RANT about Rollerblading

yeah youre pretty ridiculous..."pioneering switch spins???" how does spinning switch on a snowboard even closely resemble spinning switch on skis? Weird...look at rollerblading...and again...it kinda looks a little more similar. wait...alot more similar. CRAZY. just because they have the same name makes them similar tricks eh. maybe if kickflips were called tailwhips...it would make alot more sense to me...since they are the same trick and all. Like the other kid said...HATING ON ANY SPORT...is ridiculous.
 
First of let me tell mickdcopycat one message....

SEARCH BAR you complete moron we don't care about your opinion because your an insignificant skier who probably would allow yourself to be eifle towered by tanner and mick d

second of all as a rollerblader who started rollerblading 8 years ago i have seen the highs and lows of rollerblading... i have seen it go from a point where every person wanted to be aaron feinberg when he won the xgames at 16 and who had great contracts with large sponsors such as gap to the point where there are contests now where people try ledges they can easily DIE on to win 20 dollars during a contest

furthermore, the rollerblading community knows it is hated and to be honest they don't care about becoming the next big trend again or surpassing skateboarding as the pinnacle action sports industry. all the people want is the pros can have livable wages and they arent forced to work at places like home depot to make ends meet as opposed to living in a hollywood hills home and drive a porsche carrera (i.e. rob and big)

i respect skateboarding, in fact i do it everyday as my method of transportation as i use my sector 9 shortboard to skate to class at my university... however i am the type of person who does not get the same thrill/adrenaline similar to skiing, out of landing a trick 6" off the ground by just using my foot to flip the board around one time in a parking lot...

i would personally rather learn to do a complete 360 into an already difficult grind, and THEN have to balance my way down a 25 stair handrail and land and roll away without falling.... no one is arguing which sport is harder, they each are easier in their own ways its the equivalent of skiing/snowboarding. most people believe skiiing is slightly easier to do from the start however to master the technical skills and become exceptional requires years of practice and hard work as opposed to snowboarding when one might fall a few times but once you get the hang of it your pretty much set

in addition you can hold your own opinion on rollerblading and that you think it is gay, but dont you ever dare tell another skier how to dress you fascist kid... i wear rollerblading shit sometimes when i urban, i wear a line tshirt when i rollerblade, nobody cares except someone who is insecure about themselves and their lack of style

do you think by not wearing a skiing shirt while rollerblading that you cant tell just looking at the two sports the grabs are similar, the balance and stance on jumps and rails are remarkably alike, the only things really different are the size of the jumps and park features other then rails... in fact rails are bigger on rollerblades for the most part

you also said candide is the shit for doing an 810 onto a rail... thats not that surprising considering people in rollerblading have done "switch" aka fakie 720 grinds on handrails.... or forward 720s into grinds over launch boxs to disaster onto the rail and almost got forward 900s to "switch" aka alley-oup grinds on the same setup

are you going to now call candides shit gay? didnt think so bud...

btw in addition to skiing and rollerblading and being able to skateboard i also surf, and wakeboard so you pretty much have no grounds to say people shouldnt rollerblade because there are better choices then it...

http://s90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/steve_metz/rollerblading%20video/?action=view&current=MVI_1185.flv&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch5

chris haffey 720 into soul grind

http://s90.photobucket.com/albums/k258/steve_metz/rollerblading%20video/?action=view&current=MVI_1182.flv&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch2

brian aragon 540 truespin topsoyale

http://www.break.com/index/skater_%20grinds_33_kinks.html

lets see a skier lace this rail in minnesota

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7luggRpqR4&mode=related&search=

and finally if you thought rollerblading wasnt hard, lets see how your body holds up to this impact/the consequences of falling on that
 
YEA YOU JUST PROVED A POINT THEY ARE ATTACHED TO YOUR FEET SO EVERYTHING YOU DO HAS TO BE 100% COMMITTED UNLIKE SKATEBOARDING........i would never hate on skateboarders casue they are all chill and they do some amazing shit .....but give me a fuckin break rollerbladers have been hitting gaps bigger than you would ever believe and all of the rail shit is super tech LIKE INSANELY TECH its just rediculous.....for anyone to hate on rollerbladers just to hate is out of their goddam mind......show some respeck and stop riding skateboarders dicks
 
i personally dont like rollerblading and i believe that skiing has developed it self but if you want to rollerblade then do it.People on this site in particlar who say every grab and rail was mimicked from rollerblading, think again losers when was the last time you saw a rollerblader do a fucken tail grab dont be stupid guys and it just so happens that there is only one grind that we do that copies rollerblading and that is the normal way, you get some people who say that 1 footers and drop knee triple thousand leg twist grinds are cool but only a very small proportion of people do them to try and be different but the truth is your just making your selves look stupid. like someone posted before so many of the best pros dont rollerblade such as tanner. I will say the only thing we have slighly in common with rollerblading is that both sports have two things on your feet thats it, not grabs and rails............but hey do what you want just dont claim your a skier.
 
although grabs such as a tailgrab cant really come from rollerblading... mutes, japans, a lot of the double grabs, truckdrivers really resemble rocket airs people do on rollerblades when they fully extend their legs and grab their toes, safety grabs, a lot of the styles of tweaking grabs especially on corks are really similar to rollerblading

the influence is there whether you want to deny it or not, its not so much just bc of rollerblading but the limit to which the human body can bend and move dont allow for that different of motions and style
 
it's a sad day when someone leaves NS because they're sick of

rollerblading. Or maybe that's a good thing. Either way, I think someone is

missing something.

And there's just something hypocritical about Mickdcopycat insisting that sports shouldn't be copied.
 
