blade or die

Man, what a fucking week. Let’s just skip through all the cutsie bullshit and get right to it. Murda Kills Pro In case you haven’t heard, Mike ‘Murda’ Johnson is done with professional rollerblading. Done. Over. It all started with a simple Facebook status update. Now, of course, this was going to be a big […]

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Where have I been? Where have you been? You’ve been missing all of the fun, kids! Maybe I was too busy getting drunk as fuck (and spending lots of time cleaning up after myself) watching the Super Bowl trophy go back to the city where the trophy’s namesake became famous. I mean, c’mon, he’s the […]

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This is a very hard part of the year. Sure, the weather sucks for a lot of people, but that’s not it. It’s the fucking waiting. Wait, wait, wait. Waiting for the Bitter Cold Showdown!!! Trade Show The nice thing about the Bitter Cold Showdown, disregarding the the fact it’s in Detroit in February, is […]

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Looking back on the salad days when England and USD were the illest companies out, Julio, Latimer, Shima, Gillan showcased how cool blading was with the videos Volume and Coup De Tat. At that age, it was a time where instead of biking or walking, blading was the preferred form of transportation.  It gave the […]

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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I had a dream today: spend a day off of work and skate the city. I lived that dream. That’s why this thing is late. Deal with it. Yo, NY-fucking-C! Our homies over at iRollNY are putting together an edit contest exclusively for NYC skaters. We’re proud […]

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It’s been a week. It might have felt short or long, but it was the same length as every one before it. I promise you no one is messing with the space-time continuum just to make you feel dumb. If you did feel like you had a long week, or the one you’re just starting […]

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Hopefully your hangovers—or binges—have subsided and you’re ready to get back to whatever you need to do: school, work, or doing some shit you don’t want your mothers to know about. Yes, kids, this is 2011. We’re even further into the future than ever before. Still, sadly, I report this one glaring fact of our […]

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2010 was pegged to be the year rollerblading made its comeback. Depending on what you were hoping for, the year was unquestionably a great one for everyone in skating. If your year on blades wasn’t a quality one–barring serious injury or dismemberment–I don’t feel bad for you. What you put into skating is what is […]

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Sorry to those of you that were actually looking for a column last week. Unfortunately for you, but fortunate for me, we had some really nice weather here in the Bay area. So instead of watching skating, I spent all weekend actually doing it. It’s a blessed benefit of living in California, but it’s also […]

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Whew. That was a fun fucking week. Really, awesome. But how was your week? … Yeah, I know. That Wikileaks thing is getting intense. … No, I didn’t change my Facebook profile picture into a cartoon character. I try not to openly engage in slacktivism. … What’s the point of “raising awareness” if people won’t […]

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