Jean-Yves Blondeau aka Rollerman
Frenchman Jean-Yves Blondeau first conceived of his plastic Buggy Rollin’ suit in 1994, while he was a student at Olivier de Serres design school, in Paris.
But the invention, which allows a wearer to top 60 miles per hour while maintaining any position found in the Kama Sutra, didn’t exactly catch fire with consumers. Not one to give up, Blondeau recently refined the suit to a stripped-down 31-wheel version and developed his own playbook of moves, like the Zaphial (rolling flat on your back with all four limbs pointed straight up) and the Smooth Buggy Dog (three limbs on the ground and one rolling along a wall).
Thanks to Lilchris. Discuss about it in the forums.
And if you’re into japanese mangas, you may noticed that the Suit of Jean-Yves Blondeau is really close some of the things we can see in Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita) by Yukito Kushiro.
up : Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita) by Yukito Kushiro
About Gunnm :
Battle Angel Alita tells the story of Alita (”Gally” in the original version), an amnesiac female cyborg. This cyborg’s intact head and upper torso are found in a state of suspended animation by the cybermedic expert Daisuke Ido while he’s out searching for useful scrap. Amazed by his discovery, Ido quickly returns home and works to revive her. Upon finding that the girl has lost her memory, Ido names her Alita, the name of his recently deceased cat.
The rebuilt Alita soon discovers that she possesses instinctive knowledge of the legendary Martian martial art Panzer Kunst, although she has no other memories of her previous life. Alita must learn to navigate, exist, and fight in the Scrapyard, whose inhabitants themselves live in the rubbish of the tantalizingly close floating city, Tiphares. More
Alita will later enter the motorball, a violent sport : fusion of racing gladiatorial combat where competitors evolve on ’skates’.
Check this Motorball Gunnm video :
The render is a bit wierd and not so close to the original artwork of Yukito Kushiro, but you will have a good idea of what Motorball is after checking the video.
Battle Angel Alita
Tags: jean yves blondeau
November 11th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Gunnm … un exelent manga !!
November 11th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
tin c cho …
November 11th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Haha !
This guy is useless, but so funny :-)
November 11th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
i wouldn’t wear that one
November 11th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
please… do not relate this to rollerblading, in any way…
November 11th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
I simply love this guy!:D:D:DD
November 11th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
The dude was on Ripley’s believe it or not like 6 years ago.
I wouldn’t wear that, I’d much rather have one of the suits from the game Kinetica
November 11th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
…why post that? Just cuz it´s got wheels doesn´t mean we as rollerbladers should feel related to it….I´m not really a huge shopcart fan myself either… just take a minute to think about stuff before you put it on the side….though of course it´s yours and you can do whatever you want… but just don´t…..word up?
November 11th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
who said he is relating it to the site. maybe he thought it was cool and decided to put it up. i mean dont look at it. wont do u any harm. not a big deal man damn.
November 11th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
yeah, I saw him ages ago too… this isn’t really anything new :S
November 11th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
lol hope rollerman will dont meet any bigger stone..
November 11th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
Leave it to the french to do some thing as gay as this……
November 11th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
whatever you think about it, 60 mph 1 inch off the ground, with no way to stop, is buck
November 11th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
i have seen his first prototype and thought i was cool, i wouldn’t buy one but i still liked watching it. Btw it is roller related….so dont get your panties in a bunch, too many critical people here. Like AJ said
“60 mph 1 inch off the ground, with no way to stop, is buck”
yea so hes crazy…
November 11th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
hahahah!
i think i saw
this guy like 6 years ago in Lausanne, and yes leave it to gay french people, trying to speak english hohohho
im kind of french by the way
November 11th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
because we have people like him in this world, who is always willing to invent regardless of what kind of invention might be, human society can grow progressively.
he said:”i enjoy doing things for people, make them happy………….”.
ain’t we all trying to search for our own happiness.
November 11th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Trop Bien!
Il n’a pas un MYSPACE?
November 11th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
well i seen it like long time ago too in ripleys belive it or not.
Well i guess if he enjoyes it its ok…
I think that suit has much more cababilityes to more “tricks” than he did.
Anyhows liked the manga as it was cg and yeah few resemblence whit the suit thing but not much.
I also don’t think this has anything to do whit blading.
November 12th, 2006 at 12:43 am
gay but wateva floats ya boat.
hes wearing rollerblades on his feet u dumb shits that say it has nothing to do with rollerblading.
November 12th, 2006 at 10:15 pm
haha think of all the new tricks you do like soul to 360 body roll haha
November 13th, 2006 at 12:53 am
wow.
there are some losersw on rollernews.
‘thats so gay’
why??
because hes enjoying himself.
fuck all you faggots, i have respect for someone who does his own thing without listening to the narow minded rantings of some little chode smoking jokes.
seriously, learn respect.
admittidky, it looks a little silly, but its funny all the same, and probably rather fun too, and yeah you prick, hes on rollerblades so it is to do with rollerblading?!?!??!!
numb cunt