This is the USD Aeon 80. It is the perfect combination between free skating and aggressive. You have 80mm wheels which is the standard on freeskates so you can still stairbash and do slides, but on top of that you can also grind.

So you can mix in with your normal skate routes a few grinds or you can also learn aggressive skating without having to have 2 pairs of skates. It has got a groove and a soulplate and so you can mix in a lot of tricks you couldn’t do on a freeskate but also not get tired as you would on an aggressive skate, the perfect combination of the two.

The great thing is that you have 80mm wheels so it feels like a distance or fitness skate but if you see a little step like this you can throw in a grind! It’s a great way to transition from freeskate or fitness to aggressive (and vice versa) For example you can stall, find the plate, Then jumping Then you can do it grinding! So you’re skating, you find a skatepark, and then you go - Oh! I’ll do another trick! - Oli Benet.

USD Shadow, spotted at the Ispo 2018.

Skates: Larger Picture (via) | Cuff: Larger Picture (via).

Something new. Wraps/ shoes include the cuff pads on the new Shadow blades, this might stiffen up the forward flex on the cuffs which was needed. - Blade Tech.

Tomek Przybylik got his feet in a first pair of USD Aeon 80 skates and took them for a ride at SkateInPark in Poland. A beyond fast rolling setup combined with Tomo´s FlicFlac-park skills, bravo!

Picture of the day: Sam Crofts - Fishbrain with the new USD Aeon 80. Photo: Kenneth Dedeu. Larger Picture (via).

British big wheeling unibody moves with a Catalan twist. Nick Lomax testing the new USD Aeon 80 Skates in Barcelona.