Vibralux Montage + Mike Barnett Profile
Hello, my name is John Dillingham and I’m partly responsible for the page you are seeing. Just above is a new edit my crew and I made.
This is the fourth section for an ongoing video called Lifestyles of the Broke and Unknown. Vibralux hooked us up with clothes, we hooked it up with skating, hope you enjoy!
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Tags: vibralux
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
some good tricks, some tight pants, true negative mizsu wtf? the music was fucking discusting though. peace
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:52 am
Some sick tricks. Really sick tricks.
However.
By the way, I HATE saying stuff like this ’cause I’m a firm believer in freedom of expression etc.
But anorexic boys in skin tights to horrible music……well, I know I haven’t bought any DVD’s with that sort of content. Visually, it just doesn”t appeal and it is SO contrary to the rolling “image” that I loved as I was developing.
And no, before someone butts in, I don’t like Southern rap set to every roller wearing freshly purchased baggy clothes and grills either.
But the KFC/Words image/style/whatever, which had a blend of music and normal clothes, be it “normal” jeans (which to some rollers are “tight” but are actually just normal, rather than these ones which hug your legs and make you look like a twig) or quite large joggers….just seems to be gone, which is a real shame, because rolling always was an eclectic blend with a variety of GOOD rock music and GOOD hip-hop music.
Just doesn’t feel the same anymore. I guess it’s not the clothes themselves I hate, just the fact that we’re dressing exactly like another group:
Skateboarders.
Sorry to “hate”, it’s meant to be a “social commentary” or whatever on our image, but rolling seems to have lost its’ identity.
I remember when we filmed a DVD a few years back with a local youth group, which involved rollers AND skaters, that the skaters (who didn’t hate on rolling) also had a sort of understanding of rolling’s identity, like I remember one guy saying “I always love the clothes you guys were, they’re really different” (which was, fair enough, in reference to XXL and not everyone digs XXL) and it was good to know that we had our OWN image/style set apart from the other extreme/urban/whatever “sports”.
I miss our identity. That’s all. Sorry to whine like a moany bitch. I just want to support something that I love and its’ hard to do that when our uniqueness is gone.
You see it everywhere in rolling. I remember when B Unique’s “freestyle rolling” DVD came out and thinking “yeah, this is dead sick, but, they’re all trying the same kind of 450 royale tricks and all wearing very similar, what’s unique about that?”
Which had gone too far the other way. Be it “very” emo or “very” (commercial) hip-hop people feel mis-represented. Back in the Words/KFC3 days, like 2001-2004ish, there was no talk about this issue, because rolling had it’s own style and people expressed themselves within it. Through their tricks. Not through their clothes
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:54 am
i can easily say thats not a good way to represent a good company like vibralux
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
..hm..sorry…I really disliked the edit. No style…some good tricks but still this hopefully ain´t the way vibraluc is headin…
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
why is this on the news page?
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
haha i don;t believe that people from vibralux made this shit without good music, good trick and good idea!
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
how could vibralux lend their name to such a shitty edit? fine those guys did some hardish tricks, but does style REALLY mean nothing anymore? theres 6 minutes of my life i wont get back.
pretty lame shit guys.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
standard! i love it when a religious body asks for money! fuck me there the richest ones out there!! god made the world then money and then churches which by en large are all in their right aprantly!!
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
funny edit
some tricks were raddddzzz
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:24 pm
No style and the tricks were sloppy as fuck
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Just to clear up some confusion, I made this edit, not AJ, he was just kind enough to let me post it on the Vx blog….
Our music and fashion sense is a bit different, that is why I chose to help AJ out with VX, because I love what the company stands for, being badass and not giving a shit what anyone else thinks… And to the people who have a problem with tight pants, Vx makes the tightest pants in the industry, literally and figuratively.
And for all you young bucks out there, I lived through this same kind of hatred in the 90s, when rollerbladers all wore baggy pants. Yeah, everyone dissed on those back then too, and now look what everyone happens to wear.
My point is most rollerbladers are generally ahead of the curve fashion-wise…. so take heed. Come next year I want you all to be wearing tutus and mesh tank tops, dig?
