This is incredible... You a whole black skate culture historian! It blew my mind, sad to think that some styles and story's are literally lost after time! But we need this! Not just for entertainment or education but to document🙌🏾
Yoooo isn't it I loved learning skate history as a new skater who wants to be a rhythm skater I don't have the upper body strength for jam breakdancing
Thank you Brother! As a professional DJ who use to skate and DJ in a rink as a teen I am returning to skating at 55! This is priceless and I will continue to follow you!
i'm a super beginner skater from australia and this is the first video i've seen actually begin to break down the history and culture of skating, and it's helped me realise how rich it all is - thank you for educating!
I have been skating in Australia for 30 years, and we do not have such a rich history and diversity of skating at the rink. I am so jealous! So wanted to go to the US to experience their rink culture, because ours was pretty basic. Just "the regulars" with their own skates, and the newbies in the cripple boots! And experienced speed skaters. The only dancing we ever did was the Nutbush in the centre!
NO, NO, NO! You're "history" is blatantly wrong. There are only two types of skating: Black skating and White skating. The terms "Rhythm" and "Jam" were coined by White people, just like White people coined "Rock and Roll," as the White version of "Rhythm and Blues." Or, just like "Disco" is the White version of "Soul." Sadly, you're too young to know better. Black people have "always" been dancing on skates!!! Even before Bill Butler got credit or took credit for what and how Black people were skating during "Black" night at segregated roller rinks, "Black adult skating" have always skated to the popular music of Black people, from generation to generation, which my father and mother did back during the 1940s; from Count Bassie to Chuck Berry to James Brown to Michael Jackson to DJQuik, etc.. Know your history, Dunbar. "Jam Skating" is yet another effort of White people to put a label on or to re-define Black history (th-cam.com/video/q5owydk9FS8/w-d-xo.html).
I've took on the lifestyle of skating this year and I just bought own pair of skates! After 10+ years of not skating, I was really shaky getting back on the rink floor, but I'm really looking forward to wholly embracing skate culture. This video was eye-opening, and I absorbed your teachings with a student's mind. Thank you for keeping us informed!
@@DukefrmNine2 I've been documenting my progress here and there on Instagram and a bit on Tik Tok. My skating activities as of late have been bombing slopes on park trails and getting some mileage of fitness on a weekly basis. I do miss dancing in the skating rinks, but there's more I'd like to explore. My next thing is skate parks, and getting a block installment on some 8's.
I made a mistake in the video. Jam skates generally have double action plates. The difference in balance comes from the heel not the plates action. My apologies for the confusion.
So jealous of your rink culture, in all the different areas. In Australia, we never developed such a rich history. We just rolled around the rinks endlessly. Still have lifelong friends from there (been skating for 30 years) but it was a social gathering and we just happened to have skates on. Not much dancing/jam/rhythm or anything! Thank you for your passion and for sharing the history. Can't wait to be able to travel again and come and visit a rink in the US.
I'm a Clevelender and my dad was one of the smoothest rhythm skaters. He used to take us to skate and I would just sit and watch the groups get down. We moved to Tulsa, Ok and nobody was rhythm or jam skating anywhere.
I'm an Ex-skater now senior and have never realized that a lot of rhythm skate moves are actually originated from separate cultural styles from different parts of the country. Good lesson in the history of roller skating!
Awesome information!!! I love ur enthusiasm for the skate culture movement. I've been skating since 1969, but I've been sick for the last 20 yrs & no longer can physically participate. I'm excited to know that there are ppl like U out there that are keeping this spirit alive & advancing it into the future. I'm so glad that I found ur channel & can watch from home. Bravo!!!!!! Much love & have fun out there!!! 🙏 ♥
Loved the in depth explanation, between the two! Totally makes sense to me. I am a trained figure ice skater. I started with roller skating in the lower 48, until I moved up to Alaska, where I started ice skating. I have a hard time wearing low cut skates, even when I was a child in the 70s. I gotta have ankle support. I used to always prefer wearing high top shoes, back in the day. Anyway, back to your in depth review... I used to do old school break dancing, not on wheels, so I get what you're saying. I never break dance on the ice, so I know coming back to roller skating, I'm just staying with rythm skating or figure roller skating, especially with my age. . I can't get down like I did in the 70s and 80s!
Your videos are so helpful! I was inspired to start skating when I saw videos of our black skate culture and I was in awe and felt such pride at seeing us come together without drama. I'm so glad to see at least one of us sharing the knowledge. I was wondering where all the black skaters were on youtube if it was such a big thing for us. I appreciate you and your effort to make these videos. Stay safe out there🙂
Thank you for this history! I started skating in So Cal in rinks (yes they played organ music interspersed with some 70's hits) and on the boardwalk and then really polished my style in Flint, MI where I was an artistic skater and rink skater, skating at least 3 times a week. Still skating!
Thank you!! JAMMIN’! Grew up skating in NYC in early 80s. For me, it was going around the perimeter of the rink, fast, furious with bounce & rhythm to the music. Breakdancing boyfriend spent time in the middle of the rink. Never ‘learned’ footwork the way people are watching videos and taking classes now. 🙄😂 It all came naturally back in the day. #BoogieDownBronx 🙌🏾
THIS VIDEO IS EVERYTHING. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'm in my first year of skating and have picked up on some of the different rhythm skating styles, but like... The map! You're doing a series on it?? OMG. THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU lol seriously. Also, phew that I've not been totally off base in how I discern jam vs rhythm haha
Thank you for breaking it down for this old school bouncer. Who has once, ... skated to a pipe organ ~ old dude in the box, way up high, tickling the ivorys. I needed that. Jam skates to buy.
I bought my fiancé skates five months ago, and they just came in. We went skating last night (my first time) and I had a blast. Time for my first pair of skates! Now I find this skate professor. I love the knowledge, experience and the way you communicate the history.
This is a great video. I can’t wait to immerse myself in the culture and the history behind each style. I’m one of those that started skating this year and as much as I enjoyed just learning new “moves” it got stale pretty quick. I always knew skating has had such a rich history and this video is perfect to start from. I hope in my studies to find a style I can really dive deep into and find that soul that I can’t seem to find from just doing “cool moves”. Thank you :)
That's a great observation. The popular marketing moves are like 7 moves pulled from the style. They were not meant to be practiced the way people teach "trick to trick" and they don't function well outside a style. It's a lot buying the accessories for a toy but not getting the toy lol.
So glad I stumbled on this. Really love your passion and way you broke everything down. I hope I can get to visit one of the legendary places you mentioned one day. Reminds me (a little) of the Afro-latin dance scene. I am looking to dance on skates (I guess rhythm skate) and so it's great to find someone who has the background knowledge / deep experience.
You are amazing! Such a good teacher. I used to skate at branch brook park as a kid and just got back into rhythm at 28! Watching all of your videos 💗💗
My daughter found my skates, my sneaker skates and you can hearmthe rhythm, the music, the fun. As you Sankofa the history of this remember that we skated as a people, under a groove and there was no need to duck bullets, etc.when we did this outside. It was pure fun and unity with no animosity. Don't forget Sistas were skating with ya! It was like that at that time. Her scout troop went to a nice rink in Woodbridge, NJ and the mascot shook my hand because the skate guards on inlines couldn't keep up with me on quads. You just never forget this, never! I'll be 100 and still skating!
