blade or die

Zac Hutchings is back again, this time even happier and more optimistic, a charming thing we hope our young Australian friend never loses, unlike the rest of us jaded old bastards here at Blade or Die. Again, he comes away with a strong, passionate message about what we all love. Without any other bullshit, here’s […]

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Cruising around San Francisco, you’ll see some weird shit. It’s actually the only reason why anyone would build a city on such hilly terrain: you can get some good views of all said weird shit. The weirdest—WEIRDEST—thing I’ve been seeing a lot more of these days looks something like this: Every time I blade to […]

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‘Twas a good year, surely it ‘twas. We had some laughs. We made some new scars. Our hearts raced at finding new spots, and they sank when old ones were destroyed. We’ve made some new friends, and maybe some new bladers. We may creak a little bit more when we wake up, but we’ll keep […]

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We here at Blade or Die were starting to lose faith. Thankfully, anytime we got down our buddy Zac Hutchings would always cheer us up with funny and insightful comments. Zac asked if he could write something for the site and, well, he fucking did. He gave us a great, heartfelt story about how he […]

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I am both annoyed and frightened for my own safety. People have threatened to kill me for my prior investigative journalism, but never in my days have I experienced such a clever, patient, and vindictive mind. I shall get the petty annoyances out of the way before I guide you through a diabolical plot so […]

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Whoa. Big things going on. Let’s get to it. WRS Uploaded If you’re awesome, you’ve been paying attention to the new final competition of the World Rolling series at wrsuploaded.com. Skaters from around the world having been competing via one-minute edits on spots of their choosing. It truly is awesome to see what people are […]

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There is nothing more deplorable than a society who justifies the use of “less-than-lethal” tactics on people who sit on the ground. We’ve all seen the news: protestors shot by riot cops in Oakland, pepper-sprayed in New York and on the U.C. Davis campus, and so on. They occupy the same public grounds and college […]

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You, my friend, are a slave. Yes, I know you rest your head in the land of the free and home of the brave and you’ve pledged your allegiance to it daily as a school boy, but you are just as much a slave as the dark-skinned men and women our forefathers used to build […]

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It is with a heavy heart that I write this. Like many people, I always struggled to find a home. Mine originally is a nice two-story house in a safe place of a safe town in the safe state of Wisconsin. Those are all reasons I left and only return on vacation. Home is a […]

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Style. Like it or not, it’s what blading is all about. Anyone can do a trick, but if you don’t make it look good, it’s not worth as much. But beyond how you do a trick, there’s much more in blading that echoes who we are, what we do, and how we’re perceived. Actually, it […]

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