Chris haffey: Shock Interview
What do you think about the current state of blading “culture”?
In what ways could we make it more robust and interesting to the outside world?
That’s a hard question. I don’t think we need to change much at all. Its not that it needs to be more interesting, but that the outside world just needs to be shown how interesting it already is.
The thing is you can’t force feed it to people. I think something as simple as having events with the right format and the right courses (to keep it impressive to an outside eye) in the right places would help a lot. Places like Venice beach or any boardwalk of any beach for that matter.
Places with a stupid amount of foot traffic. They see how tight skating is, and I think you can get a good sense of the culture from an event like that. Especially if its less of a contest and more of just a showcase of tight blading.
If its relaxed and all the skaters are having a good time it will come across to all the people that walk by. I know when I used to go to NISS at Venice Beach I always wanted to get better just so I could be hanging out with everyone cause it looked like they were all having a good time on and off the course. [...]
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June 11th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
good interview. gotta feel good about someone like that representing our sport at the highest level.
June 11th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I feel someone or a company should step up to the plate and re-create a contest series like B3, NISS, ASA, MTV Sports (which I think would be better) etc. I think AIL is awesome, but its time to take it back to the streets with high traffic areas just like Haffey said.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
that is happening right now with the world rolling series. its only rollerblading unlike most of the original major competitions but it could have potential to take off and assert itself as truly legit.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:33 am
m8, that ther was loada shite, fucking slag faggit!
June 30th, 2009 at 8:24 am
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