Fun in Penticton - Rollerblading

Brent meet up with 2 other rollers from Penticton (Gavin and Alex) and we ended up having a pretty fun sesh at the local park - Penticton YouthPark / SkatePark. Edit by Brent


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Aggressive skating def:
In addition to speed, fitness, artistic, or recreational skating, some skaters prefer aggressive skating. Aggressive skating is also often referred to by participants as rollerblading, blading or rolling and includes a variety of grinds, airs, slides and other advanced skating maneuvers. It also includes "vert", "park" and "street skating" which refer to tricks performed on almost any obstacle. Street skating specifically refers to tricks performed on non-allocated obstacles (i.e. not skate parks). There are three major types of aggressive inline skates: hard boots, soft boots, and skeletal skates (e.g. Xsjado, pronounced "shadow"). Hard boots are very rigid and often heavy compared to speed skates and recreational skates. Soft boots offer more flexibility than hard boots, but are normally just as heavy.

Aggressive inline skates could also be fitted with small hard rubber or plastic wheels, used in place of the two middle wheels. These small wheels or "anti-rockers" are used to help lock onto a ledge or rail when performing. Anti rockers enable the skater attempting the trick to stay on a rail for a longer time without the frames of the skates slipping off the ledge.

Aggressive inline saw a sharp decline in the late 1990s, but during 2000-2003 found a major resurgence for the sport when street skating became increasingly popular. At this time professional skaters including Brian Shima, Jeff Stockwell, Chris Haffey, Aaron Feinberg, and Alex Broskow among others were pushing unseen boundaries in performing seemingly impossible and dangerous stunts in mostly street settings. In addition, the IMYTA (I Match Your Trick Association) provided a venue for skaters to demonstrate these tricks. The IMYTA held contests at a street location and the skaters would have to match each trick in the first round of skating or be eliminated. The progression continued with the pool of skaters dwindling and more dangerous and difficult tricks would then be performed and a winner declared. Competitions such as the IMYTA encouraged skaters from many different countries to set up their own local real street competitions.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Rollerblading
• Aggressive
• Inline
• Skating
• blading
• Penticton
• mushroom
• gavzilla

[cloneguy74]

@neokregon2009

i love the website and the vids but youre style isnt so great if you wear jeans and a t-shirt it will look way better and when you do a grind dont step on and try to royale and not to frontside or backside it has way more style

again love the website

[neokregon2009]

@cloneguy74 cool, thanks for the tips. It is super hot here right now. I live really close to Canada's only desert. Yep, Royales are so cool. I wanna learn them. Glad you liked MonkeyThink (dot) com :)

[RzrSktz]

you suck. stop spamming skate videos.

[neokregon2009]

@RzrSktz Are you talking about me telling people where to go to learn how to mod their Xsjados skates or sending new skaters to Monkeythink(dot)com for tons of useful information ? I'm guessing your a really young kid. Do you rollerblade?

[RzrSktz]

@neokregon2009 i'm talking about you commenting on hundreds of youtube videos telling people to go to your chennel. and i'm 14, i've been skating for 5 months.

[neokregon2009]

@RzrSktz Congrads on starting to Rollerblade. I think you will find that the longer you do it you will enjoy it so much that you will want to tell others and get them into it too. I found that allot of the vids online are to advanced so I encouraged other beginners to check out my beginner vidios and website i designed and built: MonkeyThink(dot)com. You don't have to be the best to contribute to something you enjoy. You should think about posting a video on your channel. -- Peace.

[jskip69r]

You've progressed a lot, I used to skate years ago and just started up again. And I still love it though um pretty rusty. More power to you bro. Keep it up

[cloneguy74]

@cloneguy74 oww i didnt know its so hot in canada i live in europe :) srry then i'm sure you will learn the royale very soon see ya

[HiggyB61]

@neokregon2009 see what u mean,ur car was mashed up! good vid wid some nice editing!