Whatever happened to Roller Blading

[Sp00n]

Skating/trials/bmx etc... are still all big things it's just not the current fad anymore.

I only sold my USD thrones a few months ago.

 

[nex20]

I had a pair of bauer turbo's they were awesome!

 

[clv101]

I used to play roller hockey, it was actually amazing fun and i wish i never gave it up

Same here, going back a decade. I've still got the skates somewhere, but the quality of pavements/paths around where I live just doesn't make it fun/piratical to use out and about.

 

[Hxc]

I used to love Roller Blading, will have to go sometime soon...

 

[The Dread Pirate]

I miss my rollerblades one of the few sporty activities I was quite good at!

 

[Vixen]

And Ice skating was popular 1989-1990.

I used to spend 3 nights a week Ice-skating in my Bauers

Something doesn't stop being popular because you stopped enjoying it. Ice skating is still very popular, my local rink has a crazy number of people (of all ages) in learn to skate classes and it is full of teenagers at the weekend.

EDIT: I think outdoor rollerblading is very seasonal, we get too much rain in the UK which means wet pavements. It's more popular in places with dry climates and flat paths. I think it's a shame that there aren't any more indoor roller rinks though, even ice rinks don't cash in any more if they lift the ice for the summer.

 

[markk]

I was big into inline skating from the mid to late 90s. Started out on Roces Majestic 12s with the low cut.

Still have my Majestic 12's low cut in white somewhere with the small grind wheels, what were they called butter or something? My mate had the 5th element skates which were good too.

Used to skate street in B'ham city centre or go to Derby Storm, Radlands (Northampton) or Playstation (London)

Fun times

 

[Citizen420]

Skating is still huge in the UK. The reason you probably don't see it much is because of the police.

My peeps: http://www.scottishrolling.com

 

[GreatAuk]

I've never tried rollerblading - looks fun, but where I was, skateboards were the 'in' thing. A few years later though, and everyone had put away their boards and taken up PS1ing instead.

 

[!bluetonic!]

I bought a paid of 'blades last year. I went out about 5 times and couldn't fathom how to stop (gracefully)... I haven't been out once this year.

I thought I'd be akin to Marty on his skateboard in Back To The Future. I thought I'd get fit by going out at lunch, but out of the office, each way is downhill which relates back to the stopping thing.

..From this thread we should organise a Roller Blade meet at a skate park somewhere.

B to the L to the A.... etc....

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Bauers were gay (at least in Basildon where I used to live)!

Roces were the way forward, especially as quads (i.e. not inlies) with Sims wheels!

 

[Defcon5]

I had Bauer F1s, i think Roces were what all the posh kids had?

 

[Sp00n]

I thought all the posh kids had boots, never had them, never saw the appeal :/

 

[semi-pro waster]

EDIT: I think outdoor rollerblading is very seasonal, we get too much rain in the UK which means wet pavements. It's more popular in places with dry climates and flat paths. I think it's a shame that there aren't any more indoor roller rinks though, even ice rinks don't cash in any more if they lift the ice for the summer.

Is there still a rollerblade rink out Portobello way? I can remember going to one on suspended timetable about 12 or so years ago now and I'm pretty sure it was out that way.

I bought a paid of 'blades last year. I went out about 5 times and couldn't fathom how to stop (gracefully)... I haven't been out once this year.

T-stop is the way to do it. As the name suggests you end up making a t-shape so the back blade is perpendicular to the front blade and that creates enough drag/friction to slow you down and stop. Obviously you can't just jam the back skate at right angles and expect it to go well, you've got to do it gradually.

If I remember rightly K2 Fatty Pros were highly thought of when I was still at high school but Bauer FXs were much more common.

 

[Citizen420]

Is there still a rollerblade rink out Portobello way? I can remember going to one on suspended timetable about 12 or so years ago now and I'm pretty sure it was out that way.



T-stop is the way to do it. As the name suggests you end up making a t-shape so the back blade is perpendicular to the front blade and that creates enough drag/friction to slow you down and stop. Obviously you can't just jam the back skate at right angles and expect it to go well, you've got to do it gradually.

If I remember rightly K2 Fatty Pros were highly thought of when I was still at high school but Bauer FXs were much more common.

T-stopping kills your wheels quickly. If you can't skate put a break on your skates, rubber block that's on your ankle, to stop you simply arch you foot backwards.

Normal people simply turn sharply to stop.

 

[Robert1986]

ahh was it Roces.

These guys can bring it back lol

lmao at the guy doing twirls at the end.

I used to play ice hockey and street hockey and everyone in my neighbor hood had roller blades and hockey sticks. I still have my roller blades in my loft.

 

[Sutters]

It was deemed lame as hell by skateboarders, and thus other kids not wanting to be laughed at mostly took up skateboarding instead which is still going strong of course.

It is, to be fair, pretty limited trick-wise comparatively. BMX'ing is still deemed a lot cooler.

 

[Sp00n]

It was deemed lame as hell by skateboarders, and thus other kids not wanting to be laughed at mostly took up skateboarding instead which is still going strong of course.

And skateboarding was deemed pretty faggy at the time as well.

There was usually a general hatred between binliners and plank pushers.

 

[Sutters]

And skateboarding was deemed pretty faggy at the time as well.

There was usually a general hatred between binliners and plank pushers.

Skateboarding has never been deemed faggy here. But then, nobody roller blades here.

 

[Freeman]

Haha I remember blading. My brother used to make wax to put on the curbs to grind with. I don't think there was a curb around where we lived without wax all over it.