This is a MUCH needed video for anyone who wants to learn how to skate. He is SPOT on. I too, grew up as a Jam Skater, coming from NW Indiana, that was our style. When I moved to MD and started learning the "Snap" style (DC/MD style of skating), I had to change up EVERYTHING!!!! Had to change my skate boots and wheels. It is VERY hard to Snap with Jam boots and wide wheels. Had to change everything up to the high boots and smaller and harder wheels! I still have elements of Jam in my style now, as well as many other styles, which makes me unique. Guess that's why my skate name is "Enigma". I incorporate many different styles into how I skate (Jam, JB, Stride and Snapping). Bro, keep the vids coming!
I’m new to roller skating, I want to do rhythm skating and eventually have my own style. Thank you so much for giving us the history behind them, I subscribed!!
Just met Legendarion and he was so sweet! He was at my local rink and he was so kind to my husband and I. Would love to get lessons from him sometime. By the way, I love your videos! You’re the only one I’ve ever seen who’s clearly explained the difference between each style and why certain equipment is suited for each style. You’re amazing and talented, thank you!!!
Thank you so much for this. Wonderful metaphor with martial arts for understanding the fundamental difference before you get into the specifics (hot damn that knowledge!) of each type. Love this. So well done for creating understanding
Wow! I just learned a lot about skating 👀 I use to love skating as a child but never knew it had such a diverse culture surrounding it 🤩 Very helpful and formative watch! Subscribed!
Dope...been skating nearly 30 years so I know just about everything you dropped, but your breakdown is solid...I consider myself a rhythm roller, and always explain to people that its basically an umbrella term that covers various types...my style incorporates some JB and jam style footwork but I'm still learning so much about both...and watching some of these young cats I've been trying to add some of the stuff I see them doing...love how at the end you made it a point to emphasize that we've been here for 10, 20, 30+ years...while I love the embrace of skating by a new young (and older) community, skating has always been here...there was no need for a comeback becsuse it never left...I just hope it doesn't get watered down by the glitz and glam of social media and too many people not respecting and appreciating its rich history...good stuff, youngsta 👊🏾🔥🛼
It is already watered down. Watch a video if people shuffle skating- watered down jb. And looking at people from other ethnicities skating backwards at the beach is watered down than when you see an african american video backwards skating down the beach. The black girls are so much better but get less shine
Yes! Skating is alive!🛼 This was a great breakdown. It makes sense to know which style you skate before deciding on which skates to purchase. I'm in the process of transitioning out of a 172 OG boot and understand now I classify as a rhythm skater. I purchased the OG's because that's what was popular at the time. I have always felt limited to what I could do in my OG's because of the weight of the boot. The equipment is definitely different based on the type of skating you're doing. Thanks for the valuable information you shared in this video. 🛼👍🏾
I really enjoyed this video! Like some other comments have mentioned, I knew that skating has a lot of history and culture, but I didn’t realize all the distinctions and regional influences that are present. I’m excited to learn more about this sport/art that I am loving being part of.
I'm dropping another video today breaking down three of the styles. If you liked this, you're going to love that. Honestly I did this off the top of my head, but I spoke to several experts for this one
It's interesting how you bring up fighting. I do Brazilian jiu-jitsu and had to find a hobby to work on my muscle imbalances and skating sounded like a great idea. I appreciate the content!
Born & raised in Detroit I was skating at 6/7 it’s such a big part of the culture as a kid here.! Im definitely about to tap back into skating love the video.!
Been skating since I was 3 and now I am 55 and buddy you are spot on. Good job on the video... btw. I love my riddel Solaris sports. Cant wait to skate this weekend
Thank you for explaining! I'm new to skating and I got asked yesterday if I was a jam skater. I had no idea what it was but I'm glad I told them I don't know, because there's no way I could breakdance - let alone on skates. 😅😂
They were still roller skating to organ music in the 80’s at some places. Those old times could TEAR it up. The Fox Trot, the Rumba, the 14 step, the collegiate, there was a whole collection of partners dances. Bodies in the air. Pretty cool. This a a great video BTW.
Spot on. I started skating in the 80’s and grew up rhythm / dance skating. I lived on the outside. I still roll my hard top single hard candy plates and Schneider toe stops. I’m that old man that loves going but only get to go about two times a year. Ty for the history lesson.
Great content! I definitely was feeling some type of way seeing beginner tutorials by beginners. I’m a beginner skater myself but experienced in freestyle club dance movement for a long time and if you want to keep up movement like this as a long time hobby, it is a MUST to ingrain the basics in your body. The basics set up your body with a solid foundation of muscle memory that can minimize excess stress on your joints and limbs. As you progress through more difficult moves, you’ll end up having overall more control and strength because of those drills. Having to discover your knee and ankle pain is from improper alignment and weight distribution is no fun. 😭😭😭 If anything, practice basics for warmup (because warmup is also SUPER important) Since there’s a lot of new folxs entering a long existing space and culture, can you do a video on rink etiquette? With some area starting to reopen their rinks, more people will want to bring their skating indoors to jam or try it out because they couldn’t afford skates. I think it would be helpful for the community, old and new, so that we can have the same expectations when we are in the same space! Maybe topics like flow of traffic on the rink and areas with their terms. Or things to be aware of when skating at the rink vs skating at home or outdoors.
I am just seeing this. I have been considering getting back into putting the quads back on after decades (not competitive). Thank you for putting in the work, then sharing with the world. I grew up with JB style, in Chicago, back in the 70's/80's.
Thanks for this! I grew up in skatings, mostly shuffle skating with elements of some other styles thrown in. Never knew the names of the different styles until now. I just loved to skate and learned by watching others. Now in the UK and so miss proper skating rinks.
@@Dunbeezytv I used to skate outside in Hyde Park when I lived in London. There is a good group there. Now moved out of London, but we have a pop up rink at a local school at their gym. I take my son, which is fab. Love sharing my love of skating with him.
@@Dunbeezytv oh wow my man! I've been training and sparring for 9 months, here in the midwest of the US. I coach the kids class at my Thai gym. Much respect to you. My skate budget is about $200 my girlfriend is interested too. We wanna do the smooth stuff link arms sync our foot movement, skate backwards, the basics of from what you described I believe is rythem skating. Skatelyfe made a vid in 2019 on a how to pick beginners skates. th-cam.com/video/kLc17KwLDg0/w-d-xo.html Would this be good ☝️?
@@Zinksk8er Honestly "how to buy beginner skates" is a tag people use to get clicks. Most people not trying to spend over $200 on skates anyway. Skates at that price range are for beginner to intermediate skaters by design. The type of skates that take a higher level of skill to use cost around $500 and up. Honestly I'd watch for places with bad reps like Impala and avoid highly decorated boots personally. Leather over suede. Suede only looks good in the box. Suede gets this linty look as the boot ages and stains easily as well. Riedell , Vanilla > Trendy skate companies. I would also focus on understanding the equipment and your needs. For example, I would get more specific about which style you really wanted to do. Do you mean like STL Ballroom skating? I actually broke down some rhythm styles in my rhythm vs jam skate video. If you said a place you gravitated to, I could break down the equipment they use and really give you a package a person from there uses.
@@Dunbeezytv I believe I am to much of a novice to choose a style I'd prefer. I'm about 4 hours out from St. louis. I own a pair of fairly nice tri wheel rollerblades the wheels are extremely close together and 110mm tall. Mostly used for out door function, but I can move well in them, stop, skate backwards, the basic movement. I've also been skateboarding for 9 years as a bit of back ground, I'm adept to rolling movement. I definitely know that me and my girlfriend aren't seeking jam skating or any type of dancing in the middle of the rink. We are looking for a good skate in the $200 range and not much over, less is fine too. Something versatile that will probably be used for a few years including our beginner stages. That's probably the best I can describe it. Outdoor rinks are not even a thought.
