After a show break from bringing you some video content we bring you a new episode! Guest Mark Yoo from Vertigo skatepark join’s us to look over the recent Bittercold Showdown event and re-cap on what went down. Brazil also join’s us to talk about his recent BCSD Edit. We have another Hyphy III giveaway and a new POTW. For this weeks show links click here.
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Awesome show guys, keep up the quality. I was lost without the Revival for an extended period of time.
Ohh yea thanks for the shout out on the show too.
i dont really get why it would be such a good thing to get skiers to start cross training on skates. i mean if i got anything out of barely dead it was that inline skate sales are mad high still to this day and there is still a ton of money in it, its just that aggressive skates sales are only a very very small percentage of it. so even if we some how got a bunch of skiers to start skating, they arent going to buy valos or usds or any products that will bring money into the aggressive area. or am i missing something here?
I think they are more looking at the long term. Most rollers started out on hockey skates, or just rolling around on some rec skates, and then we found rolling. Any exposure to rollerblading can bring about people wanting to aggressive inline, but first we have to get people on regular rollerblades, because you cannot run before you walk.
inline skating as a whole (hockey, fitness, race, aggressive) is in a big depression. granted, fitness is the strongest of all these categories, but it is nowhere near the boom-sport juggernaut it was ten years ago. i think a lot of the numbers presented in Barely Dead are misleading or incorrect because they’re for the inline market as a whole, not just aggressive.
i guess i/we should have been more clear on the show: by skiers i mostly meant freestyle/newschool skiers, not mom and pops putzing down the green run skiers. and by getting into skating, i of course mean aggressive skating. freestyle skiiers would naturally be looking to get into aggressive skating, as bike-path skating would have little direct benefit for them, and chris, franky and brian are of course aggressive skaters.
even if a bunch of clueless skiers bought rec skates, it’d still benefit us indirectly, as the corporate heads at K2 and Technica tend to look at inline as one big category, not as seperate disciplines (thus why execs at Amer axed the entire Salomon inline division when aggressive by itself was doing fairly well).
tim kelly is my hero
Al Dolega, Who do you think you are? To even think of telling someone that has high expections of himself and his work, and even higher aspirations for the industry as a whole that the idea is naive. Do you have the lowest self-esteem in rollerblading or am I missing something here?
the main thing i remember from Barely Dead was that it said that still to this day inline numbers are still higher than skateboarding and knowing how huge boarding is now adays i assumed the other areas of inline must be booming. and ya i guess “free skiers” or whatever would probably get into aggressive so that would be cool.
what are you referring to Randall? i’m not following you. who did i call naive?
I completely understand what Brazil is saying and look forward to his company. There’s a lot of people I’ve shown skating edits to that after the first 30 second just feel like people are doing the same things over and over… a few things like the Haffey edit at that skatepark doing all the trick written out and a few other edits work not only for rollers but also for non-rollers…
where can i sell some old skating shit ?
where can i buy top of the range skates
i have skated most of my life but now i am starte=ing to do tricks as i eould only play roller hockey but its time to change has any one got any tips on how i should start skating properly (e.g ramps and grinds)
my hero is roman abrate – french skater
I skied before I ever did vert on rollerblading. Skiing is very similar to rollerblading. There are only two exercises that will help keep up your leg mussels for skiing. The exercises are biking and skating. It is true that it doesn’t have to be aggressive skating but a skier that lives near a skate park may want to try it out with his/her fitness skates.
I never new skiers dissed bladders. I certainly have never. I’m not a free skier. I like to ski mougles, glades and chutes. I guess you could call me an old school extreme skier but I don’t have my wings yet. I just moved out to the west side of Canada a year ago. In the east the hills are small and I didn’t ski much during university.
Speaking of comparing snowboarding to skiing, those free skiers certinaly didn’t grow up when and where I was skiing. I grew up on the east side of Canada and the local hill was pretty small and boring. I remember the ski petrol their were such babies. They kept the best trails closed too long and give people a hard time for going off jumps. They were a real jerks to the expert skiers and pandered to the beginner and intermediate skiers.
Then snow boarding came along and I was like WTF, the ski patrol was banning skiiers for getting too much air and now they are building parks obstical courses for snowboards. The snowboarders were jerks to. They would get pissed off if you went off their stuff, either what the hill built for them or what they built for themselves on the main sloops. THey would say it wrecks the lips. I use to skateboard at the same time and they were telling me to get off the two pines. Well f*ck them. I like to ski and they wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the shiers. If these free skiers like snowboarding so much why don’t they do that instead.
Al, I had the same point of criticism concerning barely dead. Much respect to the work in general, no doubt about that, but what is key to a scientific work (and a documentary should be conceived as that) is that the numbers are correct and brought in a clear context.
The importance for professionality in rollerblading cannot be stressed enough and I am still convinced that the support of big non-skater-owned companies is key to reach a broader audience. Adidas for instance sponsors bmx riders and skateboarders. They sponsor big events and make it possible for pros to actually sustain a living with their sport. We need to find ways to increasingly gain access to those channels to keep rolling evolving and stable in the so-called fun sports branch.
are you guys still alive?
um you guys should hurry up and put out a new show…..
This shit is like crack, you can’t be dealing it out then telling me your shit is out of stock.
What kind of dealers are you guys….
I’m going else where…
wow,
how come you guys deleted my post? no foul language, no insults…
i’m confused. would be nice if you give me an answer for that.
cheers
You guys were looking for something people could adapt their ski boots to:
http://www.terrablades.com/terrablades.html
whoa, didn’t realize there’d been so many responses to this.. a couple quick things:
-i in no way mean to slight Barely Dead, it was truly an amazing project and turned out fabulously. the lack of aggressive-only statistics is in no way doug or justin’s fault, they simply don’t exist. so they had to refer to the general (i.e. including rec, hockey, etc) statistics, or nothing.
-as for the skiing thing, my viewpoint on the thing is very much so outside of skiing, and from within rollerblading. i think all we need to do is keep doing what we’re doing as a sport and we’ll get to a point where they can no longer ignore us (snowboarders, skateboarders and whoever else, too)!