The speaker is Neda Gane, this was recorded late at night outside a party for aggressive in line skaters in LA in 1996.

Back in the late 1990s, aggressive rollerblading - rollerskating - in-line skating, was a big deal and growing bigger every day. Millions of young teenage boys and some in their 20s, adopted the sport and it looked like it was headed for the Olympics. ESPN2 began to run extreme sports competitions including one with aggressive skaters. There were about 10 million boys and some girls, desperate to learn the sport.

Neda Gane, a passionate aggressive in-line skater, was a rare breed in the world of skating at that time. One of my co-producers did this interview with her. We made a feature-length documentary on Aggressive Rollerblading and its competitive teams in LA (Senate) and New York (FR).

The finished film is titled It's All Good, is now considered a historic look at the sport and some of its biggest stars. Here it is -    • It's All Good - My 1998 Documentary F...  .

Whatever sport you love, either as an athlete or as a spectator, to hear from a person as passionate and articulate as Neda is a thrill to me as a documentary filmmaker because at its core, it's that passion that gets athletes to go beyond what is possible and demonstrate pure excellence. Neda also won the World Championship in rollerblading three times.

I recently posted a behind-the-scenes video titled These LA Aggressive Skater Girls Talked Straight Back In 1996 - 1990s LA Aggressive Skater Girls Talk.

I admired the skater ‘girls” who either hung out with the skaters or were skaters themselves. They were treated second class in a way, but they never seemed to lose their sense of themselves – at least that's how it looked to me.

Many aggressive skater boys didn't believe in school education or in how the American political system worked so they didn't vote or stuff like that. But they were decent to each other and to me as I was making the documentary.

Neda in this scene, was attending a party paid for by the Senate Clothing company, and stepped outside to speak with Andrea Elliott, my co-producer.

I want to thank Neda for sharing how she felt that evening. These days Neda is a wife and mother and has a social media presence on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.

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David Hoffman