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- "Whatever skateboarding can do, it was going to do bigger and better, the amplitude went off the chart" is the quote from one of my rollerblading videos that caused a bit of a stir last week.
I recently put out of a video on how a joke changed rollerblading: "What's the hardest thing about rollerblading..."
The video looked at where the joke came from, culture in the 90s/early 2000s, how the joke changed societies views of rollerblading and also how it changed attitudes within rollerblading.
In one section, I gave my speculative opinion that, during the late 90s into the 2000s, after the gay accusation , parts of rollerblading over compensated buy focusing purely on big stunts to prove a point.
Their intention was to go bigger than skateboarding and in the most simplest form bigger meant better to them. I used this section as part of promotion for the video.
I thought it was clear, "bigger and better" was used like a turn of phrase, it was about intent and specifically amplitude. I actually thought maybe a few rollerbladers would be like nah the joke had nothing to do with hammers, I didn’t even consider skateboarders would be bothered - but it’s the internet so stuff gets taken wrong way. In this case the reactions were equally hilarious as they were unhinged.
It seems a fair few skateboarder, misunderstood and misinterpreted what was being said. They've overlooked I was referring to a certain time period and that what I was saying was an intent. They instead took it as an absolute statement and some sort of diss.
I take a light hearted look through the comments and give my reaction.
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I rollerblade and skateboard and have no problem understanding what you meant about bladers trying to go bigger and better than other sports at the time.
Obviously it was just a statement about how in the climate of that time, due to the negativity rollerblading was facing, rollerbladers felt that they needed to validate the sport and so set out to prove blading can be just as impressive as any other extreme activity, this meant they were heavily incentivised to push the boundaries of what was possible and strive to put themselves in situations that had excessive levels of risk in almost every clip, other activities such as skateboarding were enjoying an upswing in popularity at the time so the pressure to prove themselves to a new audience wasn't as intense and as a result the pressure to appeal to a new audiences with visually striking dangerous extreme stunts as apose to more technically complex but safer ticks wasn't playing as big of a role.
Rolerbladers knew they needed to do a better job of promoting themselves to a new audience in order to keep up with other activities and so that's what they strived to do.
Acknowledging that isn't the same as saying that there has never been a struggle for skateboarders to prove themselves or that there is a superior activity in terms of difficulty or impressiveness, it's simply an acknowledgement of how public perceptions and behaviour (or lack there of) can affect not just how a person feels when enjoying the activity they do, and how it can also affect the level of money proffesionals can earn from dedicating their time and effort into developing the skills necessary to perform at such a high skill level.
When the sport came under pressure pro bladers pulled out all the stops to keep the sport relevant and maintian a paycheck and at the time other activities weren't under the same pressure to do that, therefore they wasn't as incentivised to appeal to a new audience with easily understood dangerous tricks rather than technically complex tricks that require a pre existing level of knowledge and understanding of the activity to appreciate...it's a simple concept to understand.
The people being abusive about what you said are just taking you out of context and reacting without having a clue about what you were actually saying.
Don't let 'em get you down mate :)
Cheers mate. You’ve said that far better than I have. Luckily for me the comments don’t get me down. Being misinterpreted can be frustrating but it’s so common, it’s just part of putting videos out in public. Thanks for taking the time to write that 🙌🏻
That's a great take 👏👏
@@TomMoyse As you have shown in this video, you can give it back as good as you receive it. Your replies were hilarious and on point. Love your videos mate. And @ronnocrd - yes, exactly that. Tom's original video put into words and highlighted something I hadn't really though too much about over the years (I got into it during the BFG, Words, Leading The Blind, Noir, KFC3, etc. era). Nice to see it's gone beyond that and grown as a sport, but still has some big tricks.
@@TomMoysethe comments most definitely get you down. You are the most defensive rollerblader going. Get laid you fucking kook. You’ll never come to the US because you’re broke.
I think it's funny that all this is based around recreational sports too. People are just embarrassing themselves over their elitist attitudes surrounding what amounts to toys.
Haha when you take a step back it all becomes very silly
Useless wooden toy 🤝 useless plastic toy
The irony in skateboarders saying rollerblading isn’t as cool because its not as mainstream is so hilarious 😂😂😂
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I’m gonna put it out there that any decent skateboarder in 2023 wouldn’t hate on rollerblading.
