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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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| {{ :my-history-of-skating:20170414_195506.jpg?nolink |I learnt my first grinds on these}} | {{ :my-history-of-skating:20170414_195506.jpg?nolink |I learnt my first grinds on these}} | ||
| - | A bit later I got my first pair of aggressive skates, Roces Majestic 12, many sizes too big (but the right width!). The sport goods store was holding a massive skate clearance so everything was going cheap! | + | A bit later I got my first pair of aggressive skates, pre-UFS Roces Majestic 12, many sizes too big (but the right width!). The sport goods store was holding a massive skate clearance so everything was going cheap! |
| At the local skatepark there were pretty much just skateboarders. There was another older kid who turned up a handful of times, would wax every coping and do a buch of backsides. I also had one street session when I ran into a bunch of "really old" skaters who were grinding a little brick wall in front of the mall I used to skate through. | At the local skatepark there were pretty much just skateboarders. There was another older kid who turned up a handful of times, would wax every coping and do a buch of backsides. I also had one street session when I ran into a bunch of "really old" skaters who were grinding a little brick wall in front of the mall I used to skate through. | ||
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| In 2005 when we moved back to NZ again I thought I was possibly the only inline skater in NZ for a long time. I still went to the skatepark pretty regularly, but really didn't improve my trick vocabulary much. It's not very motivating always being by yourself. Here's a little edit I made in 2010: | In 2005 when we moved back to NZ again I thought I was possibly the only inline skater in NZ for a long time. I still went to the skatepark pretty regularly, but really didn't improve my trick vocabulary much. It's not very motivating always being by yourself. Here's a little edit I made in 2010: | ||
| - | {{youtube>U_MQN1V2Cik?medium}} | + | {{ youtube>U_MQN1V2Cik?medium }} |
| Over time my wheels wore down to the core and I bought some new wheels online, also marking my switch to antirocker. At some point I also modified my skates by screwing a little piece of plastic from the bottom of a walking frame onto the heel area of the soul, which before that was just the stock boot. | Over time my wheels wore down to the core and I bought some new wheels online, also marking my switch to antirocker. At some point I also modified my skates by screwing a little piece of plastic from the bottom of a walking frame onto the heel area of the soul, which before that was just the stock boot. | ||
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| {{ :my-history-of-skating:dscf5185.jpg?nolink&400 |Blade tech}} | {{ :my-history-of-skating:dscf5185.jpg?nolink&400 |Blade tech}} | ||
| - | 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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| + | ~~DISQUS~~ | ||