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Skateboarding => PHOTOS/VIDEO => Topic started by: Atiba Applebum on June 06, 2026, 02:36:00 AM
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http://youtu.be/msXynClj0T8
Interesting video about the death of mainstream rollerblading. Features Dave Carnie/Big Brother heavily and the Pyrrhic victory of skateboarding’s lasting success when compared to the tight culture circle rollerblading’s been allowed to maintain
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That was pretty interesting. I’ve never really thought about why it died out and who knows how accurate this all is. It was crazy that for a second there rolllerblading was everywhere and then it was gone. I haven’t seen one for years but I did see a rollerblader at my local park a few months ago and I thought he was pretty cool for doing it. I still think the sound of rollerblading is the worst. That thumping sound.
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I don't know if rollerblading is really back since I haven't seen any kids picking it up but there's clearly a resurgence in my area with all the old rollerbladers getting back into it. Average age is like 40.
I personally back it. I prefer having some presence at the park than being the only adult with a few annoying kids who ride around on scooters without even trying to push it.
Skateboarding is next to die for sure. How do I know? On a recent saturday afternoon at the park, I was the youngest guy out of 7-8 people. I am 38 years old.
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I don't know if rollerblading is really back since I haven't seen any kids picking it up but there's clearly a resurgence in my area with all the old rollerbladers getting back into it. Average age is like 40.
I personally back it. I prefer having some presence at the park than being the only adult with a few annoying kids who ride around on scooters without even trying to push it.
Skateboarding is next to die for sure. How do I know? On a recent saturday afternoon at the park, I was the youngest guy out of 7-8 people. I am 38 years old.
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Where do you live?
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I don't know if rollerblading is really back since I haven't seen any kids picking it up but there's clearly a resurgence in my area with all the old rollerbladers getting back into it. Average age is like 40.
Same here, average age is late 30s to 40s, almost never seen new blood. There's a mom who did it in her youth and has been actively bringing her 2 kids to the park every weekend, it's fun to see them do it as a family.
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Unfortunately, the the thick coat of wax on the coping of my local bowl indicates that rollerblading is still very much alive.
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Fitting they dropped this during pride month.
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i started watching this but couldn't finish it.
i'm not anti-rollerblading in the hate crime kind of way that people were back in the day, but it really doesn't hold my attention. it's so unsatisfying to look at.
could anyone sum up what their conclusion was?
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ezu2Rp98Qfk
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i started watching this but couldn't finish it.
i'm not anti-rollerblading in the hate crime kind of way that people were back in the day, but it really doesn't hold my attention. it's so unsatisfying to look at.
could anyone sum up what their conclusion was?
Dave Carney was a tool and will always be a tool ... pretty much the general theme
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"Rollerblading killed rollerblading"
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this made me feel kinda bad for how mean my friends and i were to the rollerbladers at school, like to the point of physical fighting. it’s just so childish. the irony of getting called gay for skating, and turning around and being even more homophobic to kids because they rollerbladed.
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always prefered bladers to bmx riders
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The bladers in my hometown were cool. No beef whatsoever. We would often see each other at the same spots and end up skating together. They knew how to get all the drugs, too, if you were into that. Idk, I enjoyed them jumping on rails skateboarders couldn’t touch. I thought it was fun to watch.
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mainstream rolling blading?
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It is disappointing to look back at how homophobic skateboarding was for so long. Like, whatever excuse everyone wants to make up, regularly insulting people with slurs is homophobic.
Also, man, I remember working at a private skatepark; we'd have a rollerblading night. It was always the worst night to work. There was always drama and they acted like toddlers.
BMX night was cool though. Those dudes were fun to hang out with and most were pretty solid skateboarders.
