The greatest were the bladest

ROOTS

EGGS, BACON AND BEANS

There is nothing better than ending a British week with a British breakfast at noon.

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FASHION ODISSEA: #4 T-SHIRT WITH GRAPHICS.

Wear t-shirt with graphics without looking like a little kid but bigger size is not always easy.

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BLADERADIO: #2 BOB DYLAN

Although is a shame that this video is without soundtrack this give us the opportunity to enjoy a live of Bob Dylan of the song that Carl Sturgess put under Jeff Stockwell’ s shred.

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OLDIES BUT GOLDIES.

My old fiat 500 doesn’t work.

Again.

I think is the battery.

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BLADERADIO: #1 KID CUDI.

Youngster always ask me why there is no rap on BLADERMAGAZINE.

First of all:

We all were rap some times ago, but then you grow up and find that label yourself is not the right way to be around and keep growing as a person.

You know how start the crossover?

So here we are with BLADERADIO to help you to choose the next song for your “look at me” clip on rollernews.com and to learn that the song that you have in your ipod mini are not cool because of that videopart but because ARE COOL.


BLADER CULTURE: TRAVEL.

Travel is part of the American culture since day one.

Is freedom, is independence and is adventure, that’s why they can drive at 16.

American photography mostly start with landscapes and travel, from Ansel Adams and Walker Evans, going through THE AMERICANS of Robert Frank (CH) wich have an intro by Kerouac who writed “on the road” to the most contemporary Alec Soth.

Rollerblading is American and every blader dreams an epic tour, is part of our culture, since day one:


FASHION ODISSEA: #1 THE PLAIN T-SHIRT.

A plain t-shirt is ALWAYS GOOD.

You can dress it if you are slim or fat, with your leather jacket or basketball shorts and even with a mullet like Brandon Campbell do. (All this things in the same video part).

At H&M it cost 5 €.

In the blading industry it seems that only UCON have them and are a bit expensive.

You should have  three plain t-shirt in three different tone and support our industry at 49.99 €

Rebel without cause:


WHERE’S MY PUNK AT?

I’ts really hot in Italy in this days and I find myself  to empty a bottle of water on my bed in the middle of the night to survive.

Too punk for my girlfriend.

You know Italian women are the best and I’m wondering to switch to an Italian punk woman to have the chance to keep my bed wet.

Searching for the right outfit for my new mission i find this Chrome Hearts collaboration with Mappelthorpe Foundation:

Now I wondering about how cool would be my black majestic 12 customized like that and how cool was when the Italian  skates brand put together the very first punk team in rollerblading and Mike Lilly showed up with this section:

try to play it together:


BOOOOOOOM

Blader Magazine.

Last issue.

Pietro Firrincieli wants to save rollerblading.

BOOOOOM

If you can dream it

You can do it.



HEROES

Sharing links with Pietro Firrincieli is something weird.

Tonight we spoke about learning mac twists and doing hand plants on pool stairs…

we watched the first and the last clips of mindgame videos…

and even Casa de Leeper…

But we both agreed to post just a name:

Jon Elliot

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CAN’T TOUCH THIS

I’m very fond of pools.

I’ve been skating them back in the days when the coolest thing was doing misty flips and crap. From  the very first one in Siziano to the very deep one in Bologna, from the pool mecca of Madrid to the indoor woody nightmare of Lausanne, searching and skating pools was and still is one of the mainly task of my blading  journey.

Even not living in California did not stop me for searching for backyards ones in my hometown. Such a quest allowed me to spend delightful moments with the best dudes ever in the weirdest scenario I ever thought of.

I remember one winter, it was snowing, everything stopped in Genova and my friends and I found this huge swimming pool where I used to take swimming lessons when I was five. It was breathtaking. We were skating an indoor pool when everybody was crazy about snow outside..

Such a passion also gave me the opportunity to design the very first public pool in my city and even skating it.

This is the reason why I deeply admire and respect the work some guys have done recently in Brescia.

Building dreams made of concrete or skating them made of wood is something hard to explain, and certainly is something very hard to conceive, but it’s part of the magic behind skateboarding and even rollerblading.

As a matter of fact I still don’t know if it’s allowed blading the Knodel bowl, but they have built their own dream and they deserve choosing who have to skate it.

Ten thumbs up for the Knodel dudes !!

knodelbowl.com

OH OH OOH OH HOO OH OH OHH OHH


IN THE FACE

If you don’t know who Jake Phelps is… probabily you’re a rollerblader or a soccer player.

So if you’re a rollerblader maybe you don’t enjoy reading blogs like this.

But the truth is that Valo is always in the  right place at the right time to put every week something fresh on their blog, including some tricks in front of one of the most  discussed editors of our time, Jake Phelps.

Well, if don’t even care about who Phelps is or for who he works, don’t worry. He certainly does not give a fuck about rollerbladers.

By the way, he plays guitars in a band too,guess who’s the bassist and you’ll win a “boero”.

Eyes on the prize.


IT’S ALL ABOUT HEROES

Quando si parla di bowl appena realizzate di solito la prima cosa di cui mi preoccupo è l’indirizzo.

Se poi scopro che sono i ragazzi di Elbo a realizzarla, prima salgo sul furgone e poi chiedo informazioni sul come raggiungerla.

Ma per Pisa è differente. Mi è sembrato rispettoso seguire l’invito di chi si è sbattuto per la sua realizzazione.

Poi però leggo un post interessante su Bladeinitaly ed uno forse più interessante su Skatemap.

Poi mi ricordo di una foto: pool coping e protec con paraorecchie.

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THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED…

Se non avete buon gusto per gl occhiali da sole e  amate i colori fluo:

Sembra che in Razors non conoscano il termine “zama”.

Un grosso passo avanti, comunque.


NEVER SAY LAUNDRY

” What big ledge am I going to royale? “

” Because of them I don’t think I did laundry for like two years. “

Si chiama Randy Spizer, è uno di quei rollerblader professionisti che potrebbe risultare sconosciuto a chi non bleida da più di tre-quattro anni…

Su One magazine potete passare 15 minuti insieme a lui e Mike Opalek.

Nel frattempo, il primo che mi posta un link al suo set-up con le antirockering colorate della Senate vince il solito Boero.


WAITING FOR DAY OF THE ROPE


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