| I totally agree with your view on inline. I got into it just for the free gear. I will say that some of these inline skaters are amazing. I did not notice a difference with tricks, but I never did grinds or big air. Quad skating is awesome and so powerful. There are some inline skaters doing tricks that are way harder than rollerskates do. I see these guys grinding rails of 40 foot stairs and also have seen guys do a double front flip. These guys are amazing! It is nice to share with oldschool skaters. I think most on here were innovaters. I am proud to be one of them. I never saw too manny great quad skaters till I visited Spain. I hung out with a sixteen year old guy and his friends and they were good skaters. I met some amazing rollerskaters while in Marsaille France. I was on inline, but Toto Ghali was amazing on a skateboard and skates. He did not wear pads and was doing amazing 540's. I met Martin Broiche in Germany and he was an awesome skateboarder and quad skated with me in the monster bowl in Munster. This guy skateboarded with no shoes and was a wild man. He took me out to a club in Germany and it was quite an experience. WE got pulled over by the police and I could not understand anything they were saying. They let us go and we proceeded to hit the local bar. I was too hungover to skate the next day. I have some good memories. I wish that I could have skated with the people on this site because I could have been better. I thought that I invented many tricks, but I am sure you all were doing them in a different country. I love the memories and hope I can still do my thing. I will share my skate video when I can have someone transfer it to digital. It is not great, but I did bust some amazing no handed flips.
Robert
: : I just checked out Brian and Irene and they are awesome. I wonder how many parellel skaters are out there. It seems most quat vert skaters do side stance.
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: I think this depends on where you are. I would also say that sidestance is the dominant style in the US. But in Europe, I always perceived parallel skating as the dominant style. There were some really good sidestance skaters here as well (Holger Sander, the Languth Twins, Bo Elsbol to name just a few), but parallel was what most roller skaters here did. I think the skateboarders also liked sidestance more because it looked more like skateboarding. This wasn't important to me (I always believed that we should develop the specific potential of roller skating rather than just imitate skateboarding) although I always felt that roller skating here in Europe was culturally nearer to skateboarding than to inline skating. Maybe this was because inline skating never had a real chance to develop its culture and was too much driven by the commercial hype.
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: : I used to dabble in it, but like parellel. I think side stance is more similar to skateboarding, but I do what I do.
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: That's the right attitude!
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: : It was funny hearing Brian talk about the Europeans that all went inline.
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: Not all, but most of them. Holger Sander being the notable exception. And also some spanish roller skaters. And Jay Tubbs. And ...
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: : I went inline for many years purely out of economics. I was a poor college student and wanted some equipment.
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: I think that's also what got lots of roller skaters to switch to inline. They finally could get some money for their exceptional skill. I can completely understand that and it is quite well possible that I would have done the soame, if I had been a good skater.
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: : It seems that lately my body aches everyday, but I need to skate and hope my body will adjust.
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: I'm sure that your body will adjust. Just keep on skating regularly and don't push it too hard.
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: : Life is simple once you hit 38.lol I have a few days to go and then I am officially an old man.
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: LOL. Welcome to the old farts club!
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