So many of us here in our 30s rediscovering our love of skating when we were teens!!

@CC-lt5cu

4 жыл бұрын

Andrew Lee true

@ziglol

2 жыл бұрын

+1 dude 👊🏻

@SCP-4680

Жыл бұрын

I turned 40 this week. Thinking of strapping on some blades. It's the feeling of ultimate freedom.

@WyrmLimion

Жыл бұрын

Me in the past week. Just took my old blades out today, im wrecked but damn it felt good :)

@bobbobertbobberton1073

Жыл бұрын

That's me. I quit in the 2000's, picked it up again when I was 25, quit again and now at 36 I've just bought my a pair of skates and they are coming in the mail tomorrow.

I'am 32 now. Just bought a new agressive skates. Back in a game after 16 years....

@northrnblcklights

8 жыл бұрын

+Alex Kay same here, have an old pair of RB TRS that i refurbished with some new wheels, bearings, and valo frames...thanks to Shop task Toronto. i am so rusty but it feels good to get back into it...happy blading bro

@Twisted_Individual

8 жыл бұрын

+Stefan Terence I bought 2 pairs: Razors SL2, USD Carbon 15. It's because when I was young (I'm originally from Ukraine) I didn't have 200-300$ for Roces Majestic 13 or even to buy cheaper skates, life wasn't sweet back then. So now I decided to go hardcore and to buy 2 pairs :D And you know, it's so cool to skate again, my body wasn't ready I forgot most of the tricks I did but it all comes back now, I already did royale, top soul\acid, unity! :) So it;s never too late I think!

@milendimitrov8480

8 жыл бұрын

+Alex Kay I ordered today! 30 now, last time skateing agressive inlines was when I was 16... Well... I still use my skateboard from time to time. :)

@Operator311

8 жыл бұрын

+Alex Kay Haha, me too, bought the Majestic 12 in nice and used condition with grindplates and all for 1€ (jep 1€) - I remember paying 250€ back in the nineties. Was 13 or so back then, now 32 :) America and all the skaters were the no. 1 inspiration back then. Even got to meet Arlo, Matt Mantz and many more. Good memories.

@stevecastelyn

8 жыл бұрын

+Alex Kay Man, I am also 32 now. Just dug out my old Roces Fifth Elements. Time to restart what used to be the love of my life. It will be amazing to skate again on a pair of smooth bearings and wheels.

This video had a whole generation of now 30 somethings going out and buying new skates. Man, the 90s, what a pure decade. Maybe the last.

@chrisbauman2562

3 жыл бұрын

The 90s had the most heart

@JPfingerskater

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisbauman2562 even more than the 1920s? Come on man get real

@chrisbauman2562

2 жыл бұрын

@@JPfingerskater the 90s had the most heart. Everyone just lived better

@JPfingerskater

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisbauman2562 haha yeah I know I'm just messing around although I would argue that 2000s were better but that's only cause I am probably Im a bit younger

As a skateboarder since '95 I've always had a great respect to rollerbladers just because they also liked doing a sport that wasn't football or basketball.Sadly blading started to decline and skateboarding got too mainstream that its hard to tell the kids that do it cuz its cool from the ones who just enjoy doing it.Hopefully blading comes back.

I am 38 now and I haven't skate for at least 10 years now ... I'm just about to order some new skates very soon ... I need the freeedom feeling that I had back in the days when I started blading in 1993 after watching the Airborne film ... nothing compares to it ... hopefully this sport is going to raise from the ashes like the phoenix!

@boombipboogaloo9891

4 жыл бұрын

Ha, I haven't skated for 20 years but today I bought a new pair of blades to start back up! Wish me luck!

@jhowardsupporter

4 жыл бұрын

@@boombipboogaloo9891 welcome back to the hate fruitbooter

@davidselovin6053

3 жыл бұрын

@@boombipboogaloo9891 thats fucking awesome dude! all of th bladers in my scene are over 30 (me included) which is kinda cool but still kind worrying....we need to keep it alive and also bring new people in

@Bravo-Too-Much

3 жыл бұрын

It will never rise again

@rubenlopez7142

3 жыл бұрын

@@eightytwo6396 yes I am!

I had started skating again to teach my daughters. At the skating rink, it felt so good to be skating again I had to order a pair of agressive skates immediately on my phone before I left that day. It wasn't long before I had all my daughters skating competently and now I'm getting them into the park and street. I've been hitting the skate park once a week myself now. I can't believe I ever stopped I love this so much.

@Bravo-Too-Much

3 жыл бұрын

Bet you’re not still inlining.

@DivMack

Жыл бұрын

I can completely relate. Took my daughters to the skate park and got myself a pair of Roces so I could partake. It’s like I’ve rediscovered my passion in life. I’m kicking myself for ever giving it up, 20 years of potential progress I’ll never get back, but at least now I’m doing flips and grinds I never could before.

1000 thumbs up to the people who still embrace this beautiful culture. After nearly a decade I've decided to pick up from where I left off and continue to share the stoke. Keep it alive truers!!!

@1999firehawk510

6 жыл бұрын

I’m 50 coming from the roller disco quad skate generation of the 1970’s. Got USD Carbon 3, 4, Seba C.J. Wellsmore grey, green and black. Been park skating for about 4 Years now. Got back in to teach my 7, 6 and 3 year old how to skate. Started with a pair of adjustable skates from Target

Haven't skated in 10 years, I'm 28 and just bought some Valo tv.3. Wish me luck hah

I'm turning 60 this year and still in great shape. Back at rollerblading now since the mid- 90's and loving it. I can't think of anything else. :"

As an avid skateboarder, I greatly appreciate and enjoy watching inline skating. Its an awesome sport and I really hope the industry picks up. Anyone against it is just stupid and biased. Yeah, there may be less tricks, but they damn sure go bigger than skateboarders. In the end they are only doing the same thing you love to do, just different wheels.

