how you meant to grind rails with them?

who said i grind rails :DDDDD?

im just freeskating and trying to freestyle (but its soooo hard)

oh the gay version

:ppp i dare you to do that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSJd_WyRtfA

very gay

that was poor one, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8YfwmvVP-8

yeah is nice for a girl to do, but imagine a guy doing the same thing.

its like figure skating. if it doesnt look like the guy is going to fall any second, its not manly.
these freestyle skaters and figure skaters all look like dancers.

stairs thing was the only not gay thing in there

guys like you will always make me laugh, because i bet you never been outside, and your favorite activity is to eat peanutbutter watching big brother and playing video games....

so please, dont judge real sport and even more dont judge people like vinz who got ze style.

wow, raged.
you seem to have obtained quite the insight on my personal life.
gonna leave it at that

not raged just bored of guys like you

ahahaha

tf

gay version of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y07ShbBAx9I

seconded :D

Maybe one day pizz, you can do some more skillful stuff on rollerblades! juuuust kidding =).

I bet those are infinitely more comfortable than my skates.
Valo TV2's

By the way!! They have aggressive rollerblades with 72mm wheels now.
Rollerblade Solos

you forgot the wheels mate!

i had some k2 fatty pros about 10 years ago, seems they still make them. and some majestic 12's before them

wish i still had my fattys. :(

ahah, maybe ill try the agreesive rollerblading style later, but for now im happy with them. Besides, lets go for a speed race whenever u want :pp

also, the only thing i definitely regret from my blades are the stiff of the boot, which is for now horrible for my feet, but i heard its should be better.

ps: i'd love to ride with ya :ppppp

nice valos, i never tried a pair but they look pretty good. always wanted to try remz

is that how skates are today, like ski boots, separate boot and wheels?

That's house aggressive skates have been for over 12 years.

12? try 4 or 5.

If you want to get technical, Lightning TRS came out in 1983, those were basically ski boots with wheels attached in a single row. You could replace the wheels and bearings and probably buy new frames, though im not sure.

As for being able to buy BOOT ONLY, that probably came about 6 years ago, when the universal frame system was patented. At that point all aggressive skate companies began using standards for frame attachment and because of that a bunch of frame companies popped up. It made more sense for rollerblade companies to produce higher quality boots and have a shitty frame they molded or none at all. Leaving the frame companies to produce higher quality frames that could take just as much wear and tear if not more than the boot.

Thanks for info. Last time I skated most people were on majestic12 or Fifths. :)

The RB Solos come looking beat to hell... cool style points!

ARLO EISENBERG APPROVED!

sweet jesus, and he was the man in the public eye for rollerblading, for many many years.

Only pure skill can dress like this and get away with it. =)

infininte?

why not a skateboard?

too bored starting a new sport :(

there used to be a pro rollerblader named jonathan bergeron who was also at the pro level of skateboarding. he went to some skateboard contests and placed very well. but he preferred rollerblading :P

nice, when will you get the other rollerblade?

(im one-legged)

so when's the next ass-kicking contest?

Skating(rolling) Seems like quite the effective way to move around.

At least, seems more effective and more fun than walking, wonder why nobody uses it for 'transport' :D

Except ofcourse that you'll be stuck with em for a while unless you take a backpack that they fit in and that you take your shoes in.

well this is kind of a stupid solution but you can take the liners out and walk around in them. i did that once with my old blue salomons and walked into an arcade wearing the liners lol. but when i was out rolling with my crew around town we would just skate inside most places unless it was someone's house. and yeah a backpack works, i had a senate one with special straps to hold skates.

werent shoes with wheels on the bottom already invented some time ago?

