blade or die

Fresh off 11 hours of emceeing the Blading Cup last weekend, Erick Garcia and Kennan Scott break down yet another amazing skating competition. To keep with tradition, there are plenty of shout-outs to the homies working, bladers, those who built the bulletproof course, “neggers,” F33T, the mystery of Canadian skaters, and the new battle cry […]

Cameron Talbott is the man and we here at Blade or Die are big fans of him. A Missoula, Mt., blader and all-around good guy, we were able to get Cameron to talk about blading in the north country, the skating scene in Indonesia, hunting, swimming, and other aspects of the mountain man life. This […]

Car accidents are the major killer of young adults in U.S., but if kids figured out how much work adult life is, suicide wouldn’t be No. 3 for much longer. I used to sarcastically (to the point of cynically) joke around at my last job that I was living the dream. I actually was in […]

I lied. There is a second episode. This time on the Rock Town Podcast, Krans sits down with Matty, Jay, and Moose at their apartment on Mead Avenue, one of Oakland’s most notorious drug havens. Besides open drug deals outside their living room windows, the boys talk lifelong flatrocker skating, the best riders to ever […]

We’re trying something a little different. We’ve gone from annoying your eyeballs and moved into your ear holes.   For our first episode, I sat down with Erick Garcia and Kennan Scott, the voice of the Blading Cup. This episode was recorded Oct. 7, 2014, in Kennan’s garage in Oakland, Calif. We shared some laughs […]

Dearest Prospective Employer, Hello, my name is Brian Krans, and I’d like to be paid to do stuff. What kind of stuff, you ask? Since this economy and society doesn’t offer many openings for an investigative journalist, the financial suck-hole of media, the list of what I’ll do for money continues to grow. Plasma donation […]

A lot of people got up in arms over Ryan Loewy’s essay on his website, titled “Rollerblading’s Financial Identity Crisis.” The TL;DR is this: Ryan doesn’t really like the pay-for-play edits that have been coming out because he feels little effort is put into them (with notable exceptions being F33T and SSM’s 666 series). Because […]

S unday, bladers across the world skating in memory of Brandon Jesus Negrete. Rollerblading lost a really important brother when Brandon died in October at the age of 31. My experience with #forevernegrete817 was even more than a Sunday session in Oakland. It was a homecoming as well. For the last two-and-a-half months, I’ve been traveling […]

If rollerblading funded itself like many YouTube channels, Rob Scallon would fund every edit Broskow made in a heartbeat. And he thinks others should, too. “I think Broskow should be on Patreon,” Scallon said. “I’d support the fuck out of him.” Patreon is one of many new online crowdfunding sources which allows fans of specific […]

I went to an Oakland A’s game today. Way up in the nosebleeds, after the A’s failed to score a run in the second inning, one fan said, “That was a disgrace.” It was a gorgeous day at the ballpark and the A’s were ranked 1st in the AL Western Division. The game had barely […]