Jim Jones Officially Launches DipSkate Team
For Immediate Release
April 16, 2007
Jim Jones Officially Launches DipSkate Team
Freestyle Rolling Documentary Slated For Release
New York, NY - In early 2006, Diplomat Records co-CEO Jim Jones announced his sponsorship venture with DipSkate, a Freestyle Rolling team headed by Calvin Sayles and Ramelle Knight. Jones has fulfilled a multitude of roles in his career, including recording artist, producer, executive, video director, entrepreneur and fashion icon with his new Nostic clothing line. Now Jim Jones and his Harlem-based crew The Diplomats are partnering with the newest phenomenon in the world of extreme sports, Freestyle Rolling, to create DipSkate, a Diplomat Records-sponsored skate team.
Commonly referred to as “aggressive skating” from its inception, Freestyle Rolling is the modern-day progression of inline skating, which blends skating, music, and fashion together. Several years ago, New York filmmakers The Brown Brothers (Chris and Courtney Brown) dove into the business of Freestyle Rolling with the same vigor as the skaters they were following on a daily basis. After several years of teaming with pro-skaters Ramelle Knight and Calvin Sayles on different ventures, including an international sponsorship with leading fashion company b.unique & co., the four men sought out new ways to elevate their collective success.
Jim Jones first approached The Brown Brothers after viewing their latest documentary film Know Difference, which received critical acclaim at several 2006 New York screenings. The powerful documentary is scheduled for international release in Fall 2007. “When I got the opportunity to see [The Brown Brothers’] tape, and they told me how the skaters feel when it comes to the Diplomats, I was honored,” explains Jones. “They feel like we’re the realest thing out there, and they love everything that we’re doing, so it was a beautiful opportunity.”
The viision that everyone shares in the DipSkate movement comes from an organic realm of shared professional and personal values. “Jim respects the hustle, the same as we do,” says Ramelle Knight. “He sees what we do is real, and we’re going to take it as far as we can, like he is with his projects. We’re all grinding out here. We are bringing music and skating together to build a union that will make an even stronger team. It is a revolution that will be much appreciated.”
Sadly, in March 2007, the team’s manager Joseph Miles III passed away. Joseph’s enthusiasm and dedication to the Freestyle Rolling movement was intoxicating, and his spirit will be carried on by the team. “This is a beautiful venture,” Joseph said upon his official involvement with DipSkate in 2006. “The biggest movement in Hip Hop teaming up with the biggest up-and-coming movement in the world of extreme sports. This is something most people haven’t experienced, and it’s going to change a lot of opinions out there.”
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April 17th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
as we say “tva e rapa” :) !!! dipset en bunique members - rap and inline skating- a perfect combination! The inline scene needs popular characters such as jim jones to spread the rollerblading idea… ya all know bam margera and skateboarding…
dipskate en destroy !
April 17th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
I love hiphop, I love rolling!
But I dont want rollerblading become so popular
as sketeboarding…
Anybody knows names of the songs?
April 17th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Yes its all good ! dispskate !
April 17th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
that’s a really nice article. very well written and no bullshit. dipskate rocks!
April 17th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
No bullshit ? What we do is called rollerblading, and I can’t see how Jim Jones would be appropriate to speak in the name of rollerbladers…
I appreciate the opportunity to show rolling to a larger audience, but Dipskate is only representative of a group of rollerbladers, and not of rolerbladers as a group.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
No bullshit? B Unique an international fashion label? Printed shirts that don’t even fit right are fashion?
April 17th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
were on the map now boys.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
“Dipskate is only representative of a group of rollerbladers, and not of rollerbladers as a group.”
yeah what he said.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
fuck that
chirs haffey is a rollerblader and is shitloads better than rammelle knight or calvin sayles so how are they just coming to come in and try and change the name and try and make the best ROLLERBLADERS out there look like fags cause they arent calling themselvs a “freetstyle roller” just a rollerblader.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
i like this video, im not so ghetto myself though so some of the stuff they were talking was a bit bullshit in my eyes.
there all dope skater , they have alot of style and that, but this whole
‘dont call us rollerblading’
is like pamela andersons :’dont call be babe’
marketing strategy.
its rollerblading at the end of the day, theres no need to push us out of the community on the whole by calling it a new thing, were already recognised as different to recreational skaters and such without new branding.
you get me?
