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- Will rollerblading be done in 15 years, is instagram ruining skating, will the Barbie movie save it all? Me reacting to your rollerblading hot takes.
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Around south Florida it’s been growing throughout the past year. Last Wednesday there were about 30-40 rollerbladers at one of the local skateparks 😤 it was a fun session
I’m moving to Tampa for a few months - where at in FL?
@@konnyknees Fort Lauderdale but there are a few god rollerbladers in Tampa and alot of competitions and events throughout Florida. The culture is healthy
@@weekendpiratetoo dope I’ll keep an eye out. Any IGs worth following in the community?
@@weekendpiratetoo hey where in ft Lauderdale? I'm going in December
@@konnyknees Tampa here! We got a growing scene here!
My luke warm take:
I think aggressive blading needs an online presence doing similar things as the mushroom blading guys.
As in presenting the skaters personalities and enjoyment along side the tricks. Injecting more of the fun rather than just the excitement and skill.
I mean, they have a video reviewing the pants that they like to skate in for Christ’s sake.
Like, I love bacemint. That’s some of my favourite stuff but, who are these people? What’s it like going for a skate with them?
Even if it’s all business, all the time I’d like to see how that is. What their approaches and thought processes are etc.
Generally speaking a lot of success on TH-cam hinges on personality and showing who you are as well as what you do.
Rachard’s content is like this and it’s really endearing to see everyone just being themselves and cracking jokes etc. Mix that stuff into a great skate edit and you’re definitely onto something. Or even just include it as additional videos on the channel. I feel like we need to move past the “banger video/edit” mentality. Especially if we’re wanting to attract interest outside of the sport.
Yep, stepping outside of just the skating enhances it and allows it to transcend the appeal of just rollerblading
@@TomMoyse 100% we need some “characters” putting themselves and skating out there that those on the outside can get into.
I couldn't agree more. My opinions on the matter are similar to yours. We have heard it here before. "Too many serious sausages" in the rollerblading scene.
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I couldn't care less if rollerblading suddenly became super unpopular. I'd just buy a stock of wheels and skates and keep going for my own well-being.
True, but I can't help to think that our pros deserve as much as their skateboarding counterparts.
It already is super unpopular lol.
I think if we had like a Braille Skateboarding equivalent that was all about rollerblading I think that would be cool and very beneficial. I love how Braille does a lot of rollerblade content and I definitely think that's helped the rollerblade community and to have a rollerblade crew like that with similar videos to their "skate everything", and their "you make it we skate it" series that could be huge for rollerblading.
As someone who doesn't do ANY agressive skating, I still think I'm the target audience for an event like the Bladling Cup as much as I was a target audience for an event like Red Bull Crashed Ice. I'm a "recreational" and perhaps a "fitness" skater (quads, blades, and ice), most of the skating I do is at the roller rink and ice rink, I don't know lots of tricks, I'm old and I'm relatively new at it too, and my skating is relatively lame overall (nobody ever looks at me and goes "WOW! look at that!!!"). But I like to skate, I like to watch skate events, I like to consume skating content and I buy skating products. My money goes to the skating industry as much as anyone else's does, I buy skates, I buy wheels, plates, bags, etc... I'm not the next big thing, but I may be the one clapping for the next big thing as part of the audience.
This is interesting. I think most aggressive skating event could be slightly adjusted to bring in spectators. Blading Cup had done this with trade stands, location and also opening it up to quad
If aggressive skating wants to make any big comeback it needs to leave its elitist and holier than thou attitudes in the bench. Inline is already so small as a whole that we don't need childish bickering between aggressive, wizard, free, etc. skaters about "who's the real deal" and "our cool image" and so on. I've seen (in comment sections online) way more hate directed at freeskating by aggressive skaters than any other group. You don't need extra gatekeeping on a sport that gatekeeps itself purely on difficulty as it is! Most people put on skates, wipe out, get hurt and put them in the shelf!
Blading will never die, what I love the most about it is that blading is underground
As far as fitness goes, rollerblading is superior to pretty much anything in the world. Therefore, it'll always be around. Aggressive inline might actually die with us though. That's ok. Lol
You obviously haven't heard of the Ab Isolator. th-cam.com/video/tuPdTmS2j_o/w-d-xo.html
Nah it won’t die
@@audiizestor It could though.