Also, I remember the same BMXers got into it with one of the local cool guy assholes at a public skate park one night. Dude was really talented, but at 28ish years old, he'd pick fights with 10-year-olds; he was a dick to everyone who wasn't good; he expected me to get him a discount on his phone plan even after being a jerk to me on a regular basis; and was an all around douche. He picked a fight with the BMXers who were all pretty ripped and they didn't take his shit. They pushed him into a pay phone and threw trash at him until he skated away. It was amazing.
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Kinda funny that the beef seemed pretty one sided from the professional aspect. Like they knew Big Brother was gonna shit on them and just went with it because they thought it was funny too.
I don’t like bladers at the park due to the copious amounts of wax but I do respect that they have to fully commit to their landing or they’re done for.
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Kinda funny that the beef seemed pretty one sided from the professional aspect. Like they knew Big Brother was gonna shit on them and just went with it because they thought it was funny too.
I don’t like bladers at the park due to the copious amounts of wax but I do respect that they have to fully commit to their landing or they’re done for.
The roller bladers here mainly congregate at one park. They have pvc/wood mounts for the ledges. If I end up at the park on during one of their party’s. I just let em have it.
Here’s an almost 5million view video about the same subject that came out 4 years ago. It’s pretty good
https://youtu.be/xVB6ef9JWSk?si=vsgdBr7pBLKTyAk7
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Carnie comes off as a kook in this one to me. the Rollerblade brand is based in Minnesota (skiing, hockey connection) and the scene here in Minneapolis is alive and well. those guys organize weekly rides at different parks and spots, and a ton of people show up. always seemed like their scene was more welcoming and supportive of the outsiders, everything skateboarding claims to be.
I used to be a hater but at a certain point (trapped in the same indoor park all year) realized we're all chasing the same stoke just on different wheels. luckily we're at the point where a lot of the beef has been squashed and we're sharing spots with each other.
it's pretty rad except ironically the people that made me hate wax don't put lacquer on new ledges.
the kink to drop at 3:20 was the stuff of legend growing up in the eastern suburbs. Jeph is awesome, he pulls up to premieres and buys the videos and has been genuinely wonderful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx1nPjbzSuA
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i found myself in a rollerblading rabbit hole a couple of years back… i found this one dude brian shima and he was fucking sick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WynzCXFwLXQ
don’t know the trick names and will not learn them but the footy speaks for itself… i think its a rung above bmx for sure
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Rollerblading fucking rules
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DH7H1zXuUhK/?igsh=MXExNTZqMHJpYzhyZA==
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You guys are insane. Rollerblading is just like scooter kids: they can definitely do some gnarly shit but aesthetically it sucks so brutally hard that the gnarly shit doesn't even matter. Even the ugliest skateboarding looks MILES better than the best rollerblading. Good for them for doing what they like, but it's terrible looking and because of that it can't ever be cool.
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i found myself in a rollerblading rabbit hole a couple of years back… i found this one dude brian shima and he was fucking sick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WynzCXFwLXQ
don’t know the trick names and will not learn them but the footy speaks for itself… i think its a rung above bmx for sure
Editing was offensive, but damn, dude did Leap of Faith!
I think Jordan Taylor has brought us full circle on skateboarding’s acceptance of rollerblading.
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My friend Connor:
http://www.instagram.com/reel/DRufMdoDBe8/
And
http://www.instagram.com/p/BtNo0Fhg42Z/
http://www.instagram.com/p/CHCJjmBDgAR/
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My takeaways from this are…
Dave Carny is the original edgelord and comes off as a massive asshole. “Stay outta my park” lol you haven’t even touched a skateboard in 25 years
Rollerblading was way more accepting as a culture than skating. A woman running the main source of media for the culture and a black woman pro? Unheard of and ahead of their time, which makes the skate scene look like a bunch of assholes.
Wish they would’ve mention those Japanese brothers who dominated the Xgames vert contests back in the day. I get this was a US-centric piece tho. I remember watching those dudes doing 1080s thinking it was pretty sick.
It’s gotta be hard out there to still be a rollerblader in 2026 so I respect them for their dedication
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It looked like there was that Powell swirl logo in that Senate ad they showed. Were they under the same distribution/owner?