I find it funny how they thought Tom was insulting them. I actually saw it the other way around - because we were being called gay we over compensated by going bigger and bigger. That’s some insecure shit I have to admit and more of a slam against us than them. It was all about the amplitude as a defense mechanism. Tom’s point was very clear to me.
That never happened. We don’t like rollerblading because you can’t flip your boots
who does bro think he is 😭😭😭😭@@BB-rt9nc youre NOT him
Skateboarder here, the clips in that clip were actually FUCKED, dude doing the 5 through-the hole blew my mind. Stunts are stunts.
🙌🏻 yea Alex Broskow is unreal. I’m sure Dwayne McMurry said he used to bump into his crew round KFC. Stunt are stunt for sure 🫡
I'd just like to point out that in the last year, on many occasions, I've had BMX and skateboarders tell me "I don't how you do that" .. specifically referencing the skates being strapped to my feet and not being able to bail like you can on board or a bike. Furthermore, anyone who is still hating should just go sit on their thumb on a cold day... we should all be looking to increase popularity of all "action sports" as its only beneficial for everyone....
Same with me. Word for word.
I agree action sport is action sports.. but there is lvl to this.. bmx and skateboarding difficulty and style and way harder.. hence why most quite and pick up roller blades or scooter cuz they can’t Ollie.. let’s just say this.. there is a reason rollerblading isn’t in the x games
@@b0cm0bbin31 Probably because we can't ollie because that's not a trick. You can't ollie a car either. So basically if an action sport doesn't involve the "ollie", then it's lame? Got it.
@@DatBoiAntix scooter has Ollie/ bar hop and it’s still lame as fuck.. 😂☠️
@@b0cm0bbin31you should maybe look at some recent scooter videos. It has gotten crazy.
Felt like I time traveled back to the 90s with this one lol thank you Tom!! 😂
Haha time warp
Gotta love people saying it's easy because they're attached to your feet...
snowboarding
mountain boarding
street boarding
free boarding
Isn't that friendly fire?
That's what I think every time I hear that.
Every sport you listed is easier to master than skateboarding , sorry but it is true. Also with all the popularity of the LGBTQ COMMUNITY it is the perfect time to bring back rollerblading.
@@kylefennell8016 lol you're not sorry but ok
@@DatBoiAntix you're right, I am not sorry, had plenty of friends try rollerblading in 1990's , they all immediately got skateboards because rollerblading was just to easy, there was no challenge for them! So they all got skateboards and had a sport that was actually challenging to their athleticism!
I'm a lifetime skateboarder, and that comment section just embarrasses me to no end. I definitely joined in to the blade hate back in the day and I used that joke and term "fruitboot" but I have now grown up. I really hope those commenters are kids otherwise it's just sad.
your channel is such a solid balance of rollerblading content and comedy im here for it 😂
Thanks man, much appreciated! Got to have a laugh
@@TomMoyse that's all you can do with the shit in the world. turn the bullshit in to fertilizer & make some flowers grow.
I'm a skateboarder have all the respect for rollerbladers especially when they go big. I used to work for a company called Team Paradize back in the mid to late 90's. Senate and Arlo Eisenberg were the sh@t back then. Don't follow it now, but it's rad to see how far it's progressed. Really didn't think there a beef anymore.
Team Paradise had the best catalogues going. I think the beef just comes from people who would be mugs whatever they were into. I suspect the majority of skateboarders are just busy doing their own thing 🙌🏻
The beef no longer exists in the new generation but I can still pick out every single dude at the skatepark who peaked in 2005 by how they react to me lacing up
I feel like this is how most skateboarders think. They respect it but its just not what theyre into. The haters are a special kinda of people.
@@TomMoyse I hope you didn't order any Senate Green Ultra Wides, because they are still on back order! HAHA. The calls I hated the most, speed skaters. They would complain that we only carried ABEC 7 bearings, and they were to slow. They are capable of spinning 30,000rpm, that wasn't enough. haha. Goodtimes.
Crying at this 😂 The irony is, most of the half decent skateboarders I’ve met appreciate rollerblading. It’s the stains that clamber for free t shirts at comps that moan. Absolute pond life.
People take several sessions just to manage going forward, turning, and slowing down to a stop reliably.
No one appreciates the layers of blading until they put some on and fall back immediately. Just wearing your skates is a skill you have to learn. We don't get to step off the board. Our propulsion isn't cranking a pedal or kicking the floor, it's an entire language of techniques and footwork.