April 17th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
I really liked the comparison to bmx… “Everyone can bike, but not everyone can bmx…” That actually makes the whole choice to call what we do “aggressive rollerblading”, “freestyle rolling”, “rolling”, etc. rather than rollerblading make a lot of sense to me and is the simpliest argument for it I’ve heard.
To dcroller: For one, I’m sure that Haffey would say that calvin and rammelle are good rollers as well as he is - it’s about having love for your fellow rollers regardless of what they call it. And being a good sport.
Secondly, these people are at levels beyond most of us and this isn’t about a comparison match. This isn’t even for you or for other rollerbladers. This is for the general public. This is something that you’re gonna show your coworker that loves hiphop and wants to know what you mean when you say you rollerblade… Because you’re not going around through cones in spandex and face it — that’s what most people think of when they think of rollerblading.
Peace.
April 17th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
its all good
you wanna call yourself ‘freestyle’ so badly, then go ahead.
good skating is good skating whatever u want to name it.
but if you come around and start dissing my style, calling me fag cause im not ‘freestyle’ like you
then you can go eat a dick
April 17th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
it all just reads like marketing dribble to me blah blah blah biging up things that arnt big making out small partnerships to be internationaly renowned who cares, if rollerblading was really like this id have no problem with it being represented like this but its not,our pros make ;less than minimum wage with our most renowed companies folding because they cant afford to pay thier pros a mediocre salary rolerblading is real and the people who do it are theres no need to force our coming weve been there done that and look what happened rolerblading will rise again but i for one want to see it rise the right way not on the backs of pr bullshit.
April 17th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
i’m digging those airgrind tricks by jullian. and really glad to see john getting some exposure. much respect
dipskate.
April 17th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
“i’m digging those airgrind tricks by jullian”
Me too.
April 17th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
freestyle rollin’… Why not ? The name won’t change the way you do tricks, right ? I’m not in the hiphop fashion style ,and I’m not in the emo fashion style too, I just skate everytime I can, cuz I love it, that’s what’s important I think! So Dipskate !!!
April 17th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
it’s not all about who’s better who’s worse, it’s all about the love for rolling, you should be happy bout somethin goin on in the buissnes not hatin and tellin who’s better and who should be there. stop this shit, go out and roll!
April 17th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Lol you message board haters are exactly the reason rolling never gets anywhere…haha not that me telling you that is going to change you though…It doesn’t matter if they have the catchphrase “freestyle rolling” or whether they are hip hop or rock. Kids are just complaining because of the hiphop persona of the dipskate team. While you kids are calling dipskate posers when you are the poser yourself because you care more about the jeans somebody is wearing more than their skating. Also why are you kids complaining about the fact that there are better skaters out there than their team members, truthfully no one who post on this messageboard can say that because no one is probably anywhere near as good as anyone on the dipskate team. Besides, time can only tell whether dipskate is good for the industry or not. Them putting out a couple of videos doesn’t mean anything yet. So don’t judge a book by its covor and wait for them to show what they are made of.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
to whoever responeded to me.
good point.
and I dont have anything against the hip hop skaters i just dont want the public to only see something that says “dont call this rollerblading” cause it is.
but props to b.unique for doing something big in rollerblading and I hope that dipskate does something good for our sport, i just dont want it to end up like skateboarding with every random fag carrying around some skates cause they think itll get them some girls.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
oh so rolling never gets anywhere because of message board haters.
glad we cleared that up.
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why are people so concerned with where rolling is ‘going?’
it’s already ‘there’ and it’s come a long way since the 90’s. it’s about the skating, not the fashion, the music, or the lifestyle, it’s about tricks on rollerblades plain and simple and really:
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet!
April 17th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
think this is a good idea like hip hop but hate the gangsta shit like dipset but thats just my prefereance. think its good to have all followings and this is just one form however i dont think those part of it should think their there. for example “dunno where we are germany…….or something” if you dont know where your at you dont know where your from or other way round. just dont get clouded by your backing stil;l try to excell in new ways! i am sure they will!!
April 17th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
I think its dope, dope, dope!!