@hateatchee7508

7 жыл бұрын

As an avid skateboarder, I have to agree with you. When I saw these dude 360ing into 30 flat 30 kinked rails my jaw dropped to the floor. I have appreciation for all action sports, whether they be the one I choose to do or not.

@ominous-omnipresent-they

5 жыл бұрын

It's also easier since you don't have to pop a board. They stay on your feet. Not dissing, but I've rollerbladed before and grinding is much easier.

@NestorSanchez3D

4 жыл бұрын

@@ominous-omnipresent-they Yeah, and you CANT BAIL.

@jplandscaping5069

4 жыл бұрын

I used to do both sometimes I would out one Rollerblade on and leave my other shoe on to push myself around the sidewalks. But grinding on a bike was the most challenging

@fjg2246

3 жыл бұрын

@@ominous-omnipresent-they true, but because of the same is a bit more painful at the beginner, you do it or you fall

I still have pictures with Jon Julio and the senate team back in the 90s!!!!!!......and I just picked up a new pair of USD sways. Getting back in to it @ 37 yrs young!

Skated from 12 to 18 pretty hardcore, I'm 32 now and have just bought a pair of SL's, been hitting the bowls and ramps in local park every night this week, loving it!

@christianhager1972

8 жыл бұрын

+ProcyonAlpha same here, 15 yrs break and now back on old and new blades...loved it, loving it, will be loving it

@Habeev07

8 жыл бұрын

+ProcyonAlpha Sick man How are the SL's? I still skate my Cult 6's, I'm 27. I want a new pair BAD. Us Soul Skaters gotta stick together. BRINK is one of my Fav Disney movies. I feel in a few years Blading will be back in the money and on TV. The WRS should be gaining momentum.

@ProcyonAlpha

8 жыл бұрын

+Habeev07 Damn right man, soul skaters!! I'm going blading again tonight. Went to the park last night and met some younger bladers about 18, we're going to a park together next week. SL's are awesome man, got the Aragons. I used to ride old pair of 98's Remz!!! Soul space on the SL's makes everything so damn easy. Keep rollin man!!!!

@bretteur2legende

8 жыл бұрын

Same Here, 15 years break and now skating my Majestic 12 ! Greetings from France

@CannonF1st

8 жыл бұрын

snap! 32 and just picking it up again too. trying some Usd richies, so light on my size 11 boats!

I am 28 yrs old and proud to be a blader !!! Blades=freedom ! When you put your skates on, it’s YOU!

@Comingsafra

4 жыл бұрын

agreed

@itsbarnbitch

4 жыл бұрын

@@Comingsafra I am 30 now and still applies. 😍

@Comingsafra

4 жыл бұрын

@@itsbarnbitch =) that awesomeness..i got myself a RB DA rollerblade recently too it been 10 over years since Blades = Freedom 100% =)

I’m 50 and love to skate park. Can only do a few grinds and small airs but I love it and do it twice a day mostly every day and don’t care what anyone says or thinks. Spend hours at the park on weekends. Going now in an hour or so for 3 to 4 hours for sure. Love to blade, the haters can kissma. Blade or die, seriously for me as I got diabetes and it is literally saving my life.

I never realised people had so much animosity towards inline skating. To me it always seemed like a great way to take the elegance of figure-skating or the aggression of hockey-style skating off the ice. I have seen people skate on rollerblades as beautifully as if they were on ice, and that was my inspiration to try and learn it a bit. I can skate on my street any time, but I can't go ice-skate whenever and for however long I like.

Eight-Years-Later... I see this for the first time because this film is what I needed now.

I skated from when I was 6 to 17/18, I'm now 29 and I think I need to skate again. Let's bring it back!

@chokeizm

7 жыл бұрын

Im 29 now skated from 13-15 in central london stree skateing was the best we had ppl come down every weekend from MILES away out of london .. crews .. it was soo good .. its RARE to see 1 crew let alone 2 in the streets nowdays :( ... p.s i always wanted some k2's now i have got some :P

@Jacobsmith-tj9oj

7 жыл бұрын

Khum Dhan I started a year ago and it is one of the best decisions I've ever made

@eddiebernays514

7 жыл бұрын

Jacob smith the rollerblading scene in the early 2000's was incredible. We used to meet up in downtown NYC skate to the top of the island and hit spots on the way. I miss those days so much.

@eddiebernays514

7 жыл бұрын

GraffGames CREWS!!! I forgot about crews. I used to skate with the b unique guys when it was first started. The NYC scene was amazing. I've skated with Jon julio, fish, murda, and a bunch of other dudes I can't remember.

@myboy051

7 жыл бұрын

Khum Dhan - yup I'm from Boston and we used to meet up in packs and hit up spots all over Boston and outskirts of it . They were the days 🤜🤛👍🤝.

Know your roots. haters will hate and "sucker bladers will roll" Just like the sun comes up tomorrow rollerblading will return. respect to all the skates that came before us.

@DRUNKBEATZ

2 жыл бұрын

Word!!

Skates hard until 02. Got back into it in 07 and couldn't believe the progression . Foot surgery ended the come back. Laced up the past two days for the first time in 8 years. Can only do boot tricks. But damn it feels awesome at 30 years old to shred again.

