Funny for sure, everyone acts so damned cool on the subject, "Rollerblading's fucking gay." "That crap is easier than skateboarding."
Well, yes, yes it is. Nobody claims it more difficult. But it is also fun. Some people even have the nerve to go so far as to say that rollerbladding tricks are nothing like ski tricks. Hmmmmmmm, ok. When I am on skis and roll into a jump fakie, I am actually in the same body position as I would be when I skate fakie into a jump. Strange. And when I set my trick, it is the same motions as you would do on skates. Hmmmm, very strange. Actually come to think of it, nearly everything you do in the air or on transitions was done on skates YEARS earlier. But I'm sure all of our tricks came from all the other sports, skating had zero influence. Sure.
I remember way back when...at the first High North ever. We were watching a skate film with JP and JF analyzing all their airs since the shit is the same. We were watching a fool named Jon Bergeron throw these insanely huge switch rodeos off a launch. Just thinking, damn, this is where skiing is going. Now before half of you flip out about your own influences to ski and push yourself, just realize that skating played a much much bigger part than you might realize. Snowboarding stemed from skateboarding and of course surfing, and it is the reason we had all the stuff to play on in at the mountains in the first place, but when it came to us figuring out our rotations and flips, skating was already doing it, clean, smooth and big. Already stated on here somewhere, and I don't know what rollerblading, if any, that you see, for the most part, much of the vert scene has gotten gymnastic and that isn't so cool, but straight up skating is crazy. Death defying stunts. When some fool comes flying in and does a cab seven reverse mute over 16 steps, rolling away like it was nothing, I think that is cool. Don't be a hater.