If a move caught your eye and you think it's cool then that's enough. If you think it's cool, you'll do it. Since you're kinda close to St. Louis you can try it and see a lot of the other midwest techniques. You might think it's boring and try something new. I'd go with the Riedell Boost for $135. It comes with the 111 boot and jam plugs. I like the Boost over the Uptown $200 because you can use the extra $65 on the fixings. The way you lace your boot and the wheels you choose will take your style in a couple different ways. Since you're in the Midwest you're going to get a lot of that energy and you'll learn some different small changes that could take your skate to another place. The Boost gives you that quality and flexibility.
Thank you! I learned a lot from this video and it cleared a lot of things up for me. I like your analogy to martial arts at the start of the video. Thanks for sharing your experiences with jam skating. I'm excited to check the stuff on the map out! Keep up the good work!
I appreciate this, thank you! I've been skating for a little over 30 yrs but mainly a speed skater who can do a little jam. The history on the styles is something I didn't know. Appreciate you! 💜
This was ye best breakdown, I have been skating for mutiple years but when I was little it was all about speed now I’m into the moves. My skates ripped after a couple years and now I’m buying my first pair being grown now 20. This was the most helpful ever on what style is next for me to try
I’m only 10 minutes in but man this video is very good information as I came up in the jam skating era going to all the vanilla sponsored events. 10 years later , now I’m interested in learning to rhythm skate so that’s how I found your video. I do hate how JB skating was basically shunned in the jamskating community when it was huge 2010 era
I have a short attention span and so didn't expect to watch the whole video, however I couldn't stop watching! Thank you so much, this has really deepended my understanding of skating. I used to call myself a jam skater but for sure, I'm under the rhythm umbrella. I feel like history is in the making right now as we go through this recent boom, i.e.I'm from the UK and the fast backwards has been adopted so much in the London scene when people "chop", with a whole new style in the making. Even so, there's a scene developing in Cardiff. Hopefully this knowledge will be exported as well as the moves so we understand our history. Fascinating!
Just got into quad skating a month ago so really appreciate the history and insight, got into because of dips and toe spins so now I’m trying to learn how to do footwork like usher and I ain’t a dancer
INTENSE!! Informative.....I can see you teaching with a taser....But when all is said and done they will know da style lingo & history.... GOOD JOB!!! Ole Brooklyn 1978 Empire Roller Ring here...
Thank you for this video! Super informative and I can feel your passion and dedication. Cultural significance and nuance is too often overlooked when things are dragged into the mainstream.
OMG, thanks so much for making this video and pointing out at the end that 'jam skating' and 'jammin' is not the same! I was so confused about that (because of jam plugs I used to think that any type of dancing on skates while cruising around the rink was called jam skating).
In the early 1980s, I used to watch a small group of guys at SpinEasy in Upper Manhattan, right across the Harlem River from the neighborhood where Bronx hip-hop started. There were like six or seven guys who were incredibly talented. And one child, a daughter of the owner of the rink. In a precursor to your special boots, the guys used to skate with their boot shafts unlaced, the foot of the boots only loosely laced, the toe stops replaced with plugs, and the wheels replaced with narrower width wheels. The club was not flashy. Black or dark-blue jeans with low rises, cutoff sweatshirts, club-branded t's, and in summer because the a/c wasn't always strong enough, painter pants, the only bright articles of clothing. Even for women. Everything was keyed to those boots. Black, sturdy, like a skater's version of a ballet shoe. Not in looks, but in the freedom they gave a skater's feet and body. All the guys who skated well were skate guards at the club. A very gritty scene. Replaced after about two years by the influx of hip-hop battles from across the river, and hip-hop and rap ended up taking over the club about a year later. It is now a church. I still remember Luther Vandross's Never Too Much, and how the guys skated to it. I realize from watching your video that they were doing an early sort of jam skating. When they were guarding, and skating to a song on the outside as part of their work, they threw a lot of wobble footed stuff in there, which defined their style. When they were taking a break, when the rink was on a break, and they were in the middle exploring their art, they were approaching the edges of doing break dancing on skates. Lol, I'm editing as I watch your video. I just got to the segment that demonstrates shuffling or trucking, and hey, that's part of what they were doing, all wobble-footed in their loose-laced skates! I love it! Thank you. I haven't seen that in years lol. Trucking to Never Too Much. and using a trucking stance when they skated backwards in couples with their gf's. Ooo, the power and intelligence of their movement skills was amazing.
This is the part of jam skating that I really need to mention more. I feel like I draw the line in the sand so hard as a reaction to everything that's going on that I don't stop and really break down the history of jam skating before it got the name.
thank you for this video and history lesson ❤ I tried indoor skating for the first time and fell in love by watching other people dance around too. This video helped me in deciding which skates is best because I was really confused at first seeing how different outdoor skating is too. I am eyeing to get artistic skate shoes and hopefully learn some rhythm 😊
Thank you for this. Detailed, informative, not opinion based, just amazing history and facts that I believe taught a lot of us something new. ❤🖤💚 you know what I mean.
Wow, what a treasure trove of information! Thank you for being a historian and a teacher for these beautiful arts. Your passion is contagious... I don't even dance skate, but I was glued to the video the whole way through.
Excellent research Sir!! Top Notch.. This presentation showcases the fact YOU are, a Master at your craft. The Art of Skating ... It Truly is an ART! Thank You so MUCH!!
Thank you for making this! I just got into skating last year, as many did, and it's clear the sport has been defined by African American culture. It's a bummer to see so many people skating without knowing where all the sick moves come from. I just subscribed to your channel! Hoping to learn more about roller skating history. (Didn't know about the regional differences til now!)
Yep, the styles differ by region. I'm from Jersey so we rhythm skate to house music (club music). Everything is about putting a lot of different difficult moves together into a routine on an uptempo beat. Nothing is choreographed. We also move in a zigzag type way down the skate floor, not in a straight line. Our style is about movement and agility, and being able to maneuver around people and through crowds without falling or hitting others. I recently moved to Maryland and they skate nothing like this here. The music is slower and they are into what they call snapping. I'm kind of the anomaly out there but I do what I do.
This needs to be an Olympic sport! My daughter skates on ice and she wanted to get this vibe in her program. She’ll be watching more of your channel. Thank you so much for your insights and content. You’re such an amazing athlete and artist!
