This was a downvote i kinda liked. When people dislike honesty that isn't even harsh because it goes agsinst what they want. Inline is never going back to xganes.
And seriously, compared to the mid 90s how many people even participate in the sport? Go to 5 different skateparks on a weekend and count them. Hell I'm trying to think of how many I saw in my whole road trip that spanned the coast to coast and a bunch more. There was one kid in denver at a tiny park one of the days for a little trying to hit a rail and do some lip tricks.
My buddy in rochester ny swapped his skateboard for his for a while. That's it. Id say 5 tops that i don't remember. So yeah sorry if that doesn't work for you but facts are facts. Mar 16 PM 1 0. Also inline skating in general is coming back in popularity. Imo if aggressive skating got into the x games people would hopefully find it entertaining and not have the knee-jerk reaction anymore of "that's gay".
There are lots of niche sports in the Olympics that a very small amount of athletes do, but people enjoy watching these sports anyway when the olympics roll around. In my experience either I'm the only blader at the skatepark or we're like 20 people deep, that's just how the aggressive community operates, for every city there's a community of bladers with a facebook group or whatever that coordinates seshes.
Not sure why you think people wouldn't like street course. Mega ramp seems kinda gimmicky to me, like why not just watch ski big air lmao. Chris Haffey, Roman Abrate, CJ Wellsmore did that stuff for nitro circus and it was cool seeing them do like dub 12 and stuff but it looks way weirder on blades They took it our because they felt it was dying. Youre saying there's still a core group of inline skaters. When has xgames been all about core?
They want to have events that a ton of people are gonna watch. They pulled bmx dirt for 7 years. Dew tour still had it during that time. It might be coming back in terms of 2 people at that skatepark instead of one on a saturdsy but its not really coming back.
Shit was super popular in the 90s early 2k. It's just not there. Xgames isn't going ti reintroduce it in hopes to rekindle the flame. If the hype isn't there the hype isn't there. It's great that the scene is there but what you're talking about kind if shows how dead it is.
There will be a bunch of skaters, scooters, and bmxers at most skateparks every day regardless of a planned meet up. The thing with the olympics is that it's been around for a billion years and events just kind of stay. Xgames csme in in 95 when inline was ripping. They had it in there past the point where it was that big honestly. I think inline is sweet and a bunch of my friends are pretty good at it, but I'm just being honest.
Xgames isn't on some heartfept humanitarian mission to rekindle the flame. They dont care. We will update the site as new information becomes available. Don't agree with ESPN's decision? Sound off in our Message Boards.
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Picture that. Part of that is just the kids who started because of the X-Games and Tony Hawk video games finally lost interest. Now, pro inline skaters only make a few grand a year, and a lot of big names have lost their sponsors because of cost-cutting. So what happened to it? There are a few theories out there.
First was that it just became uncool. So these days, we look back at 90s music and movies and cringe at how awful they were, and rollerblading is intertwined with that culture, whether it deserves it or not. Another uncool aspect is that it was often connected with little kids who wanted to hang around the skatepark. In the place I grew up, we had a few indoor skateparks. Mom would drop off her kids like a daycare while she went to go get her nails done. The kids would rent blades because they played hockey last summer, and they would just roll around the skatepark, afraid of all the ramps and just get in the way.
In general, skateboarders would at least learn how to push and how to turn turn before they tried to go to a skatepark. Plus they could always just step off the board if they had to.
That leads me to the next point. Many people find being attached to your skates too intrusive. With a skateboard or even a BMX bike, you can ride to the spot, toss it over a fence, climb the fence, walk through some grass, and go do your thing. With skates, you have to bring spare shoes, unlace, relace, climb, walk, unlace and relace again before you can do anything.
The rollerblading documentary called Barely Dead from offers an alternate idea. It claims that too many skateboarders were becoming bladers, so we went out of our way to kill them. Big Brother magazine kept saying inline was gay, and… we muscled them out of the X-Games somehow. Next, the lack of TV coverage is another big obstacle. There are some contests starting to come back, like the motortown classic and the FASU contest in France. But the biggest thing on the horizon for inline skating is a new indie game called On a Roll.
Check this out:. BUT, it might possibly reignite some interest in inline skating if it does well.
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