THEM are doing lots of cool things in the public eye, but I've gotta give props to the behemoth that is Powerslide - they've brought out so much tech over the years and many new brands. Not too long ago we had the metal soul frames and now these skates with a brake that slows all wheels at once to name a couple of things.
Powerslide will give anything a go
I'll never see a real person using that breaking system in my entire life.
@@Danielson1818 literally barely jus passed up those skates 😂
"Skating sober is boring"...this mentality killed the blading scene in my city, it went over the course of a year from drinking after skating to drinking during skating, to drinking instead of skating.
You're not lying, I'll see someone bring beer and the guys who drink stop skating shortly after but I like it cuz less people in the way lol
I adore Inlines for the freedom of movement having your arms an hands able to do a lot more like swinging from objects into a smooth roll
I also love it for making Air Gear a amazing inline anime an manga a reality
the show even has Jet Set Radio style music
I’m surprised no one has mentioned that roller skaters and in-skaters sessioned, partied and and competed against each other in the early 90’s. People should check out the early VG movies or Rene goes (to) Lausanne where you will see thousands of roller skaters and in-line skaters all getting along. The contest/event was even titled “International In-line and Freestyle Skating Contest” as roller skaters were considered as freestyle skaters. It seems that in todays skating world has created a divide between the groups.
"Skating sober is boring"
Probably that guy who insists on telling you how baked they are every 2 minutes like it's some sort of massive achievement, those people do my head in!
Hahah
The “any old oillllll!”
Amazing find and reference 😂👊🏽👊🏽
Used to go round school shouting it ha
🔥🔥🔥🔥 thank for the video. Always great content.
….keeping with the theme of my typos in the live chat 😭
What’s up fellow rollerbooter! Love seeing blading channels contributing to other blading channels. We are all growing this sport together!
Thanks man 🙌🏻
The Barbie movie probably won’t sell skates like crazy, but the Barbie audience is kids mostly. Or younger people at least, which we need in a bad way. It will get more kids on skates, Rec or not, which will lead to more people on aggressive skates. To what extent? No idea, we’ll see. But it will likely have some form of impact.
Some good take. Tbh I got back into it cause of nostalgia but I was a Rollerblade before. Solomon were the dogs bits back in the day. My kids love watching me skate, they even try to join in and my go to always has and will be the B-Ball shorts!!!
Love these videos mate! I’m 38 now not skated in years but back at it and I’m loving watching all these and catching up on what’s going on the scene! Been skating Preston park skatepark. You ever been? Awesome free outdoor park In the northeast but I guess with your mad knowledge on skating you knew that. You inspired me abit, I might just a camera going soon but I’ve deffo not got that confidence bro. You got a flate for it mate n I love all the classic Brit comedy backdrops!
Cheers man much appreciated. Hope you’re enjoying being back on the skates
@@TomMoyse didn’t have my Burston SLs long when I stopped too so they are mint mate. One of the best looking skates in those colours imo which is all that matters in that case 👊 thanks for the reply bro! Not big on the social media stuff Reddit seems a good source for some others skaters n that. Guna try get up to override and meet some people I think. No one to skate with anymore.
Also ye I’m lovin mate thanks. Great little outdoor park too man! Love the merch aswell not one for subs n that but might grab one them hoodies when I’m abit more flush. At 38…..I needed knee pads and some them arse saver pants coz I got a bad hip🤣🤦♂️🤙
Thank you so much for this great entertainment, Tom! Keep on & cheers!
Thank dude - appreciate the support
my younger cousin is interested in skateboarding and I'm going to try pushing inline. fingers crossed :P
21:31 I personally love to see aggressive skaters be fearful of the Wizard style, turns out skaters like to roll without having to push off every step. Crazy concept to these people. There's WAY more options for wizard frames now as well so price-point isn't nearly as big an issue as it was before. Daedje must've been under a rock for the last 15 years bc Aggressive has been the least practiced discipline of skating for a long time, what a genuinely smooth brained take 😂
Hahaha
You may be right about my estimation of the current number of kids. I try not to exaggerate for effect, that's a poor way to make a point, but as you said this is all subjective; I go off of what I see, in person and online. And from my (local, subjective, limited) viewpoint... if it is more than a few hundred, it's not much more. A few thousand at the most. The photo you put in at 28:32 shows 29 people by my count, and they're not all kids. Let's be generous and say there's a hundred similar scenes out there... that's still not even 3,000 kids. That's not enough to replace the current, what, 20,000? 30,000? active grinderbladers worldwide.
