26 Responses to “JC Rowe: How to V-Cut your Xsjados”

1. geek de RN Says:
   January 5th, 2009 at 3:27 pm

   It probably takes hours de make, it looks ugly and it’s so useless

2. lol Says:
   January 5th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

   “giant scissors” = tin snips
   “V cut xsjados” = broken ankles.

3. jc_gash Says:
   January 5th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

   jc is gash, the cry baby been frontin tryin to get sponsered. they should come to you. your no roll model as you dont make ppl wanna skate

4. ShAdY Says:
   January 5th, 2009 at 5:11 pm

   C’ets d’origine sur les Wilson ^^

5. Shifty Says:
   January 5th, 2009 at 11:12 pm

   well, i would never cut my liner…

6. ching Says:
   January 6th, 2009 at 3:28 am

   seems like alot of time and effort… if u really love v cut that much then i can understand. but seriously, v cut doesnt even change much about your performance… or dus it ??????/

7. sk8rs_s0uL Says:
   January 6th, 2009 at 9:14 am

   those switchups were great man.. thanks for the tip on cutting xsjados too.

8. geek de RN Says:
   January 6th, 2009 at 11:55 am

   The more I see JC Row, the more I think he should have played ice hockey or baseball

9. NKV Says:
   January 6th, 2009 at 12:54 pm

   geek de RN just watch his profile in vg22…

10. Kojiro Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    woot! that’s LBC SKATE PARK!!

11. DarthRoller Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    cing, you asked about V-cut and performance.

    I had Remz 03′s for a loooong time.

    V-cut, for me, ddn’t change much about my grinding, but DID very much improve my ability to jump onto/over tall things.

    Also made those smaller jumps, like the ones we make onto a knee-high ledge, slightly more effortless.

    Of course, you have to take into consideration that the Freedom-of-feet thing helped too, but I’ve tried on other Remz models with Jug liners that aren’t freedom-of-feet and still thought that the V-cut made a difference.

    I also just hate the feeling of a boot pusing into my achilles tendon when doing any trick, so I found V-cut more comfortable too.

    I don’t know what V-cut on Xsjado’s would perform like, I personally don’t like Xsjados because I find them “too” responsive on tricks. For example, during a makio, I began to turn my shoulder as I would normally to come out of the grind fakie, but the turning effect seemed to travel down my body and turn my makio into a backslide. Backslides are a trick that I can’t do, never mind balance, so I went on my bum.

    This makes me the wrong person to ask, but JC obviously thinks it makes a difference. If you know anybody who decides to V-cut their Xsjado’s, you could always try them on. Or just buy a second cuff and have one V-cut cuff and one regular, then compare.

12. DarthRoller Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Oh and rearding the video:

    Negatives amaze me, I find them really hard. Seeing them incorporated into switch-ups is awesome. We’re also starting to see full cab negatives and true top negatives. I can’t get over what Chris Farmer (and others of course) are able to do, always pushing rolling. Used to be that negatives were seen as a novelty trick.

    Now it looks like they might, some day, be almost as popular as topsides.

13. monkey shoes Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 6:06 pm

    i thought that was sick but im suprised xsjado only gave him flow especially after that whole “sponser jc” thing its a bit harsh especially with someone of his ability. then again they’ve already got an outstanding team. but cmon throw a dog a bone once ina while

14. aldolega Says:
    January 7th, 2009 at 4:08 am

    A V-cut (or a easily-rearward-pivoting “full” cuff) allows you to point your toes when you jump, which lets you use your calf muscles as well as your thigh muscles when you jump. Think about it, you use your whole leg when you jump without skates on, why should your skates limit this?

    JC loved the way Xsjados skated, which is why he switched to them, but he missed the ability to point your toes that the v-cut in Remz gives you, so he just modified his Xsjados to be the perfect skate for him… not that hard to understand really.

    This mod takes less than an hour to do both skates, it’s not like it’s super intensive, those of you complaining about it seeming like so much work must barely make it through putting new wheels in your skates.

    Those of you who are familiar with Xsjados know the parts of the cuff that support you side-to-side are independent of the rear part of the cuff (because of the “bamboo cuts”/”petals”)… thus the v-cut doesn’t affect the side-to-side support unless you make it way crazy super deep.

15. harrie Says:
    January 7th, 2009 at 2:23 pm

    since when is that j.c rowe a flow rider..that guy kills it :S

16. Knight Says:
    January 8th, 2009 at 2:00 am

    i have a pair of xsjados that i use at work, so i decided to try this out. it didn’t take long at all, i’d say an hour and a half tops.

    it doesn’t look ugly either. after i did all the work, i glued part of a black sock over the work done, and lined it up along the black seem on the padding. by doing this, my farmer’s look as though they came with the v-cut, and not like they were worked on.

    they ride awesome, and i really like the new feel. it’s completely different having a lower back to your xsjados, but it’s a good change. i’m not surprised at all that rowe and wilson both prefer the v-cut.

    it’s all personal preference though.

17. Rollo Says:
    January 9th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    Cutting your skate is so 97.
    Add some stickers now …

18. chris Says:
    January 16th, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    why does everyone who ride xsjados feel obligated to do negative grinds

    seriously I’ve watched like 4 or 5 edits today and everyone riding xsjados does at least 1 negative variation haha

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20. punk c Says:
    July 17th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    dat why his leg broke?

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    September 10th, 2009 at 5:29 am

    stop waste time, get a pair of remz

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