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I watched everything. I don't have anything clever or insightful to say other than some of the clips (especially towards the end) were really sick. I had no idea someone could grind rollerblades like that guy smoking the cigarette
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this made me feel kinda bad for how mean my friends and i were to the rollerbladers at school, like to the point of physical fighting. it’s just so childish. the irony of getting called gay for skating, and turning around and being even more homophobic to kids because they rollerbladed.
I was gonna comment the same thing about the irony of being called skater fags then doing the same thing to rollerbladers. There's gotta be a psychological term for that like projection or displacement. Admittedly, I was a hater back then because it was part of the culture, and rollerblading and scootering look fun to do, but aesthetically speaking skateboarding is still superior. That doesn't mean we should bully other people for their different hobbies though.
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Angie Walton is a badass
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Wasn't there already a documentary on YouTube about the same topic some years ago?
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Skateboarding>rollerblading but rollerbladers>skateboarders
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this made me feel kinda bad for how mean my friends and i were to the rollerbladers at school, like to the point of physical fighting. it’s just so childish. the irony of getting called gay for skating, and turning around and being even more homophobic to kids because they rollerbladed.
Nah theres gotta be something else besides the frutibootin aspect. Kids in America were called "grass fairies" and "sissies" for playing soccer growing up in the 90s. To the point youd not wanna even admit to playing soccer it was so bad. American soccer has only become stronger despite this and more broad in its appeal. Theres gotta be something else to it. Its very fascinating collectively people just gave up. Especially since it wasnt just an American fad, those Japanese dudes used to kill the xgames.
Anytime I watched one of those "faces of death" dvd extreme sports accidents compilations. It was always 99% rollerbladers specifically landing fakie from some big drop and going straight to the dome. Cte probably killed rollerblading. If you wanna be good at rollerblading you had to be able to do the fakie landing. Every other bail is a head cracker when you landing like that. Thats why the helmets were so prevalent too.
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You guys are insane. Rollerblading is just like scooter kids: they can definitely do some gnarly shit but aesthetically it sucks so brutally hard that the gnarly shit doesn't even matter. Even the ugliest skateboarding looks MILES better than the best rollerblading. Good for them for doing what they like, but it's terrible looking and because of that it can't ever be cool.
Rollerblading still looks better than anything done on a scooter. It is impossible to ride a scooter without looking silly. A lot of them have such fake style too it's comical. Feet together knees touching while doing some kinda dope dance swag. Plus bladers have to full commit to everything since they are attached to their feet. Far less of a hazard at parks too. There's some awful "inward heel" flare kind of inverted whip thing scoot bros do that's like they're trying to tomahawk you to death with their scooter. Almost took one to the head a few times.
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Imagine caring that another person rollerblades
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Imagine caring that another person rollerblades
Carnie gives off the biggest "peaked in college" vibes. Dawg get off your high horse i bet everybody else in that video ollies higher than you.
That lady who started the blade magazine seems to be on Elissa Steamer levels of radness.
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Imagine caring that another person rollerblades
Carnie gives off the biggest "peaked in college" vibes. Dawg get off your high horse i bet everybody else in that video ollies higher than you.
That lady who started the blade magazine seems to be on Elissa Steamer levels of radness.
He’s got townie who claims he writes papers for all the college guys vibes.
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I used to hate on rollerbladers cause like ya had to or some dumb shit. I still think it’s kinda silly looking but the amount of hate it got was stupid. Around 10 years ago I used to hang out with this dude around the bars that was a blader. Super cool dude. We talked a lot of shit to each other about our respective forms of skating. I found out they called us ‘wood pushers’ One day I pulled up to our local diy and he was there and it was just the two of us. I was actually pretty decent at skating at the time. Mostly ledges, mannies, flat bars and shit but I thought it was cool we were finally gonna get to see each other skate and settle which was cooler. Well a couple of his pals showed up and they were goddamn fucking flying over everything and hitting every obstacle out there and actually getting really gnarly. They were way better at their craft than I was at mine and I’m sure that dude felt like he won the battle. They were all super cool and my perspective changed from then on.
