After his crash at the Air Fise Marseille 2011, most of us thought he would rest for a quite long time. But Romain Godenaire is a real warrior.

This edit by Tim Marsh was shot only one month after coming out of the hospital.

Visit T-marsh.com.

A unique film designed to reflect the inner soul of the skating industry. Veteran skate film director Dave Paine (Video Groove Magazine Series) teams up with Jon Julio (Pro Skater) to bring an up close and personal insider’s view of today’s skaters and their lifestyles.

Perspectives features well known skaters as well as relative unknowns from throughout the US with a few featured stops in Europe. Perspectives includes music inspired by the inline skate culture and unique lifestyle. Rperesenting free form expression, combining live performances and DJ’s.

Featuring: John Starr, Jason Reduta, Louie Zamora, Brian Shima, Quang Do, Donny Garcia, Scott Crawford, Josh Petty, Sean Cullen, Bruno Lowe, Aaron Feinburg, Dustin Latimer, Kevin Gillan, Troy White, Jon Elliott, Ryan Jacklone, Med Abrous, Arlo Eisenburg, Chris Edwards, BJ Bernhardt, Pat Lennon, and Randy Spizer.

1 year, 6 countries and about 60hours of footage.

Premiere at the Winterclash & Club Lite (Amsterdam).
Visit Thebreakfastclub035.blogspot.com.

Visit Youtube.com/FreestyleCultureTV. Photo.

TL;DR at the end of the post.
/!\ Update: Added the example of Rob Scallon, blader & musician.

People in the Rollerblading scene sure love Vimeo.

Why? For a single reason, (unlike Youtube) Vimeo allows the use of copyrighted songs without restriction. You can use your favorite music in your latest edits and no Major Music Company will be able to do anything.

This may change in the future, if anything close to the SOPA or PIPA get accepted. Websites like Vimeo would just close.

Bladers massively migrated from Youtube to Vimeo after October 2007 when Vimeo was the first to get Hi Definition Support ; Youtube was really late on this, you had to wait until December 2008 (14 months later) to get access to hi quality videos.

In 2012, HD is supported on every streaming platforms, staying on Vimeo for bladers might be a mistake. Why?

You may remember the Youtube clip Charlie bit my finger, a viral clip of a child biting his brother. The family who uploaded the video earned more than £100,000 (around 155 680 US $), the video was viewed 392 million times at the time of the article.

Take the ATL Waterpark Section from Black Market. This video was viewed more than 2,695,000 times in 17 months. Basic mathematics tell me that the guy who uploaded this cashed about 1000$ (or he didn’t check his youtube messages & must be really mad now).

Black Market, ATL Waterpark Section:
2,695,000+ Views in 17 months.

Of course most blading videos won’t reach 2 millions views. This one went viral but skaters surely can earn some royalties with their work that way (most videos on Youtube get monetized once your reached the 10k views cap).

On Vimeo even the most popular blading videos won’t reach 100k views. The most viewed video of the WRS Uploaded Contest (the Nils Jansons Section) only reached 75k views.

There are 2 exceptions to this: the Greg Mirzoyan Salt Mine Clip (965k views, the video was featured on the main page of Reddit) & the Razor Swag Edit by Vinny Minton (149k views, the video was tweeted by Greg Yaitanes, the executive producer and director of HOUSE MD season 7).

Some popular blading videos on Youtube:
Note that each of those videos are posted several times on Youtube.

• Brian Aragon – Ego (664k views).
• Julian Bah – Masters Of Delusion (634k views).
• Chris Haffey – Killerboots (608k views).
• Alex Broskow – KFC (440k views).
• Chris Farmer – The Meantime (288k views).

I’m surprised that the owners of those videos don’t claim their work (like VEVO does with his musicvideos), rehost better quality versions on their account and earn 3-4k dollars per year. If you can prove Youtube that these videos are yours, they will just take the mirrors down.

Some brands choosed to stay on Youtube and this is good, they are getting some income from their work:

• Remz (112 videos): 3,545,533+ video views.
• Razors (197 videos): 5,818,045+ video views.

On Vimeo, you get less views because the only one watching your videos are actually bladers. There are no viral effect on Vimeo, the only way for your video to get exposure on Vimeo is the Staff Pick Section which feature video on their index. In more than 4 years, Vimeo never featured a single blading video although almost all the community post their work on their website.

I’m hearing a huge troll screaming in the background “Yes, it’s cool, that way. If only bladers watch our videos, this is perfect, we want to stay underground”. Let me post something i saw last week that somehow made me really sad.

Dominic Sagona, Hurt.

Adam Johnson, Magma Interview.

Dominic Sagona & Adam Johnson have a lot of amazing videos. Why don’t they monetize their past and future work on Youtube?

If you don’t have a good job on the side and a good healthcare, skating just looks like russian roulette. You can have fun but it can also end really quickly. People in the USA also have one of the worst healthcare system worldwide, just check Sicko by Michael Moore, it explains it really well).

