Taig Khris & Amel Bent (France) : Rolling for ELA
Taig Khris & Amel Bent a french popstar (official web / videos on youtube) were on tv last saturday in France.
The broadcast was dedicated to ELA, a french association who work on rare genetic diseases.The idea was to raise funds : a lot of stars were there to succeed challenges.
So here is the idea : Amel Bent who never rolled in her entire life, had to learn rollerblading in one day with Taig Khris, and on her show, she has to drop a miniramp and dance on a song with skates on!
Here is the video:
Thanks Shady (french topic)
Tags: taig khris, tv
January 14th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Taig skating : why not !
but dancing ? ? ?
wo were the other guys skating ?
bientot la tectonik pour taig ?
January 14th, 2008 at 11:41 am
airwalk hoodie
with our industry in the state its in does he not want to support something thats given him a career?
January 14th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Sincèrement, a ceux qui vont dirent que Taig fait la promotion de notre sport, je veux leur dirent STOP !! C’est quoi cette démonstration de merde?!!! Puis le “y a que les professionnels qui prennent ces rampes” si c’est pas de la désinformation ca ?!!! Tout ca pour que cette chanteuse (de merde, ca n’engage que moi) la descende sur son gros cul !!! C’est de la dévalorisation !!!! Alors comme le disent nos amis anglosaxons: that’s GAYYYY !
January 14th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
et le radikal crew ils sont derriere c’est sa?? ouf on a sauvé l’image du roller en France!
January 14th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
yes i guess its cool rollerblading is on Tv, but seriously as if it doesnt look gay enough. fuckin hell dancing?
January 14th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
whats wrong with dancing?
January 14th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Comme je l’ai déja dit je sais plus ou, vous attendez quoi? C’est une émission grand public on va pas foutre Morales en train de tenté des aley oops top soul sur un rail les gens il s’en balance ce que les minots veulent voir c’est un mec qui vole sur une rampe c’est ça qui donne envie de faire du roller, le reste vien après!
January 14th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Stylée la veste à Taïg ! xD
I love the way Taïg claps…
January 14th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Whats bad on dancing Taig? It helps to gain some money for some badly ill children. I like it :)
January 14th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Congratulations on raising some money for a good cause!
*cough* gayest rolling public spectacle since the 90s *cough*
January 14th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Funny how people like taig, eito, takeshi and sven can get on tv shows, but say haffey or aragon?.. no chance.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Taig is a fuckin’ conman …
He s making money since he stops competing on the fact he is “world champion” !!!
What the fuck does that mean ? Rollerblading world champion !!! Fuckin bullshit !!!!
And for people who says he s helping our sport ( or the children in this case )
He doesn t give a fuck ! He first helps to gain money for his bank account !!!
January 14th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
“le reste vien après!”
le reste ne viendra jamais, éteint ta télé ou change de chaines.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
“des professionnels qui peuvent aller jusqu’à 70klm/h”
lol
January 14th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I only can say, it sucks a lot…. and I think that is not leave a good impression of our favourite sport..
January 14th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Lol, like a cross between Jet Set Radio (hang on no… it’s more euro-pop than that..) ok, well. and maybe Space channel 5. :p
For a good cause though, well done all.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
PUTAIN ILS SONT TARÉS LES FRANCAIS!” C’EST RIDICULE .. ET LA MOITIÉ DU PAYS REGARDE cä CA DÉGÉNERE…
January 14th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
hmm
well
if thats how you ‘drop’ a mini ramp then im kurt russel.
and if i was
you’d be in maa bad book for sure!
January 14th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
tiag khris probably doesnt even know what ground control frames are or who jon julio is.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
don’t forget that we are dependant with fitness rolling ( thats why you can think it was “gay” ( fuck this expression, it reminds juvenil skateboarders hate ) ) in the mass media. it will be hard to kick this dependance and to show what we really are. we must be patient.
the question is : do you think that it deserves rolling ??
i dont think so. the mass doesnt have our vision and didnt see pejorative things with this show. why this shame with fitness ? its our fondation unless you dont roll on wheels ( do you want some grind shoes?! ).
the only thing we can be fed up with, is that our world recognition is too slow. but we dont roll for this, i hope.
