Short answer: it depends on where you’re at in your skate journey. Yes if you’ve hit a wall and feel “stuck” as a roller skater. Probably not, however, if you know there is more to practice and master in your skate journey before pushing yourself to the next extreme/level. It’s also a great opportunity to skate with people who are better than you! Which is nice for those of us who live in small towns and there are not a lot of multi-leveled skaters around us.

I went to the Moxi Skate Camp West in 2018. It was MAGICAL. It was also expensive, exhausting, and by the end of it, for the first time in my life, I needed my skates to not be anywhere near me.

My sister and I worked hard to get me a ticket out there. We don’t live in the same state so having the opportunity to make this sort of thing happen seemed to be worth how much it was going to cost me. The round trip ticket to get me out there from Atlanta was close to $600! This didn’t include the ticket itself (which was $299 at the time), bus fair to the different airports, or meals during the trip. It was a LOT for someone who was at the time barely making $12 an hour at their day job.

All of that was forgotten as I got to see some of my heroes up in person. Estojen, Indy, Lady Trample, Dita- ALL THE REST OF THEM. They were right there. In the flesh and in their roller skates. We all were! And honestly, there’s nothing like that feeling of being surrounded by a bunch of people in roller skates.