I think my statement about these kids' representation on social media IS true. It's understandable, blading as a whole gets excited when they see youth in the sport (as we should), and that leads to a lot of sharing/reposting etc. Which is great! But, my point was, it skews our perceptions of their numbers.
28:13 As above, yes, that's what I meant. Obviously these kids' skating being seen is a good thing, and I do also hope that this draws some of their peers into the sport.
30:00 It is true, but my statement wasn't specific enough- I was speaking of the bulk of the population. Of course there are a few people grinderblading at a high level into their forties. It's possible, but rare. Sven and Julio may be ripping past their 50th birthdays, I certainly hope so, but the reality for 99% of bladers is that much past forty, the best you can hope for is for your degression to be tolerable emotionally.
And in 15 years... 90% of our population will be at or past 40. As for those younger bladers still being able to rip in 15 years? Sure, of course- but my earlier point stands- there won't be enough of them to support a meaningful, productive culture. The fan-supported model is great and all, economics isn't really what I was getting at but this does beg the next question for me: is this possible?
Will potential new bladers that we attract be interested in a culture dominated by a bunch of old fucks, no matter how accessible we make it, via TH-cam or whatever else? Will said old fucks accept and celebrate these youngster's blading, which will inevitably be different-looking and different-feeling than what said old fucks hold up as their shining ideals? The skating coming from a 15-year-old in 2030 is going to be much more a descendant of Robbie Pitts or Danny Beer than of Dustin Latimer or Brian Aragon.
31:55 Thankfully, you arrive at the conclusion that I was nudging towards. We've been doing the same thing over and over for years- some things have worked to slow the bleeding, but we haven't fixed the problem. We need to be smart and try some new things, as a sport, soon, to attract and retain new, young bladers.
Yeah not being injured is a weird feeling. When i actually charge to 100% i feel like i have the leg strength to teleport between planets.
hahaah
I think wizard skating is giving aggressive skating a new dimension. It makes it more interesting, way more technical. I reckon that we're gonna start seeing a new breed of skaters, some of these young kids who are well versed in both aggressive and wizard and they're gonna be doing some insane things.
Yea look at Junkyu Park he is doing stuff no-one has ever really seen before
As a 6'2" man, I think shorter bladers are much more interesting and fun to watch. I don't know why, it just looks more fun.
Watching friends rollerblading on instagram got me hooked.
Sweatpants and pajama pants are the best skate pants. 👌
i also don't know why, but i feel the same lol
Sometimes you get the odd spaghetti style tall guy. Also come on, i'm always entertained when I saw a rail bending Lurch section.
I completely agree with rollerblading needs more TH-cam presence. That’s why I’m going to be posting weekly rollerblading content on my TH-cam channel. I even was talking to John bolino after the franky morales competition in Miami. Told him he should make a TH-cam channel post content weekly. Or even daily. As a professional rollerblader people would love it. It kind of went over his head and he talked about not wanting to be a sell out. His response was kind of disappointing.
Noticed a lot of bladers hate the TH-cam thing. It’s not for everyone and is kind of a lot of work to produce content for an audience weekly. Chad Hornish was p much talking shit about anyone that did TH-cam content in his jump street podcast - that whole take was extremely disappointing
@@konnyknees I understand it does take some work but to each their own if you look at my channel you’ll see my main channel. With 20k subscribers. It has made me a ton of money over a couple of years and it’s all just fun for me. But like I said to each their own. I’m going to start this rollerblading channel hopefully it grows as well 😁 and brings new eyes to the rollerblading industry just like Tom is doing
Yea man, get involved. There is definitely a hesitancy from people, I have a fair few thoughts as to why that is, might make a video about it - but you can defo make authentic content, do well and not sell out.