January 14th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Taig Khris honte sur toi!!!putain les autres gars sur la rampes ils auraient pas pu se callé sur la gueule de cette pute d’Amel Bent en top soul histoire de lui rapé sa face de gitane?!
January 14th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Je hais la télé le showbiz et les paillettes, ce principe est gerbant, humilie-toi en direct sinon le petit enfant malade va pas avoir de sous, sur fond de musique mièvreuse. Putain si il a besoin de thunes donnez les lui à quoi ça sert ça?
“Normalement y’a que les professionels qui peuvent monter dessus il faut des années et des années d’expérience” mon cul! Aux défenseurs de Taig Khris : comment vous pouvez tolérer ça!? OK faut faire des concessions pour passer à la télé mais ça c’est pas des concessions c’est de la prostitution!
Omar et Fred vous m’avez déçu aussi.
January 14th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
il y avait aussi ilia koutkouchov
January 14th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
yea thaig chris isnt world champion anymore surely
that was alright, good for raising money and that, and it got some rolling on tv, the guys on the ramp behind the shitty dancers was alright.
January 14th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
“Putain si il a besoin de thunes donnez les lui à quoi ça sert ça?”
Parce que tu en aurais rien a foutre de leur maladie tant que ca te concerne pas. Tu réagis comme un putain d’ado individualiste . tu craches sur la télé (etc..) mais t’es encore pire qu’elle. tu vois que ta gueule et ta vision, et tu veux l’imposer à la masse comme un putain de fachiste. les choses doivent se faire progressivment. tu veux quoi? montrer un mec faisant un pire switch up en leur disant que c’est trop bien, trop difficile, que c’est ca le roller ?? mais mec, ils s’en battent les couilles !
et waow, meme omar et fred t’ont decu, ca doit leur faire une belle jambe ! je crois qu’ils ont pris note de ta remarque et qu’à l’avenir, ils te demanderont conseil avant de faire kkchose.
c’est sur, on peut critiquer négativement la forme, mais dans le fond, c’est impossible.
bonne soirée à vous les ados détenant la vérité vrai…..
January 14th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
BIMMM, merci AET
January 14th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
“histoire de lui rapé sa face de gitane?!”
HAHAHAHA !!!
January 14th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Haha c’est marrant il était habillé comme philippe candelero. Sinon pour les mauvaises langues, Aet a résumé la situation. Faut pas oublier que c’était pour une assoce. Bisous les enfants.
January 14th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
nhrb Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 11:41 am
airwalk hoodie
with our industry in the state its in does he not want to support something thats given him a career?
He is sponsored by Airwalk. He has his own shoe
January 14th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Hmm.. some press better than no press. In 2006 Vauxhall set up a vert ramp at the UK Motor show to laundh the new Coras- they had a load of bladers, it was a good idea!!
January 15th, 2008 at 5:37 am
yea… im going to have to say I wish that wasn’t aired
January 15th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Pour information , il est totalement interdit de pratiquer le patin a roulette sur tout lieux privés ou monument DONT LE TROCADERO
TF1 chaine de merde continue a pourrir le cerveau des gens
January 16th, 2008 at 1:05 am
unless the vert skaters get more ‘in-line’ (pun totally intended!) with the street skaters that we all know and love, the gap between skaters like chris farmer & taig khris will just keep getting wider and harder to cross in the future. We all know that the video in this post doesn’t represent what we sweat, bleed, and know as rolling, but the rest of the world doesn’t see what we are doing. Vert skating seems to be in the public eye more than street (which isn’t that much more exposure, but its better than what we currently get on mainstream media) and unless things change for both sides, street skating, rollerblading, freestyle rolling or whatever you wanna call it will stay in the shadows.
Personally, I think vert skaters like taig, jaren grob, and shane yost are done. Let them do commercials for L’Oreal or whatever, thats fine. Vert skaters like the Yasutokos and Thumper Nagasako have big shoes to fill. Start bridging the gap between the skating, style, and culture of vert to the street world via magazines like One and videos. One day this thing call rollerblading is going to get big again, whether you like it or not. Why not let the world see us as a cohesive and unified group, rather than a haphazard crew of misfits with a cultural division.