@Sparkp1ug

9 жыл бұрын

francis drebin I know precisely what you mean. Skated until basically the same year. Dipped back in a few years later only to be dragged back out by 'life'...and just discovered an old pair in storage. 31 and still got it. :-)

@Matte.Sweden

9 жыл бұрын

+francis drebin Its nice to see other skaters in my age thats still going, i started 1995 and stoped at 2000. And now iam going to start skating again, going to get the Razors Genesys 11 since iam always rocked Razors :) I started with the Razors Impact 200 and i loved them :D btw iam 32 now

@Vercingetorix.Fantasia

8 жыл бұрын

+Captain N I owned the generations 7s a few years back. great skates and the newer versions are even better, with the exception of the liner, the older versions came with juggernaut liners. I switched to SSM.Bloodline 3s this year and tricked em out with red frames and red Ssm wheels. had to put the old JUG liner from my razors in because the SSM liner was utter shit. these skates are super smooth both rolling and grinding . they grind incredibly smooth. how are you liking your razors , and what are you skating ? I have a maybe 7 inch curb outside my house I play on with my son and skate the boxes at the park down the street. these days a disaster soul on the fun box is about as rad as I get. I seem to break and ache much easier. ate shit a few times this summer trying to progress to where I was in my prime. I try to get out a few times a month. still a great feeling that can't be beat.

This video is how I found skating. Before I watched it I have never seen anything like this on skates. 3 years later I am still sticking with it, I even found a local crew. But it's still so underground.

havent rollerbladed for 3 years, went to the skatepark, 2 skaters and 2 bmxers looking at me after I pulled a unity 180 out on a 4 ft tall and bout 15 ft long hubba, faces like wtf is that!? Like theyve never seen a rollerblader do something dope before, it felt pretty awesome. plus I skateboard, ride bmx and downhill/freeride mtb, and snowboard. usually you go into a skatepark, skaters look at you funny, then you huck a 540 over an 8 stair and they change their faces like "well, that was sick, ok then" and thats about it. Ive never had problems rollerblading, alot of skaters think its pretty dope suprisingly and I live in san diego CA.

@hateatchee7508

7 жыл бұрын

When I was younger I was brainwashed by the whole fruit booter thing. That lasted up until I saw a rollerblader at the skatepark putting down front flip 180's (I think he said something like bio flip?) down the big gap there. Totally changed my perspective lol.

@saliman4874

4 жыл бұрын

didn't trip over the scooter kids?

@sherlockholmes60

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, they were wondering where the hell a fruit booter came from. We thought you were extinct.

@kgimedia

4 жыл бұрын

I’m guilty of using that term in the old days as way to take it back but it’s from a different era. It is homophobic and I recommend not using it in public.

used to blade when I was 15 , now I'm 29 and woke from a dream this morning where I was grinding a rail and now I'm here. and now I really want to get a pair of skates.

had way more fun rollerblading then i ever did skateboarding

@robberfokz375

3 жыл бұрын

@@nickm4974 I hope people enjoyed their sport and won't just throw away with yelling their (bikes,scoots,skateboards,helmets etc.) .We all are doing this for fun,not for competition

@omegamanGXE

3 жыл бұрын

FACTS. Skateboarding takes forever just to learn even the most mundane tricks.

I am 22 now never knew about the existence of aggressive inline skates and i have been running skate board since middle school. My gf is getting her self a pair of quads so i bought my self some Aggressive inlines and i am having the most fun i had in YEARS! I am glad that i got into it and after seeing this makes me even more happy to be supporting the community even if it is just a Tiny bit as a Causal Blader.

im 42 just bought my 1st pair of inlines... was pretty dam good on quads back in 1987... this is a whole new ball game. from hertfordshire uk if their are any born agains out there.

@hyppyrotta71

8 жыл бұрын

I wish you luck!

This documentary is incredibly well put together and very informative. I had no idea rollerblading had such a history!

even today (2018) i can feel the eyes on me when i slap on my blades at a park. no one talks shit on it but i can feel the hate sometimes, dont get me wrong theres always one guy who's like damn bro "respect" but its 50/50. i lowkey love it and thats kind of what pushes me to be better, no one can stop me because im actually good at this shit but damn. watching this really made me think and im not even getting anything from it other than the great feeling of progression and learning new tricks. fucking love this vid, glad i watched it.

My 8 yr old asked for blades this Christmas and she got them three weeks later I had to get myself back into it as well. Since Xmas seven of her friends have gotten blades and use them almost every day. Not saying it's becoming popular again but it's still out there. Syd. Australia

@Bewification

9 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Salinas move to Queensland.

@rainbowtrout75

8 жыл бұрын

+Elizabeth Salinas Im in sydney and im trying to encourage my 10 year old into it...would be awesome to meet up!

@davidjohn5770

6 жыл бұрын

Bet she's shredding now!

been skateboarding since 99' and i still skate a couple times a week. respect to anyone who puts their time and energy into something they love and becomes skilled at it. professional rollerblading is at an insane level and should be recognized

@sk8city476

2 жыл бұрын

I do agree They do what they love and they have skills. And It's not their fault if skateboarding is much cooler

@steve00alt70

2 жыл бұрын

@@sk8city476 cool and not cool means nothing now, its just that your that unique person doing something that nobody is doing and thats really special.

Im 33 and im seeing a trend here. WE ARE ALL RELATIVELY CLOSE IN AGE! The comeback has begun. Now i just need a link to a place to buy some skates!

@deborahgaudreau9611

8 жыл бұрын

+Dave Miami (warmachine) I'm 33 too and my husband is 38! We just got new rollerblades this past weekend at Dick's Sporting Goods.

@fadeevva

8 жыл бұрын

I am 29 and I see the trend, too. Occasionally, this movie came to my life. And it happened after I entered the game again this year. So, I am back!

@idontfukcwithyoutrymebtich6281

7 жыл бұрын

inlinewarehouse.com

@barebasics

7 жыл бұрын

Dave Miami so true I'm 29 but I don't know if I can't skate anymore!!