Wow! I truly and authentically take my HAT off to you, young man! I am 58 years old. I will be 59 in January. I've been rollerskating since 1980, and, I gotta admit.......I never knew the difference between "Jam Skaters", and "Rhythm Skating"!!! I've never even heard the TERM in the skate community, neither INDOOR, nor OUTDOOR! I actually found out (or SAW) the two terms on Rollerskate sites that SELL skates....SEEING the terms....But, NOT knowing........just SEEING the two terms in the buy section! So... THANK YOU for breaking this valuable information so eloquently! Wow! You could actually be a teacher! You got STR8 to the point, without rambling for the first 10 min of your video, which so many people are GUILTY of!!!! (Believe me.. I am impatient. I've ended many videos that I thought I was really interested in,, primarily due to long,, drawn out rambling in the beginning, instead of getting RIGHT INTO IT). You were clear, and concise! Again. Hats off to you, young man! I applaud you! P.S. Unlike most other TH-cam radio, I'm clicking "Like", and following you, after watching your first video! I look forward to expanding my information base, given the wealth of information that I'm sure that you posess!Btw... Prior to this post, I wrote a whole paragraph (in what I thought was "educating" you about "Bill 'Jamma' Butler", only to find out that you touched pretty accurately and extensively about the man, the legend, my hero..... So, I went back and deleted it!!!😂😂😂💯💯💯 #Salute. #Rollerskate2021 #CatchMeOnAHighwayNearYou
I am nearly 70, I have been skating since 4 yo. We were rhythm skating back then. And you are right about the equipment differences. I started losing balance so had to step down to toe stopper again. Really hampers my style. So glad you guys are keeping these gifts alive.😂
Thank you so much! I knew a little bit of the skating history from a cultural point of view, but about the styles and techniques.... WOW! I really need to study the history now. THANKS!!!!
Thank you Soooo much for this vid and breaking down the different Skating styles.....I'm originally from Park Circle Roller Rink in Brooklyn from the 1970'a where we transformed the Traditional Classic Rink "Organ playing Music" and of course started playing Disco and house music in the NYC Rinks...the thing caught on and other rinks followed suit... ....Empire Roller Rink did the Same as well as the introduction of outdoor Disco Roller Skating in NYC Central Park....and Brooklyn's LOLA roller rink in Coney Island Brooklyn, and Skate Key rink in the Bronx...there's a lot of ofther places in NYC that had their own claim to fame ....these were mine...Thanks again, and Kepp On Bounce, Rock Roll, Skate.!...!
I own a Muay Thai gym in Miami and I recently started skating again. Just ordered some Riddell’s and was just watching your video and you caught me of guard with the “Sawadee krap” opening...lol I had to see if I heard you right. Great content. Subscribed!
Thank you for making this video, it's very educational! I have been skating pretty much daily just over ten years, I'm a skate coach and professional performer.... but my issue is, I wanna do EVERYTHINGGG lol. I started off with figure skating style but I pretty quickly started picking up other styles so I could skate to the music at the rink. People at my rink are used to seeing me do all sorts of styles but I imagine some folks would think I'm weird lol. But I just love it all, I love every skate style and I have this need to learn it all. Where I live, there's no real set regional "style" and the rinks mostly tend to just play random top 40 so people just kind of roll around and skate however they feel. I love when folks from other regions come in and I get to see the real difference. This video is so helpful and informative, it's really giving me a mental idea of where these things come from and why they're done. I look forward to watching more of your videos!
I've been skating for 4 years as an adult and live in a suburban area in NY. I knew quad skating made me happier than anything else so I dabbled in what was available- family rink sessions, skate parks, even a little derby. It's taking me all this time to find out what I've been feeling, working on independently, and drawn to is rhythm skating. I just went on a Mid-Atlantic Rink tour and learned a lot. I'm spending hours on TH-cam and Insta watching all the styles and know I need to be a part of the real deal. I need new plugs and wheels to up my abilities. Thank you for helping me on my journey.
Hey! I've just watched your video. I've only started skating 2 months ago and still trying to figure it out what is my style, understand the culture, enjoy it, etc. It's especially hard since there is not much of a culture of rollerskating where I'm from (Turkey). So this was really eye opening in the sense of a history lesson. Also I really appreciate the fighting references, they really helped me to understand. :D Thanks again!!
We skate in Racine and wow! JB style it what we’ve been watching and it’s incredible. This video made me feel like a skate geek 🤓 thanks for all the amazing history
Thanks for the break down and history lesson. I’m from DC. Kalorama Road was my rink. Never knew Snapping was the name of our technique. I’d like to see more about our styles.
@dunbar First of all thank you for making this video. I appreciate all the hard work and research you put in to create it. I have been skating for 14 years and I have watched the styles evolve. I am originally from Florida so the foundation of my style is mostly rhythm skating, specifically shuffle skating. I also spent 2 years skating at Crystal Pallace in DC. They do some JB skating there and I picked up a few things. I now live in Wisconsin where there are some jam skaters that do a lot of middle/ground work. I have developed my own style from studying the different disciplines. I haven't recorded myself lately but my style has definitely changed. I would like to share this video from 8 years ago with you. Please turn the sound all the way down as the recording is very low quality and it will blast your ear drums. Also, I am not on beat to the music that is playing in the rink as I was shuffling to a song while listening to headphones. Please let me know what you think. Thank you. th-cam.com/video/MCRK6EG2OfQ/w-d-xo.html
This is incredible... You a whole black skate culture historian! It blew my mind, sad to think that some styles and story's are literally lost after time! But we need this! Not just for entertainment or education but to document🙌🏾
Yet, those that are getting the attention, sponsorships, credit don't reflect this.
Blsck culture doesn’t get ebeiugh recovinition in the jannm skate comnrnunity
@@toejam7606 lol- you must be their King Unkle Rukus, cause you can't even spell.
Yoooo isn't it I loved learning skate history as a new skater who wants to be a rhythm skater I don't have the upper body strength for jam breakdancing
can you please stop appropriating my culture
according to black people, that is racist to do
Thank you Brother! As a professional DJ who use to skate and DJ in a rink as a teen I am returning to skating at 55! This is priceless and I will continue to follow you!
Thanks so much! Glad I could help.
We didn't have such explanation in the roller rinks in the 80s like this.
i'm a super beginner skater from australia and this is the first video i've seen actually begin to break down the history and culture of skating, and it's helped me realise how rich it all is - thank you for educating!
I have been skating in Australia for 30 years, and we do not have such a rich history and diversity of skating at the rink. I am so jealous! So wanted to go to the US to experience their rink culture, because ours was pretty basic. Just "the regulars" with their own skates, and the newbies in the cripple boots! And experienced speed skaters. The only dancing we ever did was the Nutbush in the centre!
@@marleemumu ok... Nutbush?? Please educate this American on your Australian ways!
@@jaclynpeek5292 Check it out here: th-cam.com/video/_heNiNHqmnY/w-d-xo.html
There are a few videos you could search :)
NO, NO, NO! You're "history" is blatantly wrong. There are only two types of skating: Black skating and White skating. The terms "Rhythm" and "Jam" were coined by White people, just like White people coined "Rock and Roll," as the White version of "Rhythm and Blues." Or, just like "Disco" is the White version of "Soul." Sadly, you're too young to know better. Black people have "always" been dancing on skates!!! Even before Bill Butler got credit or took credit for what and how Black people were skating during "Black" night at segregated roller rinks, "Black adult skating" have always skated to the popular music of Black people, from generation to generation, which my father and mother did back during the 1940s; from Count Bassie to Chuck Berry to James Brown to Michael Jackson to DJQuik, etc.. Know your history, Dunbar. "Jam Skating" is yet another effort of White people to put a label on or to re-define Black history (th-cam.com/video/q5owydk9FS8/w-d-xo.html).
There’s only sk8ing. Sorry.
After 45yrs on wheels I believe you break it down better than anyone I have ever heard. Love it
I've took on the lifestyle of skating this year and I just bought own pair of skates! After 10+ years of not skating, I was really shaky getting back on the rink floor, but I'm really looking forward to wholly embracing skate culture. This video was eye-opening, and I absorbed your teachings with a student's mind. Thank you for keeping us informed!
Me too imma have to visit all the places with skating history, road trip
@@d.i.f.y191 That's actually a really bomb idea! 🥰
Rhythm skating? And how did you select your skates.
well its been three years hows it going?
