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Skiing is rolerblading on snow

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one-love
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We are all rational adults here, lets retire our demands to be part of the "coolness" and admit to ourselves that are simply glorified rollerbladers who look sort of like snowboarders. Its okay to say yes!
Sep 9 2008 3:07AM
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one-love
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Its just glorified rolleblading with extensions. I would never rollerblade ever but im not afraid to say i rollerblade on snow. go be cool and keep pretending.

Sep 9 2008 3:54PM
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prontocuts.com
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For sure, its harder, and flip tricks make it so fun.
Sep 9 2008 4:02PM
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slaydave
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being both a rollerblader and a skier for a long time... it has always baffled me how skiers hate on rollerblading.  they are EXTRMELY similar.

as far as the history of each sport and its roots are concerned.... no

but the activities are extremely similar.  skating helps me sooo much at skiing and vice versa.  the feeling of turning or "carving" on skates is identical to skis. both forward and switch (Fakie)

the only major difference from skis to skates is there is no tip or tail, which has taught me to land centered and more stable for landings on skis.  you dont have the tips and tails to rely on (making shit harder)

rollerblading is in fact WAY harder than skiing. there are about 1000 more tricks and combinations in rollerblading than there is skiing.  even though skiers hit 80 foot booters and shit, rollerblading is still way more gnarly... cement is not forgiving...

what kills me the most is when a skier says skateboarding is cooler than rollerblading because its harder... its not attached to your feet... and so on. well skis are attached to your feet are they not? so wouldnt that make skateboarding harder than skiing? so what the fuck are you talking about then? and seeing as how rollerblading is much harder than skiing... what is your justification for hating on rolling? cause it "looks gay"?  thats a personal opinion.  to most people skiing looks pretty gay as well....

chris haffey and brian shima are professional rollerbladers that took up skiing and could do 5's, switch 7s, even 9's etc. their first week. they could hit rails as well (search the vids on youtube)

i highly doubt that a skier could jump on skates and do the same.... show me video of this.

the major reason i feel rolling is hated on is because its not in the mainstream.  but what most people dont realize is there is a HUGE underground scene.  Most companies are skater run and owned.  and the people involved in rolling are very loyal to it.  they have just as much passion for getting air and sliding rails as you do.  rollerblading is to skateboarding as freeskiing used to be to snowboarding.... before skiing blew up.

so... if you remember those days when u were stoked as shit to see another guy on twintips in the park, and you're hating on rollerblading... your pretty much an asshole.
Sep 9 2008 4:27PM
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CoachG
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lmao, so epic
Sep 9 2008 4:53PM
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Dakoulas
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Sep 9 2008 4:59PM
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Mstchief
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you know seeing this vid makes me think, could you design a set up like that on snow?
Think about it, higher walls for the bowls to keep speed up, but you could have rails on the top just like that skate park, you could pump to keep your speed up and have alot of nicely shaped rollers, wouldn't go huge but can you imagine the tech lines that people could through down. and guess what snowboarders couldn't do it there's no way for them to keep their speed. Poles not allowed either
Sep 9 2008 5:05PM
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hellomynameisjef
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i guess you can call long strips of plexiglass without wheels and with a seperate binding rollerblades


Sep 9 2008 7:46PM
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jksl
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yes arthur...i wish skiing was that cool.
Sep 9 2008 8:12PM
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Jamie_Baril
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i agree... rollerblading is so much more dificult than skiing
Sep 9 2008 8:21PM
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pat_in_the_hat
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yea, it teaches you soo much. i learned switch fives cause of blading. you know its people like the haters on here that make inline gay. it would be sick if people just realized how much similar it is to skiing, if more people did it the cooler it would be.
Sep 9 2008 8:31PM
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notomatoplz
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lol its probly already been said on here but im too lazy to read, but skiing came before rollerblading as did ice skates so really, if anything, rollerblading is copying those too sports
Sep 9 2008 9:05PM
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GreenStezz
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i just want to do hood rat shit with my friends.........................
Sep 9 2008 9:12PM
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doGelyst
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considering the fact that skiing as been around ALOT longer, I would think the topic should read:

Rollerblading is skiing on  concrete.

Just like

Snowboarding is Surfing on Snow

not

Surfing is snowboarding on water.

Sep 9 2008 9:25PM
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i.ski.troll.
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ohh mann im not even gonna talk in here
Sep 9 2008 9:27PM
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Franny
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Or skiing is like ice skating but on snow.
Sep 9 2008 9:31PM
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spliff.Life
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that fail pic is the best
Sep 9 2008 9:42PM
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bob_dole
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claiming ass bitch...whatchou know 'bout hyphy!?!?!
Sep 10 2008 2:50AM
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XtRemE11
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think about it, we are basically skiing on two narrow snowboards, the board/skis make almost the same movements to carve. they both flex similar, feel similar on rails, on jumps, basically skiing is snowboarding but forward and snowboarding is skiing but sideways. you ever notice how fast skiers and snowboarders pick up the other sport when they try it out? i had never snowboarded in my life last year, and out of like 100+ days skiing, about 10 of those were on a snowboard, and by like the 7th day i could hit 50 footers, front board down rails, do 5's on a 30 footer, etc... and my friend who snowboards skiied on those days and he could also hit the same 50 footer, and do 3's, switch ups, and 270's off, and almost on.

now i got a friend who rollerblades and he cant ski for shit, and ive tried rollerblading and i suck ass. i have to say that snowboarding overall feels much much more similar.

skiing does get thing like basic switchups and stuff from rollerblading, but if i have to come to a conclusion we have a mix between rollerbladings technicality, and snowboarding style, and it makes something really unique. but in the end we are on BOARDS, and skiing is always gonna be alot more similar to snowboarding than it is to rollerblading.

