Joey Mantia sets national record 500M

[frasera11]

Wonder if they do Steroid testing,,my, my, my,such big legs at such an early age....

[phatnum17]

I was there that year as a sophomore mens skater :P

[alexandrahackett41]

aka he's the beast(:

[alexandrahackett41]

yay 4 joey mantia !!(: he is AMAZING(:

[CheekyThrill]

Where is this Joey Mantia from? I used to know a Joey Mantia from a NY speed team.

[MysteryViolette]

@CheekyThrill Joey Mantia is from here in Tampa, Florida. He trained with Renee, and this is what he got. He's a good skater, but he has a horrible attitude. I don't like him.

[CheekyThrill]

@MysteryViolette Oh, ok. Thanks for the reply. :)

[TheYoyopro2]

ur fast dude

[UCsniper36]

inline speedskating will NEVER recover. USAC has screwed it up way too bad. Dont get me wrong I love the sport to death and I was very good at it, but to say inline is growing or that it is as competitive as it used to be is a JOKE.

[UCsniper36]

yea too bad nobody skates anymore they're all on ice...I remember when I skated elementary at nationals there would be 13 heats of senior men with 6 or 8 guys on the world team...now the best skaters are on the ice

[SomeGreenTea]

yeah too bad you're wrong, inline is a growing sport...dumbass. Chad Hedrick is one of the best and he's a world champion at both. bahahaha what an idiot you are.

[UCsniper36]

@SomeGreenTea inline is not growing its FALLING LIKE A ROCK dumb dick....that's why when I first started speedskating you had to qualify at state meet just to skate REGIONALS...yea that's right you had to QUALIFY to go to regionals there were so many people skating in Ohio...so don't kid yourself and say it's growing

[laronda10]

ok well rollersports in generall was dying, but speed skating and roller hockey have been starting to climb back up not as fast as in the europe which has been growing pretty good lately, but still slowly growing and with the right push could come back.

[surbobmynob]

@UCsniper36 Dude nationals has been the same ever since inline racing was introduced into the sport. 7 regions with top 3-4 place out of regionals. So that's 21-28 in each divison... no way you could have 13 heats at nationals.

[thetruemonster13]

@surbobmynob 9 regions, 3-4 people place, there are 36 spots,but this year if you come up to lincon and some spots are open, you can race to get into em

[surbobmynob]

@thetruemonster13

Sorry your right, it's 9; 36/6=6 heats, not 13. So still not possible to have 13 heats

[Nathon22]

i think thats johnathon garcia in 2nd

[TXSK8R]

Yes it is Jonathan Garcia, he was skating for Team Simmons

[truth34bos]

Who is that in 2nd?

[PumaRacing88]

wtf Seriously. Stfu.

[mattizzle05]

yeah too bad Richards quit from Rolling Thunder, he gave Mantia fits indoor back in the day

[karibaby731]

That race was awesome to watch live!!! best week of my life

[azonglee]

very nice!

[backstage2008]

Joey Mantia is awsome . Im a beginer speed skater but i will make records later on .

[BlowinBubbles08]

haha he is a sexy beast:)

I remember that watching that race :]

[MadMikie13]

wow, he is great, what kind of boot is that?

[skaterinnewark]

challenge/

[kaixoooo]

kien ha ganau¿? mantia. ke raaaaro! :P

[powerslide14]

hes so smooth...

[spdskte]

he has some kind of inconsistentcy in his crossovers though

[spdskte]

He needs to crossover into ice....we need him!!

[jblover189]

No but ya I think he should switch to ice that would be kinda cool to watch but then again we would never get to see him U know us inline people anyways I think that it would be sad if he switched to ice=(.

[haleystrat246]

i saw him at a meet the other day he rox!!! everyone wanted his autograph!!!

[speedskaterbabe]

Everyone want's his autograph because he is a world champion. It's like People around celberitie's, you wan't it so bad just so you cna sya you have been around them and talk to them.

[jblover189]

what meet.....and if u skate who do u skate for?

[hilzrocks]

Well..i did get it...even a pic wid himm

[eragonbabe]

joey mantia is a great skater! but he is such a asshole... everyone is in awe when he walk's into the room and i don't get it.... but that's my opinion..

[tlntd1]

God i love skating smoothe surfaces!

[vidobson]

Uhuuuuu!!!

[Skate4Life27]

ahhhh! he's the best! mantia = coolest person ever =)

[innaha]

Great ^^