@@TomMoyse do it. I think that’s something that needs to be addressed and maybe it’ll help to change some perceptions.
@@TomMoyse Agreed.
Barbie movie comment: airborne and brink got a lot of people skating...so there might be some truth to that.
Barbie is gonna remind people about the joke that killed rollerblading
@@konnyknees I mean it only bothered homophobic people, no loss to the sport.
@@randmcnally. I mean I skated during that time too but if you don’t think everyone calling rollerblading gay or feminine didn’t hurt the sport in it’s prime than you’re living on another planet
@@konnyknees I just don't get this whole 'hurt the sport' pov in general. If a company didn't put money in or an individual didn't start rolling around on pieces of plastic because of a single homophobic joke, then how is that now "bad" for the sport? If anything rollerblading became the unique sport it is today because of those barriers. Sure, we didn't sell a couple of Mountain Dews to some bros but we still had Haffey, Aragon, Broskow, and Farmer during those "darkest days" when people were afraid of being called gay progressing the style to what we see today. People who could shrug off a joke.
Hot take: older Rollerbladers are ashamed of themselves and still in 2022 live in 1998 🤣
@@randmcnally. I see your point, the barriers made the sport what it is today and it’s def in a really cool place now that we def have a much wider landscape of styles, tricks, and general approaches to skating. Def a good point. I think that mostly came from the lack of money floating around the industry though, less so about the hardships of being an outcast extreme sport. That’s also unfortunately not really a common perspective of a lot of old school rollerbladers in 2022 who miss the “good ol days of hammers”.
Any publicity is good publicity, I feel you there. Even tho Brink was corny af, it was still a big inspiration.
Maybe I’m a skeptic and a lil more cynical, but I don’t personally get my hopes up when the only Hollywood film ‘supposedly’ hyping up skates will be the fuckin Barbie movie. It’s Barbie ‘accessory’, not another blading movie that’s gonna get peeps into skating. I’m seeing history repeat itself a lil bit is all.
I don’t want Mountain Dew or Red Bull drinking bros to define the demographic of the sport, I just don’t want to see popular media give another reason for all sorts of people, including youngsters who are supposed to be the future, to make fun of it in 2022 because that shit just doesn’t help at all.
Your example of the legends in the sports prime is dope but half of them are burnt out on giving so much to the sport that unfortunately could never support them monetarily. You’re wrong if you don’t think the toxic skateboarding culture that pushed kids and investors out of rollerblading at the same time did not hurt the sport. Tricks were laced for sure but I’m just bummed only us bladers kinda recognized and supported that.
On the comfort point - find somewhere that does something like Uniqlo Ezy Fit jeans. They're basically the ultimate jean/jogger hybrid for wicked comfort and flexibility, but don't straight up turn into rags when you stack once. Been using them as chilling trousers for a few years due to how comfy they are (but also don't look too shabby like), recently got back on the skates & realised they're wicked for skating in.
Coming in with the top tips 🤝🏻
also love danny beer & the trinkets xD
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great video!
Thank you
I'm 6'5 and learning how to skate has been a challenge
Shout out to the tall skaters
That inline and quad take was basically because of Montre hahahhahaa
As for the Barbie movie, idk, it could also show blading in a whacky way as a joke rather than "Look how cool they are"....
Commenting in the part about skating is boring sober. I picked up skating again after twenty five years of being out of the game four and a half months ago. A week before that I was hitting a crack pipe since I started skating again.I haven't thought about getting high sense. Again for the second time rollabating saved my life. I'd rather be sober skating.Then behind screwing up my life again. And i'm sorry skating sober is not boring. For the first time in a long time I'm able to breathe.And when I mean by getting high, I'm not talking about weed or drinking.I think about hardcore drugs. The type of shit that people overdose and die from and go to rehab.I didn't spend 1 day in rehab.All I did was put on a pair of inland skates.And wind skating again.
