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Hating on inline sk8ing

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quebecfreestyler
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Our sports are different but share a whole lot of similarities.

Most of you guyz concider the phils as pioneer in our sport and they are. But did you know they got most of their trick from inlining and looking at inliners?

Inline skating is way more dangerous tehn skiing as far as consequence goes, they drop huge stuff on conrete and pavement and tehy are doing gnarly tricks on features skiers would turn their head off and say it's not worth it.


I think a lot of you should learn to respect what you dont understand and stop calling everyone who is trying to understand and hater or an idiot.

Like it or not inliners are doing crazyer stuff then we are and as far as your steezness goes,  I'm not shy to say that  a bunch of the top pro inliners are smoother then most pro skiers on park and jib features.

If shima and haffey were able to learn how to ski decently and throw 900 over bears big jumps after a couple weeks  of skiing on big sticks it probably means that our sport arent that different and that there are a lot of similarities.

I feel way better comparing agressive inline to park skiing then comparing  frestyle (bc, freeride, park ect) skiing to the public image of skiing wich is pretty much rich people making turns on perfectly groomed runs adn not skiing when there is powder. If you dont agree, then you should open you eyes and realise that those groomed run skiers represent more then 75% of outr industry.

Apr 8 2008 6:43PM
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quebecfreestyler
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note that when i say inline is more dangerous  tehn skiing, I'm talking about the consequences of falling onto pavement from rails 3 times biggers then what we hit on skis versus  casing big jumps or falling onto snow covered pavement or stairs, not avalanche and stuff.

Apr 8 2008 6:51PM
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colin13
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ya but that guy in the other thread was being just as ignorant as everyone else. i agree though, they both have something to offer.
Apr 8 2008 6:51PM
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colin13
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well thats unfair to make that comparison if you dont include everything...
Apr 8 2008 6:52PM
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396222687862
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yea, i'd feel 100x more comfortable hitting a rail 10 feet off teh ground on skis then on skates, snow is a bit softer then concrete
Apr 8 2008 6:55PM
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ajax
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What ever happened to those inliners who tried skiing? There was a news article about it a long time ago, but I haven't seen anything since.
Apr 8 2008 6:58PM
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lechef
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Couldnt have been said better...

Apr 8 2008 6:59PM
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quebecfreestyler
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here is chris haffey
http://youtube.com/watch?v=spcky88eLKM&feature=related
Apr 8 2008 7:02PM
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quebecfreestyler
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well the only stuff I didnt include was uncontroled elements : avalanches.

Apr 8 2008 7:04PM
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powderdrunkie
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Agreed. i feel like if i skated aggressive inline over the summer i would be so much better at my balance and things like that for skiing.
Apr 8 2008 7:13PM
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Sir.Pete
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inline skating is cool in quebec. the rest of the world will always view it as gay. so if you like to fruit boot, stick to quebec
Apr 8 2008 7:15PM
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EMK
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people should listen to you ced, your pretty much always right.
Apr 8 2008 7:18PM
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Casey
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this is true, but there's an element in skating where, if you're not wearing a helmet, you might just randomly fall over and hit your head on the concrete and die. even if you are just standing there. I mean, yeah avalanches are completely gnarly, but in the way that you can just be completely screwed in less than 5 seconds holds true for both sports I think. Besides, its not the sport that makes it dangerous, its how hard you push yourself.
Apr 8 2008 7:19PM
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mikee
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I just wish inliners would learn to keep their hands down and be smooth.

I'm gonna bring it to them. Is gun be sik
Apr 8 2008 7:19PM
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smooticus
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I agree as far as like urban skiing,, rails, and jibbs and such,, but lets see a inliner do the airs that skiers do and as huge.. really.. but agree inline is pretty hardcore.. so is skating, snowboarding, BMX.. i dont think that you could prove that any of them arent hardcore lol
Apr 8 2008 7:21PM
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travispersaud
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the other guy was ignorant but it is true that the two sports are similar
Apr 8 2008 7:29PM
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awsome_mccool
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I'm glad you didn't just call the whole sport gay, like some people in the other thread did, but the whole size of air thing is due completely to their medium.  you simply don't have 70 foot kickers with perfect landings in your average city, and these guys are usually landing on flat.  add that to the fact that they don't have nearly as much room for error (we can land backseat, etc. and not eat shit) and  i think that the size of their hits are comparable.  also, when they got those inliners skiing, they were hitting like 60 footers in a matter of weeks.
Apr 8 2008 7:32PM
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ChronicLines
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I rollerblade in the summer and it's awesome.  Helps you sack up skiing so much more.
Apr 8 2008 8:15PM
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Sir_SkrillALot
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right... but its still gay.
Apr 8 2008 9:03PM
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eheath
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The fact that you used "8" in skating has caused me not to read one word of this post.
Apr 8 2008 9:05PM
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GetPitted
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haha.  Skating is pretty sweet, but I cannot STAND how everytime they land they revert.  Drives me insane.
Apr 8 2008 9:12PM
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Smuffy
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thats not necessarily true. watch pretty much any vert comp.