April 17th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
I Love This!! Sick stuff. Yea forum haters will be forum haters. I’m cool with them since they aren’t the real guys representing us and I’m glad about that. But these guys are representing rolling their way like Heat team, Roces, and others and I like it all. They’re all fresh new looks. Loving it all! Dipskate.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
This whole ‘freestyle rolling’ or whatever we’re now supposed to call it is a stupid idea which everyone will get bored of just like ‘aggressive skating’.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
We have finally got a chance to get more money and new blood in the industry and everyone just fucking rips it.
It’s pathetic, and you wonder why this industry has so many problems, it’s fucking pathetic.
April 17th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Exactly! Less Hate guys! We are finally growing again, if Dipskate helps it, great! What it does promote is skating as a lifestyle… being more than just a “hobby.” Whether you like or hate rap, whether you like or hate baggy clothes, whether you like or hate certain skaters… it is ALL part of our culture, less hate allows more progression. WHO CARES what we call it, what is important is what rollerblading/freestylerolling/booting/aggressive skating is to us!
April 17th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
wow. so even rollerbladers dont support rollerblading. so we cant all just support rollerblading despite any difference in music genre?
April 17th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
just for starters, no one was hating on this post.
not once do i hear ‘dipskate are full of shit ect’
all i heard was that there was no necessity to re-brand our sport when its lready distinguished as different from recreational/speed skating.
anyone who says that people just think of rollerblading as spandex wearing cone dodgers are just people who are prone to being wound up by skateboarders and bmx’ers.
everyone knows the differences already, theres no need to re-brand, especially if its to line your own pocket.
dont get me wrong, there all amazing rollerbladers, but like the guy before me said, they acted like germany was some insignificant lace in an arrogant fashion, when all honestly there was some better skaters than them there.
not hating though, people just need to understand that our sport isnt going to get some new found recognition from re-branding, and if it does it will just be a ‘fad’ style of recognition that doesnt last.
our sport is on its way back anyway, theres no need to push this sort of thing on to people.
April 17th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
thank you celadoor!
April 17th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
ramelle knight le noir qui servi le plus a rien de tout l’histoire du rollerBled,a par montré ses couvre chef et ces nouveaux habits…
ramelle knight vs jason haward
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April 17th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
man fuck all of you hating on this…this shit is tight you faggots need to realize “rollerblading” is dead and this is its only hope for revival….it died when ppl started dressing like girls and wearing makeup…… and for those of u calling this stupid/ignorant ect ect …this shit is tight for the same reason young jeezy makes more money than mf doom even though dooms rymes are sicker…just cas someone skates better than another person doesent mean his name is gonna sell shit…hes gotta have character and style too
basicly most rollerbladers these days are gay as shit…back in the day real ppl that kids could actualy look at as cool ran the game…lets bring that shit back
April 17th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
ya well they are giving us exposure!!!!!! Julians ” air grinds” were cool. I have thought about doing those b4
April 17th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
LMAO!!…when i saw the video..before i clicked on it to see what people sed about it, i sed to myself…ohh man i cant wait to see all these criticizing lil “rocker” kids have to say..cause i knew there were gonna be these stupid fckn lil kids that always have some dumb shit to say about the whole DipSkate thing. and its mainly just because they hate hip hop music and anything that is “urban” style…you lil kids are pathetic just stop please and quit rollerblading cause if your not gonna support it then just stay home….fckn kidss…i have know problem with the DipSkate movement i love that they even tried to go to Jim Jones and try to blow Rollerblading up just a lil bit so we arent getting closer to having nomore money in this lifestyle it was smart and i appreciate that they did that.
April 17th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
and i hate to stereotype……
April 18th, 2007 at 12:22 am
i think associating rollerblading with a weak-ass hiphop “movement” is just incredibly shortsighted… half of hip-hop fans already hate dipset and the other half are either indifferent or will be over it in a year or less. where’s the long-term marketing benefit in that?
doesn’t anyone think its a little presumptious of b-unique/”dipskate” to claim to speak for all the rest of us, and try to re-name the sport?
why do we need a more specific name than just “rollerblading”? personally, when people ask me what i do for fun, i say i do tricks on rollerblades… if they don’t understand, they probably were never going to, regardless of what convoluted name i had assigned to it.
you don’t see bikers (freestyle BMX bikers, that is- our bicycle equivalents) saying “i’m a freestyle expressionistic dual-wheel tube-frame-er” or something ridiculous like that… they’re just a biker. they don’t feel a strong need to distinguish themselves from the rest of bicycling, why do we feel such a need to distance ourselves from the rest of inline?
how does rollerblading look when we’re just running from bandwagon to bandwagon, trying to ride the coattails of whatever’s hot in music, fashion, polular culture, etc? weak, and desperate, and unable to stand on its own two legs, that’s what. personally i think rollerblading is awesome all by itself, free of any associations with anything else.
