#38: Ivan Narez and Valo 4Life

Ivan Narez is an American rollerblader and filmmaker. We talk about the making of Valo 4Life, what skates spots are off limits, acquiring music rights, and other topics. Following the Q&A portion is another installment of the Blade Video DJ (#BVDJ) series with Valo 4Life, featuring music from Free the Robots, Jeff Stockwell, Sage Francis, […]

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December 25, 2015 – 10:55 am | By bladeordie | Posted in Blader Digest, Podcast | Comments (1)

#37: Korey ‘Sneaky’ Waikiki

Korey Waikiki is an American rollerblader who recently received his first pro skate from Razors. We talk about Korey’s blading childhood in NorCal, his travels, brotherly influence, oversensitive people, having “stones,” and why Korey isn’t very competitive. You can listen to this and other episodes on iTunes and Sticher. Or you can directly download the […]

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December 17, 2015 – 10:30 am | By bladeordie | Posted in Blader Digest, Podcast | Comments (2)

#36: Joey Scannella

Joey Scannella is a rollerblader from Staten Island, New York. After taking a break from blading, he started back up in 2009. As I took a similar break in college, we talked about what we missed, New York blading history, the Mushroom Blading influence, the radicalization of rollerblading, the realization we’re Millennials, and many names […]

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December 15, 2015 – 12:44 pm | By bladeordie | Posted in Blader Digest, Podcast | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

Blader Digest: Casey Jones on Rollerblades

I didn’t even know another Ninja Turtles movie was coming out. I thought the last five or six Michael Bay perversions of fond childhood memories had been enough. First Bay made Transformers horrible and then he turned Shredder into a Transformer. Why? Because shiny things and BOOM! That’s why. So the trailer for Teenage Mutant […]

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December 10, 2015 – 10:27 pm | By bladeordie | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

#35: Chris Haffey

Chris Haffey is one of the best rollerbladers ever. Before his Nitro Circus stop in San Jose, Chris gives us the full story behind his newly-revitalized “Bone Crusher” nickname, the good ol’ days of watching VHS skate videos until the tape broke, and talking about the one thing he hates most about rollerblading. He also […]

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November 12, 2015 – 11:38 am | By bladeordie | Posted in Podcast | Tagged , | Comments (4)

#33: The 2015 Blading Cup

The 2015 Blading Cup took place Nov. 7 in downtown Santa Ana. Host Brian Krans takes you through his weekend, including skating in the Veterans Cup, helping build a street course, and getting a black eye. Featuring interviews and commentary from Jeff Stockwell, Sean Darst, Ben Weis, Alex Wick, Ariel Surun, Ivan Narez, Jason Reyna, […]

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November 10, 2015 – 11:00 am | By bladeordie | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

#32: Aaron Schultz, Zach Savage, Ben Forsythe

Aaron Schultz, Ben Forsythe, and Zach “Savage” Waszkiewicz visited the Rock Town Garage after their trip to the AIL championship at Woodward West and before we all head to the Blading Cup. We get an AIL report and talk about skating San Francisco, the death of Detroit blader Brett Urbas, and more. Here’s some Brett […]

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November 4, 2015 – 12:49 am | By bladeordie | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

#31: Regardless

Regardless is the last completed video from Brandon Negrete. Released in 2011, Regardless features sections from skaters like Chris Haffey, John Bolino, Jeff Stockwell, Erik Bailey, Chris Dafick, Kruise Sapstein, and others. In this episode, host Brian Krans leads you through its soundtrack with music from artists such as Black Sabbath, Sleep, Dick Dale, Annihilation […]

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October 28, 2015 – 9:55 am | By bladeordie | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

#30: Jay Cottrell

Jay Cottrell—or Young OG as he’d prefer to be known—is an oddball in the blade game and we love him because of it. Off-mic and on blades, Jay is always about ad-libbing and just spitting out hilarious bits about fat women and his dreams to own his own hog farm. He’s a young man with […]

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October 14, 2015 – 8:39 am | By bladeordie | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

#29: Blade Video DJ: the ONE Video

A soundtrack makes a blade video. This new series shows appreciation for the songs that made good skate videos great, starting with #ONE. Directed by Conner O’Brien and released in 2009, the ONE Video contains music by artists such as LCD Soundsystem, Eagles of Death Metal, P.O.S., Saul Williams and more. You shouldn’t expect any […]

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October 7, 2015 – 9:38 am | By bladeordie | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (2)