Being a skateboarder for roughly 10 years I’ve had several love affairs with rollerblading.
I’m more interested in transition and grinds more than fliptricks anymore, and it gets tiring having to relearn the same tricks over and over again when I see my friends that rollerblade always improving and never having to basically start over every spring like skateboarders have to unless you are unnaturally gifted, or can afford to go to indoor parks every weekend or two.
Skateboarding is only fun for me when it’s at new parks, but it seems rollerblading has basically replaced skateboarding at my local park, and all my old skateboarding friends have either moved or quit, so I basically need to adapt.
Anyone else in a similar scenario?
Never been that interested in BMX or scootering. I don’t think either is wack, it’s just that they both take alot of upperbody strength, which I don’t have and am not interested in getting in order to have fun.
I’ll never quit skateboarding, but rollerblading is definitively setting a precedent, however small it may be, in my area.
If it weren’t for rollerbladers there wouldn’t be a skatepark in my town anyway, so it seems like things may be coming full circle. 
Aggressive Inling hasn’t been popular since the “extreme-sports explosion of the late 90’s/early 00’s”.
Our city used to have a sizable amount of bladers, but they eventually stopped going to skateparks because they got into fights with skaters over street course priviliges, and would always get drive-by-yelled at by the BMX’ers.
I tried it out for a year because Jet Grind Radio influenced me, but I stopped because I always got dizzy. Plus that shits expensive; $200+ for a pair of decent blades? Fuck that.
In fact, I quit skating by my sophomore year because the scene got over-commercialized and overran by elitist faggots who think technical flip-tricks are all the rage.
BBQ
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As a semi retired bmx rider, back in the late 90’s early 2000’s the bmx and skateboard communities bashed the hell out of inline people. I think the insult “fruitbooter” was used quite often when describing and calling people that inline at skateparks. But I gained respect for aggro inliners after spending bits of summer in 2000 with a guy that would do any hand rail, back flip any park spine and had fluid style. The guy was with me in support when I did my first 18 stair rail on my 45 lb. bike. I think inline got better over all when it was banished from mainstream, especially when the x gaymes took it off it’s schedule. Lots of underground video that even the bmx community couldn’t deny how crazy these guys would be hucking themselves, doing like 20 ft roof drop to what ever grind and mach 10 to gap to wall ride on what ever. Inline at least for me, as proven to be nots to be fucked with.
But bmx, especially now, how frames are almost as light as scooters, doesn’t require a lot of upper body strength. It’s more like muscle memory and endurance than anything. Look at a lot of riders, they are as skinny as any other kid at the parks.
pherai
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Street Fighter fans should support pro blader and X-Games medalist Louie Zamora. He’s a big SF fan!
d3v
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Disappointed that this isn’t a thread about Fighting Vipers.
used to skate a lot back in high school, but now since of my age and my arm i cant skate any more. Not just that I could never do a back flip, and a front flip. 360’s, and 720s are easy, so is grinding once you know how to do it
Agressive inline was a surprisingly fun game. I just remember that shirtless dude who looked like Jason Mewes on the cover.
Shout outs to fruit boots.
When I was a kid I was into BMX. Some of my friends were skaters but most were BMXers. Skaters and BMXers were always cool with each other but all of us always hated on the rollerbladers. I guess we figured that shit didnt take to much skill seeing as the wheels were attached to your feet, and you only had to jump to bust style.
I cant hate anymore though. I couldnt rollerblade if I tried. I would bite it so hard. I had The Wife get me some of them shoes with the wheels in them. I tried them once and almost broke my head. I never put them on again.
The worst part about inline skating.
Having to tell your parents you’re gay.
Yup, every youtube comment ever.
specs
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Like… rollerblade fighting?
Like Genki from Monster Rancher?