@@DukefrmNine2 I've been documenting my progress here and there on Instagram and a bit on Tik Tok. My skating activities as of late have been bombing slopes on park trails and getting some mileage of fitness on a weekly basis. I do miss dancing in the skating rinks, but there's more I'd like to explore. My next thing is skate parks, and getting a block installment on some 8's.
I made a mistake in the video. Jam skates generally have double action plates. The difference in balance comes from the heel not the plates action. My apologies for the confusion.
Thanks for this video - very informative. Your passion really comes through! 👍🏽
Bro. Jam skates have double action plates. Why didn’t you address this within this video. *tisk* *tisk*.
@@stripes1329 Skaters caught me slipping once okay so what
@@Dunbeezytv 😁
Is there a video on buying skates and from who/website.
"The Cali style"
*man sliding into a wall*
I'm from California and that had me dying cause we really be doing that
🤣😂
So jealous of your rink culture, in all the different areas. In Australia, we never developed such a rich history. We just rolled around the rinks endlessly. Still have lifelong friends from there (been skating for 30 years) but it was a social gathering and we just happened to have skates on. Not much dancing/jam/rhythm or anything! Thank you for your passion and for sharing the history. Can't wait to be able to travel again and come and visit a rink in the US.
I never realized how much blackness is within the essence of skating. Thank you for this history lesson!
I love blackness
Wirrhhrb
I love it and yes
I just bought some black Sure Grips today. Even the wheels are black.
Check out the united skates documentary
Cleveland, Ohio has a great history of smooth rhythm skating with spins, 360 jumps in the air, just beautiful artistry.
I loved skating, USA SKATES was the place!
I'm a Clevelender and my dad was one of the smoothest rhythm skaters. He used to take us to skate and I would just sit and watch the groups get down. We moved to Tulsa, Ok and nobody was rhythm or jam skating anywhere.
I'm an Ex-skater now senior and have never realized that a lot of rhythm skate moves are actually originated from separate cultural styles from different parts of the country. Good lesson in the history of roller skating!
Awesome information!!! I love ur enthusiasm for the skate culture movement. I've been skating since 1969, but I've been sick for the last 20 yrs & no longer can physically participate. I'm excited to know that there are ppl like U out there that are keeping this spirit alive & advancing it into the future. I'm so glad that I found ur channel & can watch from home. Bravo!!!!!! Much love & have fun out there!!! 🙏 ♥
Thanks so much! I appreciate your kind words and encouragement.
Loved the in depth explanation, between the two! Totally makes sense to me. I am a trained figure ice skater. I started with roller skating in the lower 48, until I moved up to Alaska, where I started ice skating. I have a hard time wearing low cut skates, even when I was a child in the 70s. I gotta have ankle support. I used to always prefer wearing high top shoes, back in the day. Anyway, back to your in depth review... I used to do old school break dancing, not on wheels, so I get what you're saying. I never break dance on the ice, so I know coming back to roller skating, I'm just staying with rythm skating or figure roller skating, especially with my age. . I can't get down like I did in the 70s and 80s!
Your videos are so helpful! I was inspired to start skating when I saw videos of our black skate culture and I was in awe and felt such pride at seeing us come together without drama. I'm so glad to see at least one of us sharing the knowledge. I was wondering where all the black skaters were on youtube if it was such a big thing for us. I appreciate you and your effort to make these videos. Stay safe out there🙂
Thank you for this history! I started skating in So Cal in rinks (yes they played organ music interspersed with some 70's hits) and on the boardwalk and then really polished my style in Flint, MI where I was an artistic skater and rink skater, skating at least 3 times a week. Still skating!
I've been skating for most of my six decades and still learned something during every single minute of this masterclass. ty Dunbeezy, subscribing. 🤗
Thank you for the kind comment. I'm glad I could help.
Thank you!! JAMMIN’!
Grew up skating in NYC in early 80s. For me, it was going around the perimeter of the rink, fast, furious with bounce & rhythm to the music. Breakdancing boyfriend spent time in the middle of the rink. Never ‘learned’ footwork the way people are watching videos and taking classes now. 🙄😂
It all came naturally back in the day. #BoogieDownBronx 🙌🏾
So you know what's really good. You were in NY when it was super strong
Whoop whoop 🙌🏽 BX !!
THIS VIDEO IS EVERYTHING. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'm in my first year of skating and have picked up on some of the different rhythm skating styles, but like... The map! You're doing a series on it?? OMG. THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU lol seriously. Also, phew that I've not been totally off base in how I discern jam vs rhythm haha
Thank you for breaking it down for this old school bouncer. Who has once, ... skated to a pipe organ ~ old dude in the box, way up high, tickling the ivorys.
I needed that.
Jam skates to buy.
I bought my fiancé skates five months ago, and they just came in. We went skating last night (my first time) and I had a blast. Time for my first pair of skates! Now I find this skate professor. I love the knowledge, experience and the way you communicate the history.
This is a great video. I can’t wait to immerse myself in the culture and the history behind each style. I’m one of those that started skating this year and as much as I enjoyed just learning new “moves” it got stale pretty quick. I always knew skating has had such a rich history and this video is perfect to start from. I hope in my studies to find a style I can really dive deep into and find that soul that I can’t seem to find from just doing “cool moves”. Thank you :)
That's a great observation. The popular marketing moves are like 7 moves pulled from the style. They were not meant to be practiced the way people teach "trick to trick" and they don't function well outside a style. It's a lot buying the accessories for a toy but not getting the toy lol.
@@Dunbeezytv technique without context is soulless...or pretty monsters. Sums up the last decade, lol/cry.
So glad I stumbled on this. Really love your passion and way you broke everything down. I hope I can get to visit one of the legendary places you mentioned one day. Reminds me (a little) of the Afro-latin dance scene.
I am looking to dance on skates (I guess rhythm skate) and so it's great to find someone who has the background knowledge / deep experience.
You are amazing! Such a good teacher. I used to skate at branch brook park as a kid and just got back into rhythm at 28! Watching all of your videos 💗💗
Turn up you know about the BBP! That's where the action happens.
My daughter found my skates, my sneaker skates and you can hearmthe rhythm, the music, the fun. As you Sankofa the history of this remember that we skated as a people, under a groove and there was no need to duck bullets, etc.when we did this outside. It was pure fun and unity with no animosity. Don't forget Sistas were skating with ya! It was like that at that time.
Her scout troop went to a nice rink in Woodbridge, NJ and the mascot shook my hand because the skate guards on inlines couldn't keep up with me on quads. You just never forget this, never! I'll be 100 and still skating!
This is a MUCH needed video for anyone who wants to learn how to skate. He is SPOT on. I too, grew up as a Jam Skater, coming from NW Indiana, that was our style. When I moved to MD and started learning the "Snap" style (DC/MD style of skating), I had to change up EVERYTHING!!!! Had to change my skate boots and wheels. It is VERY hard to Snap with Jam boots and wide wheels. Had to change everything up to the high boots and smaller and harder wheels! I still have elements of Jam in my style now, as well as many other styles, which makes me unique. Guess that's why my skate name is "Enigma". I incorporate many different styles into how I skate (Jam, JB, Stride and Snapping). Bro, keep the vids coming!
I’m new to roller skating, I want to do rhythm skating and eventually have my own style. Thank you so much for giving us the history behind them, I subscribed!!
