Hello Skaters! On Saturday, September 19, the Raw Meat Vancouver Roller Skating fall/winter session begins! From September 19 until April 2016, we’ll be at Thunderbird Community Centre, 2311 Cassiar St., Vancouver, every Saturday from 5-7 PM. Join us to learn to roller skate, roller derby style. Sessions at Thunderbird are $7 each. Sessions are drop-in, […]

Hello, Meaties! August 22 is our last session of the year at Royal City Curling Club, so be sure to come out and enjoy one last roller skate on the beautiful, beautiful floor before it gets iced over for the winter. After this Saturday, Raw Meat will take a two-week break, and then we’re back […]

Planning to try out for a local league this fall? Excellent. New to roller skates, and need to know the basics? Perfect. Know everything there is to know, and just want to get on skates? Ideal. No matter your experience on roller skates, this is the session for you! We only have two more sessions […]

On Saturday, August 8, there is no session at Royal City Curling Club. Instead, meet at Science World at 10 am for a seawall skate. The round trip around the seawall from Science World is 21 km. If that’s too far, try catching us at Sunset Beach. Be sure to wear all of your safety […]

Come out, come out, wherever you are, and join in Raw Meat Roller Skating’s Big Gay Pride Celebration! It’s going to be a gay old time with the most fabulous guest coach of them all, Tiki Timebomb! We’ll skate, we’ll laugh, and no matter your proclivities, we guarantee you’ll catch the gay*! Everyone is welcome, […]

Sad you aren’t at RollerCon this week? Well, dry your tears, because we’ve got a very special Raw Meat session for you! Please join our veryspecial guest coach Andi Struction, and her lovely assistant, Tiki Timebomb for a two-hour roller derby intensive. If you want to get a (safe, non-contact) taste of a regular derby […]

Can you believe it? Raw Meat is five years old! It all started in the summer of 2010, when Snow Crash asked if anyone was interested in pooling together to rent some space to learn to roller skate together. The first lesson consisted of Snow, saying, “Um, well, if I blow a whistle, maybe we […]

Here’s five great reasons you should come to Raw Meat Vancouver Roller Skating: You want to learn to roller skate. This is where we’re a Viking! We’ve had people show up to Raw Meat with their brand new roller skates still in the box. We’ll show you how to stop, fall, jump, move with agility, […]

Whew. It’s going to be a scorcher this weekend. On Saturday, you should beat the heat with a long, cool drink of slushy Snow Crash. That’s right. Expect some chillin’, trillin’ and spillin’ from Raw Meat’s own special snowflake. This frosty former Faster Pussycat will show you her wild and wacky roller skating style. She’ll […]

What better way to welcome the second-longest day of the year than to get up early and roller skate for two hours? Seriously, could there be anything better? Since you’ll have a very long day after our session to get out there skate the seawall, we’re going to focus on the basic roller skating skills […]