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freeskiing::inline. the tricks and the motions are the exact same, you can just go bigger/faster/higher and there is more money in it. i can only speak anecdot
by odessacubbage 5y ago
freeskiing::inline. the tricks and the motions are the exact same, you can just go bigger/faster/higher and there is more money in it.
i can only speak anecdotally but pretty much all of the of the 'serious' rollerblade kids i knew growing up went over to competitive skiing because that's where the opportunities were.
- cortesoft 5y agoDo you have any links? I am still unable to find anything besides snow versions when googling.
- gorbypark 5y agoFor a lot of people there was an intermediate step in there. Ski boards (aka ski blades) were super popular with the rollerblading crowd and suffered a similar fate as rollerblading (I remember being called a fruit booter a number of times on my ski boards). It was in the X-Games before skiing was, but they eventually just cancelled ski boarding and pretty much all the pro's went on to ski, and that was more or less the last nail in the coffin for the sport. It's actually way more dead than rollerblading, as it didn't really just move "underground". People figured out that twin tip skis were actually much better at nearly everything than little 100cm ski boards.