Ben Harmanus: Adapt Website Relaunch, Edit
Filmed by Dirk Oelmann & Dominik Wagner ; additional angles by Patrick Ridder, Dave Mutschall, Chris Koll & Dominik Stransky.
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July 15th, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Probably could have a done with a little more wax on some of the rails benni son!
July 15th, 2012 at 11:59 pm
Amazing skating. Those look like some wicked skates too! Wax is not needed?
July 16th, 2012 at 12:23 am
damn that first spot… I really wish he would have utilized it
July 16th, 2012 at 1:06 am
that sucked really bad
July 16th, 2012 at 1:32 am
That was so fucking sick
July 16th, 2012 at 3:18 am
that fucking sucked… Wax dude; wax…
July 16th, 2012 at 3:50 am
My mate dave can do 1080 to toe stall, can anyone help get him some free things?
July 16th, 2012 at 3:57 am
they didnt look like they slid very well on those rails
July 16th, 2012 at 5:13 am
Uhmw has always been slower on rails.. on ledges its butter.
Julio used to stick like crazy Back in the juice system days.. it makes rails more controllable… and ledges even funner
July 16th, 2012 at 8:11 am
I got this excellent idea: why don’t Adapt and SSM merge? Adapt got the skates and SSM a great team and a lot of goodwill.
July 16th, 2012 at 8:30 am
skating-ugly shit’
skates-double ugly shit
music-tripple ugly shit
no style
no future…
July 16th, 2012 at 8:31 am
ehm and…
July 16th, 2012 at 1:06 am
that sucked really bad
damn…
July 16th, 2012 at 10:36 am
dont like it
message tooo short
July 16th, 2012 at 10:46 am
Sick looking skate I just dont know if Ben should be the face of adapt. Bens style would suit Xsjados better. I think they should go get a new group of talented bladers to rep the skates and take a seat on the bench until the brand gets a bit more exposure.
July 16th, 2012 at 11:13 am
Terrible skating and camera work!
July 16th, 2012 at 11:35 am
Can´t believe how hard he is ripping! Ben could easily be the father of half the kids posted above me. I like it – hart.
July 16th, 2012 at 11:51 am
Worst blader alive
July 16th, 2012 at 12:25 pm
i vomed on myself because of the skates and then i vomed everywhere after watching the edit
July 16th, 2012 at 12:37 pm
Adapt Brade is what rollerblading needs. True-blader-owned and an innovative, extremely high quality product. Something that was engineered from scratch. Can’t wait until mine arrive!
July 16th, 2012 at 1:26 pm
I love this guys skating.
he is past 30 and everytime he skates he is destroying his body, no pussy ass miniramp skating.
July 16th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
New adapt team Zamora, Bah and Morales
July 16th, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Adapt Brand is exactly what blading needs. True-blader-owned and top tier innovation and quality engineered from scratch. Can’t wait for mine to arrive!
July 16th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
Best looking skates in the world!
July 16th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
drish bodrichkovich
July 16th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
dear haters: fuck yourself ;)
ben is a legend and its so good to see him still skating!
the adapt skate is awesome. the souls are fast, no worries. he just didn`t wax the rails.
again to you fuckers:
please go to school and talk to your parents, if they can teach you some respect and good behavior and than come back ;)
greetings ;)
July 16th, 2012 at 5:04 pm
when you stick on every trick, its not a good look for a skate brand
July 16th, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Shittiest pro in rollerblading
July 16th, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Lol at the soul plates sicking, is this a joke?
July 16th, 2012 at 6:57 pm
The skates look great but this was an awful edit for a skate promo. 30 or not, there is a level of skill you should have to have in order to be the face of a brand. While he’s obviously a skilled rollerblader, he’s seen better days. I’m 32 and still skating but I’m not as good as I used to be and I don’t pretend to be. I can pretty much do everything this guy did, and I certainly don’t think I should be the face of Adapt, and nor should he.
July 16th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
This is perhaps the worst promo I’ve ever seen…
Rollerbladers have really got to wise up and stop labelling people with criticism as “haters”. If you stay ignorant with your fingers in your ears, companies can do and say whatever they want, they become unaccountable for their poor representation, product and business plan.
I would have thought that those who were blading when the industry crashed would have seen the light and realised that these business plans aren’t sustainable and filling the market with products does nothing but dilute the overall quality and bankrupt skaters themselves.
I’m all in support of skater owned compaines, if they are relevant/necessary but this looks like a “I want a piece of the pie” job.
Judging from this promo (and that’s what it was made for) they offer nothing more than any other skate, maybe even less. The obnoxious song was also a good reflection of this type of attitude…
No it’s not jealousy, no it’s not hate. It’s foresight and honest criticism. The real hate is when companies (possibly unconsciously) exploit rollerbladers by selling them generic products or subpar content, just to get in the game.
