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Washington Area Roadskaters
DC Skate Patrol (Free Lessons)
Rollerquest (Baltimore Skaters)
Skaters Quest (a Skate School)
Skaters Refuge (Community Store)
Sites I Like:
Mocha Superman
Blake Lambert
Sites With People I Miss:
Wednesday Night Skate New York
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Why aren't you blogging??? At some point with doing this blog, I came up with an informal set of rules, one of which was to never write anything negative. It produced a big delay on my blogging as I sorted out what I was capable of saying about WAR, the Washington Area Roadskaters as a club, both positive and negative. I enjoyed discovering the club. I enjoyed joining and contributing my time and resources as a board member. It was great fun promoting the club and rebuilding the membership records from scratch. I also enjoyed leaving the club. It was very liberating. Now I can go skate and not have to worry about making all the people who kept placing their demands on me happy. My free time is finally my own again. |
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Wed, 30 Mar 2005
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Trips I'm considering for 2005: |
very year there are two skate events that are a must: The Great Esskate in South Beach and the Philadelphia Freedom Skate. Beyond that, there are a lot of events worth doing. Here is a list of the ones that I'm considering.
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Chain Stores With Community Bulletin Boards |
o far, I know of three chains with community bulletin boards (which are good to know about for skate flyer hanging up purpoeses): Caribou Coffee, Ben and Jerrys and Fresh Fields. There are probably more but this is a start:
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Success at Flyering Georgetown |
t the end of the day I went to Georgetown to do some flyering. Monday night is clearly the time to do it because sometime during the day they take down all the flyers off of the public boards and all of them are empty and ready to be done up again.
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The Whole GWU Flyer System Works |
uring lunchtime I dropped off 60 more flyers to the Student Activities office to be hung up on the GWU campus. It's a really easy system -- you go to the basement of the Marvin Center, get Kinkos to make 60 copies of whatever you need, and then go to the fourth floor and leave them with a receptionist. Walking around campus I saw a number of flyers that I had provided last week hung up on the walls. It's good to know that the whole system works.
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We Covered Several Neighborhoods |
e covered parts of Woodley Park, Adams Morgan, the U Street area, Chinatown and Capitol Hill. Woodley and Adams only needed a few extra flyerings since much of what we put up already was present. U Street got well covered. Chinatown and Capitol Hill didn't have as many community type of places. Having skates with removable frames enabled me to buzz into coffee shops to hang up flyers and to drop of stacks of flyers in sport shops.
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We Put up Flyers at American Univeristy |
U is a little confusing when it comes to a posting policy. It appears that each building has it's own office that approves flyers, which from a skater's perspective, is a completely unworkable system.
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We flyered the Bethesda to DC Commuting Routes |
e went out and flyered all the public posting areas along the typical route that morning commuters would use to go from points all the way from Bethesda Maryland to downtown DC. The idea was to have flyers visible for morning commuters as they get their coffee and get on their buses and go to their Metro Rail stops. On Tuesday 3/22 we posted about 40 flyers for this effort. We covered a lot of distance, skating all the way out past the Friendship Heights Metro station. Entertaining landmarks on our way back included the Russian Embassy and the Social Safeway in Georgetown.
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Handed out Flyers at Rock Creek |
aturday 3/19: Handed out 30-40 flyers in Rock Creek Park. There weren't a lot of people around but we got a good demographic -- runners, bicyclers, dog walkers -- anyone who said "yes" when we asked if they ever skated. Several people knew about WAR and said that they had skated with WAR in the paste. Hopefully they will join us for this season.
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Put up Flyers at GWU |
he George Washington Univeristy is probably the easiest place to flyer of all the campuses in the DC area.
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College Park Skate |
e had to get our bearings on our way back from College Park during a Sunday skate.
Check out the gallery... Wed, 16 Mar 2005
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Download Link for the Latest Flyer |
he latest flyer that promotes the weekly skates organized by the Washington Area Roadskaters (WAR) can be downloaded from here.
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Hung up Flyers in Dupont/Adams Morgan |
uesday 3/15: Hung up 30-40 flyers on public bulletin boards in various coffee shops, restaraunts, record stores, outdoor spaces, etc. We were armed with flyers, tape, and thumbtacks.
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West of Georgetown Route |
his route features a lot of climbing at the start which pays off with a lot of fast downhills. Convenience stores are available halfway through the route on MacArthur Boulevard.