Good to hear you’re on a better path man! Well done for making that change in your life. 🙌🏻🙌🏻
33:16 that means it's time to became a supporter (I'm in debt for 6-12 months, but you really need to consider this)
36:10 started creating tutorials right after two years of skating Because it's easier to remember all the details when you learn and it's fresh. Easier to explain. For some reason, after publishing aggressive tutorials, "community" which didn't make any tutorials ranted about me "knowing nothing" actually helping people to improve their selves.
Tricky one. I think if you’re honest and you frame it as a relative beginner showing what has worked for you, then it’s doesn’t matter so much what people say.
@@TomMoyse I mean... they literally threatened with violence because I did those tutorials) Because they started to getting views and their videos aren't)
@@askroller ok well that’s not cool - you need to report that
I think it is probably just one/few haters on several different accounts, there are some people that really enjoy talking shit on the comment section :)
@@Giohji nah, they was real skaters from "underground legit community")) Arrogant and not the smartest people.
the only reason i watch ur channell s because you syay rollerblading like a boss
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@@TomMoyse jk ur a pretty interesting feller
Smaller Rollerbladers, that's me, I'm 5'4 on a good day.. The first ever rollerbIading dvd i ever saw was Blackmarket on sky, extreme sports,144.. I miss the days of Ego, Imyta, Freestyle Rollin. Murda, Aragon, Haffey, Nils.
Look at it more from this perspective, if skateboarding started including scooters in everything they did im sure it would create a rift in the community. Skateboarding would never do that they already built it into an olympic sport while keeping the history of the sport in tact, but with the way the rollerblading community is you cant complain and say we are a small unique sub culture and deserve more for what we do. I will be the first top say that rollerblading is much harder then most people give it credit for. But we have to realize that every sport deals with this. The best form of flattery is imitation. you know bro everyone thinks they look way different then they really do skating. Sometimes its for the good and sometimes its for the bad.
My opinion is there are too many opinions in rollerblading. Just shut up and skate
18:34 I think I recall tritri doing a vote on his insta
I loved inline skating for fitness. I couldn't run far due to knee problems, I then took to inline & did 3 to 8 miles in the evening without any knee issues due to the lack of pounding on the knees. I loved cruising the streets, as an older bloke. I lost stones in weight & put on some great shaped leg muscles.
Sadly, the inline skaters were very fickle & intimidated by boarders, they should have stuck to their ground & toughed it out, even with the lack of TV exposure. I hate fads, as they come & go; I like it to become a part of life. I still inline at times, not as frequently as years by (life gets in the way....WORK & FAMILY!). I think it's great to do inline & quads, mix it up a little, they both have their strengths & beautiful feel.
Forget adverts & sponsors having to build the sport/hobby, just buy a pair & get out there with safety wear (important!).
Let critics say what they want, just get on with it, because u will look very cool still, regardless of what the twonks say. Share the love & respect everyone around you.
Skate on & enjoy Inline/Quad Skaters
Got to do it for the enjoyment of it hey and focus on that
Nice...when ya comin to Jersey?
Who is paying for my flight
@@TomMoyse I must have heard you wrong in your video. Sounded like you said that’s where you were headin.
@@Harleywayne Jersey Channel Islands, that’s where I’m from
For me, rollerblading was about getting ahead of the struggle and winning in life without selling out. Completely unique and independent. Rugged individualism. Literally getting ahead of the world, and winning despite whatever was thrown at you.
Literally, skating through life and styling on the competition.
We should consider making some sort of mass exodus away from TH-cam, TV, film, anything and everything that doesn't actually support us. Not for the sake of keeping it "underground", but for the sake of preserving the community.
People are always seeking alternative platforms. People are always talking about how they need to just "get off social media".
Let the skating and the community therein be the only form of recruitment and advertisement.
That's how it started anyway.
I know what's up.
The invasiveness of these devices is making people sick. Get off your phone and go skate.
Hack the planet!
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Who cares how big skating will be. SO long as I can get wheels and bearings I will be skating until my legs fall off.
I think it’s more of a curse
haha
I love my Salomon Wide bodies. Those are my exact skates lmao.
Going huge in blading is good...but keeping CORE BLADING TRUE...we don't have to worry...
Man I always wished I was shorter when I was a kid, but I've just about gotten over it at age 32. You always want what you don't have I guess.
