{"id":9864,"date":"2018-10-10T18:09:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=9864"},"modified":"2018-10-10T18:09:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:09:57","slug":"bladies-kick-retro-rollerblades-back-into-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/bladies-kick-retro-rollerblades-back-into-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Bladies Kick Retro Rollerblades Back Into Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>BY EMILEE MAE STRUSS<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9865\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9865\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/BladiesValleyClubPhoto-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sun Valley Bladies displaying golf-pro-themed attire. Photo courtesy of Amanda Porino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you\u2019ve seen a pack of women on rollerblades, potentially dressed in 1980s neon, rollerblading down the bike path together, it\u2019s likely that you\u2019ve spotted the Sun Valley Bladies. This is a group of about eight women, roughly between the ages of 20 and 55, who simply want to get out and have a good time.<\/p>\n<p>The Bladies meet at 5:30 p.m. every Thursday at rotating locales in order to cater to all members. Amanda Porino, founder of the local group, got the idea from her friend, who does something similar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy girlfriend in Park City would talk about it,\u201d Porino said, \u201cand it sounded goofy and fun to me, so I started a group here with another friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bladies is a noncompetitive group; however, they take their Thursday night soundtracks and themes very seriously. Imagine dressing up in \u201980s neon knee-high socks, disco getup and blading away to \u201cIt\u2019s Raining Men\u201d by The Weather Girls. That\u2019s a pretty accurate snapshot of this group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe typically start at a bar and end at a bar,\u201d Porino said. \u201cOne route we did started at The Valley Club in mid-Valley and ended at the Power House pub and restaurant in Hailey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Porino, who has been athletic her whole life, says it\u2019s also a great workout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve competed in athletics my entire life, yet I wake up sore from rollerblading,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The group is beginner and stroller friendly, and considers their activity simply a fun outing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a three-year-old son named Beau,\u201d Porino said, \u201cand my husband travels for work, so sometimes I\u2019m strollerblading with Beau, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lululemon, a women\u2019s athletic clothing line with a store in Ketchum, currently sponsors the group. The company supports active women who also make a point of having fun. Sun Valley Bladies can be found on Instagram @sunvalleybladies and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>With the many different ages and stages of life this group attracts, they stick by their motto: No Bladies Left Behind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY EMILEE MAE STRUSS &nbsp; If you\u2019ve seen a pack of women on rollerblades, potentially dressed in 1980s neon, rollerblading down the bike path together, it\u2019s likely that you\u2019ve spotted the Sun Valley Bladies. This is a group of about eight women, roughly between the ages of 20 and 55, who simply want to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}