You should have gotten a pair of lollerblades instead. They are way more fun!

i wanted a pair but all small sizes only here or crazy priced :(

DA DA DA DIRD DIRD DIRD
THE DIRD IS THE WORD

i had these skates in order:
rollerblade lightning trs
rollerblade dirk
salomon blue ones cant remember the name
usd dustin latimers
razor jon elliotts

then i retired. i spent a shitload of money over the years on equipment, videos (oldschool vhs) like the videogroove series, day of the rope, brain fear gone, etc. and on clothes like senate and england. i also live very close to rollerwarehouse which is the biggest online store of skate stuff for the "aggressive" (always hated that term) type of skaters.

one of the guys i used to skate with died last year from skin cancer. he was only 22 or 23. he was known as kyle steezo, vamp1re you may have heard of him since the rolling community was pretty close from what i remember. i used to post on the runnersproject forums back in the day. now i don't know if there's forums like that anymore. also about a year ago i looked up daily bread magazine online and it was dead, sucks cuz that was pretty much the only magazine we had.

but yeah props to the guys keeping it alive.

jon elliots were my last pair before i stopped skating too, seems like it just really dropped off about 6-7 years ago

yeah it does seem like it dropped off around that time. well the reason i stopped was because of an injury i got from skating that took a long time to heal. so when i was recovering i started to get into the whole online gaming thing. then when i was able to skate again, my best friend that i always skated with had quit in the meantime. that and the scene around here had been dying..so i said fuck it time to move on and switched hobbies from rolling to computers/gaming :o

I haven't heard of him. Sorry to hear that though.

As for rollerblading dropping off 6-7 years ago, it was dropped from the x-games in the early 2000's. Even though that happened, more people skate today and we still have 6-8 major rollerblading competitions every year, and many smalled street comps all over the US and Europe. There's also a lot of great new companies sprouting. Nimh is a new skate company owned by brian shima and jon elliot. They use an old generic mold that USD and Razors used like 10 years ago, but modified it and put a leather skin on it. That's also the same thing Valo did but they did it with the Majestic 12 boot. Both skates have new soul plates and new liners.

You guys should check out some of the new rollerblading DVD's. The Truth, We are Valo 2, Known Rollerblading. All of these will have sequels coming up.

http://vimeo.com/2114373

wth i didnt even realise xgames had stopped it, how come?

now they seem to have rallying and snowmobiles O_o

xgames sucked anyway

JETSET RADIO FUTURE ANYONE?

rollerblading is cool ->

--> rollerblading sucks

lollerblades more like, amirite

skateboarding for faggots

negative

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgZMiJQHcUQ

That doesnt really prove anything. Ali Boulala is a faggot even though he tried that insane gap.

Though...I don't think skateboarding is for faggots, i still skateboard sometimes =). It's fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ax_V7-UxAo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjVVxUGGUCc

this is ze man :), love his style =D

http://vimeo.com/1279545

same guy, grisha on street rollerblades :-)

Ali Bouala's possible faggotry aside, I meant, rollerblading = skateboarding for faggots.

meh.

ok good point i miss-read it xD 'extreme' blading is not too bad though, grinds are fun

http://vimeo.com/1610004

edit: how to post a youtube vid directly?

posts ending up at the wrong places again? :/

the camera effects and editing of 'extreme sport' related videos are the most fucking annoying thing ever.

right after insomnia.

Inlines.

"Rollerblade" is a brand. XSJADO ftw.

Another swede writing what I wrote, before me... :P

Seems like SEBA inline skates, not Rollerblade inline skates :P

yea but in english i think u do say, rollerblading

It's only slang. Which is why it's not in the dictionary, just urban dictionary.

i remember the days when i used to just eat sleep and skate

so much fun

oh and play goldeneye :D

Goldeneye was the shit!

Man thats not style.....

This is style
http://vimeo.com/2847712?pg=embed&sec=

Only people I ever seen on blades were gays on Ocean Drive Miami and gays on Santa Monica Pier LA. to conclude, blades are empirically gay.

And Welsh are empirically fucking stupid and ugly.

Die in a bush fire.

http://vimeo.com/3806998