@dominikradelja4695

7 жыл бұрын

Well,I'm 13 and I do inline skate (not some bullshit like fitness or so,but actual AGGRESSIVE INLINE)

i havent skated since i was 19.. im 32 now. dug out my TRS. feel the urge to put them on and go out.

@EMPtaticz

8 жыл бұрын

+k lang fucking do it man!

Dont know why this old video popped up recommended but, I'm glad it did. Seriously have no idea why I stopped skating back in the day (just assume life hit me pretty hard) but I'm back and hitting the streets again enjoying life.

Just re-watched 'Airborne' after years! I might have to dust off my old K2 Fatties!

@AlexanderTheGreat1000

4 жыл бұрын

TechMetalRules lol dont

Great documentary, took me right back to being young and putting your skates on as a kid and just going out skating all day. Skated 95' to 2001 and like a few of the others dug out my skates the other day. 28 years old now and remembering what an awesome sport it is! Bladding will undoubtedly make a comeback

I don't know what it is. but I keep having dreams that im still bustin in my rollerblades. im 30 right now and anyone who is around that age was part of the golden ages. rolling left you with a dam good feeling attached to it. even when you grew up and got older and had to take care personal life shit. one thing you thought about was comin bac to rollerbloading haha dam... one thing rollerblading taught me was to always be true to yourself and don't wory about tryin to fit in or be cool. latimer speech at the end. spoke some real shit. to still see rollerblading alive after all these years makes me happy. I too got back to my frist love after 12 years orderd some skates from HEDON skate shop and had a dope conversation with a guy Sabastian who is still to this day around his 30s and still rollerblading. Salute to all those still holdin it down all over the world. LOVE THE BLADERS

@newenglandfb3995

8 жыл бұрын

You can thank these big company's and non skaters and shit for the decline of rollerblading

@teflondefcon1674

8 жыл бұрын

i am 31 my first pair was backyard bobs then rollerblade with cable strap they sucked, solomons st90s fit great had a pair of razor jon lazanos or something went back to solomons i think aaron fineburg rocked those. great solid skates. In philly we had every kid skating we built skate parks in abanldoned lots was sick.

@chamonmath7688

8 жыл бұрын

Man u and I are the same age. Part of the best generations left and lived the golden ages of rollerblading. I wanted me some of those st90s at the time, good fit looked fresh and they were light. but I was rockin some beat up oxygens hah. Still got the job done. But yeh in long Beach cali we were buildin fun boxes and watever we could at abandon parking lots. Good fukin times. Much love.

@adamblackburn5646

6 жыл бұрын

Same I'm 32 this year even i still skate even if I have to bring my kids nearly every time

@xenophagia

4 жыл бұрын

I feel ya man, I still have dreams of busting nuts in my skates. I just cant help it. 😂lol I'm just busting your balls. I just got a new pair of skates to get back into it. Cant wait until they get here.

im 24 and start skating, its dificult for me but i dont plan to give up!

@ok-ln5lh

5 жыл бұрын

Are you still skating? If so how is your progress? :)

@thepaperwarrior1843

5 жыл бұрын

Yah how is your progress

Having been a part of the explosion of inline skating in the 90s and back in the day participated in many photo shoots for different magazines of the day. This documentary brought a tear to my eye some hard hitting home truths about a sport I am passionate about. @ 36 I still try and get out there, being a parent of two kids under three I hope to build my own street course for them in our front yard , whatever the label people put on us as skaters, inline will always survive on the streets . A great documentary done real well thank you for adding fuel to my dying fire I got less than four years before I forty am using those to get back on top of my blading game

So proud to be a part of this movement since 1993, 37 and still blading

jet grind radio is why I got into skating. who with me

@invalidatemyass

5 жыл бұрын

JET SET RADIO FUTURE BOI!!!!

@SUICIDE_GEHAD

4 жыл бұрын

Jet Set Radio you incomparable SWINE

@kevindaugard3244

4 жыл бұрын

me

@thesaltytrio2521

3 жыл бұрын

Same here Jet Set Radio along with Air Gear

@shdedu4268

3 жыл бұрын

Jet set radio/Future was a huge inspiration for me. Finally somebody mentioned that beautiful game, with a great OST.

We are united, we are blading

How is rollerblading doing now as an industry (2019)? I always thought that the skateboarders hate rollerbladers thing was way overblown. I used to skateboard all day everyday as a kid. We rolled all around the city with a large crew filming tricks, causing mayhem, and having a good time. There were a few bladers that were part of our crew who got a lot of respect. Yeah we fucked with 'em and called them fruit booters and shit, but they were our boys and we would've had their backs if it came to it. Its all the same shit anyway, just different ways of doing it.

@SAELIOSMUSIC

4 жыл бұрын

aggro skaters & skateboarders got along pretty well, bmx kids there was sometimes dissonances but still respected each other we all hated those damn scooter kids gtfo the way lol

@nickm4974

4 жыл бұрын

Now it seems as long as you actually ride manual push a board ride a bike vs the electric scooter and one wheel bros lol

Rollerblading is so underrated. Needs to come back. I used to rollerblade when I was around 11 12 years old. I used to have oxygen skates. I'm now 31 years old. Kind of want to it again after watching this.

Blade now more than I ever have in my life and I love it that I'm the only one who blazes up and down the local trails in my neighborhood. One of the most fun workouts ever. I'll never quit.

