Archive for September, 2009
Happy Fun Skatetime
Posted by Guy in Video Edit on September 30th, 2009
Like Dan, Ben Solt, Hans Hirsbrunner and Jong Kim have been quietly collecting footage all summer, which Ben put into this happy edit : ) Thanks Ben for sharing! Great edit, guys. Two edits in two days!
Happy Fun Skatetime from Ben S on Vimeo.
Summer 2009 promo edit by Daniel Lefebre
Posted by Daniel in Video Edit on September 29th, 2009
I got some clips I captured from this summer lined up to some music. Hope you enjoy!
Thanks to my brother Darren, Taylor, Wheat, Dave and most of all my tripod.
-Dan Lefebre
Summer 2009 Promo from Dan Lefebre on Vimeo.
Blading Wellness Part 4: Erik Bailey
Posted by Dave Ghent in Interview on September 28th, 2009
This is the fourth part in our blading wellness series, and this time Corey interviewed Erik Bailey after the Montreal Classic.
Erik had a great perspective on his personal health, and even said that he was feeling stronger than ever these days. He believes in stretching, and even noted using glucosamine to help your joints.
Another hot topic in that Erik brought up was the use of helmets – use them to protect your melon, or stay hip and ventilated. Anyone who watches an edit from time to time can say that a number of street skaters have chosen to wear helmets on a regular basis. I believe that it’s a personal choice, and if you feel comfortable with it then you’re smarter than the rest of us who aren’t. Canada’s very own Sean Knight has been rocking one in most of his monthly edits. He just figured that he was doing crazy shit, so why wouldn’t he wear a helmet. For some people it may not make sense, but when you skate hard and push your limits you need to take precautions. So for all those kids out there throwing down tricks on drop rails that you just learned yesterday, you should seriously consider wearing a helmet.
Overall, Erik had a number of positive things to say so check out the interview.
- Dave
Blading Wellness Part 4: Erik Bailey Interview from RollToronto.ca on Vimeo.
Last gasp of summer
Good god, did we finish with summer already? The NHL is fast approaching, the leaves are turning and it rained on our skate today. We need more summer! We’re just getting back into rails again and another month would be just fantastic, thanks.
Mike David is a beast. His is the kind of rollerblading we all wish we were capable of; ballsy, confident hammers without hesitation and with style for miles. When he was in town a fortnight ago, Mike got a particular trick into his head so naturally he just went and did it.
Mike has been filming hard and busted out a trick so good that we decided to save the photo and keep it exclusive for the video… OK, you got me- my camera was off and I missed the shot! I’m really sorry… no, don’t cry, ah look, now you’ve set me off too! I’ll learn how to take a good photo eventually- honest. Look for the footage soon, I promise you its worth the wait.
It began to rain, so after huddling in Starbucks like tramps under a bridge we headed to Bickfords at Christie Pits to have a wander around. Have you noticed how rails seem tiny when you revisit them five years later? Mike and I set about the kink rail with reluctance at first- it was wet and the rail was as quick as a greased ferret. After I tested the waters with some warmup topsouls, Mike landed an X grind to royale and for the first time in my life I fishbrained a kink rail. That’s right- I got a photo!
Yep, that’s rain you see in the shot. To conclude, I think I like rails again? After that the rain was just too much to carry on, so we followed up with Sushi on Bloor.
How was everyone else’s weekend?
Wednesday Night Skate
How many of you have skated recreational skates this summer? Personally, I haven’t been on a pair in over ten years. Yesterday Dave got a set of the new Rollerblade ‘crossover’ skates (the X5s) from Leon at Shop Task along with some RB aggressive frames and the new soulkits.
He showed off his new setup in style last night and I have to say they really suit him and like all RB skates are solid, comfortable and well made. As an added bonus he’d brought along the recreational aluminium frames with 80mm wheels, and seeing as I was desperate to skate them, he let me ride around with them on my skates for a while. They’re not quite the perfect solution I’d expected -switching to them from Fiziks is a lot of work- as you have to take a wheel off of each end to get to the UFS bolts, but ten minutes of work later my Carbons were in their true spiritual home- on top of some badass wheels!
We had a fun skate of the downtown core last night cruising around buzzing security guards and making them earn their paychecks, followed by beers and curb sausage. Downtown Toronto is so pretty at night, its a shame that the spots can be a bust.
Daytrip to Simcoe
Just YES. Sweatstances don’t get better than no-soulplate-all-cohones Dan Lefebre Sweatstances.
Having never been to visit, when I think of Simcoe I imagine a small town crammed full of death rails, corn fields, bar fights and Mike David. It turns out that the reality isn’t too far from my vision, but with better stuff to skate. Mike David has been putting in quality time behind the wheel recently visiting Toronto four or five times in the last month so we felt it was only fair that we took a drive to his (red?) neck of the woods to see what Simcoe has to offer.