I hope I’m wrong and Adapt bust out quality, but I won’t be and they’ll likely be finished in 2 years.
Speak to Jon Julio and take notes, he’s one of the only guys who can mix blading and business well.
July 16th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
words to the guy above
July 16th, 2012 at 10:01 pm
the guy above the guy above me…has a point..not all of it I think is entirely true, but in sense I do agree with him. I would have been maybe a little more specific tho.
on a side note:
what the fuck is this crap with this blader-owned shit all the time?
Blading needs all of them, skater-owned smaller and independent companies
AND desperately some more big ones again that mean it this time…stricktly skater-owned is a fucking illusion and I can’t hear this crap anymore.
July 16th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
I wonder why the posts on Rollernews are so bad while all over Facebook real existing people love the blades.
Funny how so many believe to be industry insiders. I am not sure if insiders would really post over here…not even using real names to make a statement.
Also, how can anyone judge a skate they never tried. I saw the Bah video and lots more…no sliding problems. Harmanus is blading some shitty bad ass rails most people would not even try, maybe waxing a steep real would not be a smart idea when transfering it? Who could tell, you havent skated that spot.
Who ever claims he could lace all the tricks shown should bust out an edit and please, use your real name.
July 16th, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Pretty good edit. Not the best edit in the world for a new promo but ah well…
everyone saying about the soul plates sticking… It’s obviously not a MAJOR issue. Benny does a slow zero makio. If you could do that trick you’d know that if you stick you smack your head. No return… I didn’t see any head smashing. They can’t be sticky in ALL circumstances.
The skates are beautiful. Just not the best branding. I’m excited to see what comes in the future!
July 16th, 2012 at 11:31 pm
all yall niggaz bes reconize dat my nigga JBAH be ridin on deez adapt skates nigga. so anything that my nigga jbah support, nigga Blader gang be on it. “we OUT HERE” nigga and niggetz. real niggaz whats up? YOLO!
July 16th, 2012 at 11:38 pm
What adapt is offering is the lightest skate on the market and the closest thing to snreakers with wheels that we have.
Jbah close thread
July 16th, 2012 at 11:52 pm
^^adapt is crap. see it even rhymes, xjados are the lightest skates and yes you can wear your sneakers in them! BOOM!
July 17th, 2012 at 5:30 am
Xsjado are NOT the lightest skates…. Maybe you should try other skates before you say dumb shit like that……. I’m happy you like your xjsado’s, but that doesn’t mean it’s for everyone. I had a pair a few years back, when Everyone was riding them, and I regretted it. I sold them to a buddy within 2 months, and used the money to buy a pair of REMZ, which are still the skates I use today (3 years later). I don’t hate XSJADO, but they aren’t right for my style…. And they def arent the lightest skates. Shit… I gotta pair of 10 yr old razor cults that are lighter than that. Don’t diss Adapt until you try them. I havn’t tried them, so I wont act like I know.
July 17th, 2012 at 6:13 am
>>I wonder why the posts on Rollernews are so bad while all over Facebook real existing people love the blades.
So you think people on Facebook are all honest? You have a lot to lose by telling honestly what you think and putting your real name next to it.
You have as much hater on Facebook than here, the difference is that everything you tell on facebook can backfire on you.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:24 am
Welcome to the real world. The shit you do and say backfires on you. Amazing. Shut down your computer and speak to peoples faces. Would you say the things you say the way you do when talking to someone in real life?
Critizism is not a bad thing but lots of comments are just random and try to fuck someone up. If you look at the time someone up here makes a post you can easily see that the same person posted 4 x within a few minutes. different names. no comments before and after that for hours. spreading hate.
be sceptical, critizise, but dont try to pretend you are speaking for the masses out there…you dont. and you cant. cause only a few ever touched the adapts and just a few tried them but everytime i see one on FB he/she IS VERY HAPPY with the blades.
July 17th, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Ou fucking idiots dont know what you asses are talking about.
Nice to see such a sick edit of Mr. Harmanus
keep going old man jejejejejejeje
July 17th, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Fuck all you TROLLZzZZ, Blader gang will put yall niggaz and NIGGETZ to sleep. Blader GANG + Adapt collab / RAP video hitten da streetz Keep YO eyes and ears open. Yuck YUCKEM on da track, we Bustin back, straigt bladergangstaz on da track, you already know I be countin stackz, Nigga we out here!!
July 18th, 2012 at 12:00 am
damn! niggaz be quite after I bust my flow. WE OUT HERE!!!
July 18th, 2012 at 9:33 am
BLADER GANG OR SUCK YO GRANDMAMMYS PUSSAY
July 18th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
I dont address bitch niggaz, we out here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 19th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
company gonna die within one year or start making scooters anyways.. Edit sucked, u know it, i know it, we all know it. End of story