Sometimes I spend the whole day inline skating around town , and when I get back home after evening, I feel that I need to inline skate again. Then, sometimes I go out again. I think I'm addicted

I remember being 7 or 8 in the mid 90s and seeing a kid rollerblading and being completely mesmerized. I eventually got a pair and spent so much time on them in my garage that I taught myself to skate. Fast forward a few years and I went to the rink for the first time and saw the inline hockey kids with their cool skates and coloured wheels and a seed was planted. As a teen in the early 2000s I took out my middle wheels and tried aggressive but copped shit from kids for skating around and my closest friends had never been on skates and just weren't keen. As a teen girl this chain of events drove me underground. I didn't want to skate outside let alone tell people I liked it. At about 19 I went to the skate shop and bought a pair of missions which had the heat mould able boot and i joined a beginner inline hockey team with a whole bunch of middle aged men. Life got in he way and I stopped. I am now 29 and teaching my 4yr old to skate and still Rollin on the missions, have recently discovered slalom freestyle and ordered a paring pow r slide try skates. the reaction from people has been overwhelming positive. Some of the young kids look at me like I'm an alien cruising on two mini UFO's. I am sad a let skating fall by the wayside for so many years, and I had no idea about the events described in this DoCo. explains why I copped shit as a teen well. Keep on Rollin'

@babietee86

8 жыл бұрын

I'm excited to try the tri skates and can't wait to get a nice new pair for freestyle slalom. So great to see there's so many others getting back into skates. :)

@babietee86

8 жыл бұрын

I'm excited to try the tri skates and can't wait to get a nice new pair for freestyle slalom. So great to see there's so many others getting back into skates. :)

I got into aggressive skating in the early 90's. We used to meet up in downtown on the weekends and be like 40+ deep. Anytime a new park would pop up, it was packed full of people. I was able to skate NISS, ASA, warp tour ect, during the height of the sport. Got to meet all the OG's and my Pro-tec was signed by everyone. Times were amazing and still one of the best times of my life, back then the only people I knew, that skateboarded, where potheads, that just used a skateboard as a way to get around. Adventures of Mr Mooseknuckle was one of my favorite flicks at the time. Sad where things have gone today.

13 y/o skier. I asked for a pair for my birthday, 1 day in and im already doin switch lip 270s on to my pvc ski rail. One of the best things I have tried in a long time.

Hit the skate park today for the 1st time in around 20 years, managed to pull off a very small royale on the mini ramp, couldnt believe it

I skateboarded since 1983. I just got into rollerblading for my 8 year-old. Guess what? It's way funner!

I grew up in socal, sk8 surf snow, blade, ice they all complimented each other... but blading was easy to get incredible feelings, none of which I can describe to you, the lift off, the locking on, retracting of wheels, pure flight, landings as if on a planned runway, the feeling of the grind, even the shredded hands, knee's, and elbows.... Skates are like swords, I used to pray heaven was a giant skate park, and flight like superman was just as thrilling as it was in my dreams, a never ending series of ledges, rails, drop offs, and wall rides. Getting high just thinking about it..... Skate or die

Interesting watch in these times. I think it is safe to say we are back. 39 years old here. Two months back in after 20 off and I have three rails in my suburb driveway now. Nostalgia is addicting. Saturday skate session in the drive with a crisp fitted blue dodgers hat, 98 style.

Scooters don't give a rat's ass what people say about them, they're STILL scootin. HOW DO I KNOW?? BECAUSE I SEE THEM EVERY WHERE I TURN. No hate bc I have nothing against them. I just choose to INLINE SKATE. This making fun of each other is childish and elementary school, do what you ENJOY. The rollerblade community needs to COME TOGETHER and FIGHT BACK and get some AGRESSIVE marketing, advertising, exposure, and MONEY going on to get people back into the sport. I DON'T support Nike or Adidas, but pull out a Nike's or Adidas type campaign for inline skating. I mention them bc they are aggressive in their sales marketing, advertising campaign BUT I do NOT purchase their products due to SWEAT SHOP abuse overseas. It shouldn't be too difficult to stomp out gay perception. I am heterosexual btw lol. They said dancers were gay, NOW look at ALL THE GUYS DANCING IN THE MEDIA. Rollerblade companies need to do a better job. And if you're gonna have an inline competition, you better give them REAL PRIZE MONEY instead of stuffing fat CEO faces. Because if you COME TOGETHER and give REAL PRIZE MONEY, YOU WILL ATTRACT THE BEST OF THE SPORT, make the sport LOOK GOOD, increase sales, and continue to stuff your fat CEO faces. :-) *smiles* If you're gonna let a few articles and punk skaters talk gay stuff then, then shet, just walk then. Lol. Go skate, make money, and fck what everyone else says. :-)

@Habeev07

9 жыл бұрын

Support AnimalRights Good Idea, Maybe Xsajdo can contract with Nike on socks for the skate skeletons they make??

OK, I have a question for all the kids saying inline is "easy". Personally, I haven't skated in a few years but I used to compete at imyta, had a few edits and rode with some amazing skaters while I was involved in that scene. I also compete in amateur boxing, super sport motorcycle racing and snowboarding, So i dont really care what people think about 1 particular hobby of mine, just want feedback. Just because jumping with skates attached to your feet is easier than an ollie, does that mean everything on skates is easier than a board? All that means is that the level of intensity must be greater. What I mean is, The same year Hawk landed the first 900 and "changed the world", Shane Yost landed a 1260 and no one seemed to bat an eyelash. If something is easier initially, we are inclined to push it further, faster.

@cmartinson8024

4 жыл бұрын

I see your point, idk I think in line died because I think once you reach a certain level you are pretty much peaked. there's nothing to progress to. you can only do so much. there isn't an endless bag of tricks.

I'm 31 & just bought a pair of skates on the 5miles app after 10 years out of the game. Ha! Good to see so many people in the comments getting back to it after all these years.

"spike jonze made the switch from BMX to music videos" ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Used to be doing it for almost a decade every day during the time of Coup De Tat and Mindgame films (98-2006). I've seen so many people coming and going during those years until I reached an age of not enough crazy or fit to blade with full intensity, also the fatigue that comes with learning pretty much all tricks possible upto a certain extent . Rollerblading is still alive, but I have not seen major evolution in style or approach in the last 10 years .

