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- | I recently started listening to podcasts on my long commute to work. One of the best discoveries so far has been the "[[http://mushroomblading.com/podcasts.php?id=main|How to be Unpopular]]" podcast. This podcast really dives deep into the rollerblading culture. Despite having skated for most of my life, this is something I really knew nothing about. I started thinking more about my own experience of skating, and thought this might be of interest to some people (a very minuscule number of people, but still...). | + | I recently started listening to podcasts on my long commute to work. One of the best discoveries so far has been the [[http://mushroomblading.com/podcasts.php?id=main|How to be Unpopular]] podcast. This podcast dives deep into the rollerblading culture. Despite having skated for most of my life, this is something I really knew nothing about. I started thinking more about my own experience of skating, and thought this might be of interest to some people (a very minuscule number of people, but still...). |
This is supposed to be a small history of the sport of "aggressive inline skating", as experienced by me. For lack of a universal name for this sport, I will mostly be calling it skating. | This is supposed to be a small history of the sport of "aggressive inline skating", as experienced by me. For lack of a universal name for this sport, I will mostly be calling it skating. | ||
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- | A few years later I entered the modern skate era with a new pair of skates bought online, Razors Genesys! I also started looking for skate videos from NZ, and eventually discovered the NZ Rolling Facebook page. Turns out even in NZ skating used to be a thing. | + | A few years later I entered the modern skate era with a new pair of skates bought online, Razors Genesys! I also started looking for skate videos from NZ, and eventually discovered the [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/342542682506644/|NZ Rolling]] Facebook page. Turns out even in NZ skating used to be a thing. |
In [[http://mushroomblading.com/podcasts.php?id=137|How to Be Unpopular #138]] there is a conversation about how people past the initial boom got into skating. A number of "sick edits" were mentioned which would have drawn in the new generation. Well, for me it was just a library book! It makes me wonder how many others like me learnt to skate completely outside "the culture". | In [[http://mushroomblading.com/podcasts.php?id=137|How to Be Unpopular #138]] there is a conversation about how people past the initial boom got into skating. A number of "sick edits" were mentioned which would have drawn in the new generation. Well, for me it was just a library book! It makes me wonder how many others like me learnt to skate completely outside "the culture". | ||
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