April 18th, 2007 at 12:44 am
What Al said.
I dont freestyle roll….i rollerblade…or….skate.
April 18th, 2007 at 1:05 am
i lovee dipskate and everything that its about and what its doing and all of that but 4 real u all need 2 stop hateing on them all u lil rocker homos who hate rap just look 2 it ina postive something that we all love is really going somewhere and i know most of the ppl on Bunique/dipskate very good and theyre great people ramelle hooked me up so many times i cant even count them its just a great thing and its happinging to great people i hope theyre all sucessful !!!
dipskateee all dayyyy
-nunzio
April 18th, 2007 at 1:24 am
we dont put “freestyle rolling” on our feet, we put on rollerblades. i am a rollerblader, and i am not ashamed to say so and neither should you. i dont know….it just seems lame when rollerbladers try so hard to differentiate themselves from that word. like the term “aggressive inline” back in the gay 90s, wtf was that? freestyle rolling is no better.
April 18th, 2007 at 1:31 am
i guess all these replies are based on assumptions.
April 18th, 2007 at 1:31 am
one more thing, i dont hate hip-hop or baggy clothes or whatever. i am just very cautious about rollerblading getting tagged along with some other trend. i dont want a repeat of what happened in the early-mid gay 90s, which was rollerblading blew up too fast and didnt have the time to control it’s growth and exposure. gotta learn from our history
April 18th, 2007 at 1:58 am
Im sure they dont give much of a fuck to what music you listen to, as long as its good music, but “freestyle rolling” would be more about going out and skating whatever way you want to ( freestyle ). And if your hating on hip hop and all that pant shit, you see ramelle wearing normal jeans and does it look like he cares? just wear whatever feels good or fits your style, Im sure he listens to more than just rap. We skate in our own ways and thats why its so fun.
April 18th, 2007 at 2:49 am
one step closer to becoming the illest sport known to ALL mandkind (not just a few)
April 18th, 2007 at 2:52 am
guys, i think we all know we need a name as a sport. rollerblading just doesn’t do it. i tell a girl i rollerblade last night, she told me she used to rollerblade too when she was 6. WTF!? aggressive inline just sounds fucking dumb, and yeah, let’s face it, freestyle rolling will sound equally dumb give it some time.
i know dipskate only represents a fraction of what rolling is, i’m a rocker myself and all this awkward glamorizing of the sport sounds very unconvincing to me but i hope it will help interest new audiences and bring a little attention to what we do. for those saying that we don’t need this, i think you’re very wrong, our sport could be doing so much better, just remember mindgame.
April 18th, 2007 at 3:51 am
Wow. Those guys really know how to ROLLERBLADE. They must have trick ROLLERBLADES. I think ROLLERBLADING is cool. How do you grind the rails on ROLLERBLADES like those ROLLERBLADERS were doing?
April 18th, 2007 at 3:59 am
I think its awesome for rolling. OMG Rolling theres a good name 0.o.
April 18th, 2007 at 4:03 am
“u all need 2 stop hateing on them all u lil rocker homos who hate rap just look 2 it ina postive something that we all love is really going somewhere”
thinking dipset sucks doesn’t mean you “hate rap”. it also doesn’t mean we’re “hating” on anyone. having a differing opinion does not constitute “hate”. skaters like you, assuming certain things about people because of their pants/music preferences, really hurts rollerblading.
“i tell a girl i rollerblade last night, she told me she used to rollerblade too when she was 6. WTF!?”
well, she did rollerblade, too. she probably also rode a little pink bike with purple streamers on the handlebars and pony graphics on the chainguard… do you see that phasing bikers?
