EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Ricky Delgadillo didn’t just learn to Rollerblade \u2014 he fell in love with it. <\/p>\n
After five years of skating, he’s become West El Paso’s local celebrity, known to neighbors and fellow skaters alike. <\/p>\n
“Slick Rick. And sometimes people call me, and this other guy calls me Ricky Blades,” he said.<\/p>\n
Ricky says the skating keeps him grounded in his own way. <\/p>\n
“It keeps me… kinda, kinda, kinda grounded. Like, not grounded at home, but, like, it keeps me busy,” said Rick. <\/p>\n
While most of us are stuck in traffic, Ricky’s last five years have been full of laps and waves as the neighborhood’s friendly “Ricky the Rollerblader.”<\/p>\n
Ricky still remembers his very first day skating back in 2018, at a Rhinos game.<\/p>\n
“They have this thing called, like, skating with the players, so I, that’s where I learned to skate on ice,” he said. <\/p>\n
What started as a fun hobby quickly turned into something bigger. <\/p>\n
“I eventually taught myself how to Rollerblade because I figured, you know what? I might want to try a rollerblading because they’re basically the same,” Ricky said.<\/p>\n
Today, Ricky is the local celebrity the neighbors look forward to seeing \u2014 and even the heat can’t keep him off his blades. <\/p>\n
“Everybody’s been telling me, Ricky, you need to stay hydrated. You’re going to, we don’t want you to pass out. So that’s just a way of them saying we care about you, Ricky, and we can’t lose our rollerblader,” Ricky said.<\/p>\n
So next time you’re in West El Paso, keep an eye out. <\/p>\n
From one night at a Rhinos game to almost every day on the streets of West El Paso, Ricky’s been gliding ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Ricky Delgadillo didn’t just learn to Rollerblade \u2014 he fell in love with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[137339,138,140,139,137341,137342,80878],"class_list":["post-401851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-abc-7","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-kvia","tag-olivia-vara","tag-sunday-funday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}