Comments on: Blader Digest: Shockingly Loaded

By: Blader Digest: Your Guide to Getting ‘Loaded – blade or die

Blader Digest: Your Guide to Getting ‘Loaded – blade or die — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:52:51 +0000

[…] is a breath of fresh air because, as you all are aware, some skaters used recycled footage to enter into last year’s competition. No more of […]

By: Blader Digest: Best of Blading in 2011 – blade or die

Blader Digest: Best of Blading in 2011 – blade or die — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:06:32 +0000

[…] again, I cannot mention videos this year without mentioning The SHOCK Video (which I previously reviewed here). Not only was the video so fucking sick, but now I might have to testify in criminal court […]

By: thank you

thank you — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:07:16 +0000

Maybe you should have a blog Ed, because that is exactly the kind of positivity and fair-mindedness that this sport needs right now. Thanks for your words, I agree 100%.

By: Ed Inglis

Ed Inglis — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:09:36 +0000

Hey there. Love the blog and always take the time to read it but… This time I wanted to throw in my two pence (cents).

With the WRS thing… I just can’t agree with this post. I mean, with respect, give the kid a fucking break. Even if he did use some old stuff, filming is hard and getting hurt as we all know is pretty easy and more importantly it’s NOT against the rules. New people need to come up, he’s only 19, he killed it and people were feeling him. To deny that is to be pretty shitty to a young kid and also to say that thousands of rollerbladers are wrong on a matter of opinion which frankly, beyond stupid, is down right disrespectful to our community. I don’t like the pretend thug gangster style some people have but that is my taste, you don’t find me a writing a blog about how wrong i think they are or whatever. Remember, thousands of us voted and we are all part of the same group.

I agree with you in some ways. Bailey is better for me too. Easily. But then I am an older guy (33) and, for me, the most important part of an edit is creativity, because when i grew up there were new tricks in every video. Nils didn’t have too much clever/new stuff. Thing is, younger guys like the hammers, and you can’t deny that Nils is a fucking mentalist. That means that it’s likely most of Nils votes came from younger dudes and if you think about it, that is great for rollerblading.

Also, perhaps most importantly… This is just the public vote of a wider competition which will be voted on by judges. Now obviously with a public vote it’s going to be a popularity contest. I mean, have you read the comments on rollernews? When you consider the fact that a lot more Europeans vote than Americans as there are a lot more of us, you start to see why the vote turned out like it did, and I’m not sure that’s such a bad thing is it? I mean… Bailey is still one of the greatest skaters of all time… And… Fuck. It’s only a competition.

Personally I think we should all be happy that there are young guys capable of beating Bailey. That means our sport has a future, and what is bad about that?

By: Alan Hughes

Alan Hughes — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:51:50 +0000

I think if you threw out Nils topsoul and Winter Clash clip it would still beat Bailey’s edit. And to say “oh well he was filming for FIVE so you should have pity on him,” is ridiculous. That was his decision, nobody forced him to not use his best clips.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:17:46 +0000

I hope in my hopiest of hearts that they spot the bullshit when its there and cast it out under the most vile sin on the internet: REPOST.

Haffey is guilty of the same thing, except he used older videos that we all paid 20 bucks for each! So let’s hope your words ring true, and that Nils and Haffey get the wrathful punishment from God that they both deserve! lmfao

By: Zac Hutchings

Zac Hutchings — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:59:17 +0000

Another great one Krans!
though I have to talk about WRSUploaded simply because there has been much discussion on facebook between us australian bladers, we are torn between 2 things, 1. the idea that in some cases the editors skill on creating an edit that gets everyone juiced doesnt necesarily come down to the skater and 2. the fact that people are just gonna vote for names (skaters they look up to or are friends of or are just really inspired by)
to settle any unrest i think basically what needs to be cleared up (much like what Kinney did on an interview on the bemag site) is that yes, this is a different style of comp and in the end its just giving everyone a (somewhat) equal opportunity to shine. for those who struggle under pressure in an arena or simply dont like competing against freinds and such its an opportunity to participate in the finals with everything they have got and to showcase their style and the way they blade….
just some thoughts feel free to start an argument…

By: Bruce James Bales

Bruce James Bales — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:33:05 +0000

Krans, yes.

By: jose

jose — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:29:26 +0000

I always love reading your posts!