Where are the HAMMERS? Aggressive Rollerblading has gone soft? 

Have you found them?

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It’s been a bit of mixed economy for me when it comes to the public reaction. Had a lot of positive comments and questions but also had encounters with people who were raging but thats due to the nature of aggressive skating. It’s to be expected that people won’t like you damaging public property or private if it’s theirs. People are far more likely to approach someone who is cruising around rather than jumping on stuff. Urban skating, big wheel, freestyle are bigger because they are more accessible. The skills to look and feel good seem more attainable, there is a lot less risk involved which would definitely attract higher participation. Aggressive can look quite stressful unless you’re already a thrill seeker. The best way to grow aggressive would be to join forces with big wheel, urban and funnel people into aggressive

@@TomMoyse super fair point. We gotta roll together in it, innit? 😂🤜🏻🤛🏻

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Thank you. The T is by brand called FTS and the hat is from Muzzle both rollerblading brands. Take care 🤝

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Maybe they could even offer to pay these people skating today so there is some motivation for them to risk their lives

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Thanks for watching that far

Always thought this as well. If we had bigger numbers and more money, we'd have more young bucks dropping insaaane hammers. As an aging demographic we can't expect the pros to keep risking their lives forever, even though many of them still do. The fact I was never a stunt skater myself, I love that so many rollerbladers are more focused on tech or creative tricks on smaller obstacles.

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Lots of variety out there. Feel like people are really focused in on control

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The knees do suffer

Yes! I found lots of stretch, foam rolling, muscle guns and supplements kinda helps

Can’t take it too seriously! 😁

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My shins look like ive been sword fighting with them. You should probably get on the on Glucosamine and chondroitin complex tables for the joints. Cartilage just isn't up for dropping hammers for years haha

@@TomMoyse Never heard of those chemicals, but had a feeling there must be something, if just stretching properly can help resynthesize the Synovial Fluid inside the knee. Boy, knees are weird, complex mechanisms ..almost look unnatural on humans. Thanks for bringing up things I had never even thought of before, like how there was a kind of false sense of security in still doing hammers like Brian Aragon during a period when there actually wasn't money or big scale fame anymore and the two videos every six months saturation instead of being with the pros every day to see how they don't just do hammers every trick. Thought about that when I was younger. "How do they do it!?" Because when I stood next to Albert Hooi, Richard Johnson and some mad bloke from Spain for the first time in person, they were just doing hammers! Hahahah ..

More more control, technicality and style these days. Not to say that didn’t exist before there is just more of a focus on it now and it’s more widely spread

Yes - it’s very easy to not fully appreciate how mad this stuff was and is. I’m already on it for the my war thing. Keep an eye out for it soon

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I think people are more concerned with how it all looks.

@@TomMoyse and I agree. Style is everything .

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@@TomMoyse ha no way wasson man! Just to say I really enjoy all your content dude always banging when a new vid drops! Take it easy 🐕🤘

@@Dave-ds3vo thanks dude - really appreciate that. Glad people enjoy them

Haha you don’t hate me, you hate that your opinion can’t be substantiated. Don’t worry dude. I don’t hate you. I love hammers

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It’s universal. Disaster is something different that could become a hammer

I see, so like a wall ride to 540 of 15 stairs would be a hammer right?

@@pm2007est sounds like it could be, depends on the execution as well. You can’t be having dodgy landings and putting your hands down these day. That doesn’t cut it.

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Hahah it does work

@@TomMoyse It looked like waves to me

He has a clip in the first minute

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Thanks for the message. More creative than these days….? It sounds like you’re probably just out of the loop a bit. Watch Dominic Bruce, Colin Martin, Geoff Phillip, Scott Blackmore, Junkyu Park and there is more. Skaters are far more stylish these days as well. There is no need for over engineering rollerblades they just turn out hideous and pro skaters can still perform the most ridiculous tricks in what we have. The m12 is popular for a reason simplicity and it works. Mesmer (a video you should check out) are using a new type of plastic that stronger but also flexible - that’s what companies should be doing, better materials. Skinned skates are just not in right now

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does somebody count how many „hammers“ where in the video?

@@MBommeli I wish they did. I wish there was a count for every video so we can review it. Then we could also take the % of hammers in a video compared to the % of people rollerblading at the time

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Search for hoax 3 : broken english Here on yt, Skip to the Last Minute, Ur in for a treat

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If that were true why aren’t people finding skating via nitro circus

@@TomMoyse street hammers for the youth… viral street hammers Perkett level shit

@@keyHtown it still doesn’t really add up as the number of people rollerblading were at there highest in 1997 and pretty much dropped from them. The golden era of hammers didn’t maintain the numbers - suggesting it needs more than just that. There isn’t only one way for blading to get noticed.

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People still do hammers as my examples proved. People also do far more technical grinds on all levels of rails/ledges/obstacles. People are more creative. Rollerblading now has a far broader base to grow from. Rollerblading no longer has the corporate sponsorship that was paying the pros. It was always the money coming in from outside the sport that was really doing it for the pros. Hammers won’t bring back the sponsors on its own. You need it all. You need more brands doing entry level aggressive kids skates. More aggressive brands doing rec/urban/big wheel and freestyle skates as they have much higher numbers of participation than aggressive ever had. You need that money coming in. To say the new generation is soft is just reductionist. It ignores a plethora of factors.

You'd probably like Beat schmillmer (can't spell his surname) Trigger skater he's absolutely sick and he still wears baggy clothes if that's what turns you on 🤟

Swing and a miss there pal. Bolino storming it down a hill and doing a massive gap then bombing the rest of a hill is hammy. Have you seen that edit and the bail. Keep on squatting pal

@@TomMoyse this is literally just rollerblading down a hill

@@longtermsquatter apart from the bit when he’s in the air doing a 10 foot gap at speed oh and the bit when he has to control the landing but yeah mate spot on haha

“Nobody says hammer anymore”

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