I surf (have been for 6 yrs now), ski (14 yrs), snowboard (8 yrs and am editor of a snowboard magazine), ride MX (4 yrs) and I rollerblade (12 yrs). I'm okay at all of this, though I should ride a bike more often but its just to damn expensive...

Anyway anybody thinking rollerblading is gay is either misinformed or intentionally shortsighted and most likely belongs up there with the same idiots that complain that "those poles make ski rotations look weird" or that say that "it's much easier to land big gaps on skis"... and up there too with the people that won't allow new school tricks in the Olympics and such. (which I incidentally happen to hate anyway, as they are consiting of the most shortsighted people on the globe).

This post is already too long. My message is this: I know what I am talking about and people should just get a fucking clue.

 
I'm gunna say it's safe to assume you suck at both skiing and skateboarding. I've never heard anyone with talent hate on a sport they don't even participate in.
 
So I guess you NEVER slide rails while skiing?

Because if you do, you are essentially doing the exact same thing as rollerbladers do.
 
Im probably saying what everyone else is saying but this guy is an idiot. I rollerbladed for years before ever putting on skis....
 
people really just need to stop the hate

rollerblading is here to stay and it will never go away

deal with it
 
man roller blading to skateboarding is like skiing to snowboarding, only noobs hate on eachother. Wanna know why, cuz noobs can't understand the proness of both sports. Also, noobs just want to fit in and be cool, so they follow other noobs as a result.
 
i agree that skiing is its own sport and should not be derived from anything else. Still, in the summer, rollerblading is a similar sport (more similar than skateboarding) that can pass that can improve balance, air awareness, strengthen ankles and legs,etc; all things that will in in turn make you a better skier. if you actually try to get decent at it, youll also relize that its not as easy as you claim.
 
Please newschoolers.com site programers, remove all inline skating hater blogs because they are getting ridiculous. If you feel the need to hate on a sport, then you haven't been skiing long enough. When i was in my teens i would get heckled and thrown out of terrain parks on a regular basis because i was a skier. Now for some reason much of the skiing community forgets that skiing was considered a joke in recent history. I bet half of the kids skiing today wouldn't be skiing if we were still being hated on, they probably would switch to snowboarding like everyone used to because it was the cool sport. So go skateboard and hate on inline skating because for some reason its the hip macho thing to do. If you hate rollerblading so much and individuals rollerblading maybe its a sign of your own insecurities and a sign that you are not confident in your own riding or skating abilities. Just go ski dammit.
 
you obviously care way too much about what people think of you.... just let the dude do his own thing... there are tons of rollerbladers who throw down bigger than you
 
rollerblading is a progression of roller skating, but where do you think some skiers and rollerbladers got their tricks from? eachother is the answer. take charels gangier for example, look at his grinds... now look at the grabs rollerbladers do... skiers got SOME grinding tips from bladers and bladers got SOME grabs from skiers. now i know 100% that someone is abosolutely disagree with me cuz this is a rant. but i thought these points should be brought up for a fair fight.
 
oh in that case ill just say what i wouldve said in english... je n'aime pas mickdcopycat. je comprende?
 
anyone saying that rollerblading has no influence on skiing, wake up. Watch Charles Gagnier, he is doing christ grinds and full torques on rails. Look at Kaya Turski. She was a rollerblader before she was a skier and look at what she accomplished in one season.
 
hahahha what a fag, why are their people like this on ns? and WHY do they insist on blabbing shit that no one cares about to us!!!! damn u peice of shit. why cant people that enjoy rollerblading rolleblading and then u do whatever the fuck u want? im not gunna give u shit cause ur gay, do what makes u happy and dont act like a dick.... DICK
 
also stefane alfano does big cork 9 mute? grabs on launch boxes, i think he took the style from skiing, they look really cool, just as cool as on skis
 
hahahaha what an idiot

oviously skiing has been around longer

but rollerblading has been around longer then freestyle skiing

easy? ya on a basic level

its a big deal if someone kickflips el toro in skateboarding

rollerbladers 720 it

rollerbladers grind for over 600 feet

rollerbladers do spins like 720 and 900 to rails

 
Your a fucking poser who can't do SHIT!!! The only reason you skateboard is because Tanner fucking Hall skateboards. Your a loser! If you sent this to Tanner he would think your a dumb fuck. YOU DUMB NIGGER!!!
 
Actually skiing has been around for about 10 thousand years, no shit they found cave drawings in norway of people skiing and they carbon dated them back 10 thousand years ago. Skiing is the OG of action sports..
 
i agree that skiing and rollerblading are two completely different sports.

i dont mind rollerblading, i think skiing snowboarding and skateboarding are cooler, but i respect them cause alot of what they do is crazy.

i just hate how everything looks kinda gay, like its all about how fast you can dance on rails and it seems like they dont give a shit about style. if they would just stop acting like ballerina and try to put more effort into style, rollerblading could be a sweet sport.
 
switch spins on skis is very similar to snowboarding actually, the setup for the spin is slightly different because of the direction you spin, but the feeling, carving, everything is very very similar. snowboards are just a wide ski, and skis are just two skinny snowboards, so obviously they are gonna be crazy similar.
 
Agressive inline is NOT gay. do you have any idea how hard it is? No! you dont! cause you've never tried it! inline skating is THE most amazing sport Ever in my opinion.

I cant believe you were actually offended when you saw a rollerblader wearing a 4frnt t-shirt. like what the heck is wrong with your head?! rollerbladin is awesome. your just too chicken to admit it.
 
no good skiiers rollerblade? huh... ... what about stefan thomas, andreas hatviet, witt foster, ben faturos, kevin thomas, and charles gagnier? they're not good? You're dumb. rollerblading is skiing, but smaller. Its FUCKING OBVIOUS! and if you ever tried it, u would know. You wanna get better at skiing...rollerblade during the summer
 
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