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Hey Listener, you’re going to need your whistle and skates for this one. Wheezy from the Cincinnati Rollergirls is in the basement this week to talk about her change from all star level point scorer to referee. Topics this week include: Lurking in the social media shadows. Youtube University. The joy of quickly achieving new things. Accidentally making the team on the first try. Roller Derby: a sketchy sport. Monster butterflies. Playing an amateur sport like it’s a pro sport. Learning to think while playing. A good official doesn’t stand out. The shorthand of speaking with refs. The penalty triangle. Guilty of being a jammer watcher. How to have a good game as a referee? Why am I being cheated right now? Working with the crew. The importance of keeping the game moving. Why sports need announcers. Injuries. Mini clipboard. 2020 and the season that never was. A different world. Finding a balance in life. 

Welcome to episode 100 of Sports Management Podcast.

If you have been listening since episode 1, send me a DM or tag me on Instagram or Twitter @sportsmpodcast and I will send you some gratitude merch. 

Fredrik Sjöström is the general manager for Frölunda Hockey Club, one of the most successful European hockey clubs the last decade. He is also a former NHL player and was drafted by Phoenix Coyotes as 11^th overall. I took my microphone and met Fredrik at Frölunda’s training facility to ask him:

• How is he building the team for next season?
• What other GM is he looking up to?
• Why didn’t he offer Loui Eriksson an extension?
• What was it like having Wayne Gretzky, the best of all time, as a coach?
• What actually happened with Ryan Lasch’s contract?
• What does he admire most with the Lundqvist brothers

And much more!

This episode will have no sponsor, no interruption and no BS. If I can ask you for one thing, please subscribe to the podcast and share it with a friend. The bigger the podcast gets, the better the guests get.

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Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys travel through the greatest hacks the week had on offer. Charge up your ice skates (literally) by adding spiked electric motors to push you across the frozen pond. If that's too cold for early March, snuggle up with a good book under the warm light of a clever lamp made from a rotary-dial telephone. We discuss CAD and CAM in your browser, and a software tool to merge images with PCB gerber files. The episode wraps up with a discussion the balance of quality versus speed when prototyping, and digesting the environmental impact of the Bitcoin network.

This week we take a trip down memory lane with a special chat with 80s legendary creator of the computer game Football Manager, KEVIN TOMS! 
Kevin tells us about the origins of this game as well as the limitations he had creating it and his current and future plans.

Our retro conspiracy touches on Jimi Hendrix and the circumstances surrounding his death.

Also on this Show we talk about our 80s memories good and bad as well as all the usual features with an 80s twist.

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In which we learn from Alan Clarke’s STARS OF THE ROLLER STATE DISCO (1984) that roller rinks are miserable places when you live there, find out that roller skating isn’t fun when you’re forced to do it, and view roller disco as a metaphor for the Thatcher regime. (Warning: contains spoilers and some content may be triggering.)

Tom Hyser has been living his life by design since the before high school.  He has always had a vision for what he want and has lived an amazing life pursuing this vision.  Its been quite a ride reflecting back on how many different ways and places Tom has done this.  It all first started right after graduation when 4 crazy kids took off to California for an epic summer of adventure I will never forget.  But Tom had a plan, even back then, that plan saw him become a pro skater. Which took him to Seattle to design in-line skates for K2.  Then, coming back home to GA, he started a dot.com company at a time when few had done so.  After growing that brand and establishing a skate community in the Southeast, he then realized his dream of working for Rollerblade growing both the industry he helped establish and creating a culture along the way.  Now back from a stint in New England that saw him crystalize his role of father and husband, He and Erin have taken the next step in realizing their dreams of a lifestyle by design.  For them, That’s now the pro mountain biker lifestyle which is exactly what both their kids are well on their way to becoming.  Hope you enjoy my conversation with the always entertaining Tom Hyser.

Jeff gives recommendations on 10 skate packages so you can get your first pair of roller skates. The goal of this episode is for you to get you a pair of skates so you can follow along with the rest of the Getting Started Roller Skating series.

Have you wanted to roller skate, but haven't gotten around to buying your first pair of skates? In Part 3 of the Getting Started Roller Skating series, Jeff finishes his tips on things to consider before picking out your first pair of roller skates.

Have you wanted to roller skate, but haven't gotten around to buying your first pair of skates? In Part 2 of the Getting Started Roller Skating series, Jeff talks to you about tips to consider before picking out your first pair of roller skates.

Have you ever wanted to roller skate, but were too afraid to try? In Part 1 of the Getting Started Roller Skating series, Jeff talks to you about getting in the right mindset to start skating for the first time. If you can walk, you can skate.

Part 2 of my interview with roller skating performer, coach and community organizer Dave Nicholls of UK's Ipswich Skate Club. Dave talks about how he started the Ipswich Skate Club with the help of his local government and how others can do the same.

In this Ask Dad episode, we discuss some tips for picking outdoor roller skate wheels. Also, we review tips on helping a child learn how to skate. Finally, we cover a series of exercises & tips you can do to find better balance while roller skating.

Tina and Dyana are the directors of a new roller skating documentary airing on HBO on Monday, February 18th, 2019. We chat about the film, African-American skate culture, skating rinks closing and what, if anything, we can all do to save them.

Welcome to the first week of Blairvember, five whole weeks of Linda Blair movies on the Grindbin. In our first episode we start with the 1970's "classic" Roller Boogie. Molly Osborne joins Chris and Mike to discuss a movie which decides to literally change it's mind and start again about half way through. Rollerpocalypses, attempted sexual assaults, characters named Bobby, this movie has it all; and more!

In this Episode AJ and Nate chat with Pete about:

Trouble getting all three of us on the same Skype call.
The Interior Plain Project Podcast
Parenting
80’s skateboarding in the western Wisconsin country.”
Aqua Jam
Getting hated on for being a skater.
High School hazing
Scooters
Fran Lebowitz on Skateboarding www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfM0CeKSyMA
Jaws
Working retail in the Mall of America
Fobia Skateshop and Iota Skateboards
The inspiration behind The Interior Plain Project
AJ connection problems
Sales repping and retail.
Podjacked
Stock market psychology
Obamacare - “Hi mom.”
Retail morality
Camber vs Reverse Camber
Rundown of the IPP board models

Quotes:

“There was no one telling us what was cool, what wasn't cool or how to do it… and at that time, I mean what was right? It was 1986.”
“Get on the floor and push a penny with your nose - high school hazing.”
“At that time skaters stuck together.”
“We had four sheets of plywood leading to a launch ramp - we landed in the grass, cause that’s what we had in the country.”
“I was a snow TM, the GM and I was running Iota sales.”
“I liked the idea of begging a question, that’s unique - it makes them ask and inquire and it gives them an opportunity to learn.”
“It’s not that we’re in the midwest and in the plains, it’s that we’re a vehicle and we’re moving through theses different dimensions.”
“There are riders and you can ride a board, but you pilot a board.”
“You ride an Interior board and you’re riding a piece of my heart.”
“If saving five bucks on something means the world to you, I’m sorry that’s your reality.”
“Online’s not the devil, but if you’re not supporting your local shops, you’re not supporting the community of snowboarding.”
“The thing that snowboarding fucked up al long time ago is that they started sponsoring all of theses kids - in the bike industry a sponsored rider is still paying for their frame.”
“The midwest is the fabric of snowboarding.”
“Reverse camber is just an old construction that was brought back and reinvented. It comes back to culture, in America we want everything easier.”