Haha yep
Lol we gotta start skating caprice pants
This is the way
Solomans are the best I still got some old Aron Feinberg’s. Hahah!
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Very entertaining. Blading needs more good vibes.
All the vibes
Every time i hear rollerblading i have to think of novaks tattoo that he got from bam margera the night before he went to jail!! If you don't now the tattoo just search for it here on youtube!
I go to skate every Monday with a group mostly made up of quad skaters and we get along fine, I've never gotten any shit for being on inlines
Good stuff
And after watching that, I am carrying the kids to the new skatepark in Torre Pacheco South East Spain.
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With more aggressive skate companies doing well, it will show the major Fitness players that aggressive Bladers are a big factor in the industry as a whole, which just might...fund R&D into some dope ass aggressive blades.
I think they would lean more so into rec and urban unfortunately
wait... arent shants just capris?
Haha yea
There’s a lot of weight being put on this “Barbie skating” thing I’d bet that part in the movie is only about 1 minute long🤣🤣
Just one trick from a Ryan Gosling stunt double could save our sport!!!!
and it turns out, it's done as a joke to show how dorky it is and use it for comedy.
100% it’s going to be a fleeting moment for sure.
alright!
@Tom Moyse can i please get a track id at 21mins? 🙏
HJJ - he's a blader
@@TomMoyse whats the track name? couldnt find it
The best bladers have been smaller dudes. With smaller feet. I was bummed at pow wow years ago. The only time seeing pros was in the mid mid late 90s for me. So seeing all these rippers my age in 2010 but very few 5-10... most rippers are shorter dudes.
We need to bring the Rollerboys outfits back.
In your opinion is rollerblading bad on your back?
depends what's you're doing
@@TomMoyse Ah right. Just overall skating I guess. I just urban skate and I consider my technique pretty good yet Ill find my back hurting a bit after a session longer than an hour.
The movie will get a bunch of kids to wonder and a small percentage will try it out. It wont hurt at least. I see blading steadily gaining ground and all sports becoming more inclusive. Bikes, Blades, Boards founded extreme sports and it will be like that again. Tougher though since the world is trending to a far less physical and social medium of interaction. It may take till the end of the decade but I feel aggressive blading will be back in the XGames and onto the Olympics by then. Hope at least. Just keep skating and getting out there. Brink - Soul skaters.
Hell no
As a tall guy, I can tell you my knees would prefer me being smaller. add an extra 30 pounds to each landing.
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IM READY TO #GRIND
baggy sweatys are the way
Get the baggies on
Let’s go!!!!
There's a channel called Hop King - it;s a beer brand and skateboard crew and they do videos where they hit the streets or a park. Usually long-form (20-30 mins long) and biased WAY more towards the crew chilling together, trying (and missing) tricks and landing SOME tricks. It's really call to watch - the personality is right there on show and they bring in kids from the parks into their vids and engage really well.
Anyway, further to someones point below about the Kelsos, who are incredible, I'd love to see more BTS with them (as an example) - follow them on a skate trip. How many tries did the trick take? Are they laughing between goes? Were the falls worth seeing? How did they celebrate the land? what happened between spots?
I'd love to see it and i think rollerblading could do with some of it.
High hopes the cult will survive in some way! 😂
I feel like both Torvel and Dean: slightly gender confused.
Can you not do Topsides, Souls and Jumps on Wizard skates?
I do plan on buying a dog and teaching them to dance... one day...
Haha! Advertising in the 90s vs Now... Have you seen how many 'fitness models' and 'travel influencers' are on socials?!?! That stuff gets astronomical views and likes because society is full of people that don't wanna admit they love a bit if skin 😂
Shreks still sells and always will.
Ha. That’s appropriate to those industries. That’s not naturally happening in a male dominated activity and it’s cheap. I’m sure rollerblading can be more creative
@@TomMoyse There are an increasing amount of quad girls rocking aesthetics that they know male audiences will lap up on socials, all you need to do is look at who has liked these types of posts and read some of the comments. You'd like to think rollerblading can be more creative in its advertising, but it may only be a matter of time before the 'look at me crowd' jump on it and companies see the audience numbers that draws in... and yes it is cheap, but when have cheap tricks ever been a deterrent from making money?