Oh, they have no interest in the details
As a skateboarder, I also snowboard. Which is strapped to my feet. You know what sucks? When you bail and you board is literally strapped to your feet. Closest thing I can imagine to what its like trying to bail with wheels attached to my feet.
Here is my take on this argument and I grew up skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, and wakeboarding.
Sure it takes skill and balance to keep the board to your feet, but it does have its benefits. If your attempting a new trick and get scared you can just jump off and land on you good old feet. Which can prevent injuries and speed up the learning process. Rollerblading on the other hand your strapped in and you have to ride out your trick attempt. Also for grinding the standard skateboard has plenty of grinding real-estate nose, board, trucks ect. Rollerblading you have about 2" give or take on the frame and soul plates. So you have to be way more precise with you feet. Which brings me to my last point. With this precision comes strength I see many overweight skateboarders who can do amazing things, but almost all the really good rollerbladers are borderline gymnasts and very athletic. Not saying that skateboarders can't be athletic and many are. it just doesn't seem to be a requirement to preform skateboarding as much. I think both take alot of skill but coming from boarding sports in general I've been humbled for sure I've actually started going to the gym to build more leg and hip strength to pursue rollerblading more.
I think most people understand this, or I'd like to think so. What is hard in a sport is unique to that sport. At the end of the day we all have fun doing what we're doing. I like to rollerblade mostly but I also like to snowboard, ski, surf its all fun. The hate is just infintile.
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Skateboarding became what it hated mainstream and there biggest brand supreme are sellouts. Now rollerblading is considered underground and Skateboarding is just butt hurt hahahahaha
When I'm doing tricks at a skatepark, skateboarders often say what I'm doing looks cool or looks hard. I reply that what they're doing also looks cool and looks hard. It's mutual respect.
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30 years later. Just got called fruitbooter by a 300 pound man in a nursing home wearing Marvel x DC shoes.
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The 1000x trick equivalency had me in stitches man, well played.
Cheers pal
Skateboarding is not that hard if dogs can do it
But when I hear boarders talking about bladers, that just makes me want to focus more on blading. Why be mainstream? Boarding is way too popular atm tbh
But when i hear bladers taking a piss on skateboarding, it equally annoys me. It's like group up. Do what you like. If you're over 20, why you worried about image so much. That's high school. Do what you like to do for fun, not for fashion
I love when they say name a famous roller blader and all I can think is ask a non skateboarder to name a famous skateboarder that is not Tony Hawk.
They would tell you Bam, or Rob Dyrdek. Some may even name Ryan Scheckler.
“Chip chip Cheerio, you tart.”
Fantastic.
Haha coupe of amazing ones in there. BRITISH TART
I can imagine these angry commenters are the folks who stand on the edge of a bowl at a skate park with their board, but don't actually skate it.
Skateboarding had a 20 year head start on rollerblading, it took 20 years before it became cool, respect for both
Killer video, super funny. And the original video you made was amazing too. I'd love to see a video from you Tom about some of the newer tricks in rollerblading that have been done for the first time in recent years.
Thank you 🙌🏻 yea could be a good idea
It's actually pretty depressing that these kind of attitudes still exist in 2023. As someone who rollerblades, skateboards, BMXs & MTBs and loves them all, it seems utterly absurd to me to be so fired up about how some chooses to use wheels. Bizarre and sad.
Anyone in any of those sports that I've spoken to IRL always agrees - it's not about how good you are what you're doing - just whether or not you're having fun. This is the mindset that sets these "sports" (although I consider them all more performance art) apart from traditional sports.
It's literally the reason I got into rollerblading as a kid back in the 90's. I hated sports at school for that very reason. I hated the jock mentality of traditional sports and all the bullshit competition.
Why I started rollerblading and then skateboarding was that to me they were free (as in freedom) sports. I guarantee most of the people writing this childish bullshit haven't actually given anything of themselves to these activities/lifestyles, because if they had they'd realize that the whole point of the dance is the dance itself.
To quote Alan Watts - "it was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing and dance whilst the music played". If that makes me gay then fuck yeah - sign me up to next years parade. I'll wear that tag with pride bitch!