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:40 pm
really i have been a supporter of for a while but honestly, that was some of the weakest skating i have ever seen come out from under their name, for reference your comment on the baggy pants in the 90’s toughs were totally different so dont be saying people are wearing them now because they simply arent, quit huffing spray paint. the edit was wack the kid skating had tape worms or something the music was horrible, basically never edit again dont film cuz your not good at it and suck a bag of dicks
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:03 pm
i wonder why his legs don’t snap :)) they are like 2 sticks…
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:22 pm
ROFL
“John Dillingham Says:
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Just to clear up some confusion, I made this edit, not AJ, he was just kind enough to let me post it on the Vx blog….
Our music and fashion sense is a bit different, that is why I chose to help AJ out with VX, because I love what the company stands for, being badass and not giving a shit what anyone else thinks…”
Ummmmm…. you are skateboarding, which does not help VX establish a brand identity. You are not original, you are following MTV.
As far as mike barnet goes……. HE LOOKS LIKE HE IS FIGHTING OFF A SWARM OF BEES! Also, he looks very scared when he is doing tricks. How long has he been skating? Even with the tricks that section would have gotten hated on back in 1995, never mind today. Do you guys even care about style? Pay attention, the skating community is slowly going back to “style is #1, tricks are #2″. Skin tight pants are a fad just like boneless knee pads, duct tape at the bottom of your jeans, putting washers under your axel heads, glove style wrist guards, golf hats, puffing out your skates, fat laces, clown pants, sweat pants, “crews”, helmets covered with stickers, aero helmets(remember ariborne?), mustaches…… the number of roller trends that I have witnessed are countless just like the buzz words that skaters use. All go out of style just as fast as they came in.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
one more thing,
“anorexic boys in skin tights … horrible music…” Isn’t this the definition of emo?
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:36 pm
ok i dont understand one thing that i am seeing quite a lot, on videos and in person. there is a contradiction a notice when i see someone who tries to do a farvegnuggen (or however its called now) or a simple royale, soul, whatever… and does it like SHIT, weak pose, not defined, looks like he’s gonna fall any moment… and then suddenly this SAME person does an amazingly hard thing, like that truespin negative mizou thing, or some hard switchup in a place you could bust your balls. how is this possible?!?!? do they skate ugly un purpose? did they learn to do hard tricks before the basics? PLEASE someone explain to me!!
now about this video, i think it was interestin, and i like to see when someone tries a trick until he lands it. but shit, i agree with darthRoller, i think some people try too hard to be different and extreme. i HATE the hipster attitude i see sometimes.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
des negatives en slim je sais pas si il y’a plus degueu…..si le on peut etre…
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
didnt really like the edit but i can appreciate the work that went into it.decent music..a few solid tricks..not to much style though.the tight clothes werent an issue except for that fact that they look like they weigh more than the skaters wearing them in the edit…they looked very frail…good attempt though
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Mike Barnett has style, everyone has style. The reason Mike Barnett gets a section and not you is because he is the most dedicated skater I’ve ever met. He will try a trick until he is either broken or it gets done. The kid puts in work everywhere we go. Seriously, I challenge ANY of you to skate a rail with this guy. He’ll always be the last one skating it, doing the most tech shit on it, bottom line. Not to mention, EVERYONE he skates with always gives him respect because of this. Ask Max Ballestero, Mike Wojda, anyone he skated with at Bitter Cold, he’s insane.
I should also mention, the guy follows no trends, he’s just Mike. He shops at goodwill, tailors his own clothes with his sewing machine, he lives life for himself first, that’s it. Saying Mike Barnett follows trends is like saying Gary Busey is a normal person.
ONE: I wear entire Vibralux outfits when I skate only. If that makes me a skateboarder, then damn dude, what would make me a rollerblader? Should I wear entire Alien Workshop outfits? I don’t get the point you are trying to make, if there even is one.
Thanks to everyone for the comments, I really appreciate it, good or bad.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Sorry, meant to say Mark Wojda there, you guys will probably figure that out though….
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:49 pm
why is this called a vibralux montage?
that guy falls so goofy its funny
and to darthroller: this is not rollerblading’s image and i hope that nonrollerbladers dont see this and think this is our image
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Ughhh……Really? Rollernews? Really?
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:28 pm
who gives a fuck! edit made, edit posted…get over it. At least they made something for you people to watch if you don’t like it. fuck it.
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Skeletons on wheels are disgusting, they should stay in there tomb and suck there bones instead of rails!