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i had to rewind that grind at 15:20, how tf?
(https://i.imgflip.com/ats8ry.gif)
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i had to rewind that grind at 15:20, how tf?
(https://i.imgflip.com/ats8ry.gif)
That’s called a Torque grind and they are hard as fuck.
Think of it like a switch crook.
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Haven’t watched yet but was it us?
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Haven’t watched yet but was it us?
Maggie Simpson
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I rollerbladed before I skated. Actually the reason why I started skating so late in life (19 years old) was cause I rollerbladed first. Went to the X Games in SF too to see “aggressive inlining” which was odd to think now cause Tony Hawk did the 900 the day after I was there and I didn’t really care. I had a lot of fun doing it though and no real skateboarders messed with me but there was a point it did just die. For me it was cause I had a girlfriend but then Tony Hawk Pro skater came out and skateboarding was the thing thereon after.
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i had to rewind that grind at 15:20, how tf?
(https://i.imgflip.com/ats8ry.gif)
Think of it like a switch crook.
In that case she willied half of it.
I was such a cunt to rollerbladers cos magazines told me to be. I was also a cunt to bodyboarders cos magazines told me to be, and they were a massive shit to surf with, so I guess that was deserved.
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Haven’t watched yet but was it us?
Heelys. All the grinding without the rolling.
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this made me feel kinda bad for how mean my friends and i were to the rollerbladers at school, like to the point of physical fighting. it’s just so childish. the irony of getting called gay for skating, and turning around and being even more homophobic to kids because they rollerbladed.
Nah theres gotta be something else besides the frutibootin aspect. Kids in America were called "grass fairies" and "sissies" for playing soccer growing up in the 90s. To the point youd not wanna even admit to playing soccer it was so bad. American soccer has only become stronger despite this and more broad in its appeal. Theres gotta be something else to it. Its very fascinating collectively people just gave up. Especially since it wasnt just an American fad, those Japanese dudes used to kill the xgames.
Anytime I watched one of those "faces of death" dvd extreme sports accidents compilations. It was always 99% rollerbladers specifically landing fakie from some big drop and going straight to the dome. Cte probably killed rollerblading. If you wanna be good at rollerblading you had to be able to do the fakie landing. Every other bail is a head cracker when you landing like that. Thats why the helmets were so prevalent too.
No. Rollerblading killed rollerblading. I rollerbladed from 12 to 13 years old until I discovered skateboarding. Progression was really easy as a beginner rollerblader. Basic mini ramp and flat rail tricks came real easy and were very consistent, but progressing any further was kind of gnarly and required serious acrobatic training. (It also started to feel real silly as soon as I discovered skateboarding.) The best rollerbladers I knew all eventually transitioned to skateboarding or stopped altogether. Rollerblading just isn’t all that fun at a certain point. Skateboarding was the opposite for me. Really difficult at first, but the more I kept doing it the more challenging and fun it was. Even after twenty years it has not become boring and I don’t need to kill myself to learn new tricks.
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I remember hating on rollerbladers, and the only rollerblader my town had ever seen was me, 6 months earlier
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just, watched it, and my immediate takeaway is, I forgot "fruitbooters" was a word. I do remember hating on roller bladers even though I thought roller blading was sick. Had a pair, and could actually do a few tricks.
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Video killed the Rollerblade star.