I just keep picturing dudes at parks spending an hour trying to kick flip and throwing their board every few attempts
Then they switch to rollerblades
@@juanchotpee2 I'm pretty sure all the hate started from someone who said it was easy then slid out on a frontside
What's sad about all of this is that the extreme wheel sports are all very niche and struggling to grow, possibly dying in some places. To the mainstream, we're a group of unsociable punks who break shit and make the place look untidy. We need to realize that we have more in common than differences, and work together to grow the sport and become more accepted by society so that the companies that make our equipment and run our skateparks can survive. Maybe it was our flirtation with mainstream because we were more accessible that made so many skateboarders angry? Calling people gay for spurious reasons was barely acceptable in the 90s / 00s and it's unacceptable now. Skateboarding needs to clean house and I'd like to see some major names speaking up against it. I'm proud that most bladers I see getting abuse take it pretty well and make the put downs clinical without being personal. Maybe it's because most of us are older and have the perspective?
Tom, I'd love to see a video on how to bring blading, skateboarding, BMXing etc closer together for the benefit of us all. Hit me if you want to brainstorm.
Any hate comes from a small few that you can probably find anywhere if you look for it. I don’t think anything needs to be done to bring them together really, it happens quite naturally these days. Big events together are always good for spectators.
This whole conversational controversy makes me think of this quote:
“When you understand that every opinion is a vision loaded with personal history, you will begin to see that every judgement is a confession.”
It really applies here imo. The conversation of people being less for liking a specific hobby is absolutely insane and childish. And it says a lot about adults who are willing to put other people down for not liking the same skate style or whatever.
Also, these people are such an insignificant minority. Maybe not so much in the past, but today.. definitely. I don’t think it’s really even worth mentioning anymore. Most of us who were skating in the 80s and 90s are too old to care about “beef”. And the younger generation of today isn’t even fully aware that said beef ever existed. Like.. I just wanna skate and I want skating in all forms to live and thrive.
I was quad skating through elementary and Jr High, rollerblading *and* skateboarding in high school, back to quads and urban inline through my twenties. Picked up ice skating in the late twenties and now figure skating in my thirties.. I’ve made so many great friends from all the different groups, and my growth as a skater has sped up in each discipline the more I branch out into new ones. There’s something to learn from every bit of it.
That's a fantastic quote! Really makes it clear how this brand of keyboard warrior is steeped in toxic masculinity and showing their insecurity.
I started skateboarding in the early to mid 90’s at about 10yrs old and had lots of fun, and about 95-96 I started aggressive in-line skating and fell in love with this sport and culture and had my best friends all trash talking me just as you are saying in this video because they were skateboarders and the funny thing is I got most of my skateboarding friends to switch to rollerblading and we continued aggressive in-line skating into the early 2000’s. This is a good video that reminds me of so many good memories from when I was younger skating. Thanks
My pleasure 🙌🏻
As the brother of one of the early pioneer aggressive in-line skaters Jim Trimble who was on team Rollerblade with Chris Edwards, I can confirm that Jim first tried skateboarding, before he got into Rollerblading. Jim just wasn't progressing real well in skateboarding like I and our other brother was.
We all Rollerskated and skateboarded before in-line skates hit the market. We all also snowboard and did pretty well at that too. Although I was a top champion Freestyle skateboarder, and a street skater, I skated in-line skates ocassionally with Jim and Chris Edwards at the Escondido California 'Fern' vert ramp in Ken's backyard.
I've skated plenty of vert on a skateboard too, and I got to say that riding Rollerblades on a vert ramp was way sketchier for me and felt unnatural. That's all because the stance is different, and in-line skates go much faster.
Both skateboarding and Rollerblading have different types of difficulty that are going to be foreign to one another. There's something out there for everyone.
By the way, Tony Hawk skated plenty of demos with team Rollerblade when vert skateboarding was dead. Being a paid guest in their shows, got him through some difficult financial times. My brother had a professional photoshoot Rollerblading at Tony Hawk's Fallbrook vert ramp once in the early 1990s. That was cool, because I got to skate a mini ramp warm up session with Tony for about 10 minutes. If Tony hadn't allowed Rollerbladers to skate his ramp, I may not have had another opportunity to skate with him at his home ramp in Fallbrook.
Yeah rollerblading is hard but...... can I just take 5 paragraphs to tell you how awesome I used to be 😂
@@greycityroller8167your overexaggerated jealous criticism clearly shows, even though you try disguising it as a joke.
There's nothing wrong with sharing a bit of one's own history, and it's a shame you don't know how to just be happy and supportive toward others, instead tearing them down.
Get out there and do something positive instead if making disparaging comments toward others.
Guarantee the deeper they go down the rollerblading is easy or rollerblading is gay path, the more of a poser skateboarder they will be...
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Trolling trolls is great content, I very much enjoyed this one!
