#aggressive skating

[louiejoyce]

The covers for Godzilla: Skate or Die #2 have dropped! The first cover is mine and the second is Juni Ba’s amazing variant cover for this issue. Out in July, make sure you’ve ordered through your local comic store! 🦖🛼🛹🛼🛹🦖

More on the comic here: https://godzilla.com/blogs/news/louie-joyce-godzilla-skate-or-die-comic-book-interview

www.louiejoyce.com

[one-awesome-beetle]

i went ice skating with some friends today and??? i did so many spins and twirls and fancy ahh turns my friend who actually went to lessons was impressed bc they couldnt??? this is my second ever time ice skating??????

anyways now im thinking of rollerblader barty and figure skater regulus and how i kin both of them and the fact i've already been rollerblading for years

imma sign up for figure skating lessons and complete the set

[bettyspaghettylegs]

alley oop soul <3

Alt text : a skater is wearing an all black outfit, purple writing is in the front of their pullover sweater. They’re wearing a heavily stickered helmet and knee/hand pads either blue/green gloves over. They’re wearing black, lime green and pink roller skates. They skate towards a bike rack positioned on a walkway. They jump the opposite way into an alley oop soul grind.

[theskategatsby]

Heartbreak Olympics: Beijing 2022

It's decided; Kamila Valieva, Alexandra aka Sasha Trusova and Anna Sherbakova will represent Russia at the 2022 Olympics. They are all under the same coach, the infamous Eteri Tutberidze.

First up: the team event. This event consists of 8 parts, a short and a free program for each discipline. Surprisingly enough, Kamila Valieva, the favourite to win it all, is chosen for BOTH the short and the free program. This is surprising, seeing as both Anna and Sasha missed out on an opportunity to win a gold medal here. To nobodies surprise, Russia wins the team event. However, right before the medal ceremony, the ISU releases a statement saying that the medal ceremony will be postponed. After a while it becomes clear that someone on the Russian team has tested positive for a drug test. This is none other than the 'perfect' Kamila Valieva. While the investigation is ongoing, Kamila will be allowed to practise and compete, but if she ends up on the podium, there will be no ceremony.

With Kamila possibly out of the way for the gold medal, everyone looks at Sasha to win first place. When, on the 15th of February, the short program rolls around, Kamila places first, to nobodies surprise. Anna places second, and on third place we have the Japanese Kaori Sakamoto, and on fourth place, Sasha. Sadly, Sasha fell on her triple axel, which she had not been able to land even a single time in competition that season. This ended up dragging her total score down by a lot.

Next up: the free program. From the three Eteri girls, Sasha is up first. Her performance contains 5 quads and she lands them all, therefore making her the first woman in history to land five quads in the olympics. Sasha is pleased with her performance and thinks she will win the gold medal. This is because Eteri promised her that if she landed those 5 quads, she would win.

After Sasha, it's Anna's turn, she delivers a near perfect performance, landing all her jumps including two quads. At the kiss&cry, when Anna receives her scores and Sasha realises that Anna has more points than her, she breaks down crying and screaming "YOU ALL KNEW ". While this is all happening, it's Kamila's turn.

Everyone expects Kamila to deliver another perfect performance, but to everyones surprise, she delivers the worst performance of her life. She falls on most jumps, and the ones she does land are wobbly. As soon as the gets off, Eteri starts scolding her for her performance. When Kamila receives her scores at the kiss&cry, and realises she is off the podium, she says 'at least the medal ceremony won't be cancelled now' and breaks down in tears.

Anna Sherbakova is the new olympic champion, with Sasha Trusova second, Kaori Sakamoto third and Kamila Valieva in fourth.

Anna, who has just won the competition that she worked for her entire life, isn't celebrating. Her coach and all of her other trainers are busy trying to comfort either Sasha, who is still crying and saying she never wants to skate again, or Kamila, who broke down under all the pressure from the public. Anna later said that the first feeling she had when finding out she won, was empty.

Sasha, who hasn't won a major competition in three years, thought that this would be her moment, especially because Eteri promised her that win if she landed 5 quads. Some of the things Sasha said are: "Everyone has a gold medal, everyone, but not me. I hate skating. I hate it. I hate this sport. I will never skate again. Never," and "I haven't been winning major events for three years. I always try to reach a goal, I always add more quads,". This entire situation is even more heartbreaking when you add that Anna and Sasha used to be best friends, and they share their room at the olympics. Since the olympics, there have been no signs of them still being friends.

Anna, Sasha and Kamila have all endured years and years of abuse at Eteri's camp, from skating while injured to not being allowed to gain any weight. All of this just leads me to wonder, was it worth it?

Links:

Anna Sherbakova: short program, free program

Alexandra/Sasha Trusova: short program, free program

Kamila Valieva: short program, free program

[brightbirdart]

Wanted to share a moment I felt proud of and I am really trying to avoid Twitter. So hello Tumblr. Here’s a picture of a Marilyn stall I did.

[munchguy]

Skating counts as research, right? 👀 Perhaps I'm enjoying the marvels of concrete engineering

[skatedaduk]

LEARNING TO SKATE AT 41

My First Time

May 18th, 2023

On 16th February 2023 I watched one of my children playing by themselves. What were they doing?

Well, Ashanti (10 yrs) was inline skating. She got so much joy from trying new things and pushing the limits of what she could do. She simply had no fear.

While she was playing on her own I had a thought, I could do this with her !!!!

I had never put on inline skates in my life but that wasn’t going to stop me. I looked among the adverts on Facebook market place and found some for £15. They seemed OK I guess. I had no idea. I bought them anyway.

3 days later I collected the skates and tried them while the kids were at school. Safe to say I fell on my rear end more than expected. This didn’t stop me. I hid them in my bedroom until the end of the school day. Once I had picked up the children and brought them home I asked Ashanti to come upstairs with me. With a little anxiety kicking in, she started her climb upstairs. Once she saw what I had done it gave her the biggest smile upon her face. She immediately shouted “let’s go out together dad !!!!! “

We skated for only 30 minutes. Those 30 mins were so amazing. My daughter was proud of her dad as was I of her.

This was the start of something special.

 



[branmuffins22]

That's Richie Eisler! I used to be super into rollerblading (from a distance. I've never been in good enough shape physically or financially to do much skating), and he was always a great person to watch out for. Made a lot of great videos.

Might even still be going at it, I haven't checked up on this fixation in... a hot minute.

[triggerextremesports]

Jacob Juul Fall 2023 | Trigger Skate

[louiejoyce]

My first 2 covers for Godzilla: Skate or Die!! (First issue drops 12th June!)

www.louiejoyce.com

[piracyismymiddlename]

What I want to do:

Run -> jump onto bench -> jump into grind on bench backboard -> jump 360 heal grab -> land.

[bettyspaghettylegs]

on film.

[canisalbus]

Would Machete be supreme at skating like an absolute angel of movement, or would choas be imminent?

[When I saw these boots I instantly thought of him :') ]

I think it's likely he'd be on the more awkward side, he's anything but athletic. The again, he managed to adjust to wearing high heels and I like to think he's become remarkably surefooted and graceful with them (to the point he feels a bit out of sorts without them), so it's not like he has no sense of balance or proprioception whatsoever. If he really wanted to skate well he would be able to learn.

[env0]

Only a year or so late. SKATE EDIT 2023

[sonic-adventure-3]

unmmmmm outfit concept or something