Just a thought.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Amen so wack
Patience to all, our sport is on the same downfall that skateboarding, bmx and surfing went trough after their respective initial booms. Although this is extremely gay for our standars, in the public eye it draws attention to our obscure sport in some way. Long are gone the days of rollerblading all over the Tv.. this is a rare rare chance to show at least some vert (mind the gay silver outfits)
January 16th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Lets start this off by saying that some of you people that post comments on Rollernews suck balls and you don’t know your head from your ass.
Here’s some history for everyone:
In 1979, Scott and Brennan Olson invent the inline skates of today (better boots, polyurethane wheels, etc.), founding Rollerblade, Inc. in 1983.
We started out with metal skates and metal wheels. Then improved to rollerskates and polyurethane wheels. Then Rollerblade Inc. created recreational inline skates. KEY WORD - Rec Skates. Then it evolved to Aggressive Skates. Our whole foundation is based on Rec. Skates. If you don’t like our history then go F yourself.
Taig Khris as well as many other Vert Skaters are doing big things for our sport. We need more new people learning to skate. Its our job to expose it and teach it. Taig is a ledgend among many. Because you are a bas ass street skater doesn’t mean shit. Taig is not selling out by being with Airwalk. If you didn’t know Airwalk makes inline skates.
If you love rolling, then support our sport. It will take everyone’s support to bring it back into the lime light / mainstream. For the most companies, Rec Skates is what funds the manufacturers to create Aggressive Skates.
Learn your history before you start talking shit.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Thanks for the input prodigy, even if it was angry and somewhat reactive.
You say that people like Taig Khris along with other vert skaters are doing big things for our sport. Please, show me what and where these ‘things’ are happening (not including the Yasutokos, they got the High Rollaz deal going on) . Not to downplay his legacy in vert rollerblading, but come on! Lets draw a line in the sand and be realistic here.
Brian Shima/Rat-tail, the B Unique people, and even those crazy SOL Canadians are pushing the envelope for rollerblading. You say that we need more people teaching others how to rollerblade. I couldn’t agree with you more on that point. But how is teaching a French popstar how to dance around in rec blades helping out? Its gimicky; it’s just a shtick. Tell me that a 10-13 year old kid watching this horseshit on television is going to make him ask his mom to buy him some Razors with a straight face. It ain’t happening prodigy.
OK, let’s come full circle here, with my point being that this little video clip is crap, kinda like those RB commercials that were on the Fade Nation blog. I believe that ultimately, this kind of media circus frenzied television programming does NOT entice the youth to start rollerblading. Also, that vert skating is starting to become worlds apart from street skating; which is a topic of debate in itself.
Is Taig Khris an asshole for doing this? Not really; but don’t say that because he was in the limelight a few years ago and that this video so happens to include rollerblades that it is helping recruit new kids.
If you still feel cross about this, please, visit my myspace page that I hyper linked as my RN user name to discuss further (I have already abused this article enough). Because unlike other people on this site, I’m not too timid to show the world my face coupled with my opinions. thank you and goodnight.
January 17th, 2008 at 3:46 am
So Wack, you are right in many ways. Their is so much to debate on this topic, but I must say that what we do as rollerbladers, much like haffey, stockwell, aargon, etc. they are pushing the limits. Its insane half the shit skaters are doing. Vert skating is still crazy in my eyes, but steet skating is even crazier. We do need our sport back into the media, but at the same time we need to support rec and aggressive skating. For those who rec skate, hopefully improve and transfer over to aggressive skates. I love that Jon and Brian created NIMH Skates. Both of them are great guys and amazing skaters. We need more skater opperated companies and not corporate ran bullshit people. We are the poster childs and we know what works and what doesn’t work. Like I said before, this can be a long debate. I love rollerblading and I will die with my skates in my casket. Peace.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
ca montre au moins le patin…..c’est notable…..je veux voir Lorie shooter un kink….ça ferai vendre surement plus qu’une bande de nazes qui squatent les forums…..