I skate solo every other day and I have love for most of my locals. I'm out here making spots with boarders and hanging out with BMX. There are more rollerskaters at the parks in LA than bladers. so when I watch toms reel, I could only cringe. He's not being bullied- he said something rude and inflammatory in public. He's prob gonna do it again too, because it's boosting his engagement.
@wingdingdmetrius8025 haha eh what? I don’t think I’m being bullied and I didn’t say anything mean 🤦🏼♂️ that’s one of the main points - the people who are vexed by the reel have completely misconstrued what was said and clearly didn’t read the description. It looks like you have as well. As far as engagement, I’ve had far more doing my normal vids 🫡
Ha just reading the comments, gotta get a laugh out of these things hey
@@wingdingdmetrius8025you make a fair point, the title of this video is, in itself troll bait. I don't feel the original video had any bad intentions though, but yeah engagement is king on social media, and I did find Tom's take on the IG comments hilarious. I think in the real world, certainly at the parks I frequent, the vibe is more "wheeled community" and there's literally no negativity between the different disciplines which is obviously the way forward.
@@TomMoyse I appreciate that you always reply
I remember one time at the skatepark, a skateboarder broke his board in half. One of my friends who blades jokingly asked to have a go on one half of the broken board and was doing 'manuals' and 'nose manuals' effortlessly across the entire skatepark. The skateboarders were so pissed off 😂
Trucks under a board come from boot rollers ask Dogtown... 🤔
Yea chatted about that in the other vid. Same company brand of skate the Olsen Brother found was the same brand that supplied the first trucks - Chicago Skates
@TomMoyse knowledge everyone can use 🤔👆
I can't believe skateboarders are still throwing around gay comments. Especially considering that there are gay skateboarders out there.
Yea I reckon you can probably find Wollys all over the place, seems like a fair few in them commmets though haha
I'm so glad ol' spotty boy finally found out that the wood pushers do in fact, still hate us. I for one will on some good strong skatepark fights.
Can't wait to see this. Very interested to see if there's sound points for argument. Il watch tomorow and update. Keep it going this is the type of content that's great.
This one is a very light take on their comments 🙌🏻
@TomMoyse a good view with coffee this morning. Same bad attitudes as ever, although to be fair since starting skating again never had an issue with skateboarders or bmx both groups have been decent enough. Keyboard warriors however...
This from the same people trying to grind the last 6 inches of a ledge and complaining about wax.
Thanks for video, never seen those crazy footages before. What I really like about rollerblading compared to other sports is that we have SO MANY ways to enjoy it (speed, fitness, slalom, agressive, wizard skating etc)
Glad you enjoyed it!
I loved this video! As a kid, in the 80s & 90s, I skateboarded, I rollerbladed, I BMX'd... I've only recently been made aware that there was beef. No one has ever said anything to me at a skatepark with a board or blades....or an RC car. 🤷🏾♂️
Great vid mate. So many dumb arguments that people have been trying to make for decades.
1. It's too easy! - Easier than Boarding to pick up the basics yeah but there's no ceiling in Action Sports, no final boss, it can be as easy or as hard as you want it to be. Plus I learned to ride a bike when I was 4, doesn't mean I'd call the crazy shit people do on a BMX easy
2. [Insert big spin/flip/rail] would be harder on a skateboard. - Similar to point 1, this may be valid provided we're only ever talking about the same tricks but as you pointed out Bladers are doing bigger spins/flips/grinds and until people are matching them on a Board, the perceived difficulty is a moot point. You may as well say Ït would be even harder in a Shopping Trolley.
3. Grow up/ be a man and get a Board - Mate! Take a look at yourselves, we're all riding toys. Trust me 99% of the Population doesn't think any of the shit we do is grown up or a "Man's" sport.
4. It's gay. - Still the same homophobic shit. I'm sure there's plenty of Gay Rollerbladers, cool. good luck to them. Shit attitudes like that from talentless clowns is what made life so tough for Pro Boarders like Brian Anderson.