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April 18th, 2007 at 4:32 am
u know what
shut the F’ off and skate
complaining bout this and that…
everyone is different..music, style, technique at least is rolling exposure…
just skate and represent the sport, let other do the same at their own style
April 18th, 2007 at 5:32 am
fuck music, listen to noise.
April 18th, 2007 at 6:34 am
Well I completely agree with al dolega but the thing is… I love rollerblading and i am down with anyone that does it or supports it like seriously i could never hate a rollerblader and the main reason being is that rollerbladers do it cuz thats what they like to do and not for some stupid reason. I am just really afraid that posers will jump all over the sport and just completely destroy the meaning of it. I seen it happen with skateboarding and really like most of those skateboard(P)osers listen to dipset and are just bandwagon followers. Posers will fuck everything up man thats what i feel this exposure might do.
April 18th, 2007 at 6:57 am
Sam Je, I couldnt agree more. Although it is refreshing to see rollerblading get some exposure, i am just not sure how much good will come of it in the long run. Everywhere you go, local blading scenes are very tight, and if there is a huge influx of people jumping into it, and the only thing they know about rollerblading is DIPSKATE, well they are not getting into it with the right mindset, or for any of the real and true reasons, like we all did. So my personal thought, in order for rollerblading to stay as true as it deserves to be, the steps have to be small and taken slowly. As for the renaming of the sport? I dont see the term “freestyle rolling” becoming the new name, and if does, well rollerblading by any other name is just as sick.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:21 am
What Al said… I just don’t feel wasting my time argueing with dumbass like Nunzio again.
“Dipskate is only representative of a group of rollerbladers, and not of rollerbladers as a group.”
So they can freestyle roll as much as they want to, I’ll keep on rollerblading.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:27 am
im not hating either. i think its cool that the hip hop dudes want to do their own thing with dipset or whatever, but i thought the BUnique edit was way better because they used rollerbladers that actually SHOULD be representing rollerbladers as a whole like aragon, murda, bah etc. not ramelle or calvin because no offence they really dont have the huge tricks or great style that they should be showing the masses. Freestyle rolling? fuck that i rollerblade. i get enough stick telling ppl i rollerblade what the fuck are ppl gonna say if i tell them i freestyle roll although theres no majour drama with that. i just have a problem with the constant rebranding of rollerblading. theres no point. who cares. we are doing the same thing we were doing last year? grinding, jumping stairs etc? whats so different now.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:44 am
the frustrating thing for me is just seeing so many rollerbladers constantly running around like decapitated chickens, chasing whatever things they think are going to “save” rollerblading. personally i don’t think rollerblading needs saving, and even if it did, the only thing that could do it would be rollerblading itself.
instead of putting energy trying to tag along with the latest trend- dipset, streetwear, whatever- why not just turn that energy inwards, towards rollerblading itself? real recognizes real, and i believe one of the universal truths in our society is that if you are doing something amazing, you have only to keep doing it and someone (eventually everyone) will take notice.
but if you just half-ass it and try to make it fit into whatever else is getting attention at the moment, you’ll always look lame and forever be ignored. we don’t need Dipset to “blow up” rollerblading- rollerblading doesn’t need to “blow up” right now, at least not in that way. sure, our industry is suffering, our most amazing athletes can’t even earn a living (or at least not enough of them can), shops are closing, etc…… but this stage is necessary, worthy of rejoicing in, even. maybe i’m just a masochist.
April 18th, 2007 at 11:36 am
The thing is, rollerbladers think the world owes us something because rollerblading is sick now (compared to how it used to be)
But what most people fail to realise is that other sports got better too…you only have to watch a new skateboard, bmx, moto x, mountain bike video to realise that although rolling is fucking insane, so are all the other sports, and each is differant but pretty much equally fucking nuts.
So our time may never come.
I wont be holding my breath. I’ll be skating.
April 18th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
tehnically rollerblade is a company. so just like hoover it has become the name of the thing itself, for example a most people do the hoovering not the vacuuming and it is the same for rollerblading, i do not call it rollerblading personally.