NGL, that barbie fit is a statement.
Fire fit
I think aggressive inline and skateboarding are just “there”, aren’t going anywhere big league these days like the 90’s.
Skateboarding is way bigger.
skateboarding is infinitely larger LMFAO
you're the goblin from skates?
Why the hate for quad skaters? Is it the connection to skateboarding? Is it a macho thing since most skaters are women and LGBTQ folks? I'm an old skateboarder that just got a pair of skates(Them 909) and I love them. Without quad skates neither sport would exist. People are going big on quads and I don't think they get anywhere near the attention they deserve. I think it would be super sick if there were a few companies that try to bring skateboarding, quad skating and in line skating together under one banner. Like a wheel company or a company that makes grind blocks, rails and anti rocker wheels or whatever. All the urethane slidey parts. How sick would it be to have a team with all 3? It would make for some interesting video parts. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard because all those things use the same materials. Seeing the THEMxWKND collab got me interested in getting a pair of skates. I think all 3 industries could benefit from it. At the end of the day we're all doing the same thing really. There really isn't that much difference between in line skating, quad skating and skateboarding. Even the tricks are super similar. They're even done almost the same. A frontside grind(at least that's what I think it's called) on skates is done the EXACT same way a 50-50 grind on a skateboard is. It's been a pretty easy learning curve getting into inline skating with a skateboarding background. I think to have all 3 sports survive, there's going to have to be some kind of collaboration between them. Skateboarding is in a downturn, quad skating barely exists outside of roller derby and rec skating and inline skating still has a long way to go to get back to it's former glory. I think if we all got together it would benefit everyone.
Flare*
#GRINDING
Fun for all
I WANT TO #GRIND
The problem is that the movie is promiting what they think rollerblading is now, using dated blade designs and outfits only to further dated stereotypes
I think it’s just based on the only toy Barbie
Cheaper and more variety of kid sized skates, $50 or less.
Would love to see this but I don’t think the brands in the industry can put in huge manufacturing orders to bring the cost per unit down. It’s probably even harder right now that manufacturing costs have gone right up. I also don’t think there is a big enough market to support this. Hopefully someone takes a risk
AS SOON AS I HAVE SOME CASH = IM GETTING SKATES #BRINK
Good dude!
i just logged in my secondary g account to sub de f up to this lovely weirdo
Haha thanks ☺️
Save the turtles!
Indeed
BlÄding is børing?
WtW...like what...how lifestyle sport can be boring...which is 1. Voluntary to do...2. It's self Xpression outlet, 3. It gives you mates around the world (we are small but that just means when you meet...), 4. It helps you to learn from your mistakes, 5. It helps "balance" (even for me whom balance isn't greatest 'coz of ad(h)d)...6. It makes you think, 7. You appreciate architecture more, 8. You are individual, 9. We are Fruitbooters so f###$$$ what...does sexuality do you better or worse blader?, 10.....do you need still more.
Fffff...thissounds SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOOOOOORÏÆNG...DOESN'T IT?
But what isn't skateboarding/scooting/rollersk8ing?
Where the difference...Xcept your PERFECT ONION...
Some real doomer takes lol
Hahaha ain’t there just
BORING hahaha
😁🙌🏻
The new generation are afraid of getting on rollerblades because if they fall and scrape their knees their mommies won’t be there to kiss the boo-boo
Yea. With this new Robbie pitts-style BS or the kelsos/THEM team tap dancing on curbs, yes. If more people were doing hammers like Demetrius, no.
That didn't work before
Don't need quads... Looks silly anyway
Lowkey facts. Even Montre and Bolino can’t make it look good
I love this, dude I hope you get to pop out to @wednesdaynightskatenyc in US, New York
Yes be great to get out to NYC
If any thing social media like Instagram saved rollerblading. Outsider eyes are now able to see real rollerblading in all its various forms without the lens of being compared to 🛹.
Yeah one of the most popular vids were a Facebook video remix of Eugin Enin - around 6million views. Probably multi millions for IG clips now a days if you tally em up
All social media plays a part but people don’t need to use cheap tactics, you can still be authentic and do well.
Hell no