Seeing Barely Dead reminded me of how I and others turned our backs on a sport we loved. Afterwards I ran out and got a new pair of skates and have been skating every day since. (except for when it’s wet.)

Barely Dead made me realize that I love rollerblading. I think it could do the same for others that left the sport and those that have yet to start.

As far as the sport is concerned, I know it’s up to rollerbladers to build it back up. There are a lot of ways this can be done, but no one seems to be addressing the simplest one: every rollerblader should recruit their friends to start. Every rollerblader has atleast one non-rollerblade friend that, with the right motivation, would start skating.

Essentially, this would double the sport’s participation rate. Just gather up your old skates and wheels and hook your friends up. Most likely it was your friends who got you hooked on rollerblading and we are not doing the sport justice if we don’t continue recruiting efforts.

Mindgame video had amazing skating, the skits suck ok, dull and long, it is a rollerblading video so skits should be short and funny.

I’d also like to point how much harder and costly it is to get clips on film than clips on video.. video costs camera + tape. Film is equipment rental and and every single shot frame is money. Anybody that has tried to film skating before knows how hard it can be to get a clip.

I honestly was a lil bit disapointed with Barely Dead, it was a lil too whinny and subjective, but it certainly deserves more respect than it has gotten.

Ced Laurenty.