Stop Wasting Money on Skate Gear 

When I was a kid, I had the crappiest skates, DYI slideblocks (it was quad skates), and no money. That lasted well up in my 20’ies, and in my 30’ies I didn’t skate. Now, that I’m “Back and instead of quad then Blading”, and with money to spend, I love buying nice gear. Not to be a better skater, but for the perfect fit and feel. It only makes me skate better in that I can skate longer per session, since my feet won’t hurt. Nice to have you back. 😊

Welcome back! Strange to see this ledge skated by someone not being Lawrence ;D

Love it! This is the most diplomatic way I've heard someone tell 90% of the people on the Rollerblading Rollerblading FB group to stop talking so much shit and just go skate haha 😂 ✌️

Disagree with the liners. I've had so much control over my feet since switching to intuitions and I don't get the horrible foot pain of cheap liners. So I must say liners can definitely make you a better skater

truth here. when i was a kid in the classic era early 2000s i learned the ins and outs of each brand by skating each pair to death. people need to do that

The only thing I think matters is that your wheels roll freely and your frames don't bend under your weight

Yes! Good to have you back. Missed your approach to blading. Im 39 been blading since 1993 😊 always looking for new approaches for this sport 🕺

We appreciate the content. It's definitely important to take care of family and yourself as number one priority. Glad you are working with a balance that works for you. Welcome to the West Coast

Yay! Welcome back! And all the best to you and the fam with the relocation. Top notch skating as always 👌

Super fair point! I've actually started selling some of my setups and I totally agree with your thought process. Cool skills 👌

Great seeing you back man!! 🙌

Good to see you back at it dude.

Nice to have you back. Missed these.

You’re back! Really missed these videos. I can’t believe you’ve been putting out these quality videos while editing on phone man. That’s impressive

Good tricks and a very nice message!

Good to see you back!

I just wasted 180 € on the Intuition v2 liner - but I hope this turns out as a good invest. I skated in the USD sway stock liner last week for 3 to 4 hours and had blisters and pain on my ankle, so I'm looking forward to this upgrade. Anyway, I totally get your point: I started skating in '98 and have owned about 25 to 30 pairs of skates with multiple setups so far. I don't think the perfect setup exists. It's more about finding a good setup that fits your skating and then training, training, training. "Good" or "new" skates won't improve your skating without practicing.

Glad to have you back man

All very good points! I love buying parts and trying out different setups, but I skate at the same level in all of them from the basic M12s to the carbons. I've adopted a one in one out policy with skates now, it works well! As for parts... 🤯

I spent more money on my saftey gear than on my skates. Love it

Your back!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 hell yeah

As always, I love your videos and content. I think I'd only point out that equipment DOES matter, but only up to a certain point. If you are rolling around on skates from 20 years ago (Joe Atkinson doesn't count) most likely the materials and parts need updating. But if you skate a Them skate stock compared to Them with an Intuition liner and higher end wheels and frames, it won't make you skate any better. I've always been a bit too much of a blade nerd, but recently it dawned on me why so many amazing skaters like Broskow, skate the same setup for years- because they are used to their setup and that allows them to be comfortable with pushing the skating to new boundaries vs always trying to get the "perfect" setup.

I needed to hear this lol. However, collecting new skates and skate parts is really fun and addicting 😂😂😂

Great to see you back. Sounds like you have your priorities in order! I mostly agree with what you said about gear. When I see all the new skate day posts on reddit, I cringe a little bit, until I see some actual moves. For me, Wheels seem to be the biggest thing where I noticed a difference, I guess mostly the profile and the hardness. Seems like a strange thing to matter, but that's just me.

Dude, totally missed you. West coast is a big move, but welcome. Take care of that ankle because I’ve nursing a delaminated right knee (bad stuff). Take care of yourself and your fam, hope your transition goes smoothly.

Can’t wait to see you back in San Antonio

Welcome back Corey ! I needed to hear this today, finally settled on a setup that I’m progressing well on. But I still can’t stop copping old Salo’s from Blade Trade Outpost 🤷🏻‍♂️

Welcome back dude!

Nice skating, really dig the hits in the bowl. In regards to gear, I would say a single, dialed (so dialed brah) into your feet, top shelf setup is a massively better value than a bunch of mid tier setups and piles of parts. Still for some the gear is part of the fun, fashion meets tinkering meets community, so if your budget allows it by all means save the industry with your disposable income.

First off, welcome back! So glad to see another video! Second, great video concept. Just like photo or video gear, skate gear doesn't really matter past a certain point. It's all about your skill and how you use your gear!

Yesssssss, we missed you man.

4:59 ayyyyy I see that true zoo to forward lol. Missed your vids, good to see you back!

Only thing that matters to me is good bearings and comfy liners. I’m on razor sl with valo frames. Def need new liners giving I’m using razor cult ones that are a hair to small but I’m time I’ll save some money.

Mininum 3 months with the same boot to even know if you like it. I Keep telling some people this, stop changing skates every month, you´re not gonna learn how to skate any of them if you keep doing that! Great point and great video!

yeah it's like they say in the audio world "it's the ear not the gear". a lof of times everyone wants the new flashy thing because everyone else is getting it and maybe it'll make them skate better, but mostly they just need to learn how to skate better. lawrence said something about that in one of his recent videos though where he said that some parts do make some things easier, and depending on your age and how far into it you want to get sometimes it's better just to get the stuff that makes it easier so you don't have to spend the time learning because you just want to have fun or you only have like an hour a week to skate or something

Good point. Been buying new gear getting back into it. Trying to find the right fit and setup. Any recommendations for selling gear that didn’t work out/ slightly used/ new? Forums? Thanks.

