What can we do to get aggressive inline back into xgames?

WisconsinDogfart

WisconsinDogfart

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X games posted this on their community feed:

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While this is definitely just X Games abusing the algorithm by making surveys, the people want inline. Instead of complaining to the internet and nothing gets done, I would really love to see it. Bringing a new sport to the X games would totally bring some of the stoke back. Recently X games feels kinda dry.

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**This thread was edited on Mar 12th 2021 at 11:35:56pm
 
Idk how much aggressive in-line is coming back, but rec skating is definitely back. I live by a park there is a shit ton of rollerbladers on the trail this year out of nowhere.
 
Agressive inline is skateboardings little brother.

But I wont hold my breath that the Xgames wont unsell itself out and bring it back. They should also include rock climbing. That sport blew up.
 
I miss the vert ramp, it was so fun to watch the dudes huck 1080s and landing sw was insane.
 
news of this poll has been going around the aggressive inline community and we've basically spammed the aggressive inline option lol
 
Going to crap on this thread and say rally cross. Race those cars side by side on a course that starts and ends in the arena and jumps in and out. Car racing is cool and you cannot change my mind.
 
14259011:r00kie said:
Going to crap on this thread and say rally cross. Race those cars side by side on a course that starts and ends in the arena and jumps in and out. Car racing is cool and you cannot change my mind.
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rallycross is cool but monster trucks belong i. the x games before rallycross
 
14259011:r00kie said:
Going to crap on this thread and say rally cross. Race those cars side by side on a course that starts and ends in the arena and jumps in and out. Car racing is cool and you cannot change my mind.
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Rally cross is cool af but I don't feel like car racing should be in the x games.
 
I follow JackTierney on IG and for all I know he’s on here too. my god it’s such a tease you always think he’s gonna do somethin sick—never does. Skates up to a ledge, you think he’s about to grind it—nope, just jumps up on it then off. Skates switch towards somethin, oh sick he’s gonna throw a big spin—nope maybe just a revert. Dude has tons of followers too. Just reminds me of myself back in the day when i was afraid to hit rails or throw big spins, but he has tons of followrrs lol again though sick flow and edits

i remember back in the day when I was a kid how hard the skaters in Duluth went. No helmets, flips over ledges, crazy shit. In college a drug dealer friend took me to a rail jam it was so fucking off the hook still. But super fringe, i have no idea where those guys came from but they were good

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14259942:theLiquor said:
I follow JackTierney on IG and for all I know he’s on here too. my god it’s such a tease you always think he’s gonna do somethin sick—never does. Skates up to a ledge, you think he’s about to grind it—nope, just jumps up on it then off. Skates switch towards somethin, oh sick he’s gonna throw a big spin—nope maybe just a revert. Dude has tons of followers too. Just reminds me of myself back in the day when i was afraid to hit rails or throw big spins, but he has tons of followrrs lol again though sick flow and edits

i remember back in the day when I was a kid how hard the skaters in Duluth went. No helmets, flips over ledges, crazy shit. In college a drug dealer friend took me to a rail jam it was so fucking off the hook still. But super fringe, i have no idea where those guys came from but they were good

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Unfortunately this is pretty common for big wheel blading. Follow an aggressive skater like Nils Jansons or Montre Livingston to see actually fucked tricks
 
Would never happen, you cant even get inline back in skateparks. I mean honestly how often do you even see somebody inline? I see the rollerskate girls probably fsr more often and still not many if them.

Just not gonna happen. I mean xganes dropped bmx dirt for 7 years for no reason. Inline isn't nearly popular enough at this point and nothing seems to be changing.
 
14260265:theabortionator said:
Would never happen, you cant even get inline back in skateparks. I mean honestly how often do you even see somebody inline? I see the rollerskate girls probably fsr more often and still not many if them.
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This is an inescapable positive feedback cycle. It's basically the Allee effect.

They're obviously not going to put it back and it'd be terrible anyway. Nobody wants to watch park runs, so it'd be down to mega ramp and half pipe and there's only a handful of skaters who can do something good on the mega ramp. There's way less that can skate halfpipe like they used too. The Yasutoko brothers sometimes put out stuff, but who else would you even get for half pipe?

You'd probably have a better chance at training already pro skiers to be good at the mega ramp on rollerblades, that'd give a way better show. Chris Haffey was already an ok skier when he tried.
 
This was a downvote i kinda liked. When people dislike honesty that isn't even harsh because it goes agsinst what they want.

Inline is never going back to xganes. And seriously, compared to the mid 90s how many people even participate in the sport? Go to 5 different skateparks on a weekend and count them. Hell I'm trying to think of how many I saw in my whole road trip that spanned the coast to coast and a bunch more. There was one kid in denver at a tiny park one of the days for a little trying to hit a rail and do some lip tricks. My buddy in rochester ny swapped his skateboard for his for a while. That's it. Id say 5 tops that i don't remember. We're talking hundreds minimum of skaters, prolly the same for scooters, and 50+ bmx.

So yeah sorry if that doesn't work for you but facts are facts.
 
14260507:theabortionator said:
This was a downvote i kinda liked. When people dislike honesty that isn't even harsh because it goes agsinst what they want.

Inline is never going back to xganes. And seriously, compared to the mid 90s how many people even participate in the sport? Go to 5 different skateparks on a weekend and count them. Hell I'm trying to think of how many I saw in my whole road trip that spanned the coast to coast and a bunch more. There was one kid in denver at a tiny park one of the days for a little trying to hit a rail and do some lip tricks. My buddy in rochester ny swapped his skateboard for his for a while. That's it. Id say 5 tops that i don't remember. We're talking hundreds minimum of skaters, prolly the same for scooters, and 50+ bmx.