April 18th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
“well, she did rollerblade, too. she probably also rode a little pink bike with purple streamers on the handlebars and pony graphics on the chainguard… do you see that phasing bikers?”
yeah, i didn’t phrase that right, problem is, dude, that most people around here, don’t have a notion of what rollerblading is to us or how we do it. personally, i have no interest in people thinking i’m a recreational skater, cause fun as that may be, it’s just not what i do, in fact, they are completely different activities except for the fact that we use inline skates. not so sure we can all identify with the same name. and having to say: “rollerblading” and then explain in what terms is just fucking lame.
April 18th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
The whole Dipskate thing is cool. Al has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to dip set. They are one of the biggest rap groups in the U.S. and Jim Jones is coming off one of his biggest albums. Dip Set is pretty big right now and have been for the last 5 years or so. Balllllin!!!!! lol
April 18th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
“tehnically rollerblade is a company”
And technically, the term “freestyle rolling” belongs to B-Unique & Co. The difference is, they try too hard to make everybody use that term, when Rollerblade is not.
“problem is, dude, that most people around here, don’t have a notion of what rollerblading is to us or how we do it”
That’s where you show them the last [pro name here] video profile, or invite them to look on Youtube for such [your name here] profile.
We got to educate people, and I’m not sure Dipskate is the best tool to educate people. That’s all.
April 18th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
ha this discussion is pretty useless seeing as how this is going to change nothing dipskate does or change the industry the slightest bit if you don’;t like hey oh well go educate people about what you thing rollerblading is then or you could not whine and go skate like I’m about to do peace
April 18th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
The sad part is, people outside of the “rollerblade” world think you ALL are gay, whether you’re a rocker, Hip Hopper or just some bum who skates. “Fruit booters” anyone…? A lot of the skaters are beyond incredible, and it’s very sad that more people haven’t been exposed to what you actually do.
If this Dipskate movement helps in any way to get kids who may have wanted to skate but didn’t (because they thought it might be considered gay), then it’s a great thing. If more people in the mainstream start to understand how hard you all work to perfect your tricks, if they have the opportunity to see there’s more to rollerblading than what they know from the ’90’s, then you should be very, very happy. Dipskate is one facet. Take the opportunity it presents, and get your voice out there too.
The more time you spend being proactive about what you’re doing and the messages you want to send, the more positive it will be for the sport as a whole. Sometimes you have to look outside your bubble and realize that not everyone “gets” what you do.
In the meantime, let Dipskate do what they do. You have something you think is hotter than this, please bring it on and stop whining. It can only help in the bigger picture if you keep it moving.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
inline deserves more publicity. there is so much progress in the sport.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
“im just trying to make some of that tony hawk money” thats what he said and u guys still like him wtf??? omg no theres going to be faggets at my park and downtown in 67xxl tee shirts and pants and call me a fagget when they suck fuck jim jones
April 18th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
so for my third comment in here let me wrap this shit up with something everyone can agree on:
1 -no one is ragging on hip hop,
2 -dipskate could be good for getting people to know about the sport that can be agreed upon, good work dipskate keep that shit up
3 -dipskate can’t speak as a governing body when they’ve only been around for like two months or a little more
4 -jim jones is obviously looking for some financial gain, be weary of fair weather friends
5 -the dipskate crew sounded ignorant talking about Germany in the edit, when euros are some of the sickest rollers these days
6 -bitching on here is not ‘hating’ it’s getting your opinion out there where other rollers and industry dudes can read it, this is the best site out there for rolling and lots of people look at it, 60 odd posts and counting on just this issue
7 -skating is awesome and will get better without outside help
I told five people, all non skaters, non skateboarders the name ‘freestyle rolling’ they thought that was worse than rollerblading and I presented the question in a non biased way. so unless arlo and chris edwards email me or call me directly to talk about freestyle rolling I will call it rollerblading, knowing that it’s aggressive inline skating, but never actually calling it that cause that name is horrible, and freestyle rolling is horrible too, not as horrible, but still pretty bad. it’s like qtips, no one will ever call them cotton swabs!
done and done.
April 18th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
I don t like Dipset but i think it will help to bring Brolling back on the map.
