An essay on rollerblading
Billy mailled me this essay on rollerblading:
This article (Dissertation.pdf) features interviews with Dave Paine, Mike Rios, Gijs Peetsold, Pierre-Francois Loiseau and Dave Mcnamara.
Since it is long here is the conclusion only (the best part): Conclusion.pdf
The article is about the status of rollerblading today and there is a diagram of the history of rollerblading: Rollerblading Saga.pdf
January 24th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Wow, some people can write!? I only read the conclusion 2! This stuff sounded really good, well done.
January 24th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
A lot of writing, a lot of errors, a lot of talk about gangs, the CCCS, culture/sub-culture, etc… in the end they mentioned rollerblading on one sentence and then went into gangs, and behavioral patterns of said gangs. What does that big essay have to do with rollerblading? Also Spell check is your friend. :)
January 24th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
You did too much !
Your style is too heavy !
Stop the useless metaphor !
January 25th, 2008 at 5:13 am
does anyone know who wrote this and what field they’re studying?
January 25th, 2008 at 6:56 am
I really can’t stand essays that need to persistently agree with authorities to assert any validity, you end up saying nothing at all.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
man thats alot of info, too much, close to the end in the colclusion it had some good intersting points, consice and informative is most effective, long detailed essays just put you to sleep after a while hehe
over all intersting and had some intersting points about what rollerblading is.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
That was a very interesting read. Nice analysis and excellent conclusion. Anyone who disagrees probably hasn’t read the entire thing.
Yes, there were some spelling misstakes.
Yes…I would have really liked to read some of the interview and addenda.
But YES. It was a great paper and an excellent unbiased view at the subculture that is Rollerblading.
9/10 for the man who wrote it. (From a biased blader’s viewpoint that is)
January 26th, 2008 at 5:40 am
wow that was way too long!
But then if any of you guys actually read the whole thing and were clever enough to understand, you’d see the gangs and metaphors are used to compare and represent rolling as a subculture - the writer is drawing parallels and using ‘authorities’ to prove those points.
respect to whoever wrote this though
January 27th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
fuck you. i’m a rollerblader. i don’t want to read, i don’t like to read, i can’t read! fuck essays. gimme beer… and fuck your shitty philosophic essays that say only bullshits…
February 1st, 2008 at 12:10 am
Marda is a fucking bullshiting alcoholic illiterate fuckwit - but he can spell philosophic - wow man…
March 6th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Koubis can you send me the adress of the author? This paper is really interesting and I would like to discuss it with the author. I write my final university dissertation about rollerblading as well!
March 6th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I don’t give users personnal informations, but give me your email, i’ll send it to him, and wrote about the fact that you want discuss about his work.