Montreal Classic 09: Chris Haffey & More
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Pretty much chris haffey annihilating the park with some other dudes doing some deals too… check it out!
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September 1st, 2009 at 8:01 am
Haffey should have won
September 1st, 2009 at 8:10 am
Let’s watch an edit with most of haffey’s tricks from the contest, and maybe 4 other tricks in it and decide who should have won.
September 1st, 2009 at 8:41 am
Fuck guys like Bam Margera, Ryan Schlekler, and all those other X Tremo gays on MTV. Chris Haffey deserves to be living in a nice mansion with about 4 or 5 badass cars and more hoes on him than he can even count. Ahhhh it pisses me off. Hopefully one of these days guys like him, Shima, Julio, Aragon, Broskow and others can experience that.
September 1st, 2009 at 10:32 am
fuck sheckler anyway, hes such a faggot
September 1st, 2009 at 10:41 am
c.haff is a sicc fuckin man ,but that last trick was raw tho onda handrail
September 1st, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I would have won if someone filmed me on my p-box.
September 1st, 2009 at 2:11 pm
were those 0901s?
September 1st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Maybe Haffey’s parents can get divorced and MTV will up a show about it. They can follow him around and watch him wine about all his cunt friends and girlfriends and let everyone know how horrible it is. Rollerblading may always be where it is now, but at least I don’t see shit like wiht 12 year old skateboarders at the park with their video camera filming eachother acting like bam with their bam sweatshirts, skateboards, and whatever else they can get their hands on. I know when I see 11 year old kids learning to rollerblade, I see something completely different than an 11 year old learning to skateboard. I know the 11 year old rollerblader surely isn’t doing it to be part of a trend, but I am almost guarantee that the 11 is just half heartedly entering a 2-4 year trend.
Where the fuck was Mathieu Ledoux for this competition?
September 1st, 2009 at 3:30 pm
yeah i asked myself the same question where was mathieu ledoux?
September 1st, 2009 at 4:25 pm
he was hangover and got herpes from the night before
September 1st, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Haffey no matter what will always be number 1.
Chris, I’m waiting to see some crazy sick footage this winter of you skiing.
September 1st, 2009 at 4:43 pm
More vidéo about the competition on http://www.mindsoulp.com !!!
September 1st, 2009 at 5:21 pm
you people should stop watching MTV… and stop wanting to be famous so much…. fukin USA philosophy….
September 1st, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Chris Haffey is Da men.
September 1st, 2009 at 6:25 pm
“you people should stop watching MTV… and stop wanting to be famous so much…. fukin USA philosophy….”
x10
September 1st, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Rad awesome gnarly sickness.
I particularly liked the close up of Guy Crawford’s face. Every edit should feature it.
September 1st, 2009 at 7:54 pm
“you people should stop watching MTV… and stop wanting to be famous so much…. fukin USA philosophy….”
I agree with the popularity aspect of what you are saying but i think that pros still deserve more. The best of the best of any sport does.
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:07 am
Did anyone read anything I said? My exact point was that the pros deserve more, but it is not possible to have more without having the MTV bullshit with it. Rollerbladers want to keep the sport the way it is with a strong base, but have the pros get paid. Sorry, it’s not going to happen without selling out and having Pat Parnell doing his lame, informative announcing on coporate events. Plus, I do not obsessively watch MTV, but I do pay attention to what is gaining attention in society. Being well rounded does not mean paying attention to only one thing, it means seeing everything and taking that to understand the world around you. Sorry I have a B.A. 2 M.A., and am currently working on PhD. You think all I do is watch MTV and rollerblade, how sad and discriminative. In addition to your incredibly narrow and shallow comments, rollerblading would never make it outside the United States without some fame and money behind the sport. So, once again, you are completely off point. Better luck coming out with some a tad more intelligent next time. Fucking foreign philosophy. ?????????????Oh yeah, I speak three languages too. So, before you go ahead and comment on my “simply USA philosophy,” check your sources. USA is a noun, and it is at not point an adjective there Mr. Philosophy.
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:43 am
@MB
“My exact point was that the pros deserve more, but it is not possible to have more without having the MTV bullshit with it.”
This is true and I agree, it won’t happen without selling out. Most of the kids that frequent here do not understand this, not that it takes a degree to understand it but my guess would be that if most of them had degrees, they might not be rollerblading to begin with. I’ve known my share of rollerbladers from university and they are by far the minority of minorities. Rollerblading has and will probably always get classified as an Xtreme sport, and so any attempt to make it mainstream (sellout) and ultimately pay pros the bigger bucks would automatically send it in the direction of MTV and Pat Parnell commentary. At this point in time, the chances are probably the Dew games at best, which aren’t that bad actually, they are pretty critical on the commentary and I would bet that the judging might be more fair since the comps would be setup properly. The Montreal Classic pretty much proved that even a NON-mainstream competition is flawed by awarding 1st place to a kid that threw himself to do more big tricks than those with more professional rolling styles. In fact, Cudot’s performance is reminiscent of Jeff Larretto (most of the kids won’t get this one, look up National Inline Skate Series, all your favorite old school pros started here ie Julio, Spizer, Feinberg and more).