As someone who grew up roller skating obsessively, this is crazy refreshing ❤
Wow, great Lecture. You're really a good teacher Bro... Now I really understand the differences.
Thanks so much. I'm glad I could help.
Just met Legendarion and he was so sweet! He was at my local rink and he was so kind to my husband and I. Would love to get lessons from him sometime.
By the way, I love your videos! You’re the only one I’ve ever seen who’s clearly explained the difference between each style and why certain equipment is suited for each style. You’re amazing and talented, thank you!!!
I am so happy that this, you and your channel exist. So glad that this culture isn't being lost !
Man, this is the best rink culture video. Thank you for sharing this and documenting the regional styles.
Thanks so much. Is there anything you’d like to see me cover on the channel?
Thank you so much for this. Wonderful metaphor with martial arts for understanding the fundamental difference before you get into the specifics (hot damn that knowledge!) of each type. Love this. So well done for creating understanding
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Wow! I just learned a lot about skating 👀 I use to love skating as a child but never knew it had such a diverse culture surrounding it 🤩 Very helpful and formative watch! Subscribed!
Dope...been skating nearly 30 years so I know just about everything you dropped, but your breakdown is solid...I consider myself a rhythm roller, and always explain to people that its basically an umbrella term that covers various types...my style incorporates some JB and jam style footwork but I'm still learning so much about both...and watching some of these young cats I've been trying to add some of the stuff I see them doing...love how at the end you made it a point to emphasize that we've been here for 10, 20, 30+ years...while I love the embrace of skating by a new young (and older) community, skating has always been here...there was no need for a comeback becsuse it never left...I just hope it doesn't get watered down by the glitz and glam of social media and too many people not respecting and appreciating its rich history...good stuff, youngsta 👊🏾🔥🛼
It is already watered down. Watch a video if people shuffle skating- watered down jb. And looking at people from other ethnicities skating backwards at the beach is watered down than when you see an african american video backwards skating down the beach. The black girls are so much better but get less shine
@@ertfgghhhh you're right...it's over saturated at this point...everybody skating for likes and clout 😐😐😐
Yes! Skating is alive!🛼 This was a great breakdown. It makes sense to know which style you skate before deciding on which skates to purchase. I'm in the process of transitioning out of a 172 OG boot and understand now I classify as a rhythm skater. I purchased the OG's because that's what was popular at the time. I have always felt limited to what I could do in my OG's because of the weight of the boot. The equipment is definitely different based on the type of skating you're doing. Thanks for the valuable information you shared in this video. 🛼👍🏾
Thanks for the support! I'm glad I could help. How is your transition to a new set up going?
I really enjoyed this video! Like some other comments have mentioned, I knew that skating has a lot of history and culture, but I didn’t realize all the distinctions and regional influences that are present. I’m excited to learn more about this sport/art that I am loving being part of.
I'm dropping another video today breaking down three of the styles. If you liked this, you're going to love that. Honestly I did this off the top of my head, but I spoke to several experts for this one
@@Dunbeezytv ooh I’m excited to watch it! Thanks for letting me know!!
Thanks for the history and different styles of skating. I'm a Chicagoland JB skater.
This was the best video. REALLY appreciate your time and effort in thoroughly explaining the differences; Helps a lot! Much Love
Thanks for your kind words
I love how you break it all down . Keep on keepin on brother!
It's interesting how you bring up fighting. I do Brazilian jiu-jitsu and had to find a hobby to work on my muscle imbalances and skating sounded like a great idea. I appreciate the content!
This young man has earned our respect. He really loves his craft. 🔥
Most definitely 💯
Thanks I appreciate your kind words.
I’m just relearning skating but I can’t help watching advanced skating videos. I love how you’re educating us on the history behind it as well!
Born & raised in Detroit I was skating at 6/7 it’s such a big part of the culture as a kid here.! Im definitely about to tap back into skating love the video.!
Been skating since I was 3 and now I am 55 and buddy you are spot on. Good job on the video... btw. I love my riddel Solaris sports. Cant wait to skate this weekend
Thank you for explaining! I'm new to skating and I got asked yesterday if I was a jam skater. I had no idea what it was but I'm glad I told them I don't know, because there's no way I could breakdance - let alone on skates. 😅😂
I'm glad I could help
They were still roller skating to organ music in the 80’s at some places. Those old times could TEAR it up. The Fox Trot, the Rumba, the 14 step, the collegiate, there was a whole collection of partners dances. Bodies in the air. Pretty cool.
This a a great video BTW.
Spot on. I started skating in the 80’s and grew up rhythm / dance skating. I lived on the outside. I still roll my hard top single hard candy plates and Schneider toe stops. I’m that old man that loves going but only get to go about two times a year. Ty for the history lesson.
Great content! I definitely was feeling some type of way seeing beginner tutorials by beginners. I’m a beginner skater myself but experienced in freestyle club dance movement for a long time and if you want to keep up movement like this as a long time hobby, it is a MUST to ingrain the basics in your body. The basics set up your body with a solid foundation of muscle memory that can minimize excess stress on your joints and limbs. As you progress through more difficult moves, you’ll end up having overall more control and strength because of those drills. Having to discover your knee and ankle pain is from improper alignment and weight distribution is no fun. 😭😭😭
If anything, practice basics for warmup (because warmup is also SUPER important)
Since there’s a lot of new folxs entering a long existing space and culture, can you do a video on rink etiquette? With some area starting to reopen their rinks, more people will want to bring their skating indoors to jam or try it out because they couldn’t afford skates. I think it would be helpful for the community, old and new, so that we can have the same expectations when we are in the same space! Maybe topics like flow of traffic on the rink and areas with their terms. Or things to be aware of when skating at the rink vs skating at home or outdoors.
I am just seeing this. I have been considering getting back into putting the quads back on after decades (not competitive). Thank you for putting in the work, then sharing with the world. I grew up with JB style, in Chicago, back in the 70's/80's.
Thanks for this! I grew up in skatings, mostly shuffle skating with elements of some other styles thrown in. Never knew the names of the different styles until now. I just loved to skate and learned by watching others. Now in the UK and so miss proper skating rinks.
That's so cool. It's unfortunate you don't have a rink to skate at right now. Where are you skating these days?
@@Dunbeezytv I used to skate outside in Hyde Park when I lived in London. There is a good group there. Now moved out of London, but we have a pop up rink at a local school at their gym. I take my son, which is fab. Love sharing my love of skating with him.
As a Muay Thai fighter, I'm impressed with your analogy. I'd love to learn to rhythm skate, I just don't know what to buy 😅.
How long you been training? I started out here in Phuket. Which style do you like? Where do you live? What's your budget?
@@Dunbeezytv oh wow my man! I've been training and sparring for 9 months, here in the midwest of the US. I coach the kids class at my Thai gym. Much respect to you. My skate budget is about $200 my girlfriend is interested too. We wanna do the smooth stuff link arms sync our foot movement, skate backwards, the basics of from what you described I believe is rythem skating. Skatelyfe made a vid in 2019 on a how to pick beginners skates.
th-cam.com/video/kLc17KwLDg0/w-d-xo.html
Would this be good ☝️?