Sep 10 2008 3:15AM
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Big--Ben
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being able to snowboard makes it easy to learn to ski, I definitely agree with you on that.. But the the thread creator was talking more along the lines of doing tricks and stuff. And while you're right, having snow experience is definitely the quickest way to learn to ski, being able to already do spins and balance on rails on skates transfers over to skiing much better. I used to snowboard and rollerblade so I couldnt really tell you which helps more than the other, but both me and my brother started snowboarding at the same time, and while we both learned how to ride, carve etc. pretty much at the same speed, I was learning spins and rails much faster than him bc I had rollerbladed and he hadnt. I think just being athletic and doing any of the sports (snowboarding, rollerblading, skateboarding, etc.) is going to help you
Sep 10 2008 10:43AM
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Wrkn4ThaWeekend
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nope its not and never will be

Sep 10 2008 11:05AM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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I didn't know a sports cool level was determined by how big of a trend it is. Are you f-ing serious, "if more people did it the cooler it would be." The fact that it is not some huge trend, and that people doing it are in it for love not cause it's some cool trend, make rollerblading much more cool than if every high school student did it cause it was on MTV.
Sep 10 2008 11:27AM
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MALONE
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theyre the same...................
Sep 10 2008 1:40PM
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potato_man
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wait, is that like a famous skier or something?
Sep 10 2008 4:39PM
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Shpadoinkle
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Oh it was only a few seconds before the word "FUCK!".
Sep 10 2008 4:51PM
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CHARLES.BRONSON
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cab 9 on chads was hardly a fail buddy. You coulda atleast used the actual shot of him exploding on the knuckle
Sep 10 2008 5:04PM
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dski
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rolllerbladin and skiin are really similar, rollerbladin is a great thing to do when ur still waitin for snow sept fallin when it comes to fallin, concrete or snow
Sep 10 2008 6:48PM
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CJHski
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Skiing is not rollerblading on snow
Sep 14 2008 12:36PM
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HPskier
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there are similarities but they are nowhere close
Sep 14 2008 12:39PM
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Peach.
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+10 karma that was very funny I cant believe i didnt think of that
Sep 14 2008 1:11PM
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psychkub
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It's the same principle, really.

except, rollerblading is more technical than skiing.
Sep 14 2008 1:34PM
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gcp
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I think he means rollerblading is skiing on concrete
Sep 14 2008 3:26PM
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CHARLES.BRONSON
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Its only as similar to rollerblading as you make it. You can roll around popping directly off your feet and doing step ons to rails and shit, sure its like rollerblading. Or you can use your noses and tails to pop from, or slide on, Doesn't really seem like rollerblading too much anymore , oh and that thing about riding powder too..........
Sep 14 2008 4:19PM
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gibvicious
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do i spy the ketchum/haily skateparks


Sep 14 2008 5:38PM
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knal
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100% agree
Sep 14 2008 7:03PM
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PBraunstein
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Sep 14 2008 7:10PM
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SteezyMcDizzle
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ok here's a better 1

ok



Sep 14 2008 8:48PM
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Gnarshred
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Exactly! Skiing is really just ballet on snow! It all makes sense now!
Sep 14 2008 8:55PM
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jamiebrowne
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did you ever think that maybe rollerblading is skiing on concrete?
Sep 14 2008 9:50PM
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Peter.
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kelso would slay as a skier
Sep 14 2008 10:06PM
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fsscott
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holy fuck 2:16 in this is  insane
Sep 14 2008 10:23PM
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BFFset.
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bahahaha

most legit fail pic ever
Sep 14 2008 10:28PM
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SteezyMcDizzle
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so ill:




Sep 15 2008 12:13AM
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SteezyMcDizzle
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i cant deny that..i was just looking for a chance to put up some Rodney footy
Sep 15 2008 6:16PM
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Cheech_Sander
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That is Jeff Stockwell of san clemente, CA... nowhere near snow or else he'd probably be skiing too


Skiing has a lot to do with rollerblading, i rollerblade in off season as a way to keep up balance agility and quickness.

Just take a look at some of the niggaz that rollerblade in adition to skiing; mike nick, nicky adams, the D-structure guys, David Crichton, i think mike wilson did too... and also peep this;

Chris haffey - prob top rollerblader in the world, from san diego, decides to try skiing;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBpI8PzavzM
Sep 15 2008 6:23PM
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XtRemE11
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i think its funny how every thread about rollerblading turns into a bunch of kids posting rollerblading video's trying to prove that its cool. its kinda pathetic, like they need our respect and approval to be happy with themselves. and it ends up making people hate rollerblading more.
im fine with rollerblading, as long as your havin fun i dont care what you do, but that still doesnt mean that i think it looks cool, or that i would ever do it. i personally just dont like it.
and it gets really annoying when people try to associate it with skiing so much, i agree that we do get some influence from rollerbladers, especially the more technical rail stuff. but overall skiing is much much more similar to snowboarding. still fuck that, we are our own sport, its just gay when people think they have to make it into something else. like last year i heard some kids hiking this rail and calling different switchup and 270 variations wierd rollerblade names, like shit, if you wanna rollerblade, rollerblade, if you wanna get some influence from it then fine, but they are totally different sports, be creative and make up something new.
Sep 16 2008 1:45AM
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