Throwback - Nitro World Games Will Not Save Rollerblading | Wheel Scene 2016

..but it’s a step in the right direction.

Last year, Nitro Circus announced their latest venture, Nitro World Games, a three-hour extreme sports extravaganza that will take place at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 16 and will be shown live on NBC. The official statement advised that “every athlete in the world will be eligible to compete” by qualifying at the Nitro Circus Academy of Excellence at Woodward West in California or Travis Pastrana’s Pastranaland in Maryland. The exciting part for rollerblading is inline best trick contest will be one of the events taking place on the 15 ramps that make up the course. It would seem that Chris Haffey and Wake Schepman’s performances on the Nitro Circus World Tour has helped gain blading an inclusion in what is sure to be a highly publicized, and watched, event.

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#TBT Alex Broskow ONE #2 Interview | One Blade Mag

Over ten years ago ONE Issue #2 went to print and inside was a feature interview with Alex Broskow. At the time he’d just filmed for “The Meantime,” was skating on Roces skates, and I could be wrong but VX may yet have not received their cease and desist letter from naming their jeans the “James Dean.” But we didn’t handle this one alone. Sitting in on the interview were Wes Driver, Corey Casey, and Adam Johnson. So much time and blade history has come and gone in the intervening years that the information and opinions Alex (and AJ) share in this discussion have both been incorporated into blading’s underlying psyche while also being lost in our collective memories. But that’s what makes #ThrowbackThursday so fun, because it’s a great chance to dig up old content like this and share with audiences that may have never seen it before.

Read the Full interview here at www.OneBladeMag.com