Vintage Mushroom Blading Clips Edit by Joey McGarry
In the wake of SOL Crew’s new video trailer scaring up some controversy over what should and should not be permissible in rollerblading, ONE contributor Adam Morris spoke with SOL’s own Todd McInerney, as well as legendary innovator Dustin Latimer, to get a handle on what the act of mushroom blading is all about, and thoughts on its evolution.
Then SOL’s Joey McGarry put together a video edit with bootlegged VHS clips to show examples of ’shroomy tricks from our sport’s early days that have influenced how people today roll. The edit is below and the story inside—check them out!
Download: vintagemushroom.mov / via One
Some of the rollernews users comments were quoted btw ^^
Tags: oldschool
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
That was one of the coolest collection of old clips… Miss those days… this edit is going on my ipod for inspiration… and to help look at some skate spots differently… -Mark-
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:07 pm
that was a great edit, some of my favourite clips of all time on there. it’s funny to see how tricks come and go in popularity.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Sa explique pourquoi Jon Julio tape partout!!!
Sacré video ou video sacré
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
pretty cool but we’ve come a long way
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:44 pm
so cool! memories :-) thanks for posting this great collection!
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:44 pm
So that’s what people call Mushroom Blading? Sure some of those tricks are a bit…strange…but I have agree I enjoyed watching the other tricks and saying to myself “yea no one does that anymore”. I saw a guy do a heel roll on a ledge. I mean what happened to those tech tricks?? I like the fact some guys still do them. The plant tricks are hot too. A lot of that went on back then. Looked a bit like cheating at some points. Other than that a lot of tricks looked sketchy as hell. Back then, if u compare it to now, it’s easy to see how Rolling was trying to figure itself out. I am keeping this for sure.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I love that song from Mr Mooseknuckle, a classic.
Jon Elliot is crazy rolling that thin rail on to that ledge, scary shit indeed
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:50 pm
This just shows that our sport has been super impressive since back in the days.
Great edit.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
i remember this julio bakclise on DB cover… impresive!!!
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
In my opinion this stuff is great! these tricks are pretty cool!
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Wow,.. I have a lot of that footage on VHS. Brings back memories of the good old days. I still have a pair of PAWN “Ryan Jackalone” wrist guards. Sorry triple 8, pro-tec, etc…. PAWN is where it was at!
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:16 pm
aaaaaaHHH josh petty, dion anthony!!
and what the hell happened to JAY DICK and jason marshall?!
its great!
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Haha, mushroom blading. OMG does that take me WAY back in the day of the first DAYS i started skating.
You all know what im talking about, when you first started. You all had no clue what a switch was, nor did you think this was cooler than that.
OH MAN!
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
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1. Where and what year was the very first rail grinded?
ANSWER CORRECTLY FIRST AND YOU WILL GET THE WHEELS.
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Thanks! =)
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Great memories! These get all me juiced up, the times when you had no idea what to do and just went out “puling some big airs and BUM just having a blast, you know what I mean?”
oh shit i said it :P
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
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January 22nd, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Straight Up, this should be mandatory for any skater to watch. This is exactly a look into the past of innovation and a fine guideline to where we are goin in the future. So many of those tricks featured could be in videos today and in fact the clips that arent good enough to be in a video nowadays are still a great building base for tricks to come in the future. Any ill pro now or even some who did those tricks then could go back and upgrade the tricks they already done. For example the last clip with elliot’s roll to grind that def could be used in a video now but skaters nowadays, like him could roll that insane skinny rail to a more techinal but steezed grind. Imagine 360 ofF the roll to grind!!!!!
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 pm
I have YET to see anyone do anything like that double heel slide craziness Edwards did at the end of that video. Praise the Legends!
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:51 pm
I prefer watching this than most of the edits out these days cos it just looks so fun and creative except some of the stuff was sketchy. Is that what they call Mushroom Blading? Is it just a weird term for creative, fun, improv, tech, good skating ?
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:47 am
first rail grind was Chris Edwards in 1993 on a small white stair rail… like a four stair haha. the clip was in Dare to Air.
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:22 am
If they want to call their video that so that people have an idea of what sort of skating will be in it, fine but I dont think it should start being used as term to describe a way of skating. If someone skates creatively, interprets something in a diferent way, its just a way that that person rolls, everyone has their own style and skates differently, its not ‘mushroom blading’ thats blading. It is self expression, it is you and people are of course different.
Its great seeing these clips, it will probably also show some people that you can skate anything.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:18 am
what Im TRYING to say is it would be stupid to make creative, imaginitive skating a sub genre of Inline skating. If thats what they are saying it is. sorry about all the comments
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:27 am
ninja, you should read the article post on the ONE site that goes along with this edit.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:51 am
al dolega, i believe the first rail grind was done by a skateboarder who had just taken up rollerblading. i forgot the dudes name. maybe someone else knows?
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:47 am
wow I havent seen so many “solos” and med-spins in one edit. I gotta brush up on my solo to back slide fakie solo outs that I lost back in 96. haha i
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:38 am
seen some good old school vids but had no idea it was ever this creative. best ive seen.
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
heel roll for that distance was revolutionary at that time. this isn’t made to compete with, it’s to show where things came from…dunkle for example, expanded more than anyone on the toe roll, but I’m sure he would awknowledge those who came before him, in this case erik burke (by the way that toe roll was in a line and he was talking to the camera, I’m sure it was one take).
as far as sub genre of rollerblading, why not. there’s already stunt rollerblading, freestyle rolling, tech skating, etc, I think doing the creative work of rollerblading and seeing it as an art/dance/communication with your environment is worthy of its own title, in fact this is the place where all those other sub genres grew from (for example, what is now tech was once creative) so mushroom blading really, embodies the avante garde of rollerblading.
January 24th, 2008 at 12:02 am
bloody awesome!
January 24th, 2008 at 1:17 am
OMG!! The Jon Julio trick was on the cover of my first DB! good times…
January 25th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Lucas Bauaman what the hell are you talking about art/dance/communication? This isnt your art school its rollerblading and it has no boundaries within our chosen form so there arent any subcatergories in what for of skating we do , the catergories are of inline like, hockey, speed, rec, and what we call rollerblading(which is basically trick skating).