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a girl I went to high school with was a pro rollerblader while we were in school and a little after. funny enough her dad was the one who opened the first x games skatepark (it had a couple different names thru the years due to management changes) at the mall outside the city. I used to get free entry cause her dad knew we had been classmates since middle school and she would sometimes show me some of the videos her and the other rollerbladers in the city would put out. she dated this really famous rollerblader, Julian Bah, but he turned out to be an abusive piece of shit and was exhiled from that industry after what he did. all that to say this thread brought back a memory of the only "aggresive inline" video that I would sometimes throw on back in the day in between watching other skate videos on youtube circa 2005. thought it was sick they happened to be the first ones to skate white water before Grant and the Maka/DTE LOC crew got to it but what Grant did there is still hands down the best shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w60jYQGvMqg
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this made me feel kinda bad for how mean my friends and i were to the rollerbladers at school, like to the point of physical fighting. it’s just so childish. the irony of getting called gay for skating, and turning around and being even more homophobic to kids because they rollerbladed.
Nah theres gotta be something else besides the frutibootin aspect. Kids in America were called "grass fairies" and "sissies" for playing soccer growing up in the 90s. To the point youd not wanna even admit to playing soccer it was so bad. American soccer has only become stronger despite this and more broad in its appeal. Theres gotta be something else to it. Its very fascinating collectively people just gave up. Especially since it wasnt just an American fad, those Japanese dudes used to kill the xgames.
Anytime I watched one of those "faces of death" dvd extreme sports accidents compilations. It was always 99% rollerbladers specifically landing fakie from some big drop and going straight to the dome. Cte probably killed rollerblading. If you wanna be good at rollerblading you had to be able to do the fakie landing. Every other bail is a head cracker when you landing like that. Thats why the helmets were so prevalent too.
No. Rollerblading killed rollerblading. I rollerbladed from 12 to 13 years old until I discovered skateboarding. Progression was really easy as a beginner rollerblader. Basic mini ramp and flat rail tricks came real easy and were very consistent, but progressing any further was kind of gnarly and required serious acrobatic training. (It also started to feel real silly as soon as I discovered skateboarding.) The best rollerbladers I knew all eventually transitioned to skateboarding or stopped altogether. Rollerblading just isn’t all that fun at a certain point. Skateboarding was the opposite for me. Really difficult at first, but the more I kept doing it the more challenging and fun it was. Even after twenty years it has not become boring and I don’t need to kill myself to learn new tricks.
I can see this. I learned a few grinds, could air the fun box. Drop in and do some grabs. This would have been the same summer I learned how to drop in on a skateboard. I can't ollie the box, but I can float it in skates. Then it felt like I had to start jumping down hubbas and shit in order to feel like I'm doing anything that matters. Inline was either high-level X-Games competition or Power Rangers movie intro. Finding a middle ground, in progression or a culture the dive into didn't feel as accessible with skateboarding.
Anyway they're right, inline is definitely cooler than skateboarding right now.
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A lot of the rollerbladers from the late 90s are doing it again and it's funny cuz they look like fucking Lemmy or some Hells Angel and theyre flying around at the park on blades, if yall know about food stuff the guy that dude Mason Hereford from Turkey and the Wolf is a huge rollerblader and he's actually really good last i saw he had a bunch of boxes and rails at his restaurant . We always gave the bladers shit here cus why not but i went SF one time and they were being super dickheads to them, it was pretty lame actually, yeah they suck but who cares.
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I know this is sort of a different from aggressive rollerblading but what do people think of the roller skate scene with girls mostly doing it? For some reason from what I saw, I feel like they all got a pass.
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Wasn't there already a documentary on YouTube about the same topic some years ago?
yep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cEXnCsdP3A
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It was always a one sided beef with skaters being the bullies. They hated on rollerbladers the same way jocks hated on skaters. Just passing the beating down to the next in line like it’s always been. Now they do it to scooter riders or whoever doesn’t fit the criteria to better mirror their desired self image. Nice to see not everyone here is that stupid, but holy shit what a stained past we have as a subculture. Same idiots who wax poetic about skateboarding being some ideological brotherhood of merry misfits who will accept anyone are the same to bash trans skaters or still call rollerblading gay. We’ve never really grown out of it.