Just do your own thing yeah. I've seen awesome shit on Blades, Boards, Scooters and BMX but I'm not going to respect or ask for respect from some knob ends who hates because they think their "toys"are cooler than mine.
hahahaha "cliff bar", that guy was out for blood
Haha he went in
Do a tru spin top soul lol. Love that
Ahah it’s all a bit silly ain’t it
It's hilarious to still see this type of hate in 2023
I suppose all these people who say rollerblading is easier because they are (“literally”) strapped to your feet, have the same issue with snowboarding right? I don’t think so… “FLIP IT! FLIIIIIIPPPPP IIIIITTTTT”
Rollerblading definitely does go bigger than skateboarding. A couple of my frinds I skated with in highschool were also really into inline and I was blown away by the handrails and gaps they would do. Like I'm over here trying to heelflip a 3 stair and they are over there grinding this like 30 stair rail with 4 kinks in it. That stuff was crazy to see in person.
I skateboarded most of my life (40 now) and aggressive skated for 2 years off and on including getting back into it recently. They are both their own thing but it is ridiculous for a skateboarder who hasn't tried aggressive skating to think it is gay. With blading, you cant kick the board out and run away (as I see most people doing 80% of the time at the park). From the moment you jump, those wheels on your feet aren't going anywhere and you better be 100% committed or you are going to eat some serious shit. THAT takes balls. In the 2 months I've been back on blades after a ~15 year off time, I have taken some of the hardest slams in that timeframe and I was doing some serious skateboarding then for my 30s.
The detriment of skateboarding going mainstream is that even more of the poser simulation bots
That clip of Leading The Blind made me go look up Pat Lennen’s part to see it again lol. To this day it’s still some of the best skating I’ve ever seen.
It’s incredible
Difficulty arguments don't interest me. I skate because it's fun.
But also, dudes in my school were "skateboarders," yet couldn't ollie or ride a skateboard downhill and they'd make fun of of me for inline skating.
"so you picked skateboarding instead of, say, becoming a chemical engineer?"
I actually guffawed. Guffawed! I didn't even know I could do that! I assumed guffawing was just some daft synonym people used to sound smart, but it's actually a whole different type of laugh. And you showed me how. Thank you.
I wish someone would do a video where they go to parks with a pair of xsjados so people can just step in them with their shoes and strap them on and let boarders try them, have them ride down ramps, try grinds, etc. just have a video of watching people crashing in the ground and be like okay now do you still think it's that easy
Blading is cool but there’s no way they have ever gone bigger than skateboarders
Nice Craig David drop, respect and subscribed
Any excuse to sneak in 7 Days
Top draw as always fella 😂😂loved that you've just taken the mick out of the stupid comments. 😂😂
Got to have a laugh about these things
I skateboard and I like rollerblading and I’ll tell you why. Growing up in the 80s it was underground and hated. We got called gay and would get in fights. This is history repeating itself, and a part of me misses skateboarding being underground. When I’d work at Woodward the rollerbladers were the coolest to be around
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You did it AGAIN!! My wife showed me that meme not long ago and now I reference it weekly. And again you put it back out there. Every week im talking about something non blading related you bring it up too. I swear we are related. Beyond the boots.
Haha
I always had a blast rollerblading, I just genuinely liked skateboarding more. I found it so uncomfortable to wear skates for a long time and you had no break from them without the hassle of taking them off. With a skateboard you just step off, chill, hop back on. People don't talk about that aspect enough.
That being said I LOVED peoples' reactions, especially my fellow skateboarders when I would rollerblade. At that time (2000 ish), fruit booters were the real outcasts and rebels. That's honestly what I liked about it. People would want to fight me and being the little instigator thrill seeker I was, I would just be gleeful on the inside watching losers melt down over something so silly. No one would just stop and ask, "Wait, does this really matter?"
Stairbash loves you Tom .. 💪🏽💪🏽
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we definitely had something to prove back in the day. funny people still hold on to that hate though…i grew up dirt jumping, blading & skateboarding too. they each have their own strengths, challenges, styles & draw. blading spoke to me most, why should you care? do what you love & bury the hate.
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"They're Attached to Your Feet" as if that really makes it easier.. by that logic snowboarding, skiing, & wakeboarding is easy too. sure being strapped in makes it easier to get the wheels off the ground, but it also forces you to commit more. because unlike a skate board you can't just jump off your skates.
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I lost my shit at the 0:32 jump cut.🤣🤣🤣
Thanks me old mucker, had a good laugh at this one! Always nice watching Rollerbladings No.1 British Tart 😂
Haha my pleasure
The fact you need to make a video justifying rollerblading, is very telling
Not sure me laughing about being called a British Tart justifies anything. The fact that’s what you took from the video is more telling of you.
