NHK World Japan produced a 28 minutes starring Takeshi Yasutoko. The video is in english! NHK World-Japan is the international arm of the Japanese state-controlled public broadcaster NHK.

You can check the video for free on www3.nhk.or.jp but don’t take too long, the video is available until december 16th, 2022. Youtube Mirror: PLAY.

“Roller Freestyle VERT is one of the most exciting and daring extreme sports. In November 2022, it was featured in the WORLD SKATE GAMES for the first time. One Japanese skater, Yasutoko Takeshi, who has dominated the sport for the past two decades, has his sights set on becoming the first ever champion. He is also known as the creator of the Double Viking Flip, a trick so difficult that no other skater has been able to pull it off. As Takeshi trains for the WORLD SKATE GAMES, he is determined to make the trick for the first time in 15 years”.

Also featuring: Takashima Yoshiki & Shimizu Haruhi.

The full movie Blade Squad is now on Youtube, thanks to Mike Mcfly. He had to cut some audio part (just music, no dialogs were removed) because copyright claims would otherwise remove the video entirely.

The Blade Squad is an experimental police chaser unit that consists of mainly cops who have screwed up and are practically off the force, who patrol the city on roller blades and have jet packs that give them speed. Presently, the department is trying to decide if whether or not they are worth keeping on. They are going after street punk who pulls flawless robberies. And what they don’t know is that the man’s brother was arrested by them and tried to runaway and was killed in the process, he blames and is planning to go after them. Summary by rcs0411@yahoo.com

Quoting Mike Mcfly (Youtube Channel):

Starring Corin Neme (Parker Lewis can’t loose), this high budget TV movie was intended to launch a TV series. What’s interesting to note: This appears to be either an extensive rewrite of the Prayer of the Rollerboys script or maybe an Ill-fated sequel. There is a character credited as “Miltie” (Corey Haim’s younger brother in that movie) and several drug dealers are credited as “mist dealers” (the fictional drug from Prayer of the Rollerboys). Writer W. Peter Iliff worked on both projects (“Blade Squad” & “Prayer of the Rollerboys”).

Previously: ‘Rollerblade… The Team, The Skate, The Sport’ 1988 point of sale VHS (first ever in-line video). Mike McFly digitized the VHS! Thanks a lot!

Diako Diaby takes inline skating to new heights with this audition! Check the video here: PLAY (4:59) ; a longer version of the video is available here: PLAY (7:03).

About America’s Got Talent Extreme

The “America’s Got Talent” franchise expands with this new series showcasing the most outrageous, unique and jaw-dropping acts of enormous scale and magnitude that simply can’t be confined to a theater stage. Contestants will vie for a chance to win a $500,000 prize and the ultimate title, the champion of “America’s Got Talent: Extreme.” Creator and executive producer Simon Cowell will judge alongside WWE superstar Nikki Bella and motocross and rally car driver Travis Pastrana. “America’s Got Talent” host Terry Crews will also serve as host for “Extreme.” Simon Cowell, Sam Donnelly, Jason Raff and Richard Wallace are the executive producers. “America’s Got Talent: Extreme” is co-produced by Fremantle and Syco Entertainment. Visit Americasgottalentauditions.com.

Doctor Reacts To Street Skating Fails And Explains The Injuries | Aggressive Inline Skating. Featuring: Billy O’Neill, Michael Braud & Friends. #streetskating #crazystreetskating #doctorreacts

Dr. Chris Raynor, MD, FRCSC. Actively practicing fellowship trained Orthopedic Surgeon and Sports Medicine Doctor living in Ottawa. “I make sport injuries, orthopedic surgery, and injury prevention easy to understand for everyone, including you”.

Roller Squad is an action-thriller feature film, with a touch of British humour. Shot in London in 2020 with a low budget, “Roller Squad” is a project driven by passion. The production was made more complicated by the covid situation, but the empty streets gave us a great playground for the roller skating scenes.

The cast is a mix of: professional actors (Alice Sanders, Amy Newton, Benjamin McMahon, David Wayman, Elizabeth McNally, Julian London, Alexander Nicolaou, Natasha Moore, Jumaane Brown, and Morgan Sebode) and talented skaters (Tibor Babic, Germán Moreno, Pierre Esparsa, Aurora Garosi , Enzo Elias, Yineska Sánchez, Mark MacFarlane, Víctor Blasco Ávila, Alice Lean, Alex Juravlea, Adrian Pelayo, and Fernando Camarillo Segura).

Roller Squad was written and directed by Berty Cadilhac, and co-produced by Clare Cahill, the director of Photography was Bruce Melhuish.

Outline: A mysterious serial killer attacks the roller skater community in London. The police cannot catch him, as he is a very skilled and fast roller skater himself. A group of friends decide to take the matter in their own hands, and organise a man hunt across the streets of London. It takes a skater to catch another skater (IMDB Page).

The project was funded on Indiegogo | Visit Rollersquad.com.

Brink! is a 1998 Disney Channel Original Movie that depicts the sport of aggressive inline skating. Written by Jeff Schechter and directed by Greg Beeman, the film stars Erik von Detten as Andy “Brink” Brinker, a high school inline skater who joins a group of skaters to help his financially troubled family. Wikipedia.

Eito Yasutoko stunts scenes for television.

Dónal Glackin and Donovan Delaney face angry security guards, danger zones and thrilling heights in their adventurous lives as rollerbladers.

“This a short documentary I shot with a friend of mine for a local irish language network about our experiences growing up skating when we where younger.

All the speaking is done in the irish language but it has subtitles and features a lot of archive footage from the irish skate scene as well as some more up to date footage as well”. - Dónal Glackin.

Nick Riggle was featured on the San Diego News 8, TV Broadcast.

Video offline.

“Nick Riggle dropped out of high school to become a professional skater. After participating in stunt shows and competitions, including three ESPN X-Games appearances, Nick then went on to get a Ph.D in Philosophy. Now in his new book, the USD professor is helping people make promising connections and find the meaning of “awesome.”

TV3 Spain released a second broadcast (check the first one here) about the miracle story of Michel Prado, his recovery from coma and his challenge to get back on the skates.

El miracle del patinador Michel Prado. El Michel va rebre una brutal agressio que el va deixar en coma. Contra tot pronostic s’ha recuperat i ja torna a patinar. Es un exemple de com, a la vida, es pot comencar de zero. Ens ho ha explicat, entre llagrimes, al “Tarda oberta”.