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I actually have a SICK rollerblading story. In the summer of 2008 I was a on a trip with my family in Europe, I was 15. We got to Paris and finally one day we made the trek all the way to that Paris 18 skatepark. I had been looking forward to it the whole time, I was beyond excited. When I got dropped off I learned that whatever day of the week it was (I think it was Tuesday?) was a “rollerbladers only” day. I explained the situation, that I was from the US, and that “I’d really love the opportunity to skate the park if possible, but I totally understand if it’s a no go, I totally get it, no worries at all.” I even asked if I could just go in and check it out real quick without my board and watch them skate cuz the park just looked so cool and I wanted to see it up close. The dudes behind the counter talked for a second, and they decided to let me skate!
So I go in there, I’m a kid, I’m alone, I don’t really speak French, I’m literally the ONLY one with a skateboard and I’m surrounded by older rollerbladers who are obviously talking to each other about me. I was super shook. I was hesitant to even start skating. I just kinda felt it out and watched other peoples lines, and slowly started to work my way in and start pushing around, but I was super hesitant to do anything but still like 5-0s, Crooks, etc… on the ledges. I was scared to actually go into the heart of the park, so I was mostly just skating some peripheral stuff up top.
Eventually I got approached by a couple of guys and they started talking to me, they could tell I was nervous but they were super cool. I said something like thank you for sharing your park with me today, I’m sorry to intrude, I really appreciate the hospitality. They were like “non, non, it’s good, you okay!”. By the end of the day it felt like we were all homies, they were so fucking cool. They didn’t have to let me skate, they didn’t have to be nice to me, and they certainly didn’t have to go out of the way to make me feel comfortable when they could tell I was nervous. Rollerbladers seem like rad people. I’ll never forget that day. Sorry for the novel length post, just a cool story. It’s a SICK park too, hope it’s still around. If any of those dudes are on slap, much love!
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I’d say in the mid 90’s there was one of those prefab parks by the space needle in Seattle and I was there skating for the weekend. There was this beefy roller blade guy rolling around and to this day, it’s always tricky figuring out their lines. I go up the vert wall or whatever, come down and the dude was right there. POW, I smoked him. I then look up and he’s right in my face. ‘What the fuck dude!!’ I yelled. And he’s just smiling….it was then I realized he was now carrying me.
Ok put me down please…..
There’s a super rando crew of bladers here and when they posse up it sucks because they don’t ever stop moving and they wax the shit out of the quarters which is currently a no-no…when you try and tell them this they get super offended and pile on. No joke I had this Josh Kalis looking guy tell me : ‘I can’t help it if this obstacle can’t handle my abilities….’
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It's important to remember that the homophobia seen in 1990s skateboarding did not exist in a vacuum. At the time, words like "gay" and "fag" were commonly used as insults throughout mainstream culture, from high schools and colleges to sports and entertainment. Skateboarding reflected many of those broader social attitudes, so the hostility toward rollerblading was not unique to skateboarding as a subculture but part of a much wider cultural environment.
Still, it was fuct up to be the rolleblading bullies. Sorry rollerdudes, I too was an impresionable grom that thought blading was lame. Happy to see they are in a cool spot today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xps9LMtG2o0
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this made me feel kinda bad for how mean my friends and i were to the rollerbladers at school, like to the point of physical fighting. it’s just so childish. the irony of getting called gay for skating, and turning around and being even more homophobic to kids because they rollerbladed.
I was gonna comment the same thing about the irony of being called skater fags then doing the same thing to rollerbladers. There's gotta be a psychological term for that like projection or displacement. Admittedly, I was a hater back then because it was part of the culture, and rollerblading and scootering look fun to do, but aesthetically speaking skateboarding is still superior. That doesn't mean we should bully other people for their different hobbies though.
I usually call it “a lack of Paulo Freire”
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“When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to be oppressors.”
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I know this is sort of a different from aggressive rollerblading but what do people think of the roller skate scene with girls mostly doing it? For some reason from what I saw, I feel like they all got a pass.
