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I've been skateboarding since I was 10. My older brother got me in to it. I'm not quite sure what's with the hate for rollerbladers. I've been doing that a long time too. The tricks you can do in the air are very similar to snowboarding (spins, flips) and the grinds can be as technical as skateboarding. Yes, it's far easier to progress than skateboarding since you are attached but none of you hate on snowboarders for being attached. I know back in the mid-90's rollerblading was growing far fasters than skateboarding and at one point surpassed it in the number of participants. The big skateboarding companies started attacking rollerblading directly because they feared it would drain the money out of their industry and you all just went along for the ride. You heard it, you believed it, you repeated it ... all without asking why. What the fuck do you care what sport somebody chooses?
You're making my point anyway. Go hang out with rollerbladers for one day and see what it's like to truly love what you do so much that you would put up with all the shit-talking, fights and abuse by another sport (skateboarding) just to do something you enjoy.
I remember when I first moved up north to a ski town. It was filled with snowboarders and skateboarders and I was the only one that rollerbladed. My first night out I was skating a handrail when some assholes drove by, yelled something out the window and threw a beer bottle at me. Then they quickly drove off without the balls to get out and confront me. They had a big fucking Independent sticker on the back window. By the end of my two years in that town they were all friends with me because they saw how much I loved what I did, that I went through the same pain to accomplish what I could do and I was out skating everyday.