What's the hardest thing about rollerblading? Was a homophobic joke that had an enormous impact on skating, specifically aggressive inline skating.

But how did such an absurd joke have an effect and where did it come from?

To understand it all we are going to look back through rollerblading and skateboardings history, how the came to popularity, early skate culture, who their target audience was, their attitudes and the attitudes of society in the 90s specifically towards homosexuals.

We will also look at the knock on effect of the joke, how it still comes up today and how rollerblading has become a tighter knit community.

At a point in the 90s rollerblading was the fastest growing participation sport, towering over skateboarding and snowboarding but it was those sports that went on to mainstream success and the Olympics, while aggressive inline skating was left behind.

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00:00 How a joke almost killed rollerblading
00:56 The history of Rollerblading
02:46 The birth of aggressive inline skating
03:41 Daily Bread Magazine - The rollerblading bible
04:02 Rollerblading in Hollywood - Prayer of the rollerboys, Airborne, Brink
04:36 How inline skating inspired the start of the x games
05:26 Mad Beef The Hoax and Senate aggressive skating culture - Arlo Eisenberg
07:21 Rollerblading was at the top
08:03 The history of Skateboarding - Surfers, punk and Thrasher
09:18 Skateboarding vs Rollerblading - culture differences
09:48 What’s the hardest thing about rollerblading? - Bill Burr, Aziz Ansari, Louis CK
10:31 Why it had an impact - School culture in the 90s and masculinity
11:42 Skateboarding’s Big Brother Magazine and homophobia
12:53 Rollerblading became a joke to American popular culture - Jackass, Big Daddy, adverts
13:55 Inline skating’s lack of culture and history - it’s easy to make look silly
15:08 The struggle of Gay athletes - Brian Anderson Skateboarder
16:06 The rise of skateboarding the fall of rollerblading getting kicked out the x games
17:07 How attitude changed within rollerblading - More hammers
18:16 If it wasn’t street skating it wasn’t rollerblading
18:50 How skateboarding progressed and how rollerblading expanded - community
19:29 How the jokes still come up today


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