It’s All Good : Oldschool Rollerblading Reportage. Up left : Arlo Eisenberg

This 90 minute documentary feature film follows two of the greatest roller blading teams - with the best of teenage boys skater stars. They compete against each other in the ASA Championships in Florida.

Go behind the scenes to find out about how pro skaters like Arlo Eisenburg, Chris Edwards, Brooke Howard-Smith, and Louis Zamora really feel about skating and how they survive the Sport. AN IFP Festival Winner.

- Watch the trailer on youtube
- You can buy the Dvdr online here.

About David Hoffman, the maker of this documentary :

David Hoffman has been making documentaries for all types of audiences and for every available venue for more than 38 years.

He has made 88 prime-time PBS specials and series, 4 documentary style feature programs, hundreds of network television commercials, dozens of corporate sponsored documentary style programs, and educational programs for children of all ages.

He has won multiple Emmys, a Peabody award, the Cannes Film Festival Critics Prize, top prize blue ribbons at festivals in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, and numerous international festivals.

Official David Hoffman Website

Thanks to I Hate Pokemon.

Here is an oldschool profile of Josh Letona (from which vhs ?). Thanks to Chris for uploading it and contacting me.

It’s amazing how back in the day Josh Letona already did so much negative tricks.

Monsters Spots ! Some people fear them, some others dream of them, some lost a teeth while trying to skate them but no one one stay indifferent.

There are few clips that people remember years after a video was released, there is the 666 rail by Chris Haffey and Robert Guerrero and the monster kink by Chris Farmer for example.

Here are some clips of a drop ledge skated by Rob Gunn, it’s pretty amazing (to make yourself an opinion, check the height when Rob is jumping on it, on the video). Link (via)

Watch the video of Rob Gunn :

Don’t miss the 666 ledge in France (clips inside).

My name is Rene’ Hulgreen, I was born in Glostrup Denmark on the 21 of Marts 1970, my mother Lilian Hagen Hansen was a nurse and my father Knud Erik Hulgreen was working on Carlsberg, I grew up in the beach town of Greve 20 km. South of Copenhagen.

As far as I can remember I have always had Roller skates, The first pair I can remember was strap on metal skates with plastic wheels, which I had when I was very little, when I was between 7 and 10 years old I had two pairs of skates, first some yellow skates with blue stripes and yellow rubber wheels, which was a lot better then my first pair of skates. The second pair was not much different, just blue with silver stripes and blue rubber wheels. Mostly I just went down small slopes or played catch with the other kids near my home, but I learned how to skate already back then.

I also jumped trampoline in the local club and became Danish champion for team at the age of 12, but knee problems forced me to stop or I would have ended up in a wheelchair. The doctor said I could only ride bikes or swim if I wanted to do any sport, and the town of Greve had the biggest Swimming bath in Denmark, so I ended up swimming, but only for a short time. Lying there in the water I saw all the platform divers having fun and that’s how I ended up becoming a platform diver, witch didn’t really help my knee problem. […]

Check the official website of Rene Hulgreen, featuring a lot of oldschool photos of Rene and others skaters.

Rene Hulgreen was sponsored by : Roces, Cozmo wheels, Heckler Brew, 50/50, Sløjfen, Copenhagen skates, Submachine, Transpack, Timezone Clothing, LTM bearings, Red Bull, Cross over, Eastpak and Roland Göschl.

I Was going through my “library” of mags tonight, and as I have a new scanner I thought I’d remind people of a bit of history. Most skaters won’t even have heard of some of these.

I know there have been a few mags that came and went, but here are the most successful ones. First issue covers of each of the 6 biggest UK mags from the last decade.

See the images in high resolution here

^ up, left : OJ Simpson in an old Quad ad

Watch some Oldschool Rollerskates Photos :
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