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Finding freedom skateboarding in a sari: 'I felt like I was flying' “滑板阿姨” 身穿紗麗自由飛翔
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Finding freedom skateboarding in a sari: 'I felt like I was flying' “滑板阿姨” 身穿紗麗自由飛翔
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My name is Oorbee Roy. I'm also known as Aunty Skates.
我的名字叫奧爾比·羅伊。大家叫我 “滑板阿姨”。
I started skateboarding when I was 43 years old.
我43歲時開始玩滑板。
I thought it's too late for me. I'm going to get hurt. I'm going to fall. People will laugh at me.
我本來覺得43歲才開始有點太晚了。我可能會受傷、會摔倒、會被人笑。
Once my kids started skateboarding and my husband was skateboarding, I said: "You know what, I don't care about any of that." All I know is I don't want to be standing here all the time.
不過在我孩子們和丈夫都開始玩滑板后，我說：“你猜怎么著，我不在乎之前擔心的那些事情了。” 我就是不想一直站一旁看著他們玩。
I started skateboarding in a sari during Covid. I was also trying to keep the kids entertained. And I said: "Let's go to the skatepark. I'm going to take my sari, and we'll see what happens."
在新冠肺炎疫情期間，我開始穿著紗麗玩滑板。我這樣做也是為了讓孩子們高興。我對他們說：“咱們去滑板場玩吧。我穿上紗麗去滑滑板，看看行不行。”
My daughter was with me. She got in the [skating] bowl, took some video.
當時我女兒和我在一起。她滑進碗池里，拍了一些視頻。
I felt like I was flying. Something got set on fire.
我感覺自己在飛翔。我感覺心中有一團火被點燃了。
Seeing a 40-something-year-old South Asian mom skateboard in a sari – it is the visual representation of anything is possible.
看到一位40多歲來自南亞的孩子媽媽穿著紗麗玩滑板，這個畫面表現了一切皆有可能。
I think it's breaking [a] cultural norm and maybe smashing some stereotypes.
我覺得我穿紗麗玩滑板打破了習以為常的文化慣例，可能也打破了一些刻板印象。
And that's what really resonated with people and within four months of being on TikTok, I had over 100,000 followers.
這也是真正引起人們共鳴的東西，我在 TikTok 上分享我玩滑板的視頻四個月內就有了10萬多名粉絲。
Skateboarding has taught me so much about how to live my life. When you fall, you get back up. You learn from your fall, and then you go back and you do it again.
玩滑板教會了我很多關于如何生活的道理。跌倒了就要爬起來。你從失敗中吸取教訓，然后站起來重新再來一次。
I've had women in their twenties come up to me and say: "Hey, thank you so much for showing me that I can, you know, grow up, get married, have children, and still be a skater. I don't have to give up on that."
我遇到過一些20多歲的女性，她們對我說：“非常感謝你做榜樣，讓我知道我可以長大、結婚、生孩子，同時繼續(xù)玩滑板。我不需要放棄玩滑板?！?/p>
