Date: January 13th, 2025 12:18 PM Author: Alcoholic avocado garrison
lots of middle age bros do this with surfing. they video themselves shittily surfing them poast them to various platforms. i don't know why they're so eager to poast videos of themselves sucking ass but the videos themselves are helpful to getting better. you can see what you're doing wrong (e.g., in my case, falling down after standing up for 10 seconds, going straight and generally sucking ass)
Date: January 13th, 2025 3:16 PM Author: Smoky Startled Locus Stain
there are like 4 neighborhoods in the us where you can do something like rollerblade or bike or go running without being hit by an suv in 2025 america, so if he lives in one of them, good for him.
UPDATE: He’s gotten really good. He just posted a vid where he did a 15-foot slide at speed. Also skating all over town and not just his driveway. When I made this thread he was doing three feet at best.
Date: July 27th, 2026 10:45 AM Author: olive stage
UPDATE: He just turned 46 and he has been really committed this whole time. He now kind of shreds and also runs a local “blading” group. His son has also got into blading and they do it together.
I rate this an unambiguous successful midlife crisis. There are some videos where he is technically very proficient (just slow as fuck compared to a teenager with no fear of death or consequences).
Date: July 27th, 2026 10:56 AM Author: Titillating Self-centered Quadroon
When I was in college I joined a group that did roller blade races in the city at like 2-3 am. The "Night Bladers". We raced at night to avoid the stigma of roller blading being gay. We all had monogrammed track jackets. A lot of the men were actual queers but that was a coincidence. You'd have to skate to multiple checkpoints and collect glowsticks, so you couldn't cheat. Saw a guy get hit by a UPS truck. Vice did a video documentary on us it got 2400 views on youtube.