“simply USA philosophy” Comments like these don’t work anymore, USA bashing speaks more of the basher (those outside the US) :) Bashing goes out the window when you start conversing with Americans who have attended our universities (we have a LOT of good ones, not just one or a few) or work for influential companies. Every country has its pros and cons, so I’ll end that there. Setting that aside, we have a good share of athletes too :)
But aside from the Xtreme Dew Games and Pat Parnell commentary, if the rolling industry can somehow change the image that rollerbladers wear Polos and Khakis and are college-degree holders, and then get sponsors like Charles Schwab, Rolex, Pricewaterhouse, Anheuser-Busch, Bank of America (just named some from http://www.pgatour.com/company/partners.html), then I think the Rolling industry could probably go mainstream in a more mature tone and not end up like the XDew games with Pat Parnell commentary. But otherwise, I think its kinda difficult. Other thoughts though I’m interested!
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:21 am
mb i get your point but but threres a reason i say my whole name, i or any pro roller would never want to be ryan sheckler, hes a fag i hate his show and what not, but rollers need that fame, we need the rep. the risk that rollers take is the same as any other “extreme sport”. if you could make rolling as good as skating by an MTV show stfu all…. you would. and we deserve it. give it time its growing im sorry that chis haffey is amazing at life but being paid 18 grand a year by remz, and look at valo SAME BOOT DIFF SKIN!!!! if you were a boarder you would bitch blading out for making 3 bucks off that off a skin which just takes an artistic eye which im going to school for smartass, you would be fucked and i would be set, so before you think your king shit look at the industry, philosphy aint got shit on blading. i guess the fact that people love the sport you could get into, i hate the fact that people argue on this sight, WE ALL LOVE BLADING IF WE ARE ON, SO SHUT THE FUCK UPPPP!!!!!
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:26 am
and you should back up usa policy if its keeping blading alive cause obviously you need it if the only point you can get across on philosophy is on rollerblading maybe i should go to school on that?
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:05 am
wooowwwww you called rollerbaders minorities, aparently you kno to much about again “aparently” your passion…. i hate your outlook because skateboarders have a bad outlook via old people because there punks, at my local park the bladers are the least “minoritie” gahhhddd shut up bro what are u tryin to prove on a blog!!!!!!
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:06 am
support our sport or leave………. done
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:02 am
While there is sarcasm in that post, its not intended to start anything, I was backing MB’s point, “… that the pros deserve more, but it is not possible to have more without having the MTV bullshit with it.” Of course I think Haffey, Brosk, Aragon and so many others deserve more, I think they are under appreciated. It’s pretty fortunate that they haven’t left yet or quit, but have continued so long to push the limit, and so if it isn’t obvious, they deserve salaries on par with any other top athlete, but that is not how it works. Money must be cycled into the industry and more specifically, the companies that sponsor top pros in order for them to flourish. Whether or not this would actually improve their performance or not is skeptical, but either way, I think they deserve it. In the simplest of english, I am agreeing with you, but I can’t help it if you can’t comprehend my sentences that are more than fluent.
” i or any pro roller would never want to be ryan sheckler, hes a fag i hate his show and what not, but rollers need that fame, we need the rep.”
This is kinda funny though. So could you please explain what type of public profile a pro roller should have if given “that fame” and “rep”? It would probably be something like Sheckler unfortunately, but on blades. In fact, Matt Mantz, Feinberg, Petty, were all kind of like Shecklers minus the show and higher pay. I’m missing a lot of names there.
But either way, no hard feelings to you Peter, I think you just misinterpreted some of the sentences and took it in a negative tone.
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Peter, try formulating a coherent point and getting back to me.
“if you were a boarder you would bitch blading out for making 3 bucks off that off a skin which just takes an artistic eye which im going to school for smartass, you would be fucked and i would be set, so before you think your king shit look at the industry, philosphy aint got shit on blading.”
I don’t know why you taking offense as an art major. I don’t even know why you are talking about the production of a skate. How I would be “fucked” is yet another question that I have here. How and why would I be fucked? I am not a philosophy major, and if you would see that I mention being a philosophy major if you could understand what you are reading. This whole hypothetical situation of me being a boarder and bitching out blading is another question that I have. What are you attempting to suggest here? I am not even going to begin to attempt to comment on what you perceive “USA policy” to be as you show you are making yourself look rediculous with jumbled, inconsistant fragments.
I will make the same point I made to begin with. I love where the rollerblading community is right now. The rollerblading community is realist right now. Think of realist art or writing. Realism stems from contrariness to a larger group, ie. “pop culture” or whatever you deem the larger group to be. If rollerblading becomes the “thing to do,” then the realist edge will be gone and shit will be produced. I do feel badly that the rollerbladers at the top do not get paid well, but that says a great deal about them because you know that they are not in any way doing it “for the money” as people say.
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:35 pm
*I, at not point, mention being a Philosophy major.
Sorry, just clearing that one up.
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:36 pm
*I, at no point, mentioned being a Philosophy major.
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:54 pm
wow, i actually agreed with your first comment mb…
and i still think fuck that philosophy, style, trend, whatever you want to call it of exploiting every possible aspect of life and selling out :) and yes, the USA is where it’s mostly at.
no need to list your degrees.
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Are you mentally ill? I said that not selling out keeps rollerblading strong. I am done with this. Oh yes, and no other countries sell out? Please.
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Yeah Dudes! rollerblading deserve more.. way more…
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