Comments on: My own opinion about rollerblading

By: Arpas

Arpas — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:17:58 +0000

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By: Conor

Conor — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:48:45 +0000

I THINK…wear what you want except emo pants… and that stuff

By: DANIELSON

DANIELSON — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:24:44 +0000

(cool) when we skate. My spelling sucks.

By: DANIELSON

DANIELSON — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:23:01 +0000

Its very true that most of us follow the trends that pros set. Most of us think we are individuals but we are all influenced by either our fave skaters or the industry in general. Point is- even though helmets make us look funny, it is a good idea to wear one. And it is the responsability of the big name pros to wear them . They and we might not like the idea, but alot of people have and will be unnessicerilly injured because of this notion that you have to look coll when you skate.

By: me

me — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:45:18 +0000

i dont personally mind, at our local skate park in southport there are more rollerbladers than anyother sport, and when we go to rampworx n shit there is allways a good rollin atmospher, so to me its all good at the moment
growth in our sport could only make it better in my view :D

By: DarthRoller

DarthRoller — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:27:17 +0000

I don’t give a sh*t if we become mainstream or not.

If there’s enough money so that we can buy skates, buy skate-branded clothes and do what we want to do, then brilliant.

I think being in the mainstream could be detrimental.

Remember skateparks a few years back? There were two people:

One set wore Mindgame EVERYTHING and did the same tech tricks as every other Mindgame wearing guy in the joint. Once they got to a certain level and had respect from others in the park they stopped proressing and were always cocky as sin.

(p.s. I don’t hate Mindgame, I love their clothes, wheels and vids, but I’m trying to loosely label a roller stereotype here)

(also, I’m by no means saying all “good” skaters are cocky)

Then there were the young kids with the torn up clothes who weren’t all that good at rollin’ but when they missed a trick they tried again 20, 30 even 40 times until they got it. They’d clamber up the 8ft quarter pipe and NEVER gave in and the “good” skaters looked down upon them as “n00b scum”.

I don’t know about you, but mainstream to me= trends and trendy tricks. If I turned up in a skatepark and saw every single guy in the place trying the same “in” move purely because that move was in fashion, I’d be bloody disgusted.

Just my view, not saying that I’m “right”.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:10:48 +0000

Okay….. poorly constructed, but I don’t think that adjusting out image to make others think we are cool will work. Maybe it works for all the highschool kids that follow the latest trend but just like others have said, its diversity that sets us apart from skateboarding and BMXing. Look, if the solution to rollin not being mainstream was to conform to the other “extreme” sports then we would have been weeded out long ago because in that conformist mind state we would have dropped the skates and started to put “mommys and daddys” money away for the newest tony hawk game and whoever else the fuck skateboards deck.

Common people. The whole “Conform to what society would like more” idea is trash, because society does not want us!

Now, lets all put our keyboards away and start doing the only thing that is going to help us grow. EACH ONE TEACH ONE. community love.

Peace
Geoff

By: josh v

josh v — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:56:32 +0000

name of show could be “truebladers”

By: josh v

josh v — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:48:37 +0000

if you wear a helmet on video, you could’t see your face. people would be wonderin who u r

By: LOL

LOL — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:32:59 +0000

man the dude that wrote that article is gay. rofl

By: Unrivaled

Unrivaled — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:56:15 +0000

Uhuh, the accidents with Yuri and Brandon would have been avoided if they had used an helmet, maybe they would have a concussion, but that’s it…
But hey, i think it’s kinda sad nobody of the pro’s wears a helmet cause they’re really doing some sickly rails sometimes and yeah….they set an example for many of the bladers including me….When i’m skating some really steep rails with a big drop on the side and such i don’t wear an helmet cause it wouldn’t look good on camera or photos, probably because were not used to it, to the look of an helmet…it just looks weird, having footage of sick rails with a helmet…i’m always like “that’s not how bladers do” so my helmet stays in the car… off course it’s my choice to not wear it !!! but if some of the top pro’s would wear an helmet, i would surely follow the example cause then it would be acceptable, u know….k peace

By: dan

dan — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:13:10 +0000

nah forget the ” xtreme ” part lol thats too trendy haha y not agressive :D

By: Josh V.

Josh V. — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:03:10 +0000

we should get our own show on tv or y’no like the x- games, but just for inline only! it could be called Xtreme inliners or something

By: Josh V.

Josh V. — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:35:22 +0000

Skating to me is like my 2nd shoe……in an odd way i guess you could say we are good on our feet…..Aggressive walkers!!!!

By: Josh V.

Josh V. — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:32:35 +0000

The only time i wear a helmet is at required parks