Media

What follows is excerpts from a 30 page essay I wrote about Ian's and my mini-tour in December 2010. I've excluded some important, memorable events for brevity's sake involving Toy Story 3, a penis-obsessed Olympic athlete, Mike Lilly, and somebody pepper-spraying a sandwich. It is partly about rollerblading, but mostly a journal I kept while I was traveling. There are a few manipulations of time, but nothing drastic. Some paragraphs were literally copied and pasted out of context so it's not the most cohesive, fluent writing style. Deal with it.

Tseee, kids these days...

New contest concept at the Forward Freestyle skatepark in Belgium. If you fall, you have to take a shot. Some might fall on purpose, other might stay sober. Check it out.

The NIMH DVD will be released as a Blu-ray, too. This version of the team video will include second profiles of Bolino, Montre and Short, 2 extra montages, falls, alternate angles and much more.

Stunts all around from Albert Hooi in his filthy hooligans section.

The video puts the viewer into the individual sections sort of like other videos. With footage around weird, experimental and sometimes silly tricks, it creates a feeling that they went and filmed themselves rollerblading.

Some would say he has fallen off, some would say he has came and gone. We say: Steven Tat is where it’s at

Todd McInernery and Joey McGarry mind-dump another collection of ideas in the form of Mushroom Blading Volume 3

That's an office one would adjust to pretty easily, I guess. Looks like chill work ethics, too. I wonder if Razors is still hiring after they've just added Alex Burston to the team? Going to clean up my résumé now...

This was filmed in Eskilstuna and Linköping during 3 sessions. Dope skating, just as you would expect from these dudes.

David Sizemore is the epitome of professionalism. Even though he extracts copious amounts of joy from skating, he handles like it's strictly business. He's a blading powerhouse who further perfects his art with each session. Check out this promo edit and catch the whole section in Sideshow Rodeo!

Besides being busy with university exams, Jens came up with this pretty decent edit for 2010. Check him out, you'll love his style. Filmed by Mark Heuss, Alex Rudolf, Chris Hack and Marian Sorge.

The video by Brett Dasovic and Blake Cohen is now online on vimeo. Jeff Dalnas, Josh Ulrichsen, Michael Garlinghouse, Jeph Howard and Brett himself have sections.

This is the trailer for a rollerblading documentary by Witalis Szumilo Kulczycki about Polish rollerbladers that went to UK in search of better life, money, maturity and adulthood. The film presents 4 profiles as well as montage sections with Polish, Scottish, Irish and Czech rollerbladers.

This is team Rollerblades competitions recap of the past year. Kind of like an annual report, but with skating. And therefore more exciting.

It doesn't get any better than that. Ever. Rollerblading has just been saved.

This is about rollerblading in Bulgaria. No big hammers, just pure shredding as it is.

Shaken by Ross Kuhn, stirred by Brandon Negrete.

Haven't seen a Gershon Mosley section in years. So stoked.

One of the all time greats in action. Ladies and gentleman, Dominic Sagona.