What happened to aggressive rollerblading? In-line skating? The X games presenting rollerbladers? It is a darn good question. It was such a big sport and was growing. 9,000,000 kids–mostly boys and some girls–considered themselves aggressive rollerbladers - just in the USA.
I got the chance to make a documentary with 2 top competitive aggressive skater teams–in New York City and in Los Angeles. These young people were very friendly to me and I could not have made the film without them. The feature film didn’t make it financially but it was and still is popular with many of the skaters. All of the skaters in my film are of course adults now and their skating days are long gone. Here is an article with some views on what happened. - David Hoffman.
The final film from B-Unique. Know Difference was only shown once during a New York City independent film festival in November 2006 then was never seen again. The film was never released publicly, but was uploaded on Vimeo in 2017 by the user Alex Beaupre. - IRollNY.
Know Difference takes a documentary approach to the rollerblading world while focusing on its team members Alex Nunez, Billy O’Neill, Calvin Sayles, Colin Kelso, Sean Kelso, Ramelle Knight, Franco Cammayo and Julian Bah.
Mirror courtesy of IRollNY (YT) - Vimeo Mirror.
Ayoub El Gharib moved to Sweden in 2015 to my little hometown Halmstad. At first the plan was to shoot an profile of Ayoub entirely in 4k.
Then after a year or two the project evolved into something else. Directed and shot by John Lönngren (Maplemotion.se).
Filmed in Helsingborg, Halmstad, Eskilstuna and Göteborg Between the years of 2015-2018. Thank you for watching the Nobody Knows 3.
Music: Chapter 1: Audiobinger - bedroom eyes, Chapter 2: Super duper - out of orbit, Chapter 3: Ryan Little - Thanks you for playing (god speed).
Nobody Knows 3, More Sections - PLAY:
Abandoned Water Park |
Bucket List Tour (California, 2018) |
Scandinavia Montage |
Lit Up -
Trailer.
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.
“I was lucky enough to speak about the blade life and FISE for an episode of iRoller in Bangkok, Thailand. Give it a watch! - A.J. Stine.
Featuring Jeerasak Tassorn, Thailand’s former FISE world champion rollerblader and A.J. Stine a MC of rollerblading at the Fise world series. This time they meet up to hangout and to collect more footage at Thammasat University, Pak Nam Samutprakarn & Hua Mak Stadium. Special Guest: Worapoj Note Boonnim
Hello, I’m Simon Studer from Switzerland. This summer I spent a lot of time producing a short documentary about rollerblading, based in my home country, Switzerland. It’s in Swiss German but I created English subtitles of course.
It’s called Swiss Blading. I featured Tobias Leonhardt, Benjamin Wehrli and Jan Fehlmann (with whom I couldn’t film skating because of his crash in the FISE Montpellier, which is also featured in the interview) as interview guests.
You’ll see a ton of Swiss guys skating, such as Adrian Deck, Tobias Leonhardt, Benjamin Wehrli, Nicolas Meister, Clark Vincent Zeller, Reto Bürgin, Taras Stolyar, Julian Luginbühl, Dean Bradley, myself and many more. - Simon Studer.
Visit Simon’s Youtube channel, he puts up a ton of rollerblading content.
A documentary directed by Semion Levchenko, filmed by Semion Levchenko, Kirill Galushko & Nurtai Sizdikov. Produced by Pmotion.ru.
Music: RJD2 – The Perfect Occasion | Babatunde Olatunji – Ayinde | DRUMETRICS – DRB 001 | Run-DMC – Peter Piper | h1987 - morning | the trilogy tapes – zik zak | commander jesse – 1999 purple kush (live from my house) | Ghostface Killah feat. Raekwon, Cappadonna & U-God–Ghetto | PMX Soundz – My Soul (Original Mix) | Moby – One Of These Mornings.
This year the Sibsub Inline Camp (Tuymen, Russia) will take place from 03.07.2017 to 09.07.2017. The number of participants is limited. You can Register at Sibsubinlinecamp.com.
Alex Cebrian (20) and Jesus Caravaca “Ferdy” (35), explain to us what skating is and how it is part of their lives (Spanish language, with subtitles). Recorded in the skatepark of Alboraya (Valencia, Spain) during one of their sessions.
Rolling Along, an inline movement, a documentary by Richard Audley Vaughan. Starring Chris Edwards, Mike Opalek, Tom Hyser, Jon Julio, Franky Morales, Coco Sanchez & Brian Bfree Freeman.
Trailer on Vimeo: PLAY. Coming June 16, 2017 in stores and online. Visit Rollingalongdoc.com.
In the 1990s alternative sports proliferated. One sport that captured the vibe of this era was Aggressive Inline. Considered by many analysts to be a billion dollar industry it all but vanished at the end of the decade. Rolling Along: An Inline Movement is the story of this sport from its birth to its rapid accent, crash and current underground status. […]
Quoting Doug Urquhart:
I have been shooting for Black Market II : Barely Dead for a little over a month so far. This new flick is a documentary about the history of skating. Featuring interviews with Arlo Eisenberg, Mike Opalek, Jess Dyrenforth, Jon Elliott, Brian Shima, Chris Haffey, Shane Coburn + more!
All the skating content is shot on super 16mm motion picture film. Below are a few still frames from my recent California trip. These are freeze frames from the film transfer to HDCAM 1920×1080 10-bit uncompressed files… I have cut the file size to 50% of those dimensions so that they will be visable on your monitors.
Just remember… still frames don’t do much justice for how smooth & organic the film looks in motion! Also, all these shots were filmed at 48fps… so they are all true slow-motion… - Doug Urquhart.
Get ready for a full-blown trailer being released during Super Hick 2006 (first weekend of May).