In celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday, Krans takes the time to thank some of the basic, fundamental elements that make rollerblading even possible. Join us with this unlikely rundown while you finish digesting that glut of turkey and stuffing you jammed down your gullet over the past two days. — ONE
What All Bladers Should Be Thankful For:
Concrete
It’s obvious, but thanks to the paving of our once lush, green planet, we can all do our thing. Then again, I’d also add chemists who formulate plastic and urethane. Find one of those people and buy him or her a beer, or twelve.
The Americans With Disabilities Act
Without handicapped people, buildings wouldn’t require handicapped rails and all sorts of other goodies we skate. The ADA also comes in handy when you do something dumb, like break an ankle and have to get around on crutches.
Dumb Architects
Why in the hell would you build such picturesque spots and not expect us to skate them? Also, I laugh when they put skate stoppers on a ledge and stop at anything two feet tall. Just because skateboarders can’t flip their wood that high doesn’t mean we still can’t shred the shit out it.
Instructional Videos
We’d all be lost without them.
It’s like Christmas every day a new one is posted. This week, it was the classic “What Do You Believe In?”
Be-Mag message board (That’s right, I wrote that)
Thanks to Be-Mag, countless rollerbladers have a home to get bad advice about pivotal points of their development (pending arrests, knocked-up girlfriends, etc.) and the rest of use chemically-balanced folks have a place to look to see what happens to people who spend too much time on the Internet and nothing else.
Blade Families
Bladers, undoubtedly, are the coolest people. We don’t chase fads for what’s popular at the moment, we let stupid shit slide away knowing what we do rules, nor do we give a fuck about security, safety, Tony Hawk, haters or the electoral college. The fact that there are so many of us out there worldwide and we’re all united is a nice warm blanket to wear to bed every night.
Comment of the Week
The only bad part about Thanksgiving is that immediately after the turkey is in the fridge, it becomes Christmas season. I’ve worked too many retail stores in my time to have anything positive to say about Christmas, Easter, or any other holiday that revolves on giving gifts.
So, with that in mind…
That’s what I think when I think about the holidays.
Ubiquitous Item of the Week
Black Friday blading deals:
If you’re just finding out about them now, you’ve already missed them. Cry about it, sissy. — Brian Krans
P.S. — The new Ucon “blue dude” is going to give me nightmares.
If only the people laying the cement knew how to build skateparks and alittle bit of geometry
awesome web roll krans
P.S
Call a mother fucker once in awhile.. PAAARTY
i agree with JRay
the council in england especially in my area
need o learn how to make concrete parks (BIG concrete parks that is !)
because the park we have so far is shit D:
i have to travel 35 minutes on a train just to get to a decent park 🙁
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