Back for the 3rd time, the nostalgia with this. I'm 32 an started in 96 stopped for years now back at it hard

I was born in 87 so this was my childhood. I'm a skateboarder but I was introduced to the world of skating by the local skating rink as a kid. Looking back with clarity and maturity, the whole Rivalry was petty and stupid and yea engineered. I miss the wonderful freeing feeling of inline skating and just ordered a pair after decades away from it. It's going to be great 👍

Grew up in the country with dirt roads and dairy farms. So, never got to learn street or aggressive. But, rollerblading was cool back in the day. So, I was the first kid at our local rollerskating rink to ride on rollerblades in 1992. Now, 30 years later, I never stopped and still don’t know how to do tricks and stuff. Essentially I’m a speed skater. Totally not cool to anyone, especially at 40 years-old. But hey, I’m really good at speed skating, and my Siberian Husky loves that I can keep up with him for as fast and as long as he wants to run!

I think the hate is actually boiling down a little now. I've heard many people say they love to watch people inline because of how fluid and amazing it looks, and those words have come mostly from skateboarders. Every time me and my friend put on our skates at our local park and start doing shit, people will stop and watch sometimes. And we never get a bit of negative feed back, ever.

I miss roller blades I miss them so much and now we just have boring hover boards

Skating was my life from age 14 till 22. I’m 35 now and at a random Saturday morning 2am i remembered… barely dead. I miss it.

Rollerblading = No limits what I love about it

Aaron Feinberg, Jon Julio, Brian Shima, Fabiola, Louie Zamora, Caesar Mora, Ito, Yasutuko bros, Josh Petty, Kev G, Eric Schrijn, Nicky Adams, Salima Sanga just some of yhe names I remember watching on the ASA circuit.

Beautiful documentary guys. I decided to put on my old Roces Graals and go for a skate.. Needless to say the nostalgia kicked in and I'm about to buy a new pair of skates :-)

I'm 33. Just bought a pair of Powerslide Next 100s. Totally inspired by Ricardo Lino, Eugen Enin, and Leon Basin. Great to see the industry still maturing.

I'm 31 and it has been almost 20 years since i last used a pair of inline skates. Lately i felt i wanna do so more stuff outside and the idea of riding inline skates came to mind. Now i'm totally hyped and going to buy me a pair of K2's later today. I saw a store that sells all 2016 models with a 100,- discount. The 2017 models look exactly the same except for the colour so why would i care? I'm buying the 2016 model :D

I'm budgeting to get another pair of skates soon. Probably Razor G10's. I used to roll back in 99' ish. I missed the sport, so seeing as I'm a working adult with money now...why the hell not, I need an outside hobby again.

Love this film let's keep us alive

Started back up a few years ago on a more regular level. Never quit all the way. Always had skates since 94. I'm 39 now and still at it. This is a big time for us!!!

this was such a informative documentary and put together so well. very impressed with the way they explained the history - im 30 years old and just got a pair of skates again after stopping participating in it over 16 years ago. thanks for uploading this

I think as of recent years (meaning the past 2 - 3 years) rollerbladers have earned more credit. I say this because I feel as if everyone has united against scooters.

@Kj16V

9 жыл бұрын

Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez Flaming kids who don't ride the same thing that you ride? Superiority complex because you reckon the thing you do is "cooler"? Hmm, starting to sound like a skateboarder! :D Doesn't matter what they're riding, kids are kids. If they're getting in peoples way or whatever, teach them instead of slating them. Most of them are nice, they'll listen and learn.

@Kj16V

9 жыл бұрын

Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez I wouldn't know; I've never gotten into a fight for being a rollerblader - maybe because I'm 6'2"! I started blading in the 90's back when it was "cool" and I remember exactly the same complaints being leveled at blader kids. I'm 32 now, seen the sport rise and fall and come back again as an underground niche. Believe me, nearly everything you've said has been said before about skateboarders, bmx'ers, bladers, etc. etc. By now everyone should know how this whole wheeled-sport thing works and stop picking on whichever sport happens to be new at the time (especially skateboarders. Cut the crap, boarders, no-one cares any more). Scooters aren't my thing but I'm not gonna stop any kids doing - hell, maybe if I'm nice to 'em they'll pick up some blades when they outgrow their scooters!

@bemorejidore4144

9 жыл бұрын

Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez Scooters are beast when it comes to whips and flips (bri flips and whtnot)

@bemorejidore4144

9 жыл бұрын

Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez if u really want to see some cool ish on a scooter check out some of the pro stuff, pros always do it best. if ur not sweatin it np

@BootsofBlindingSpeed

9 жыл бұрын

***** Kj16V tarvi surkhel Holy fuck. Legitimately nevermind. I have never been swayed so quickly & unexpectedly at the same time in my entire life. /watch?v=Ll0dalvIIco Skip to 18:22 I stand proudly corrected. I have never seen anything like that before in all the years of footage & 1st hand skating I've witnessed. I apologize to op & every1 who participated in this thread. You were right. I was wrong.

wow man, thanks for uploading this. I still have my FR "Your Wheels Suck " shirt. miss those days man.

Wow, growing up as a skateboarder who started skating in the early 00's, I didn't realize that people took their hatred of rollerblading so seriously. For us it was always good-natured joking around at the skatepark among friends. At the end of the day, we all respected rollerbladers Anyway, it's sad to see what happened.

