San Francisco has always been the starting and end point for thousands of rollerbladers across the world.
Ever since the early 1990s when rollerblading first began, the Bay Area has been home to an array of talented pro skaters such as Jon Julio, Vinny Minton, Brian Shima and Robert Gurrero. Many local skaters, including sponsored amateurs, are part of the JSF Crew.
The urban cityscape filled with down ledges, curvy handrails and a perfect blading climate, coupled with a strong heart in the business side of the rollerblading industry, beckon skaters from across the world.
One of the area’s local hotspots — seen in countless rollerblading and skateboarding videos — are the ledges and rails at 3rd and Army.
Some legendary spots like Hubba’s Hideout may be rendered nearly un-skateable, but bladers are finding plenty of street spots to skate, along with area skate parks. Local skaters have a regular session Tuesday night at the Walnut Creek skate park.
Besides the skating, many companies in rollerblading have been located in the Bay Area, including Able Frames, Dyna Wheels, Runner’s Project backpacks, Monx, Valo Skate Brand, and Aggressive Mall skate shop. Opened in 2006, D-Structure in the Upper Haight was a haven to bladers, but the shop has since trimmed down its skating connections.
In 2000, the underground street skating competition “I Match Your Trick Association” or IMYTA was founded in San Francisco. The IMYTA spread across the globe into a multi-nation grid. It was rollerblading’s first organized street skating competition. Other competitions in the Bay Area have included the Blade Comedy Jam, the Kind Grind Classic and The Grindin’ Getdown.
The Web site StabYourselfintheFace.com was founded by San Francisco-native “Tommy Boy” and many of their contributors live in the Bay Area.
San Francisco and the remainder of the Bay Area are constant features in numerous skating videos. The Hyphy Trilogy was made, filmed and starred Bay Area skaters. The NorCal scene was featured in the highly anticipated ONE Video.
Rob G. has always been an adventurous dude on his blades, and it shows in everything that he does. Well this blog update is no exception when him and his buddy Ariel decided to strap up some of RB’s cross over blades (aggressive skates with big frames and BIG wheels) and took to the town to see what they could find. Well stuff they did find, and for the full story you are going to have to check it out on The Controlled accidents blog.
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Street Artist drops a bunch of great looking two tone adjustable hats in plenty of color schemes just waiting to be matched with some gear. Collect ‘Em All!
We got the Arlo limited edition wheels a little while back and now Eulogy drops the rest of their signature series wheels on us. The series consists of pro wheels for legends, Arlo, Chris Edwards, Mike Opalek and B Love. Search YouTube for some clips on these aggressive skate legends if you are in the dark on your history. At $26.00 a set these limited edition wheels are also an excellent value for your money. Props to Eulogy for dedicating a limited edition line of wheels to these fellows.
For the last few months toe cuts have been the latest craze. It seems that it’s every rollerbladers dream to fit into a size 3 skate, and while that vivid wet dream of having the skates off of barbie’s feet may be distant to some, others are getting closer to it by snapping the toes off of their skates. For lack of a better example (but probably the best example) we will be using the Valo AB.1 available here. This procedure can be done on all Valo models and come similarly done on ALL nimh skates. You can do this on any skate that has an over boot. Models that I can think of off the top of my head include some USD Grycon skates, Some of the older Cults, heck you might even be able to do it on some RB’s even though I don’t think there is a whole lot to deal with up there anyways…
What’s that you say? Toe cuts aren’t for you? Why not? everyone is doing them, so why shouldn’t you? Well you may not have to but if you want to here’s how you do it… or at least how I did it. Check more after the jump!
This is a recap of all of the new aggressive skate DVDs that we got in recently. Like always plenty of Aggressivemall team riders hold it down with sections and clips. Check ‘em out here.
We Are Valo 3 (Valo team film)
M1 drops 2 new wheels with their brand new improved urethane formula which is supposed to be really good. The graphics on these wheels look great so give them a try!
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