Take the gaming “community”, a lot of broadcasters live from their work on Youtube: The Yoggcast, The Cynical Brit. What those guys do isn’t exceptional, they sure do it well and on a regular basis but what they’re only giving their first impressions on games they are playing.

Take Dominic Sagona, that guy is amazing. He has a unique skating skill and on the side creates music and is also DJing.

Just take your camera! Film your life, explain what you’re going through. Put on video your creative process while working on a new song ; test new music softwares, give your first impressions on it, bring the camera on your DJ set, show people how it’s done. Most people live a life extremely boring, just give us the opportunity to have a glimpse of what your exciting life looks like…

Make money on Youtube! Even if your videos are not that popular, beer’s money as Damien Wilson likes to call it, is worth it. Don’t use musics owned by Majors though, or half of the planet won’t be able to watch your videos (hello Germany!)

If you’re producing your own music (like Julian Bah, Franky Morales, …), just use your work. Else why not promoting indy bands? There are tons of musicians no one ever heard in your local area ; check Soundcloud too, i’m sure they are lots of people who would be glad to let you use their work if you just credit them somewhere.

About Youtube, Google, Adsense & VEVO

Youtube is the property of Google, Google also own Adsense, the most successful Online advertising program. You get paid via Adsense when you generate money via Youtube.

A lot of channels on Youtube are labelled artistVEVO. VEVO is a joint venture among Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and EMI. They control together the musicvideos they own and generate money via Youtube.

Rob Scallon, Blader & Musician
Youtube.com/robs70986987

I’ve been a youtube partner for a while now and have been fortunate enough to have youtube provide a regular income for me as a musician in the past year.

I’m not making enough money from it to quite my job of course, but with this and so many other benefits on youtube. Why are all rollerbladers on vimeo? (link to the comment).

TL;DR (Too long, didn’t read).

You can earn money from your videos on Youtube. WTF are you doing on Vimeo?

Gypsy Production presents Family Matters II, a rollerblading & lifestyle film.

Family Matters started of as a video project with a crew of gypsy skaters from Montreal. The video was filmed with a VX2000 Between the months of April and July 2010 and edited in a day or two.

Kevin Lapierre Section

Montreal is a multicultural city with all kinds of people, the skaters here all come from different backgrounds working different careers; French baker, architect, stuntman and plain Gypsies.

Skating is the one passion that managed to gather all these individuals together and with it grew friendships behond skating.

After sessions are always good times, the night life is really exciting and you can always find a group of the skating scene out partying and most times all the original Family Matters crew out together enjoying this amazing city.

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April 2010, Repost.
Inri welcomes Gav the Sav to the crew.
Edited by Sean Sea and Gavin Drumm.

This is our tour video that took place October 2007.

Cities: Sacramento, Reno, Winnemucca, Salt Lake City, Laramie, Chicago, Akron, New Brunswick, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Charlotte, Birmingham, Eastlan, Scottsdale & San Luis Obispo

Skaters: Sean Keane, Sapata, Jeff Jackson, Casey Bagozzi, Montre Livingston, Paul John, Rory Mellehan, Dre Powell, Joe Dobson, James St. Ours, Jon Jon Bolino, Dustin Latimer, Casey Mcfarland, Justin Barr, Steve Iacono, Philip Moore, Daniel Pope, Kellan Zinkgraf, Erik Stokley, Matt Luda, Casey Bohrnell, Jay Cottrell, Jay G & Iggy.

Previously: There & Back by Casey Bagozzi (2007), Part 1.

Oli Benet decided to take his PB’s on a little test drive at El Rancho Skatepark, an indoor ranch with farm animals and hay at a secret location outside of Barcelona. Photo.

A full-scale, 753.5-square foot prototype for a house Francois Perrin is currently designing in Malibu, CA for Pierre-Andre Senizergues (Etnies founder).

The prototype, fully equipped with sofa, bed, furniture from the Skate Study House collection and even kitchen appliances, was just recently part of the exhibition Public Domaine / Skating Culture at la Gaite Lyrique, a new museum in Paris.

The complete residence, where everything in the house is skateable, will measure 2,200-square feet and will to be located in a site overlooking the Pacific at the top of Malibu.

The concept of the house is a ribbon that creates a continuous surface to be skated from the Outside to the Inside. The house is divided into three separate spaces. The first one includes the living room, dining area and kitchen, the second one includes a bedroom and bathroom and the third one a skating practice area.

Each space is skateable as the ground becomes the wall then the ceiling in a continuous surface forming a tube of a 10ft diameter. The furniture is also skateable [...]

• Full Article & more Pictures on Archinect.com (via).
• Etnies PAS House, Video on Vimeo.com.

More Architecture | When Skating meets Art.

Filmed by Alexander Golovkin & Andrew Kachaev.

Song: Wu-Tang Clan – 4th Chamber.
Visit Lifesteezemedia.com.

With Alex Broskow, Dean Coward and Victor Arias. No one was drunk / inebriated during the filming of this!