@oximofo9

5 жыл бұрын

Matt Sezer dude skaters didn’t hate Inline. I actually dealt with the issue in hockey too. Sponsors and manufacturers hated inline because the sport was dominated by ski companies with 50 years of boot technology and monopoly brand Rollerblade. They couldn’t get theirs like they could like BMX and Skateboarding which for a while had ubiquitous quality and lack of mega brands. Until they did like BMX companies getting merged into mega companies in the 80s and look their sport almost died. The same with hockey the big brands CCM and Bauer couldn’t shit out their overpriced hockey gear for inline because it would break. Instead Mission, Tour, and Black Biscuit made inline ready gear that perfect. Instead of competing they just told everyone it ruins your ice game and should be avoided. Even though they spent 20 years using it as summer training tool. When inline wouldn’t die, CCM made a elite level skate and it sold out. They realize the sport needed CCMs technology, but not its attitude.

Alita-Battle Angel brought me back to my late 90s love & I'm gettin some Roces!

25 years old, just getting back into the game after 12 years or so. Snagged some Xsjado 2.0s and Kaltik frames and LOVE them. I was so excited to get them assembled. I threw them on immediately and went out to roll at 9:30 PM lol. It almost feels like, despite not rolling for so long, I have more courage to try things that the younger me never would have.

The most tragic part about all this is bladers are still underground. This is an awesome sport with so much style, skill and bravery involved, with a short but established history. Enough of a history for us to have absolute legends like Morales, Broskow, Shima, Farmer, Haffey, Aragon, Murda, the Yasutoko bros, Da Silva, Stockwell and many others to look up to. Meanwhile fully grown men riding around on their child's scooters are creeping into the X Games.

I bought a pair of K2 Fattys...then watched this video. I'm dedicating this year to learning how to skate on them. Thanks for uploading this, without you I would've never seen this video.

Just ordered some Seba FR1 80's. I'm pumped to go back. Can't wait until it makes a full swing back to mainstream.

@X11CHASE

7 жыл бұрын

ShouriSeifuku never gonna happen

@ShouriSeifuku

7 жыл бұрын

Never say never. I've noticed an uptick in my area of bladers.

its been nearly 10 years since ive skated and its always in the back of my mind... was really curious on how the scene was doing. shoutout to the dudes crushin it everyday

@lokshotdnb

Жыл бұрын

update, started skating again this year.

Great doc guys... need to get myself a pair of skates again.

im 35 and just got my Them 908s in , its been 15 years and bought to start shredding again , fuck yeah!

In 1994, I used to ride for Hyper Wheels, Boss Speed Bearings and Hardline Clothing, which was owned by AJ "Action" Jackson, who's in this video. : ) What a great time! They forgot my tag at the Super Show in Atlanta and had to use Brian Bell's! Of course, I introduced myself to Brian Bell AS Brian Bell! Hahahaha...! Went down to that trade show with my girl, Kate Gengo.

hahah old days man, i remember we had 1 half pipe at a park with alot of tourists walking by. often when me and some friends were pulling runs out ppl stopped to watch and even applauded at occasions, we werent specificly pro or anything just decent some air grabs and backflip handplant stuff. it was a great feeling. once the run was over and we dropped out to take a break all these skateboarders went ahead, and even though comparable on the same level of expertise as our skating was on rollerblades. it looked so dull to the park tourists(kickflip attempts and regular 180 nose stalls etc) they NEVER kept on watching. just had that expression on their face like.. yeah show is over lets move along. thats what i always loved about rollerblading, the tricks are huge, your air is huge and it always gave me a much much greater feeling of adrenaline then nailing a kickflip or any sort of flip on a skateboard (wich in itself was hard enough aswell haha)

Been blading since 12 year old. At 31? I always have blades in my car trunk just in case I will find a good spot! :)

@JenovaRunzSlayer

9 жыл бұрын

much respect, ppl like you and me are what keeps it alive its sad to say as a blader but this sport has remained "Barely Dead" and unless there is some fight for it it will stay that way unfortunately. Rollerblading IS AN ACTION SPORT

@loganm9793

9 жыл бұрын

yea, i've been still trying to learn how to grind and stuff, i'm 13yrs old and a good skater and want to be very good at it one day :)

I am a skateboarder for 31 years. We hated rollerbladers for 2 reasons. Because they were rich kids, and they were attached. Nowadays, I don’t hold the same animosity. But skateboarding will always be number 1

I got married in 2000 and had 2 jobs, that’s when I kinda stopped skating, got into paintball real heavy, then skydiving, but damn, I rewatched damaged goods and vg4 puppets of destiny recently and then this, now I’m going to dust off my 1996 magestic 12’s, still got the original senate lowriders on them :)

Man I need a super-like button!!! After we got dropped from the x-games I was distraught...I hadn't skated in years until I got a pair of Roces M12s for the low. I'm mad at myself for staying away for so long. I was 14 then...I'm 29 now...but it feels like just yesterday

I'm 21 and I just learned to ride skates last summer and this spring I'm looking forward to learning aggressive inline

Im 28, i hit the skate park 2 times last week had a blast. Thank you guys for this movie🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

amazing documentary im so thankful for whoever made this !! i relate to so many things said here i started hitting the skate parks here in toronto when i was 11 years old after watching BRINK...WHO REMEMBERS BRINK THE MOVIE BY DISNEY?! i was in love with blading so much it was all i did but for some reason stopped when i was 16 grade 10 high school...now at the age of 28 im getting back into it as of tomorrow !! ....literally made plans to go buy a pair of salmons tomorrow morning LOL im so damn excited....hearing all these names in this doc bring me back so much...what nostalgia ! i would make my mother go to chapters and buy me the DAILY BREAK MAGAZINE EVERY WEEK it always hurt to know how much "aggressive" rollerblading suffered and i always wondered why this doc explained so much to me i didnt know just over 10 years after after i got out of doing it LOL im very proud to be back and supporting this sport cheers guys

The problem with aggressive inline's image, and I say this as an inline skater myself, is that the sport initially attracted the worst kinds of people: bullies, thugs, and trash. Look at the foul mouthed, aggressive people featured at the beginning of this video. Look at Senate's "destroy all girls" t-shirts. For these people they were trying to make an image rather than grow and honor the sport. Modern inline skating groups have done a great job cleaning up the sport's image. We have kind, positive role models for the younger generation, and it's no longer defined by angsty male teenagers and manchildren who feel they have something to prove.