Quads are skateboarding’s foundational past.
Handplants originated from roller skating, too.
I have a set of quads and I absolutely suck really bad on them. They give me the same terrifying feeling/excitement/thrill I had when I started skateboarding just pushing around. Barely any control and to be completely honest, I don’t even know how to stop using toe stops or any other means so I just eat shit to stop a lot of the times.
I’m much better at ice skating.
My younger brother (RIP) was an aggressive inliner when it was at its height and heavily into it when I visited home one summer. He had constructed a foot high ledge at our parents house and luckily we shared the same boot size. Within 10 minutes, I was grinding his ledge and trying/getting close to rolling away from 360 to 5050 grinds. It was fun, but not nearly as challenging or felt rewarding like skateboarding for me.
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John Cardiel Eric J killed rollerblading.
You can watch the death blow when he’s skating the old Powell park and shoves the blading kid out of his way.
Mystery solved.
Edit* I’m a fucking moron.
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John Cardiel killed rollerblading.
You can watch the death blow when he’s skating the old Powell park and shoves the blading kid out of his way.
Mystery solved.
That was Eric J (RIP) not John.
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John Cardiel killed rollerblading.
You can watch the death blow when he’s skating the old Powell park and shoves the blading kid out of his way.
Mystery solved.
Fuck that guy, that wasn’t Cardiel. Piece of shit just assaulted a little ass kid just enjoying a skatepark that he paid money to get into. Someone should have beat his ass for that.
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It looked like there was that Powell swirl logo in that Senate ad they showed. Were they under the same distribution/owner?
(https://www.oneblademag.com/wp-content/images/lookback/no5/Senate_DBno4.jpg)
it's a joke, senate was like the equivalent of world industries in mid 90s rollerblading, they even sold out by the early 2000s just like world did
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remember the welcome ad with erick winkowski wearing rollerblades, doing an invert on a skateboard?
that was pretty impressive.
not sure if any other australians on here remember the letters section of Australian Skateboarding Magazine (ASM, not SLAM) - it was like you would write to a character named The Fonz (the same character as Happy Days), I remember there was a little cartoon version of him. this thread is flashing me back to the intensely homophobic rollerblade hatred that was spewed by readers and replied to with great zeal by "Fonzie" in that section. made a young bisexual me petrified to ever be open about my sexuality.
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That was a good piece. It didn’t make me feel great about piling on with the tribal rollerblade hate back in the day.
Recently, I’ve half considered using rollerblades for exercise because it’s so flat here that biking barely spikes my heart rate unless I floor it and I can’t jog.
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Yeah. Wow. That was actually a really good watch.
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I feel like this belongs in here
https://youtu.be/ZI0E7_teZLk
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The documentary does mention it in a sideline, but the harsh truth is that in the 90's/early 00's, before the abundance of public skateparks, it always was skateboarders building the parks or ramps or fighting the red tape with the city to get a place to skate.
When it was all done, the rollerbladers kinda just showed up or at least that was what it felt like. And with that came certain entitlement for skateboarders and it really showed in not the best ways, especially with the homophobic insults, which 90's/00's was filled with and I hope we never go back to that.
Bladers waxing the coping was kinda the crutch of it all as co-existing in the same space wasn't always the easiest. It was also same with the BMXers with their steel pegs destroying the curbs/ramps.
And of course how these different toys operate don't always fit the same park and this led to some bummer sessions and didn't really make things better between different crews. In the 10's, after rollerblading kinda disappeared, the same thing happened with the scooter kids.
These days skateboarders are much more mellow policing the different spaces (despite it still being the skateboarders pushing things forward). As you get older, you can appreciate people getting rad no matter what they are riding. It still does suck when the coping is waxed, but at least you can approach it with a sense of nostalgia for the past, hah.
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I feel like this belongs in here
https://youtu.be/ZI0E7_teZLk
Yes! The other nail in the coffin.