Now THAT's rollerblading!

[dislekcia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZnkPLED8Lw

Seriously. That clip made me shout "WHAAAAT?!" about 12 times... Wow. In my mind this guy's one of the best skaters out there, simply because he goes big and pulls huge spins/off-axis stuff as well as the crazy tech rail stuff. Sure, he's not a street wizard like Aragon, but bio 900 onto an exit ramp you can't even see out of a mini is just pure hardcore.

(BTW: I appreciate that some of you won't like this sort of stuff, in that case move on and sorry for wasting your bandwitdh ;))

-D

[dammit]

Man, to have style and skill like that....

[Squirly]

Funny you should post this now Dis, coz...here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v-v721Qc94) something everyone can appreciate, skater or not.

Ah, pain. Don't worry, he walked away (after 10 minutes).

[dislekcia]

Yeah, pull-out on a ramp that big is going to kill you... Glad he was ok. He made the right decision to land on his feet instead of trying to slide that out, waaaay too far down in the flat for that.

Also, I really want to skate that thing. Ever since I saw it three years ago it's been a goal of mine...

-D

[Azimuth]

Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch.

[R4mzy]

Gah! ... That video made me queasy... Not cool... Eeeugh...

[ib3waffle]

Foot skating>rollerblading

[Vexo]

That looks so fun

[CaptainCrunch]

Yeah that was a horrible crash landing.
But he didn't pull out of the trick.
The slowmo shows just before he got to the lip of the vert ramp, his board wobbled which sent him off balance.

[dislekcia]

@ib3waffle: I actually spent a good afternoon with Brett Golding down in CT inventing and messing around with footskating tricks, back when footskating was still a random crazy-monkey idea. The other one was broomskating, that was just wrong...

CaptainCrunch: By "pull-out" I mean when you move away from the vert in the air, this causes you to land further and further into the flat bottom as you go higher. Not that he pulled out of the trick. You've actually got a very, very tiny safe region to land in on vert, you can't really travel towards or away from the ramp at all. There's also "pull-in" which is where you go out over the lip of the ramp itself, the names sound like they're the wrong way around, but they make perfect sense when you're doing it ;). You actually want to get a tiny bit of pull-in when you're trying to get more speed: It lets you push against the ramp all the way down, giving you twice as many opportunities to pump...

Yeah. Skaternerd. I know.

-D

[CaptainCrunch]

OK, i see.

[tranquillity]

Omg, so cool!!

I liked the song in the St?phane Alfano video. Which song is it?

As for the Jake Brown one.. :O ow, that made my tummy sore :|

[dislekcia]

Omg, so cool!!

I liked the song in the St?phane Alfano video. Which song is it?

As for the Jake Brown one.. :O ow, that made my tummy sore :|

Me too, so I went and found it:
David Usher - Black Black Heart

Very cool song :)

-D

[tranquillity]

@ dislekcia

Thank you lol :)