So yeah sorry if that doesn't work for you but facts are facts.
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Aggressive skating isn't popular relative to skateboarding or bmx but the community is still going strong and actually gives a shit, as in they're regularly buying/making stuff, putting out edits, insta clips, etc etc. Also inline skating in general is coming back in popularity. Imo if aggressive skating got into the x games people would (hopefully) find it entertaining and not have the knee-jerk reaction anymore of "that's gay". There are lots of niche sports in the Olympics that a very small amount of athletes do, but people enjoy watching these sports anyway when the olympics roll around.

In my experience either I'm the only blader at the skatepark or we're like 20 people deep, that's just how the aggressive community operates, for every city there's a community of bladers with a facebook group or whatever that coordinates seshes.
 
14260505:a_pla5tic_bag said:
This is an inescapable positive feedback cycle. It's basically the Allee effect.

They're obviously not going to put it back and it'd be terrible anyway. Nobody wants to watch park runs, so it'd be down to mega ramp and half pipe and there's only a handful of skaters who can do something good on the mega ramp. There's way less that can skate halfpipe like they used too. The Yasutoko brothers sometimes put out stuff, but who else would you even get for half pipe?

You'd probably have a better chance at training already pro skiers to be good at the mega ramp on rollerblades, that'd give a way better show. Chris Haffey was already an ok skier when he tried.
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Not sure why you think people wouldn't like street course. Mega ramp seems kinda gimmicky to me, like why not just watch ski big air lmao. Chris Haffey, Roman Abrate, CJ Wellsmore did that stuff for nitro circus and it was cool seeing them do like dub 12 and stuff but it looks way weirder on blades...people would like watching vert but vert in general is kinda dead afaik.
 
14260531:FruitBootPro said:
Aggressive skating isn't popular relative to skateboarding or bmx but the community is still going strong and actually gives a shit, as in they're regularly buying/making stuff, putting out edits, insta clips, etc etc. Also inline skating in general is coming back in popularity. Imo if aggressive skating got into the x games people would (hopefully) find it entertaining and not have the knee-jerk reaction anymore of "that's gay". There are lots of niche sports in the Olympics that a very small amount of athletes do, but people enjoy watching these sports anyway when the olympics roll around.

In my experience either I'm the only blader at the skatepark or we're like 20 people deep, that's just how the aggressive community operates, for every city there's a community of bladers with a facebook group or whatever that coordinates seshes.
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They took it our because they felt it was dying. Youre saying there's still a core group of inline skaters. When has xgames been all about core? They want to have events that a ton of people are gonna watch. They pulled bmx dirt for 7 years. Dew tour still had it during that time.

It might be coming back in terms of 2 people at that skatepark instead of one on a saturdsy but its not really coming back. Shit was super popular in the 90s early 2k. It's just not there. Xgames isn't going ti reintroduce it in hopes to rekindle the flame. If the hype isn't there the hype isn't there.

It's great that the scene is there but what you're talking about kind if shows how dead it is. There will be a bunch of skaters, scooters, and bmxers at most skateparks every day regardless of a planned meet up.

The thing with the olympics is that it's been around for a billion years and events just kind of stay. Xgames csme in in 95 when inline was ripping. They had it in there past the point where it was that big honestly.

Idk. I think inline is sweet and a bunch of my friends are pretty good at it, but I'm just being honest. Xgames isn't on some heartfept humanitarian mission to rekindle the flame. They dont care. It's an exhibition for the $$$ if its not selling its not worth keeping.
 
14260556:theabortionator said:
They took it our because they felt it was dying. Youre saying there's still a core group of inline skaters. When has xgames been all about core? They want to have events that a ton of people are gonna watch. They pulled bmx dirt for 7 years. Dew tour still had it during that time.

It might be coming back in terms of 2 people at that skatepark instead of one on a saturdsy but its not really coming back. Shit was super popular in the 90s early 2k. It's just not there. Xgames isn't going ti reintroduce it in hopes to rekindle the flame. If the hype isn't there the hype isn't there.

It's great that the scene is there but what you're talking about kind if shows how dead it is. There will be a bunch of skaters, scooters, and bmxers at most skateparks every day regardless of a planned meet up.

The thing with the olympics is that it's been around for a billion years and events just kind of stay. Xgames csme in in 95 when inline was ripping. They had it in there past the point where it was that big honestly.

Idk. I think inline is sweet and a bunch of my friends are pretty good at it, but I'm just being honest. Xgames isn't on some heartfept humanitarian mission to rekindle the flame. They dont care. It's an exhibition for the $$$ if its not selling its not worth keeping.
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Yeah that's a fair point about xgames only wanting to put in what has a lot of hype, kinda surprising to me that even bmx dirt got pulled. And yeah I'm aware that the whole meetup thing is proof that the scene is super small even though it's tight knit. Maybe they'll test it one year but who knows. It would be good for exposure but I don't even know if I'd enjoy it that much considering how x games freeskiing is looking.
 
watching the roces team edits recently has made me think totally different about inline. i think it’s whack that so much of trick technicality comes from like crossing your legs while grinding and positioning of your feet, but getting so into watching urban ski edits lately, there’s so much more you can do on skates than on a skateboard when it comes to hitting urban features, seems to me at least.

x games real inline 2025 ?
 
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