Vice: Who Killed Rollerblading?

[Plan9Customs]

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.

[The real veganshawn]

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.

[Sandwich Marty]

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.

[roba]

It looked like there was that Powell swirl logo in that Senate ad they showed.   Were they under the same distribution/owner?

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

[spooky electric]

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.

[Willie]

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.

[Sedition]

Yeah. Wow. That was actually a really good watch.

[Owen]

I feel like this belongs in here

[assvogel]

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.

[layzieyez]

I feel like this belongs in here

Yes! The other nail in the coffin.