Fun fact. Blading is cool. Its hip, ive been saying its the last bastion of action sports. All of the others have gone damn near mainstream. Anyway. Im from Groton Newlondon Connecticut. A very well respected skateboarder actually talked me off the board and onto blades. Brian Anderson. He actually called em fruitboots early on too.
Blading was on a rise and those who apposed mocked it and shut it down. I did both board and blade. Yes, I agree boarding is difficult, that’s why I chose blading. It’s much more fun, travel further with ease. Imaging learning a new trick once a week vs once a month or up to a year for a single trick
I wanna see one of those "in one week" skateboarders do a single thing that Takeshi Yasutoko can do 🤣
Hahah
Just here to break the meta with this comment.
I first got into skateboarding (and I'm still into it), but for a couple of years, I did rollerblading (much later than when I started skateboarding).
I'll admit, it *is* a lot easier to learn grinds on blades than it is on a skateboard - But even then, both sports require completely different skillsets.
At first, it was awkward being strapped to your wheels and facing forwards. But you're not doing pro stuff in weeks. I rollerbladed for 2-ish years, and I was only jumping off ledges and doing various grinds on ledges. Nothing bigger than that. I was still better on a board than I was my blades.
Also; Rollerblading isn't gay. It takes some literal balls!
comment sections ruined the internet. i'm 42 years old and this makes me feel like I am 15 again. sad how the world has not ever changed ever.
That's a massive amount of interaction for a piece of content, gotea be thrilled for thw visibility. The 3k set killed me BTW. 💀
I'm not too bothered about the interaction/visibility on that one. I'm pleased with the full video and I think that section i used in the reel was a valid point (when taken how it's intended) but it seems this was pushed by engagement from people who wildly missed the point. It takes the shine off it. I'm glad I've had other videos that have seen higher views and engagement for the right reasons. It reach a few more rollerbladers is good though.
18:24 I'm right here once rollerblading gets kicked out of winterclash. The council will be not happy...
sad to see level of maturity, grew old but never grew up. here we are in 2023 still this much hate. keep doing what you love, bladers!
Skateboarding is dead
The only people still sticking with it who haven't ended up being pro level are idiots like me who were sold it aggressively as youths and fell in love
Everyone else is realising there is no future for it really, with all the gatekeeping,
And there's also no point in putting the effort in to get to the point where you CAN 360 flip unless you become literally addicted like I did.
We are the guys who were sold to, there's nothing left for us, but people sitting here screaming "skating is the best" but not skateboarding at all
Either inlines or the board, they're both difficult at those extremes, hats off to both masters. Just want to share the skate park and have some fun. We're both outnumbered sometimes 10 to 1 by kids on scooters when schools out, yet no neg comments against them, which is good cause most are just kids - better outdoors pumping some O2 then not.
🙌🏻. Scooter kids get loads of hate, it’s not leaked into American popular culture (I don’t believe) but I’ve seen plenty of videos ragging on them. It’s a shame
Yea but the difference is,
WE DONT BAIL
Full commitment
For real though, Ive definitely heard some "*this* n###a" type comments, only to continue to be respectful/aware/in park etiquette, and they were all being really cool with me by the end of it. I agree that this is the goofiest action sport upon entry level, but it gets really cool at the hogher echelon, and I really wish we could all be friends :(
I've never figured out how sports so dedicated to self-expression, bucking the mainstream, and being earnest harbors so much homophobia, especially still in today's climate. The boarders I meet at the park are mostly chill and hype up everyone. The commenters are just painful.
I think the majority will be sound people, it’s just a vocal online minority that are like this.
Maybe the guy who says he rollerbladed for a night lives in northern Finland and his night lasts for months. 🤔
Haha
when i was a teenager i used to skate with a couple skateboarders. one of them would always give me shit about "its way easier than skateboarding because it's attached to your feet" and "literally anyone can do that." one day i handed him my skates and was like "ok fine, here. you do it." dude couldn't even walk in them. tried to jump, got maybe a couple inches off the pavement and fell on his face. never said shit to me about it again 😂
Unfortunately a majority of skateboarders and people online are forever stuck in 2001.
Very childish but it is what it is. Still love to skateboard and blade all wheels!
If you have wheels attached to your feet, it makes it super risky to bail. When you are on a skateboard you can just ditch the board mid jump. I've skateboarded for almost 20 years now and I can tell you i'd rather bail on a skateboard any day than to bail on roller blades.
yep, you're fully committed on the skates haha
@@TomMoyse Thank you for all the entertainment btw. The videos are good and you show some extremely gnarly footage.
