Why Rollerblading DIED...

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Publicado 2021-10-06

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  • @69memnon69
    Iā€™ll never forget my disappointment as a kid when I asked for rollerblades and got a pair of roller skates instead.
  • @cbjueueiwyru7472
    "rollerbladers were seen as kids that would get in the way"

    Scooter kids: "hold my juicebox"
  • @CantFightRobots
    As a skateboarder who goes to a lot of skateparks I can say that at least now in 2023 no skaters hate rollerbladers being at the park. rollerbladers are always so nice and cool!
  • @pewpin1039
    Used to be rollerblading a LOT as a kid. What killed it to me, is that you could not go anywhere inside. With a skate, you can always jump off, hop into the store, grab a drink in a bar, do whatever... with rollerblades you were barred from going anywhere but the street.
  • @lawnmowerdude
    When I see a really insane roller skate or skate board stunt Iā€™m just amazed how they survived long enough practicing that trick to actually do it.
  • @shredcity
    When sports "die" they often just become a lot more core, the passionate riders stay and the trend-followers leave. Lots of respect for the riders still doing it
  • @im_Spade_
    As someone who just bought a pair of rollerblades last week, I think everyone else's sentiment about "people are just doing what they like" fits me pretty good. Along with nostalgia
  • @smirkingdevil
    The great thing about inline skating, is the fact that it actually increases the fitness of the casual user. I was amazed at how I could last a full day of skiing during winter, after buying my first inline skates and skating along the beaches in LA. Good times!
  • @christianflor1394
    What killed in-line skating for me, was shops, schools, busses etc. banning them. They were a hassle to put on and take off, and I didn't want to carry shoes in a bag everywhere I went.
  • @Umtree
    I lived through the whole rollerblade thing.
    80ā€™s skating, 90ā€™s rollerblade, then skating again.
    And TBH rollerblading was fun.
    The whole ā€œrollerblades are gayā€ thing killed it for sure.
    But today, when all kids are gay, maybe rollerblades will return.
  • @BillStoppard
    Rollerblading did not decline because it fell out of favour with teen skateboarders. The industry failed to pitch to the broader audience who were actually not even aware of aggressive skating at the time. The millions of people skating, were doing it on the streets and trails, not parks.
  • @Laerei
    Flow Skate and Bill Stoppard got me into skating. They ain't about doing the gnarliest tricks, they are about cruising the cityscapes through the trickiest routes without breaking the flow and it looks magical. It's my third year on skates and I love it. Doesn't matter to me that it's not 'in'.
  • @peterhoulihan9766
    Interesting video. Just a theory: Roller blades were too durable so there was less money in them.

    Skateboards wear out and break constantly, so companies selling them can constantly resell the same product. Roller blades? Unless the person who bought them was an extremely hardcore user chances are they'd outlast their interest in using them. Which meant that once those companies had sold roller blades to all the potential users sales were dead, which meant sponsorships were dead, which meant the media frenzy fuelling the whole thing was dead.
  • @greenneon7314
    ā€œThey even had a rollerblading gameā€. Neglects to show the greatest rollerblading game of all time, Segas Jet Grind Radio.
  • @justsomeguy1408
    I never really thought about how pervasive of a trend it was at the time only to virtually disappear. I was a kid in the 90s and I lived on the side of a mountain in the Appalachians, and even I had a pair of Rollerblades even though the only surface I had to skate on was the front porch.
  • @DevineInnovations
    I got into skateboarding after Tony Hawk. At first, inline skating looked lame, but it grew on me. I liked the idea that the skates were attached to you, like they were an extension of your body, and you had more freedom of movement. But I never got good at skateboarding or inline skating. Now I'm in my late 30's, overweight and with chronic back pain. I really wish I would have taken inline skating more seriously.
  • @danny-li6io
    All I remember about roller blading in the 90ā€™s is having a shitload of fun. It was fun! Why does everything have to be in terms of cool or not cool?
  • @anthonymoon7746
    I love how a sport never completely dies it just goes underground and the people doing it are the hard core enthusiasts that do it purely for the love of it
  • @supercaveman
    Yo, I skateboarded in the late 90s and I think all your reasons for it going out of style are pretty much correct but I remember being a skateboarder at that time there might have been a little bit of thinking that rollerbladers just didnā€™t have cool enough tricks and that it was just easier to jump up onto a rail or some thing instead of having to do an ollie. In a high schoolerā€™s mind at the time, that made them seem weak for choosing the sport that was easier. People wanted to cast out weakness basically. I remember conversely, we respected BMXers because they seemed tougher than us. We probably werenā€™t thinking of it in those terms at the time but looking back on it now thatā€™s probably what was going through our minds at the time.