i started blading last summer and my rails and stuff went through the roof.
Apr 8 2008 9:23PM
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Sir.Pete
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hahaha. awesome!




Apr 9 2008 3:47AM
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Sir.Pete
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fuck, scootering is cooler than rollerskating
Apr 9 2008 3:54AM
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jcaron
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I know that's creepy but a flow rider just died a couple weeks ago.
http://www.rollernews.com/memorial-fund-for-josh-waggoner_4552.html
Apr 9 2008 5:22AM
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Jesse[switchup]
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i would rollerblade i guess

if i didn't live in reno
haha
skate all day day
Apr 9 2008 5:32AM
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tim_ASP
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I'm one of those kids who just recently picked up skiing after about 10 years of inlining.  I started skiing around the beginning of feburary and by the end of the season (about a month and a half), I had progressed to the point of spinning the local super and had gotten pretty far with rails.  The whole balance thing is super similer and it was for me almost a seemless transition
Apr 9 2008 8:35AM
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Big--Ben
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keeping your hands down in skating is not something thats stressed. Inlining and skiing look at style differently. I skated for 10 years and style in skating is not judged by keeping your hands down. When I first started skiing peolpe always told me that my arms flail to much and to keep them down and I couldnt understand why this was important. Im not saying that its cool to have your arms flailing but on skates u have a much smaller surface area to grind on and its a lot harder to keep you balance, anyone on here that has rollerbladed knows that its very difficult to stand straight up while keeping your arms at your side when the rail is longer than 5 feet, especially since switch up more quickly and more than skiers do its hard not to look "jumpy"
Apr 9 2008 1:46PM
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Gharf
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that is so sad.
rip man.

as richard william said : always wear a helmet.
Apr 9 2008 1:55PM
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Scolson
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That would look dumb.  Unless you had some xxl oakley outerwear on, maybe some poles.  (which would also look dumb)


point is: don't compare apples and llamas
Apr 9 2008 4:16PM
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AALT
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We have our 60 footers, big kickers and quarter pipes and they have their crazy rails, grabs and such.
Apr 9 2008 4:23PM
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SGLogi
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^holy shit ur sig is fucking funny, wow man what a experience
Apr 9 2008 5:01PM
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XtRemE11
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people wouldnt hate on it here as much if people didnt keep trying to compare it to skiing. i have no problem with rollerblading, its cool that people do it and have fun doing it, but there is just nothing i like about it and it gets annoying when people try to compare it to skiing.
Apr 9 2008 5:11PM
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SGLogi
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i got mad respect for inline skating its crazy intense but i agree that you cant truly compare it to skiing, but i cant deny that they are similar. I think the transition from skating to skiing i think would be allot easier.

Apr 10 2008 12:56AM
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mikee
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I disagree wholeheartedly.

I dont think it is cool to flail your arms in any circumstances, if it can be avoided.
Apr 10 2008 9:54AM
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reBlocke
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Well, the whole essence of the sport is to do whatever's fun, and see what you can accomplish on blades, which makes it fairly similar to skiing.  The whole essence of the sport is so similar that it seems a bit counter-productive to hate on it (or any other action sport for that matter..), cause it doesn't matter THAT much what's on your feet.  Even with snow blading or scootering... who really cares? it really is just about having fun.

On a related note.. from a skiier's perspective, it seems like they don't care much about looking in control when they do tricks.  Do bladers look at ski tricks/style and notice something similar (like.. some way that skiing's style is deficient)?
Apr 10 2008 11:54AM
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J.D.
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Cedric you don't understand what's up because you're in Quebec, and we're not.
Apr 10 2008 11:57AM
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Scolson
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I never said flailing was ok.  Bur keeping your hands at your waist would look awkward.  skateboarders do it too, and no one says they're flailing.

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Apr 10 2008 12:24PM
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