournament. I would have only been 13 years old at the time. It is that age where not only is everything possible, but one’s birthright. I was a hot-headed teenager whose impetuous nature would...
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