Type dipskat on google and you will see how man page write about it within of one day
April 18th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
props to robf and al dolega
no one was hating on hip hop.
and yeah, they were ignorant as fuck about germany
guy if you keep calling people who are more intelligent than yourself ‘kids’ then your just going to continue to sound stupid.
fuck dipskate and there forced re branding for financial gain scheme.
im out
and yeah,im glad all those kids didn’t start because they thought they would get called ‘gay’
good for them, stay with the sheeps my friend, im fine with that.
this sport has already had its downfall,
its already had its worst stages…
all those companies have already sold out and moved on.
you have to have sacrifices to m,ake something work
only the people that truly love this sport have stuck with it.
im more than happy for this sport to stay as unrecognised and small as it is at the moment because it will keep out all those trendy fad fucks that do shit just to impress others.
seriously, actually look at how these guys are forcing there opinion and views down the neck of everyone.
fuck you and your freestyle rolling,
it changes nothing, only that this sport has a segment that is trying desperatelyhard to become commercial.
just like hip hop did.
and look at the state of it now???
r and b, gangster rap, all thst.
bullshit
real hip hop is where its at.
mos def and talib qwali are ‘blackstar’
listen to that album
take those lyrics in
ope, talented…not like all this shit about how much bling youve got, whose arse your going to pop a cap in to, what low ride your rolling on and all your bitches.
your game is as tight as a slack granny fanny
April 19th, 2007 at 1:11 am
oh my gawd ….. you guys are annoying.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:14 am
Thanks naz =)
April 19th, 2007 at 5:26 am
dipskate the shit and for all yah gay ass posers who aint doing shit for the sport anyway just go skate and have fun and watch rollerblading get big
April 19th, 2007 at 8:39 am
Seems like rollerbladers should learn their own fucking history.
Flash news : Gap enters the sport and sponsors a team ! Great ! Levi’s does too and create a L5 special brand for rollerblading ! Great ! As you say : “watch rollerblading get big” …
…But where are they now ? Where are they when our shops are struggling and not a single “pro” can be paid a decent salary ?
Dipskate, i wish you the best… Hope you’re still here when you realize there’s no “Tony Hawk money” in this industry. Cause you surely won’t.
April 20th, 2007 at 3:55 am
yo dude get a life man you always on these forums talking negative man just chill man and skate and everybody knows theres no tony hawk money in this industry but who says there will never be so just suport dipskate and who knows maybe cause of dipskate more kids will start to skate and our sport will get mainstrem
April 20th, 2007 at 4:20 am
this is why rollerblading is the way it is…so much hate. Appreciate wat theyre tryin to do for the sport dont hate on them for tryin to get us back into the spot light…roll wit da movement DIPSKATEEEEE ;-)
April 20th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
We should be grateful that a million dollar hip-hop label would be willing to put faith into something that isn’t as popular as the other 2 extreme sports (bmx & skateboarding) and won’t be able to make as much profit from them either. Dipset is giving us a chance to get exposed to the general public again seeing how the X games fucked us as well as all the corperate sponsors we had back in the day that were the reason we were promoted like we were. Just look where we were when we had big companies supporting us and look where we are without them. I am sick and fucking tired of companies having to shut down. I wish our shit was sold in malls. I wish our skates were sold at every major sporting goods store. Without us being in the public eye like skateboarding we will eventually fall apart we no longer have salomon or K2 and how many other companies are no longer around? They would all be here if we had more and more of us. Look at how we feed off each other at a competition because there are so many of us rollers there skating. Just imagine if we had numbers as large as skatboarders at our local skateparks and shit. We would be having sick sessions everyday not just when we can get everyone together once in a while. I fully support Dipskate and any other mainstream company/group that is willing to put faith in us the “misfit” of extreme sports because they see something in what we do as opposed to the other 2 alternatives…
April 22nd, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Okay listen up because I am the most intelligent person to leave a comment so far. Everyone has the right to say what they like and everyone is passionate about something they love to do, therefore when some people come along and say they are going to change the face of rollerblading its going to cause quite a stir.
Rollerblading has and needs many faces. When one of its faces decides to say this is the new style of rollerblading and produces an edit which predominantly showcases a particular style which seems so closely linked to the genre of music known as hip hop its going to aggravate other people who don’t view rollerblading in the same way.
Whatever your preference that was really, really poor. It was poorly made and did not show anything new. Rollerblading can look good regardless of your clothing or musical choices and different styles complement each other.
What spoils this is when there is so much infighting about how people skate and really this just highlights how immature we still are. By insulting other people because of what they like to wear, listen to, you also alienate those who currently are not part of rollerblading or perhaps just starting out.
