Soldato
Right, this is going to be embarrassing, because, as everyone knows, inline skating is gay.
That aside, after 15 years of not being anywhere near a pair of inline skates (well, I have a pair of Salomon ST8s festering in the loft with completely seized bearings and mould all over the liners, they don't count), I was somehow prompted to look at skates on eBay. Probably after seeing a Scotty Cranmer video with some other YouTuber taking the mick out of skating as the character Emo Skyler and remembering how much fun we all used to have anti-rockering our way from waxed kerb to waxed kerb in hilariously baggy jeans.
My eBay search lead me to a pair of back-in-the-day holy grail skates with knee pads and wrist guards that look barely used. They were high-cuff Roces Majestic 13 Twelves. I bought them after my wife showed interest in putting hers on again (Rollerblade Dirks), incidentally her skates are a lot less knackered than my old ones (I actually got hers out the loft and gave them a bloody good clean after gathering mould, dust and spiders for about 15 years). I then told her to put them on and rolled her down the hallway. She looked like a washing machine being rolled along on one of those appliance trolley things, such was her grace.
Anyway, I haven't got my new skates yet, but intend to roll about a bit for some time at some point. Probably with my 4 year old daughter in tow on her scooter. I say in tow, I really mean miles off in the distance whilst I shimmy along the pavement grabbing onto fences and lamp posts in an effort to stay upright/alive. I bought aggressive skates because that's what I used to be into and have the most sentiment towards. I found an archive with scans of lots of magazines such as Unity and Daily Bread and read them with maximum sentimental fuzziness. I had most of them back in the 90s, proper trip down memory lane it was.
My only real defence to the opening sentence is that I have a wife and kids, so maybe I'll fall into the bi-curious category?
Has anyone else picked skating back up after a very long break? Indeed, does anyone still skate on inlines? I found mushroom blading on YouTube and imagine that's where I'd be now, at 35, if I'd never stopped.
My biggest fear is gobby 13 year olds on scooters. Falling over is secondary to that.
I bet I'm the only one here, aren't I?
That aside, after 15 years of not being anywhere near a pair of inline skates (well, I have a pair of Salomon ST8s festering in the loft with completely seized bearings and mould all over the liners, they don't count), I was somehow prompted to look at skates on eBay. Probably after seeing a Scotty Cranmer video with some other YouTuber taking the mick out of skating as the character Emo Skyler and remembering how much fun we all used to have anti-rockering our way from waxed kerb to waxed kerb in hilariously baggy jeans.
My eBay search lead me to a pair of back-in-the-day holy grail skates with knee pads and wrist guards that look barely used. They were high-cuff Roces Majestic 13 Twelves. I bought them after my wife showed interest in putting hers on again (Rollerblade Dirks), incidentally her skates are a lot less knackered than my old ones (I actually got hers out the loft and gave them a bloody good clean after gathering mould, dust and spiders for about 15 years). I then told her to put them on and rolled her down the hallway. She looked like a washing machine being rolled along on one of those appliance trolley things, such was her grace.
Anyway, I haven't got my new skates yet, but intend to roll about a bit for some time at some point. Probably with my 4 year old daughter in tow on her scooter. I say in tow, I really mean miles off in the distance whilst I shimmy along the pavement grabbing onto fences and lamp posts in an effort to stay upright/alive. I bought aggressive skates because that's what I used to be into and have the most sentiment towards. I found an archive with scans of lots of magazines such as Unity and Daily Bread and read them with maximum sentimental fuzziness. I had most of them back in the 90s, proper trip down memory lane it was.
My only real defence to the opening sentence is that I have a wife and kids, so maybe I'll fall into the bi-curious category?
Has anyone else picked skating back up after a very long break? Indeed, does anyone still skate on inlines? I found mushroom blading on YouTube and imagine that's where I'd be now, at 35, if I'd never stopped.
My biggest fear is gobby 13 year olds on scooters. Falling over is secondary to that.
I bet I'm the only one here, aren't I?