Posts Tagged ‘diy’

Private ephemeral spot in northern France made by bladers for bladers.

Completely done by ourselves: 150€ of screws, scavenged wood, leftovers from Forward Freestyle (thanks Fredje) and one month (7h/day) of work. Thanks Tony Martins, Mathieu Allart, Christophe Matuszak, Johan Dumez, & Didier Blanquart.

Filmed & edited by Tony Martins. Featuring skating from Stephane Mosselmans, Antony Pottier, Jeremy Kesler, Aktarus, Warren Digne, Romain Godenaire, Mathieu Allart, Amir Zemmour, Mathieu Hennebert, Raphael Sanchez & Arnaud Vandezante.

So you have some of the best performing skates ever produced, but you want to adjust them to your feet for an even closer fit? Here’s how to do it!

Important: Please be careful when handling the oven and heated skates. Use protective gloves where possible and carry out procedure under the supervision of an adult.

For a professional track and dolly kit your looking to spend in the high hundreds of pounds.

So why not build your own?

This setup used:

8 Rollerblade wheels (With bearings)
2 X 8ft pvc pipe. (Each pipe cut into 2ft and 6ft peices)
6 x 1ft plank of MDF
8 1/4″ bolts at 3 1/2″ long.
8 1/4″ washers
16 1/4″ fender washers
16 1/4 nuts.

Check the video in HD Streaming.

You dont have to copy this design. It’s important you experiment and customise your track/dolly so that it works well with how you work.

The reasons for this track and dolly set up are:

Quick and cheap to make. Its very mobile and easy to transport from location to location.

The track is ideal to use on staggered ground levels like curbs or stairs. This is difficult or more traditional designs. Can place the track on walls, roofs, curbs etc at a range of different heights.

Music – Clint Mansell – Stay with me – Fountain soundtrack album.
For more information, visit editcrunch.co.uk.

How to go about cutting the toes of your Valo skates to make more room to A. fit a smaller size, B. fit the correct size. C. Fit an aftermarket liner.

Edit by Ivan Narez featuring Ivan Narez and Victor Arias.

For the last few months toe cuts have been the latest craze. It seems that it’s every rollerbladers dream to fit into a size 3 skate, and while that vivid wet dream of having the skates off of barbie’s feet may be distant to some, others are getting closer to it by snapping the toes off of their skates.

For lack of a better example (but probably the best example) we will be using the Valo AB.1 available here. This procedure can be done on all Valo models and come similarly done on ALL nimh skates.

You can do this on any skate that has an over boot. Models that I can think of off the top of my head include some USD Grycon skates, Some of the older Cults, heck you might even be able to do it on some RB’s even though I don’t think there is a whole lot to deal with up there anyways.

Check the AM post: Tutorial with pictures & details
Thanks Ivan Narez.

Xsjado flow (?!) rider JC Rowe shows us a quick and easy way to add a v-cut to your Xsjado skates.

Download: jcrowe_xsjado_part2.mov.
Thanks Al Dolega (via).

Alright so you want a better way to film lines and all around, make your filming smoother. The answer is a tripod mount handle. Your end result will look like this (image above).

Read the Tutorial on hdskate.com

Lil’ Tony’s Streetgrip Tutorial:

The StreetGrip: Every time you see a camera guy in skate videos, you see that they have really nice cameras (XL or GL whatevers). Well, I don’t, and don’t have the money to get one.

One of the biggest practical differences between their cams and my JVC generic is the handle on top. That would make filming all kinds of things SO much easier.

Read the Lil’ Tony’s tutorial

Marshman is good at making practice boxes! This time he built a practice box with curved angle (about 9 days of work).

Check the pics of the making of

Check this Custom Cuff Tutorial by Skater_punks ; all you need for a customised cuff. Link

You will need:

* scalpal / sharp craft knife
* sellotape
* transfer letter sheets
* a pen/pencil
* a printout of your wanted logo/design

What you Need:

• Some kind of wax, preferably candles…maybe some crayons.
• Pot with water.
• Some kind of metal can, for good shape.
• Some Grind-o-Wax if you can cop some.
• Some kind of metal cutters..

Check the full instructions here. Thanks Sb3000

From The Conference | Thanks Skater_punk

From the creative genious that is Robert Lievanos, here we have the first of a series of “How to funk around with your skates” Its pretty self-explanitory, you funking funkers. All you have to funking do is follow the instructions.

Feel free to send us photos of any of your complete funk-ups so we can put them on the site and show what a complete funker you are!!

Basic construction techniques and materials to assist you in building your own ramp.

Trasher Magazine posted their 12 first issues from 1981. The Issue 08 (August) might interest you, there is a guide (2 pages) to constructing your very own ramp (check page 12, low resolution preview here).

Direct Link to the Issue 08 | Check the other issues.

Related News :

• [DIY] Ramp Plans, Blueprints in the FAQ section of the Rollernews Forums.

Sandy posted a tutorial on picture editing ; the software used is The Gimp, a free open-source photoshop clone. Check this topic to learn how to get freely and legaly this software.

If you are interested by picture editing, check this section featuring some techniques.

Sb3000 updated his photoshop coloring skates tutorial. He shows you how to color skates with a new trick in this topic.

Alvaro “Papa” from Rosario, Argentina mailed me some pics of his homemade frames ! I would be curious to know how they ride, but i’m loving this (diy) idea of building your own hardware.

Related News :

• Homemade h-blocks and frames