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:22 pm
ok you guys who are hating on their clothing style, please shut up. did you forget that you rollerblade? obviously you arent doing what everyone else wants you to, since everyone else thinks rollerblading is gay. and you call a rollerblader gay for wearing tight pants? thats just being a hypocrite. are you going to say that the rollerbladers that started skating when rollerblading was popular are gay for following trends? think about what youre doing yourself before you say something like that.
as for the edit… there was definitely some good stuff in there. however in my opinion it really could have been edited better, it was too long and there were some tricks that didnt really belong to be in an edit. and also less like slow mo and weird effect things. i dont like the music but im not hating, its just your style… obviously you guys didnt give a shit in the first place so just keep doing what youre doing. just remember that if you want “mainstream rollerbladers/normal rollerbladers” (if there is such a thing) to like your stuff, you either have to change or just ignore the hate.
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
damn we should bag up all this hate and sell it by the pound. shit guys can’t you just watch an edit. if you like it cool, if you don’t then that’s cool too but i think everyone goes a little too deep into discussion after watching an edit. it always turns into something about clothes or everyones opinion on the state of affairs in rollerblading. how about we watch the edit for what it is, an edit. hate all you want but it doesnt change a thing. its an edit with dudes skating which is what we all do, right? i saw some good stuff in there, props to those involved with the edit in any way. keep rollin
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm
That song was an epic fail. The skating was good, but not enough for free vibralux clothes, or even an edit with their name on it.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Terrible…
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 am
props for the tricks but thats giving us a seriously bad image im still gonna rock my baggy pants now lol
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 am
degueux frqnchement degueux… musique degueux et slim degueux donc degueux… bad style stop skating please
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:34 am
Chill out guys, you just all made me fell like the biggest piece of shit ever, I had to ask my web guy to take down the edit of him and his friends who rep Vibralux hard. The crew gets geared up because they rep and power our website, not because they are the next broskow.
Why couldn’t anyone just enjoy the edit for the edit’s sake. Just because it had Vibralux Denim written on it you had to hate?
Anyways, it is down now, I feel like a bitch, I made a few other people probably feel bad, and nothing is solved. Great.
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:07 am
And they call us fruitbootres….once that tag was FUCKIN’ HARDCORE….world today is like if you’re not a sissy,then you’re a sissy and that image is KILLING US!!!
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:55 am
you should feel like a piece of shit if you took down the edit just because of these comments. I was pretty suprised at the comments because most skaters on rollernews look the same as these guys. I dont like the look of the skin tight pants but their just clothes, maybe they cant find any normal clothes where they live, I know its hard to find normal pants here. I thought the skating was good and the edit had some funny bits in it
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:30 am
that could be… the most ridiculous edit i have ever seen. crazy fucks
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 am
I admire Mike Barnett’s persistence and dedication to rolling. Anyone who axes themselves that hard trying to lace tricks isn’t worthy of hate. Well nobody is worthy of hate as a matter of fact.
Rollerblading is Rollerblading and I love it for that exact reason.
Maybe a better song choice next time though… not even Wolf Eyes, Gortuary or Metro Station makes my ears bleed that much
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:55 am
no style at all…
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:06 am
adam, lots of people are very thankful for what you have done and what you continue to do.
haters, do something… anything.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 am
you niggaz need to stop hatin
style is style,everybody has style no matter wat even if u think it looks like shit.everyone is unique.
just becuz sumone wears tight pants doesnt mean they are tryna look like a skateboarder.hmm think about it..U dnt like tight pants,MAYBE these guys dont like baggy pants,duh.Most people who are wearing baggy clothes are fake gangster looking whiteboys anyways.Some of the guys in this edit wuld like morons if they had 2xl pants and 3xl shirts.Montre keeps it pimpin wit the baggyjeans,cheshire is steezy as hell with his fitted jeans,and these dudes kill with there skin tights.Its not a fashion show,if people think there gay then oh well.people think rollerblading is gay no matter how we look .we arent gay though so fuck all the haters.I bet i culd skate in skin tight pants and still have all my bitches on the jocc u feel me.
just respect everybodys style
i skate in my suit and no bitch niggas talk shit so leave these dude alone
now im done talking,im gunna go sip on my drank wit sum females,
sick skating,be yourself,respect.
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
gay
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:22 pm
you failed life
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:23 pm
i hope huricane ike moves all your houses and ass rapes you
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
“And they call us fruitbootres….once that tag was FUCKIN’ HARDCORE….world today is like if you’re not a sissy,then you’re a sissy and that image is KILLING US!!!”
