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 //April 2017// //April 2017//
  
-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.