Archive for November, 2009
Darren Potts in Australia
Posted by Dave Ghent in Session on November 27th, 2009
A few months ago a very good friend of mine made the move from frigid Calgary, to the other side of the globe. I grew up skating with Darren Potts here in Toronto, but I’m happy to see that he’s still ripping all the way in Australia. Here is an edit he recently made with various locals, as well as fellow Canadian Richie Eisler.
Enjoy.
wns from darrenpotts on Vimeo.
Just who the hell does K God think he is?
Posted by Guy in Video Edit on November 25th, 2009
Part jaded hockey veteran, part sarcastic downbeat funnyman, all up in your face; MOBB founding father Kyle is one of the most refreshing and talented faces on the GTA team roster, although he’d almost certainly be the last person to agree with that statement. Mr Godden has always been his own worst critic, but his self-criticism is completely unfounded; as he shows with his latest edit he is more than capable of raising his game when the mood takes him. Early morning drinking, smoking and chilling chased down with total negative annihilation… Toronto rollerblading simply wouldn’t be half as abrasive and gangster without him around to call it as he sees it.
That most travelled of roads.
Iceland Ho! The unseasonably warm weather brought on by our parents using too much hairspray as kids has left us dealing with the bizarre and alien concept of rollerblading in November. What gives? Last winter we were making snow angels and heading to Blue Mountain, but as I type this the temperature is rising to a high for today of 10 degrees and we’ve yet to spend any significant time below zero. The downward spiral of the planet seems to suit us just fine at the moment; rollerblading outdoors continues in 2009, and long may it do so.
Wednesday saw a pretty large turnout for what might have been one of the last Iceland skates of the year. All of these photos were taken by Huy Le.
Kevin Chow with a grabbed fastslide.
Jonny and Blair skated the hard side of the rough ledge, Jonny back royaling through the corner.
For a change, I did a topsoul.
Lee powered through a back farv to fakie.
That’s it for this post; In the next week or so we have a new video edit from Dan and Taylor, Corey might have some clips together to post, Kevin is working on a review of his shiny new skates and Dave’s hair will get even longer. Stay tuned! Also, check out our friend Robert Guerrero in action… Dude is Top 5 best.
Milton Blading
Posted by Dave Ghent in Session on November 19th, 2009
I had some time to play around with After Effects and transformed my low quality clips into a slow motion piece. I had fun doing it, and I hope that others realize that learning a bit of post production can make some of the low quality footage usable.
Milton Blading from RollToronto.ca on Vimeo.
November Weekend
So, this will be our last edit for a bit. We’ve decided to stop putting out so many of them and save the footage. There will still be the usual picture posts, articles, and random clips here and there. Expect a new edit sometime early this winter. Anyways, this was going to be one of the last nice weekends to street skate so we made the most of it. Here’s what we put together. Enjoy.
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Roll Toronto International – London UK visit
Posted by Chowsa in Roving Reporter on November 6th, 2009
I was lucky enough to go away on a vacation with my girlfriend to London, UK for 10 days or rest and relaxation. In that short week we packed in lots of tourist sight seeing, amazing meals with new and old friends all the while fitting in a bit of skating.
The week before I had left for this trip, due to my own stupidity, I had accidentally unstitched the base of the right skin on my Nimh, making the right skate un usable. With no time to get to it re-stitched, I dusted off an old Razors Shima 3 boot and slapped on the Nimh Soul plates, creating a usable pair of skates. I packed my Sagona/Kelso jockin’ boots along with me to try and get some skating in on a new continent.
The first opportunity to skate in London was at the infamous South Bank Park. Basically it’s a legal area on the south bank of the Thames River where skateboarders, bladers and bmx’ers are allowed to skate some weird flat banks, a few covered ledges and graffiti artists are allowed to paint walls. I met local 11-year-old Reuben skating all by himself, hucking 180’s and some grinds on the small ledges. Big up Reuben for hooking me up with a sweet Adidas notebook!
Later that week, through the beauty of the Internet I was able to meet up with London street shredder and OG Blake Bird at the Mile End tube stop for some park skating. FYI, Blake and the London heads are putting together a new video; watch out for some fresh skating in the coming months.
The park was rammed with bikers and skateboarders but we both managed to get some fun tricks in.