@@Zinksk8er Honestly "how to buy beginner skates" is a tag people use to get clicks. Most people not trying to spend over $200 on skates anyway. Skates at that price range are for beginner to intermediate skaters by design. The type of skates that take a higher level of skill to use cost around $500 and up. Honestly I'd watch for places with bad reps like Impala and avoid highly decorated boots personally. Leather over suede. Suede only looks good in the box. Suede gets this linty look as the boot ages and stains easily as well. Riedell , Vanilla > Trendy skate companies. I would also focus on understanding the equipment and your needs. For example, I would get more specific about which style you really wanted to do. Do you mean like STL Ballroom skating? I actually broke down some rhythm styles in my rhythm vs jam skate video. If you said a place you gravitated to, I could break down the equipment they use and really give you a package a person from there uses.
@@Dunbeezytv I believe I am to much of a novice to choose a style I'd prefer. I'm about 4 hours out from St. louis. I own a pair of fairly nice tri wheel rollerblades the wheels are extremely close together and 110mm tall. Mostly used for out door function, but I can move well in them, stop, skate backwards, the basic movement. I've also been skateboarding for 9 years as a bit of back ground, I'm adept to rolling movement. I definitely know that me and my girlfriend aren't seeking jam skating or any type of dancing in the middle of the rink. We are looking for a good skate in the $200 range and not much over, less is fine too. Something versatile that will probably be used for a few years including our beginner stages. That's probably the best I can describe it. Outdoor rinks are not even a thought.
If a move caught your eye and you think it's cool then that's enough. If you think it's cool, you'll do it. Since you're kinda close to St. Louis you can try it and see a lot of the other midwest techniques. You might think it's boring and try something new. I'd go with the Riedell Boost for $135. It comes with the 111 boot and jam plugs. I like the Boost over the Uptown $200 because you can use the extra $65 on the fixings. The way you lace your boot and the wheels you choose will take your style in a couple different ways. Since you're in the Midwest you're going to get a lot of that energy and you'll learn some different small changes that could take your skate to another place. The Boost gives you that quality and flexibility.
This is wonderful - anyone that loves skating needs to watch this video. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this for us!
Thanks for your kind words!
Thank you! I learned a lot from this video and it cleared a lot of things up for me. I like your analogy to martial arts at the start of the video. Thanks for sharing your experiences with jam skating. I'm excited to check the stuff on the map out! Keep up the good work!
I appreciate this, thank you! I've been skating for a little over 30 yrs but mainly a speed skater who can do a little jam. The history on the styles is something I didn't know. Appreciate you! 💜
Thanks for the support. I'm glad I could help.
I really like the way you talk. Very interesting information...Thank you for sharing this!
This was ye best breakdown, I have been skating for mutiple years but when I was little it was all about speed now I’m into the moves. My skates ripped after a couple years and now I’m buying my first pair being grown now 20. This was the most helpful ever on what style is next for me to try
I’m only 10 minutes in but man this video is very good information as I came up in the jam skating era going to all the vanilla sponsored events.
10 years later , now I’m interested in learning to rhythm skate so that’s how I found your video.
I do hate how JB skating was basically shunned in the jamskating community when it was huge 2010 era
I have a short attention span and so didn't expect to watch the whole video, however I couldn't stop watching! Thank you so much, this has really deepended my understanding of skating. I used to call myself a jam skater but for sure, I'm under the rhythm umbrella. I feel like history is in the making right now as we go through this recent boom, i.e.I'm from the UK and the fast backwards has been adopted so much in the London scene when people "chop", with a whole new style in the making. Even so, there's a scene developing in Cardiff. Hopefully this knowledge will be exported as well as the moves so we understand our history. Fascinating!
Bro this is really awesome!! Great work!
Just got into quad skating a month ago so really appreciate the history and insight, got into because of dips and toe spins so now I’m trying to learn how to do footwork like usher and I ain’t a dancer
Great video and very informative. Loved listening to the history and watching all the footage you included.
This answered so many questions I’ve had since I started skating. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
INTENSE!! Informative.....I can see you teaching with a taser....But when all is said and done they will know da style lingo & history.... GOOD JOB!!! Ole Brooklyn 1978 Empire Roller Ring here...
Thanks for putting so much of your heart into this video. Also, thank you for breaking it down so well!🔥🔥🔥
Thank you for this video! Super informative and I can feel your passion and dedication. Cultural significance and nuance is too often overlooked when things are dragged into the mainstream.
OMG, thanks so much for making this video and pointing out at the end that 'jam skating' and 'jammin' is not the same! I was so confused about that (because of jam plugs I used to think that any type of dancing on skates while cruising around the rink was called jam skating).
In the early 1980s, I used to watch a small group of guys at SpinEasy in Upper Manhattan, right across the Harlem River from the neighborhood where Bronx hip-hop started. There were like six or seven guys who were incredibly talented. And one child, a daughter of the owner of the rink. In a precursor to your special boots, the guys used to skate with their boot shafts unlaced, the foot of the boots only loosely laced, the toe stops replaced with plugs, and the wheels replaced with narrower width wheels. The club was not flashy. Black or dark-blue jeans with low rises, cutoff sweatshirts, club-branded t's, and in summer because the a/c wasn't always strong enough, painter pants, the only bright articles of clothing. Even for women. Everything was keyed to those boots. Black, sturdy, like a skater's version of a ballet shoe. Not in looks, but in the freedom they gave a skater's feet and body. All the guys who skated well were skate guards at the club. A very gritty scene. Replaced after about two years by the influx of hip-hop battles from across the river, and hip-hop and rap ended up taking over the club about a year later. It is now a church. I still remember Luther Vandross's Never Too Much, and how the guys skated to it. I realize from watching your video that they were doing an early sort of jam skating. When they were guarding, and skating to a song on the outside as part of their work, they threw a lot of wobble footed stuff in there, which defined their style. When they were taking a break, when the rink was on a break, and they were in the middle exploring their art, they were approaching the edges of doing break dancing on skates.
Lol, I'm editing as I watch your video. I just got to the segment that demonstrates shuffling or trucking, and hey, that's part of what they were doing, all wobble-footed in their loose-laced skates! I love it! Thank you. I haven't seen that in years lol. Trucking to Never Too Much. and using a trucking stance when they skated backwards in couples with their gf's. Ooo, the power and intelligence of their movement skills was amazing.
This is the part of jam skating that I really need to mention more. I feel like I draw the line in the sand so hard as a reaction to everything that's going on that I don't stop and really break down the history of jam skating before it got the name.
thank you for this video and history lesson ❤ I tried indoor skating for the first time and fell in love by watching other people dance around too. This video helped me in deciding which skates is best because I was really confused at first seeing how different outdoor skating is too. I am eyeing to get artistic skate shoes and hopefully learn some rhythm 😊
Thank you for sharing this history and providing us deep knowledge of the art form! I learned a lot!
Thank you for this. Detailed, informative, not opinion based, just amazing history and facts that I believe taught a lot of us something new. ❤🖤💚 you know what I mean.
Wow, what a treasure trove of information! Thank you for being a historian and a teacher for these beautiful arts. Your passion is contagious... I don't even dance skate, but I was glued to the video the whole way through.
Dude!!! This was incredible. Thanks for such an in-depth history
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the video!
I came back just to leave a comment, thank you for this vid. Most people don’t go this in depth like you🙏🏾🙏🏾
Excellent research Sir!!
Top Notch..
This presentation showcases the fact YOU are, a Master at your craft.
The Art of Skating ... It Truly is an ART!
Thank You so MUCH!!
Thank you for making this! I just got into skating last year, as many did, and it's clear the sport has been defined by African American culture. It's a bummer to see so many people skating without knowing where all the sick moves come from. I just subscribed to your channel! Hoping to learn more about roller skating history. (Didn't know about the regional differences til now!)
