Aprenda inglês: A volta por cima da patinação:boyaa p?quer

Legenda do vídeo, A volta por cima da patinação

The story…

Roller-skating making a comeback

new hobbies

Need-to-know language…

boyaa p?quer challenge – something that asks you to prove your ability and skill

boyaa p?quer switch off – (informal) stop thinking about something; relax

boyaa p?quer craze – sudden popular activity, usually lasting for a short time

boyaa p?quer life's too short – (informal) use your time doing things you want to do

boyaa p?quer captivated – gained people’s interest

Answer this…

How many views did Oumi Janta get for her roller-skating video?

Transcript

From total beginners, to making a career out of it.

The boyaa p?quer challenge, the joy and the frustration: as plotted on social media by newly qualified doctor and new skater, Kelsey Loveday.

Kelsey Loveday

This is a hobby that gets me out. Moving my body, getting all those feel-good endorphins of active exercise - so I can almost boyaa p?quer switch off my medical brain, skate around and just let the, sort of, trauma of the pandemic and what I deal with at work, just glide away.

Roller-skating Google searches doubled in recent months. Thanks, in part, to viral skaters like Oumi Janta from Berlin. Last June, she posted this.

Almost three million views later, she's given up her job and made freestyle roller-skating her career.

boyaa p?quer Oumi Janta

Everything is… has no importance any more when it comes to skating, so you don't think about work, you don't think about money or whatever - you just skate. So this moment has such more [so much] power, it’s just that moment is you and skating. It's amazing.

But it's not just a millennial boyaa p?quer craze. For Mel Blackwood, a small business at home in Leeds [UK] with skate lessons from the kitchen, is now a full-time job with a shop and staff.

boyaa p?quer Mel Blackwood, Roller Girl Gang

This time last year, we had a great week if we sold two or three pairs of skates, and now we can be doing ten pairs a day. We're finding our customers are often in their mid to late thirties, forties and beyond. And they're coming and saying, “I used to do this as a child, but I've decided boyaa p?quer life's too short, and I want to have another go.”

Huge demand for some brands of skate now means long waiting lists. The freedom of roller-skating has boyaa p?quer captivated so many in these restricted months.

boyaa p?quer Did you get it?

How many views did Oumi Janta get for her roller-skating video?

Oumi Janta’s roller-skating video got almost three million views.