Also by judging a rollerblader on the tricks they can do you critique them to the point where they may feel unsuccessful and then loose interest. This Hammertime culture CAN create a situation where by if you can’t skate at the same level as everybody else or as you were once able to then perhaps rollerblading is not for you.
Encouragement is the answer, something that is often much harder to do than criticise and again the ability to do this no matter your preferences comes with maturity.
And to those who say oh just skate it doesn’t matter, it does! We are not growing up at the same time as skateboarding and the world is now a much more image conscious place. Whether you care about this or not is irrelevant but we need to be careful how we show ourselves to the outside world. Our media should show a range of styles and ages and must be made in a way that portrays how fun rollerblading is not something made in the style of another culture.
I’m not criticising the style but this edit is extremely embarrassing solely because of how ignorant it is to rollerblading’s bigger picture. By re-branding a certain side of rollerblading you will not achieve any lasting success it needs everyone on board. Barely Dead was heading in the right direction. I’m not hating on any rollerblader but this is definitely not the right direction forward.
P.S. Where’s the vert skating. People keep talking about Tony Hawk- money but he skates vert which initially has more of a visual impact. That edit was mainly tech tricks on small boxes. There’s a reason why the little kid asks you “can you do a backflip”. The general public will never appreciated the technical aspect of most of our tricks until they have experienced it for themselves. Tricks need to look good show creativity and we must look like were having fun!
April 26th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
yeah yeah rigth jim jones need to start a produce some elektro funkkk
April 27th, 2007 at 5:51 am
id have to agree with reggae number 1 one about the vert skating really if dipskate wants the public to see how crazy inline has become youd have to put eito or takeshi yasutoko in there i mean the tricks you see done in vert are ridicules back flip 360 back flip double flat spins but no doubt this takes nothing away from the street skaters im just sayin there sould be some vert skaters in the mix with diskate peace
August 8th, 2007 at 6:27 am
LOOK 4 EVERY ROLLER NOT SUPPORTIN JIM JONES THINK ABOUT WHAT YOUR SAYIN FIRST I MEAN ITS ABOUT TIME WE AS A SPORT STARTED DOING BIG THINGS I MEAN DIPSKATE IS PROBLY WAIT IS THE SICKEST TEAM TO HAPPEN SINCE BUNIQUE REALLY ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS WHAT KAT WILLIAMS SAID IF YOU GOT 20 HATERS FIND OUT HOW THE @#$% YOUR GOING TO GET 40 MORE
August 8th, 2007 at 7:11 am
lol…all ya katts dissin the movement r sorry…they not real,ther fake, he cant talk bout rollin,blah blah blah…if u rollerblade keep sk8in wit ur grandma BUT THIS THIS RIGHT HERE…THIS IS FREESTYLE ROLLING…the game has changed..hate it or love it…shout out to MEL,CAL,AND JON,J-BAH…hahaha keep hatein wer on top… B-UNIQUE is what o yea the number 1 sellin clothing company..has what o yea some of the best skaters out ther on the team…its for the love of the sport…B-UNIQUE,DIPSKATE,DIPSET
August 8th, 2007 at 7:25 am
OOO YEAA…an what is all this talk bout tony hawk money…GET A MOTHER F%$&$@# GRIP ON UR SELF….ITS NOT FOR THE MONEY ITS FOR THE F%^&$@#$ LOVE OF IT…sorry some people can make a living off it though…LOVE UR SPORT im 18 an sk8ed since i was 8…an would never stop for sh%$…PEOPLE TALKIN,MONEY,OR ANYTHING…quit talkin bout money cuzz u prob aint got it an wont every have real money(ur juss gettin by)haha….its for the LOVE fam
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:33 am
Wanna fight back the “movement”? Get represented properly? Make ur own edits, look for promotion, showcase yourself to the world instead of just complaining. Some healty competition for exposure would certainly do us good (just dreaming, seeing how much we need to gow as a comunity it would turn into open war for sure).
“I told five people, all non skaters, non skateboarders the name ‘freestyle rolling’ they thought that was worse than rollerblading and I presented the question in a non biased way” Same thing happened to me with 2 people. It reminded them about artistic rollerskating.
respect for all bladers, style or level aside