Yep, the styles differ by region. I'm from Jersey so we rhythm skate to house music (club music). Everything is about putting a lot of different difficult moves together into a routine on an uptempo beat. Nothing is choreographed. We also move in a zigzag type way down the skate floor, not in a straight line. Our style is about movement and agility, and being able to maneuver around people and through crowds without falling or hitting others.
I recently moved to Maryland and they skate nothing like this here. The music is slower and they are into what they call snapping. I'm kind of the anomaly out there but I do what I do.
This needs to be an Olympic sport! My daughter skates on ice and she wanted to get this vibe in her program. She’ll be watching more of your channel. Thank you so much for your insights and content. You’re such an amazing athlete and artist!
They tried to make it in Olympics, no money
In roller skating
This is fascinating. I'm so excited to explore this stuff. Thank you for sharing!
Wow! I truly and authentically take my HAT off to you, young man! I am 58 years old. I will be 59 in January. I've been rollerskating since 1980, and, I gotta admit.......I never knew the difference between "Jam Skaters", and "Rhythm Skating"!!! I've never even heard the TERM in the skate community, neither INDOOR, nor OUTDOOR! I actually found out (or SAW) the two terms on Rollerskate sites that SELL skates....SEEING the terms....But, NOT knowing........just SEEING the two terms in the buy section! So... THANK YOU for breaking this valuable information so eloquently! Wow! You could actually be a teacher! You got STR8 to the point, without rambling for the first 10 min of your video, which so many people are GUILTY of!!!! (Believe me.. I am impatient. I've ended many videos that I thought I was really interested in,, primarily due to long,, drawn out rambling in the beginning, instead of getting RIGHT INTO IT). You were clear, and concise! Again. Hats off to you, young man! I applaud you!
P.S. Unlike most other TH-cam radio, I'm clicking "Like", and following you, after watching your first video! I look forward to expanding my information base, given the wealth of information that I'm sure that you posess!Btw... Prior to this post, I wrote a whole paragraph (in what I thought was "educating" you about "Bill 'Jamma' Butler", only to find out that you touched pretty accurately and extensively about the man, the legend, my hero..... So, I went back and deleted it!!!😂😂😂💯💯💯
#Salute.
#Rollerskate2021
#CatchMeOnAHighwayNearYou
Why isn't rollerskating in the Olympics? Why isn't anybody pushing for it?
Thank you: Your intro drove the difference home. Learning more is the best
I love your passion. Really show you care. also great for people who want to learn a certain style .
I am nearly 70, I have been skating since 4 yo. We were rhythm skating back then. And you are right about the equipment differences. I started losing balance so had to step down to toe stopper again. Really hampers my style. So glad you guys are keeping these gifts alive.😂
Thank you so much! I knew a little bit of the skating history from a cultural point of view, but about the styles and techniques.... WOW! I really need to study the history now. THANKS!!!!
Thank you Soooo much for this vid and breaking down the different Skating styles.....I'm originally from Park Circle Roller Rink in Brooklyn from the 1970'a where we transformed the Traditional Classic Rink "Organ playing Music" and of course started playing Disco and house music in the NYC Rinks...the thing caught on and other rinks followed suit... ....Empire Roller Rink did the Same as well as the introduction of outdoor Disco Roller Skating in NYC Central Park....and Brooklyn's LOLA roller rink in Coney Island Brooklyn, and Skate Key rink in the Bronx...there's a lot of ofther places in NYC that had their own claim to fame ....these were mine...Thanks again, and Kepp On Bounce, Rock Roll, Skate.!...!
Thank you for dropping the knowledge. I have been schooled today ! Take care and be safe !
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Damn I’m excited for this series! Thank you for sharing this!
I see you saw episode 1 of the series. I'm working on two now
@@Dunbeezytv yessssss 🙏
I own a Muay Thai gym in Miami and I recently started skating again. Just ordered some Riddell’s and was just watching your video and you caught me of guard with the “Sawadee krap” opening...lol I had to see if I heard you right. Great content. Subscribed!
Thank you for making this video, it's very educational! I have been skating pretty much daily just over ten years, I'm a skate coach and professional performer.... but my issue is, I wanna do EVERYTHINGGG lol. I started off with figure skating style but I pretty quickly started picking up other styles so I could skate to the music at the rink. People at my rink are used to seeing me do all sorts of styles but I imagine some folks would think I'm weird lol. But I just love it all, I love every skate style and I have this need to learn it all. Where I live, there's no real set regional "style" and the rinks mostly tend to just play random top 40 so people just kind of roll around and skate however they feel. I love when folks from other regions come in and I get to see the real difference. This video is so helpful and informative, it's really giving me a mental idea of where these things come from and why they're done. I look forward to watching more of your videos!
You could write a book about skate history and all the stories you've collected. This is so rich and inspiring!
THANK YOU!! Been skating my whole life, finally the history. I be jammin then... & it don't stop 💯😘
You opened my eyes to historical backgrounds to rhythm and jamin skating ⛸ Well done.
Really love how you explained this! Great teacher
Oh my goodness... I love this! Perfect - thorough, well organized, well informed. Thank you for putting in the hours to put this together!!!🔥🔥🔥
I've been skating for 4 years as an adult and live in a suburban area in NY. I knew quad skating made me happier than anything else so I dabbled in what was available- family rink sessions, skate parks, even a little derby. It's taking me all this time to find out what I've been feeling, working on independently, and drawn to is rhythm skating. I just went on a Mid-Atlantic Rink tour and learned a lot. I'm spending hours on TH-cam and Insta watching all the styles and know I need to be a part of the real deal. I need new plugs and wheels to up my abilities. Thank you for helping me on my journey.
Thanks for checking in with all the support.
Hey! I've just watched your video. I've only started skating 2 months ago and still trying to figure it out what is my style, understand the culture, enjoy it, etc. It's especially hard since there is not much of a culture of rollerskating where I'm from (Turkey). So this was really eye opening in the sense of a history lesson. Also I really appreciate the fighting references, they really helped me to understand. :D Thanks again!!
I'm glad the video helped.
Your videos are so incredibly underrated!
Thankyou for all of the work you’ve done for rollerskating and for rollerskaters. Luv ya longtime man!
I appreciate all the support
We skate in Racine and wow! JB style it what we’ve been watching and it’s incredible. This video made me feel like a skate geek 🤓 thanks for all the amazing history
I loved all this info. Really helpful and practical. Thanks so much!!!
Glad it was helpful
I love this! Great very necessary history lesson for a lot of new skaters
Thanks for the break down and history lesson. I’m from DC. Kalorama Road was my rink. Never knew Snapping was the name of our technique. I’d like to see more about our styles.
@dunbar First of all thank you for making this video. I appreciate all the hard work and research you put in to create it. I have been skating for 14 years and I have watched the styles evolve. I am originally from Florida so the foundation of my style is mostly rhythm skating, specifically shuffle skating. I also spent 2 years skating at Crystal Pallace in DC. They do some JB skating there and I picked up a few things. I now live in Wisconsin where there are some jam skaters that do a lot of middle/ground work. I have developed my own style from studying the different disciplines. I haven't recorded myself lately but my style has definitely changed. I would like to share this video from 8 years ago with you. Please turn the sound all the way down as the recording is very low quality and it will blast your ear drums. Also, I am not on beat to the music that is playing in the rink as I was shuffling to a song while listening to headphones. Please let me know what you think. Thank you.
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