@Jmitch767

6 жыл бұрын

DavidSkis I agree. All of my friends and I skated back in 1996. We were kind of like a gang demolishing shit getting in trouble with every cop in town. We didn’t care. We felt invincible.

@cosmicsans67

4 жыл бұрын

i was thinking this same thing while watching. its jawdropping how they could talk abt being ostracized and discriminated while using homophobic and mysoginistic slurs

@Vercingetorix.Fantasia

3 жыл бұрын

Senate litteraly was " angry youth ", we outgrew that into the thug era, and now we are where we are I king for the angry youth days again

I use to bmx, skateboard and aggressive inline, I have no idea the hate for inline at all, some argued that it's easier, I found bmx easier, but so what? Who cares if one is easier than the other, if we lived in that world, we'd only ever extreme uni cycle?

@sn1000k

5 жыл бұрын

good point

@SandlapperSam

5 жыл бұрын

I think its easier to do grinds and flips but harder because you cant bail so if you are gonna attempt something you better commit.

@MapleBar777

5 жыл бұрын

I was the skateboarder that bought into the whole easier thing, but had a friend who was a really good rollerblader who told me the most obvious shit that never crossed my mind; "You can take any creative activity to a higher level of difficulty."

@tracystephens5014

4 жыл бұрын

The commit factor was huge for in-lines. I was a skateboarder, bmxer & in-liner & the "no-bail" for in-lines got me really hurt many times.

@Vercingetorix.Fantasia

3 жыл бұрын

Bmx is def the easiest discipline .you have fn brakes! Lol. Skates are easy to start , that's it. The I intial time getting comfortable and beginner tricks is shorter . But blades go the biggest and hardest

I see that the old disagreements about these sports are still alive & well. I rollerbladed from about ages 14-23 & only quit because I messed up my left knee, then my right knee because I had to wear a brace & walk with crutches for 3 months. All these sports (bike, skateboarding & rollerblading) are equally difficult no matter how you look at it, so everyone should just agree to disagree & get over it.

A good marketing approach is to market inline skating to the MASSES as a great way to exercise if you don't want to kill your knees and joints running, a great way to exercise by yourself and with friends, a great and easy mode of transportation, and if you have the chops, then to do tricks and aggressive skating, and competition. Or you can do INLINE HOCKEY.

@oximofo9

9 жыл бұрын

Support AnimalRights You do know that a big reason why inline skating fell of the map is because ice hockey manufactures. Like skateboarding manufactures, many did not jump into the scene fast enough to push out crossover products. They lagged behind against the establish alternative companies like Mission, V-form, Tour, Black Biscuit, ect. Notice all the sub-culture style names? So, hockey companies, like the old skateboarder companies, went on a crusade(if you're from the North East, Canada, Michigan, and Minnesota) you would be more familiar with this, like people from Cali, Florida, ect saw with the skateboarder backlash. To destroy roller hockey, but not the sport, the companies. They knew they could not stop people from the convenience and price point of roller hockey. It was a growing sport, they wanted their piece. They went full force in claiming the gear hurt your ice hockey game, that it wasn't a good alternative to Ice, the gear was junk, or not designed with "real" hockey in mind. Well guess who could make "real" gear! Bauer, CCM, Nike, and Cooper! The big name, full ice hockey price point companies could! Without the step in appeal from inline hockey and the tech money, roller blades became specialized. Which is good for pros, but it was bad for newbies. I like at the end that they showed that companies have realized this and make entry level skates again. TBH, skateboarding wanted inline dead, because they wanted to make sure crossover appeal and sponsors would never ever leave their decks.

2017 inline?

@muhammadkhaliquemohamadzul4376

6 жыл бұрын

InlineReturns "on a roll" devs should develop a very awesome and enjoyable game for mobile devices so inline skating can get popular back. Just look at how tony hawk's game on ps2 influenced the world. In this mobile era, inline skate games on mobile devices should be a thing.

@noregrets5714

5 жыл бұрын

2019 here!

@greedyebk7146

3 жыл бұрын

2021 HERE

I skate cause i like playing Jet Set Radio lol

@-_-iwasbeingironic-_-117

8 жыл бұрын

you already know bruuuhh

@chokeizm

7 жыл бұрын

Graffiti the world my friend!

@jjb.6152

6 жыл бұрын

jack black - airborne (i still use that on folks)

Skated from 11 years old until 22 years of age, I am turning 40 this year. I did some crazy shit during my day, jumping off of roofs into transitions and grinding huge rails. My favorite tricks were sweat stances, kind grinds, mistrial, mistrial but negative, savannas, front and back torques. Favorite skates at the time were razors, and I had a soft spot for 5th elements too. When I was a young kid I really liked the k2 fatties I learned how to switch almost everything on those skates and gained confidence to start attacking bigger rails. My ankles are thrashed though and my neck isn't in the best of shape. I wish I had time to skate again I miss it dearly.

This is pretty cool. I feel like this is the same thing they do to people ride fixed gear bikes in the streets. The best thing you can do is just doing what you love.

90s kids. Our time has come. Let us return to the streets and bathe in our glory!

@omegamanGXE

3 жыл бұрын

Das rite