Bunbury in Western Australia is home to one of the last rollerskating rinks in the state. It has helped to create some of the best artistic skaters in Australia.
In the winter of 1999, an old indoor volleyball centre was fully gutted and transformed into a skating rink.
She says that's when she got the idea to open her own rink with a focus on coaching artistic skaters."I remember learning to skate at the Morley Rollerdrome and having to wait two hours just to get into the building. It took 12 months for Brooks to open The Rink, which required the construction of a brand new skating floor and importing dozens of pairs of skates."It was all bush so we often had fires. A few times I had to stay at the rink all day and all night because I was terrified something would happen to it," Brooks said.
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