Everything u say is correct, except the liner "INTUITION SKATE PREMIUM LINER" made me skate better and more comfort witch made my self esteem 80%! Skated the Aeon 60 USD first with stock liners, crap to me... Rocking the Them 909 Pat Ridder with Inutition skate premium liner, guess that's my match! slim boot and good liners makes u bang.

Great stuff as usual but I have a small advice to give. If you pause your video, first clip for example, you will notice there is something like a double vision effect on it. Deinterlace your videos properly by choosing ''progressive'' option during export and that will give you a better looking footage. Keep it up!

WELCOME BACK!

I was in the market for new blades and broke down and bought Impalas. It was an experiment. I wanted to see how OLD OLD school skates stacked up against new era skates. I've skated USDs, Salomons, and Xsjados. Of course, like a lot of Olderbladers, I learned on Lightning TRSs. So I got my Impalas. But I bought an extra set of wheels because the stock wheels were massive and really hard. Replaced the wheels. Took the two middle wheels out, OG style, and hit the skate park. I dug in a little pre groove just to have something to start with. Ok, so I'm doing all my grinds. No negatives though. And I was pretty happy with my old school setup for a while. But eventually I really started to get sore from doing just regular front sides. The frames on these recreational skates were just too tall. It was like trying to grind on stilts. Eventually, I started getting a lot of pain in my groin/ inner thigh. About a month ago a new friend hooked me up with a pair of Razors. Everything feels quite a bit better. I had to get used to anti-rocker. I left off with the Xsjados free style setup up. I really miss those skates. I honestly do not know what happened to them. Anyhow. Right now there isn't a cheap alternative to aggressive inline skating. Rollerblade is coming out with a new aggressive model soon. If the evolution of their top selling skate, the Zetrablade, is any indicator, we might just have a cheap quality option soon. I'm a simple man from much simpler times, but I definitely am getting older. But I definitely am on the smaller side. So what I want is minimalism. Light weight, minimalist skates. I don't even care about h-blocks. Just a flat frame with a soul area for the toe and heel area. Maybe a very simple royale plate Something like the old Chocolates just more modern. It doesn't have to be pretty. Roces seem to be more my thing but I'm told they're actually quite heavy. I've never actually held a pair so I dunno.

Duuude! Missed your videos! Hope you and your family are doing well! Also, this helmet is the certified or the "normal"? What do you recommend for full cut helmets? I'm 58,5cm (23''), L, but don't know about comfort or how they fit, level of protection...

I see your point in a way, saying not to buy the most expensive item necessarily, but I beg to differ regarding the gear quality. I have personally noticed huge differences between skates, especially older vs newer skates (talking 20 year gap here).

Counterpoint: better gear can make you safer, make you more comfortable, and make your experience more enjoyable ... which will increase the likelihood that you'll want to skate, so you'll skate more ... which will make you better.

You make me want to learn to skate bowl

i have a pair of ancient warp aggressive skates with the middle 2 wheels gone, need a new pair of blades

is there a certain knee pad or wrist guard brand you'd recommend. I just got back into blading today after taking a hiatus for 10+ years and i only had a helmet haha

100% I learned many years ago through music that the gear doesn’t make the musician, it’s the other way around. Blading is no different… a $400 skate might feel nice but it ain’t gonna make you look or skate like Franky Morales or whoever.

great video as always.please help me out.do you recomment to get aeons or sways.my feet are 26.9cm.i like the way both skates look.wich one do you prefer and why?.thanks Corey.keep up the great work! for the aggressive inline comunity

I love how you're doing fakie out with "skate forward" in the background.

I typically go 3-4 years between new pairs of skates. Seems like everyone else gets new skates every year if not 2 pairs a year.

my tip is try to roll in what you have, I've rollerbladed for years in trash skates that were way to big for me... once I got my own rollerblades everything was much easier

Who says they make you better? It just makes is more comfy and maybe enhances already decent to good skaters

🥺 I wanted a pair of unicorn skates….. They don’t exist…….. 🥺 Thanks 4 the insight so proceed as usual Practice Practice Practice

100% doesn't matter. I started in the 90's on some box cars...paper thin liners, no soul plates, no h block, no nothing & learned all the fundamentals. Next skate were K2 Fatty's. Better skate? Without a doubt but did it make me a better skater...not so much. It allowed me to skate longer without as much wear & tear but it didn't allow me me to do anything I wasn't able to do before. I won't get into the whole, "back in my day" & "if you had to learn what I learned on" speech. I can't hate on evolution.

Make sure noone in Pitt sees this video. hope you had a nice move, first 270 back sav was my fave

The AOPA shirt is throwing me off lol Mixing my two worlds. Can't think about the true spin makio revert out for fkpb, must control traffic lol

Yeah but cool new stuff comes out way before you need it lol

where is that ledge?

Tell that to my 1,5 finger thick soul plate

My £49 second hand skates agree

The only thing I’m getting is metal frames so they literally last forever I just bought sway 57’s lol

i fell out of my chair. you owe me a chair, my wall of lawrence lol >.

What software are you using to edit on your laptop?

Glad to see you back, I was worried when I saw airlines forcing the vax on employees. Apparently the blood-clotting issue the vax causes gets worse with altitude?

Corey English, moar liek Corey Spanish amirite?!

Are you related to Alfred English?

Yaaaay

But I like wasting money on skate gear.

You know, if you take the "e" out of your name you get +10 HP on your skates.

That’s not entirely true though.

if it's in your reach and you enjoy it why not. others enjoy gambling and spending their money on cryptocurrency.