Few clips of [Russel Day] for his 31st birthday.

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Russell Day & Derek Hall & Adapt Clips by Michel Prado.

The story of how Russell Day became an Adapt rider keeps reminding me of an old Chris Haffey interview in Daily Bread. Chris talked about buying his first skates from his now longtime sponsor.

For some reason, that felt right to me. The idea that one of the biggest superstars in blading once bought his skates from a small company just because he wanted to show his support strikes me.

There is nothing more flattering then a rider who buy’s the product just because he loves the brand and wants to support it. Russell Day wrote me an e-mail when we just started out with Adapt. Telling me how he liked the brand and wanted to try it out.

Already afraid we had another rider asking for free skates, he just replied he wanted to buy them. 5 years later, that same person who wrote us that e-mail, just received his first Adapt pro skate and had been a member of the Adapt family since day one.

Olga Bouwhuis and Pieter Wijnant are the owners of Adapt brand. Adapt is a inline skating brand handmade in Holland. Hope you enjoy this 66 minute talk with the two owners of this unique brand who wants to reduce the number of skates sold and improve the quality of their customers.

Content

• 01:25 - it all started as a love story.
• 05:33 - freestyle blading, rollerblading or inline skating?
• 07:53 - traded Belgium for Holland.
• 08:05 - End of Forward Freestyle
• 10:40 - “I was encouraged by my mom to skip school and skate if the weather was good.”
• 12:30 - Called Olga and told her about a Dream to make a skate and had a name..
• 17:20 - we are 2 handshakes away from every other skater.
• 20:06 - Lino and Pieter were speed skaters.
• 21:22 - rollerblade twister boot
• 23:00 - 4 screws frame mounting system
• 28:55 - New adapt secret skate project
• 30:02 - Adapt goal.
• 30:20 - making skates more expensive
• 32:53 - Adapts for slalom
• 35:25 - How Lino plans his days
• 36:52 - Olga’s main role
• 39:10 - I’m a full time chef
• 41:20 - Adapt Team video
• 45:10 - Mike Lilly and actual Adapt Team
• 48:10 - Fake but funny advertise break
• 58:30 - Randy spizer and Louie Zamora had Adapt Skates.
• 59:37 - Nick Labarre
• 1:00:44 - Julian Bah
• 1:03:27 - New Hyper Skates vegan
• 1:05:12 - should we make a geeky part 2 or not?

Julian Bah and Levi van Rijn tested the Russel skates out at Julian his neighborhood park. Enjoy a night with the boys.

We are proud to welcome Tyler Hester to the Circolo family.

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