On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:38:13AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > I spent 10 hours a week for 10 years on "real" skates, where 8 wheels > is all you ever needed. This inline fad will pass. :)
I started my rolling life on quads, too. Must have been late 70's when skateboarding was just taking off, but I was a dedicated roller skater. Lived on the things for years, probably until puberty when I started to get more interested in wimmin and beer (and of course, computers). :-) I started up again when the inline thing happened in the late 80's. This coincided with the second era of skateboarding and we got a local skatepark with a 10' vert ramp. I thought inlines were really neat compared to quads, but perhaps that was just because there were new and different. Anyway, a few months later, I hung up on the coping while dropping back in and trashed my knee. That was the end of my inline skating career. Then I got into skateboarding during the last big revival in the late 90's. Despite never being able to do more than roll in a straight line, I decided that skateboarding was easy and attacked it with my usual vigour and enthusiasm. The result being that I very quickly smashed my front teeth out skating a concrete bowl. That one really hurt: http://andywardley.com/misc/teeth.html Despite all that (and other boarding injuries that I shan't bore you with), I still love riding anything that rolls (or slides) no matter how many wheels (or edges) it has. A
