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Post by sukeats on Mar 29, 2006 16:43:43 GMT 8
pick up the latest issue of Juice mag (its free u freeloading motherfuckers). theres a little something on the backpage written by yours truly, introducing the malaysian rolling scene to the uninitiated.
also features a pic of fariq taken by jit.
- its the one with the Zouk 2nd anniversary cover.
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Post by George on Mar 30, 2006 14:18:01 GMT 8
Scan in sections then photoshop together  |
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Post by sukeats on Mar 30, 2006 20:01:00 GMT 8
urgh how about, pick up ass and get your own free copy.  |
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Post by George on Mar 30, 2006 20:28:04 GMT 8
MEH!
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Post by tern/matt/karipap hair on Mar 31, 2006 4:14:11 GMT 8
how bout scanning for sumone like me.
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Post by sukeats on Apr 20, 2006 10:06:49 GMT 8
nah - semangat semangat go baca. Rollerblading sucks
Aggressive inline skating isn’t cool.
Its name itself makes it sound like an annoying try-hard younger brother. Its elder sibling: skateboarding. Relatively new, aggressive inline skating came about in the early 90’s, emulating grinds, airs and vert skating and other tricks established by skateboarders.
And like all younger brothers, they eventually grew up dropping its mouthful of a name and adopting the monicker “rolling” and stands proud with an industry, tricks and media of their own.
It eventually earned its place alongside other action sports in international sporting arenas such as the X-Games, Gravity Games and LG Action Sports. For a while, it seemed like things couldn’t get better.
Expectedly, the good times are not going to last; the ‘extreme’ craze is ending. It seems that viewers were over rolling, skateboarding, BMX and the like. ESPN, organizers of the X-Games responded in kind by cutting out street/park competitions and BMX flatland, leaving only vert and relegating rolling to a mere ‘exhibition’ sport.
The slump also affected sales, with major brands such as Salomon and Rollerblade drastically cutting its budget in the ‘aggressive skate market’.
This alone would have sent most other young sports into the sunset joining other fads such as scooters, yo-yos and the hula-hoop.
Thankfully, rollerbladers took matters into their own hands, supporting rollerblader-owned companies and organizing their own competition series such as the “I Match Your Trick Association” and “Monsters of Roll Series” among others.
The “I Match Your Trick Association” better known as IMYTA was the first real street skating competition, with rollerbladers organizing guerilla street rollerblading competitions in the streets. The format was a breath of fresh air as it gave rollerbladers control over their sport and flipped the middle finger to ESPN’s ‘park’ style competition formats.
The success of the IMTYA spawned countless rollerblader-organised street competitions worldwide. Even Malaysia got into the act with its own Stunts 4 Swag (S4S) street rollerblading competitions.
In Malaysia, rollerbladers are by far the minority, with skateboarders far outnumbering.
Being a rollerblader in Malaysia has never been easy, with the price of skates reaching astronomical figures thanks to our weak currency and the prevalent stigma of being “the poor man’s skateboarding”.
Most extreme sports events in Malaysia usually feature skateboarding, with rollerblading given a token role. Even in advertising, you’ll notice that rollerblading be given the second fiddle role whilst skateboarding takes pole position.
However, for what rollerbladers lack in quantity, they make up for in passion. The scene is a tightly knit one, with virtually every rollerblader knowing one another.
Online, the scene is a bustling one with the KJ Rollers website (www.kjrollers.com) acting as a nexus. Run by a collective of rollerbladers, the KJ Rollers also produced their first full-length rollerblading video and clothing line. They also organized the aforementioned S4S competition series.
Skateshops such as Cool Element and Skateline too have given the local scene a big boost, bringing in affordable skates and generously sponsoring grassroots events.
Rolling tricks have also progressed to jaw dropping levels, with rollerbladers attempting jumping off roofs, grinding multi-kinked handrails with 12 feet drop offs and doing blinding spins in and out of tricks.
To sum things up, though rolling will never quite reach worldwide superstardom and you’ll probably never see MTV offering American professional rollerblader Brian Shima his own TV show, rollerbladers are more than happy to keep it that way, and remain in control of their number one passion.
Article by: Sukeats
Pictures by: Sanjit Singh
Picture caption: Fariq, launch ramp to disaster backside royale at the Shah Alam Stadium.
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Post by flanegan on Apr 20, 2006 17:20:34 GMT 8
thanx man....
semangat...
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Post by tern/matt/karipap hair on Apr 21, 2006 4:14:33 GMT 8
damn.......
props....
lagi ngam the pic got skateboarder inside.(really meaningful!)
props keats!
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Post by sukeats on Apr 21, 2006 11:53:16 GMT 8
yea well....except that in the magazine...they cropped out the skateboarder....oh well.
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Post by naim on Apr 24, 2006 15:54:40 GMT 8
sial punya editor sedap2 oren die nak ckp roller suck.
dpt die tau la!
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Post by George on Apr 24, 2006 16:23:08 GMT 8
I think its meant to be sarcastic.
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Post by H1ghr0773r on Apr 24, 2006 16:59:50 GMT 8
kiddo,
the article was written by a long time roller who is also a strong industry man. what was written was a fact seen from the glasses of a layman. people who read that magazine aren't skaters and to them a handplant is a million times cooler than a truespin kindgrind to backside savannah down a 20 step stairs. hence the article was written in that context.
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Post by sukeats on Apr 24, 2006 17:45:12 GMT 8
thanks for the backup guys.
but kiddo (if memory serves me correctly, you're naim right?).
i wrote that article.
yes, george is right - the head line was meant to be sarcastic.
and yes - yeng is right too i wrote it to highlight an outsider's view on rollerblading, how compared to other extreme sports... it just aint that great.
but the point to that whole piece is - regardless what people say, rollerbladers (and to a certain extent the entire extreme sports industry in malaysia) doesnt give a fuck what others think.
we do what we do because we like it.
i hope that clears things up. in the future please read the whole article and understand it before commenting.
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Post by George on Apr 24, 2006 18:07:55 GMT 8
Shane Coburn put it quite well, when he said:
"Rollerbladers are like the characters in X-Men- the next wave of the evolutionary process; struggling in the minority, ostracized for their odd choices and actions. But all the while just doing what they know and what they believe in."
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Post by sukeats on Apr 24, 2006 18:24:39 GMT 8
if Arlo is rollerblading's Jesus,
shane is our Buddah.
thinking rolling!
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