@@notmychannelname42 cheers mate. I appreciate that. 🙌🏻
Ahhhh the power of groupthink strikes again
Im a former wood pusher of 12yrs and a new blader with a month exp and I gotta say. Blading takes waay more skill,it's cooler, and it's waaaaay more ballsier! The fact that blades are strapped to your feet is what makes it more challenging and dangerous! With a board you can safely bail at anytime but with blades *you can not back out* it's do or DIE 😂. The falls and slams i can confirm are harder too as a result! Ive never been so scraped and scuffed up in my life until started blading,meanwhile you got skateboarders looking all clean and pretty just to do their sport, rolling past you flipping their hair with brand new vans on,with painted finger nails, god im so glad i made the switch 😂
I confess I used to believe blading was "gay" and some how easier but the me now regrets that mind set. Blading is *superior* and I wasted all that time with a board when I could've spent it on blades! 😩 I have seen the light!
Man if Rob Thomson wasn't injured my God his section would have been insane!
Yeah, well in. What madness!
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We are just playing with toys, people take it too seriously.
Haha yep, if people just take a step bank it’s a bit bananas.
I've been seeing the same comments since I created my social media account 😅Haters (mainly skateboarders) should be more creative. It's getting boring
Hahaha it just too easy to get under your skin.. 😂☠️ fruit anything.. and you’ll get a reaction 😂☠️
@@b0cm0bbin31 It's also just too easy to get people like you triggered. We just show up.
@@DatBoiAntix triggered.? I have no emotion invested in this convo.. we just talking 😂☠️
@@b0cm0bbin31deffo triggered 😂
@@that_which_is_not triggered is a little far reach… I could care less.. just sharing my opinion.. didn’t think it would put so many panties into a bunch.. if anything you seem triggered.. x games kicked your sport out.. every in the 90 thought it was gay… do I think it gay.. not inline.. quad hell ya 😂☠️ so idk why you so butthurt 😂☠️
Tom keep up the good work top video
Thanks, will do!
According to the "attach to your feet" argument, free running should be super easy then?
Exactly that
I've been skateboarding for 25 years. Used to blade two years alongside of it when I was young but quit just because our park and streets were not that good for blading back then. I've been trying to get a used pair just for nostalgia reasons but I couldn't so I pulled the trigger and ordered pair of new M12s LOs!
I understand and believe the video referenced in this one. This whole after-conversation seems so silly to me. Yes, it took me a bit more time to learn 5050 on skateboard than it did to learn a soul grind on blades and so what? If I, for some reason, wanted to match the difficulty I would do a harder grind with blades. But I do it just for fun. Way past the point of caring what others think.
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I only think, why skatepark created by skateboard are so boring, everything is a stupid flat surface even in fun box.
Great Video Tom!
Cheers
I had no idea the hate was still so prevelant, its really pathetic honestly
It’s just a small group I reckon. There is defo a lot more skateboarders out there that don’t care and are just normal people
It's kinda mad how rollerblading seems to be the one thing that is still socially acceptable to use gay as an insult.
The kick flip comment makes me laugh considering there’s actual footage of someone just handing Haffey a board and him just doing it. Pretty sure I’ve seen both Broskow and Montre do the same thing. Granted they might have had previous practice, but come on haha
This seem like the perfect time for Braille to make another Worlds Best Roller Bladers. Those guys get it
Never watched Braille properly, but it’s good exposure
@@TomMoyse as a skateboarder who picked u cool rollerblades this spring. It’s kept the hype up and it is great to see the two sports collab
@@Metroknomesick 🙌🏻
Its a shame we still have to deal with stuff like this, i had a group of skateboarders recently cutting in front of me on purpose, these were guys in there 30s, people fucking suck.
No hate at my local park. I’m basically the only blader in town too, but I do hear about another guy around. I skate with everyone too. Bmx’s, scooters, skateboarders, roller skaters. I feel like I’m the one bridging the gap between all the disciplines. But also my park has changed a lot. Everyone is cool with everyone but I do hear the occassional scooter hate. I wear every pad imagineable and a mouthguard and no one gives me shit because they cant skate like I can. Only the bmxer’s can ride the bowl bigger than me.
I think for a lot of people it’s a similar-ish experience. People have grown up. There are however still an abundance of dullards out there.
Past proves that skateboarders were just insecure people.
Haters gon hate, we gon practice what we preach, coz when you blade you never fade, amen!