Wow really?? Because the only thing I see killing us is hatred amongst ourselves. Also, sorry but I’ll never conform to some cookie-cutter stereotypical “image”. I’ll wear what I want to wear, listen to music I want to listen to, and make edits how I feel. If you’ve got a problem with it, don’t watch it.
Thanks for the support Adam, and to all the real rollerbladers that responded positively. Everyone else, keep on hating everything that is different and unfamiliar to you… it’s a great way to show your intelligence.
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Totally agreed with DarthRoller. Its just whack these days, people forgot style is number one in rolling. we diss on our great names like dustin, julio, petty, feinberg, we dont have past, we dont respect our older people. the people that came first. its true, theres no identity to rolling, I have no clue how this “lets all look like wood sticks and wear shirts that could fit a girl” thing got into rolling. its just a shame… rolling used to look so powerful, so stylish, it was fresh, it was new, and yes, it was DIFFERENT, wich was indeed the thing that made us most proud of. These days people is juts trying to make it a sport, and activity, instead of a lifestyle and culture. I dont know, its just the way it feels, and thats why I agree with this DarthRoller guy.
anyways, fuck everything, point is, keep skating, and dont look like a slim jim, please!
haha Best Regards,
Fred
October 4th, 2008 at 5:19 am
nice Anti-ad
TLS = these losers suck
October 4th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Jealous Mother Fuckers, Jealous of each other…
October 4th, 2008 at 9:20 am
sketchiest skating ever!! funniest falls!! fuck i LOVED IT!!! whoever hated it is a dick
October 5th, 2008 at 1:10 am
maxB is sick atleast.
October 5th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
“sorry but I’ll never conform to some cookie-cutter stereotypical “image”. I’ll wear what I want to wear, listen to music I want to listen to, and make edits how I feel. If you’ve got a problem with it, don’t watch it.”
You just keep making me laugh.
I will introduce you to an entire neighborhood of college kids just like you. You guys in no way are original. Gwar is original, you guys are “hipsters” or “scene” kids. I bet a few of you are NJS nerds, own fixies and only ride them only a few miles a week. You wish you lived in SOHO. Jesus fuckin christ, get over yourselves, YOU ROLLERBLADE. For fuck sakes, enjoy skating and stop TRYING to be cool.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:59 am
That is messed up everyone is talking smack about these dudes because of what they are wearing. I hope people don’t diss Arlo like that, because his fashions have ALWAYS been weird to me, BUT he was my favorite growing up. When I skated growing up I skated baggy because of my friends that wore JNCO’s or wore baggy pants, and pumped gangstar, or some lame 3/11 would hate (which they did) when I wore my fitted gap jeans.
It’s how rolling is I dunno why. The only person who made fun of wearing fitted clothes correctly way Frankie, and that is only because he still had style, and laced tricks.
he doesn’t care what anyone does, he keeps it real. He play Kandama. (Which is a very cool trend right now, I don’t.) And people don’t really make fun of that. What is with all the hate?
I AM GOING to make an edit, wearing baggy clothes, and hit every trick with pimp ass dopealicious wrist curls… (I’m soo glad that is gone!)
October 6th, 2008 at 2:00 am
Yea all the skating I saw on there I liked, and if some of them keep skating, they will keep having fun with it no matter what they are wearing.
I don’t care how old or young, or what music is in the edit, as long as niggas are representing!
October 6th, 2008 at 2:26 am
Ok then let’s all “REPRESENT” ,)
October 6th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
“You just keep making me laugh.
I will introduce you to an entire neighborhood of college kids just like you. You guys in no way are original. Gwar is original, you guys are “hipsters” or “scene” kids. I bet a few of you are NJS nerds, own fixies and only ride them only a few miles a week. You wish you lived in SOHO. Jesus fuckin christ, get over yourselves, YOU ROLLERBLADE. For fuck sakes, enjoy skating and stop TRYING to be cool.”
Did I say that I was original? Did I say I don’t enjoy skating? I’ve been doing this for 15 years, which, judging from the fact that you won’t even state your real name and have no idea how to read my responses, is probably longer than you’ve been living. I can’t speak for anyone in this edit but myself, but in my section at the end, I ONLY WEAR VIBRALUX CLOTHING. This includes my pants and shirt. If you have a problem with what I wear, you’ve got a problem with Vibralux Denim aka the clothing company. If that is the case, you are stating you dislike Vibralux.