So so cool🤗🤗🤗

今は何の仕事してるの？

Hello! Do you still do the Sunday meet up for skating? Can I come as a foreigner? Would love to experience this with more skaters since I’m bringing my roller skates to Tokyo! 🥺

I want to do this so bad. Been urban skating in Denmark for the past 5 years or so, after visiting Japan this year I think it's would be an amazing place to skate around

I like your video ❤

Brazil here, and I learning inline ❤❤❤

I never comment, but this video was fascinating for me and I felt compelled to. Being raised in India, you feel your cultural and legal identities misalign. Growing up mixed race in Britain, I definitely used to feel my cultural and factual identities misalign. My cultural background is solely British and I consider myself a British person. If you watch videos such as Chinese Americans React to Panda Express, you can see a similar misalignment. When these young Chinese Americans tries Orange Chicken, they are concerned about some sense of authenticity; whereas when somebody from Shangai tries Orange Chicken, they are concerned about whether the flavours work well together. I bring this up to highlight the issues with factual identity. It doesn't capture much about who a person is. We are ultimately moulded by our environments. Despite being genetically similar, Emily from Shangai and Emily from Boston will have very different cultural relationships to Chinese culture e.g. Chinese food. I think we can get caught up on factual identity for two reasons. - One: society reacts to our factual identity first and cultural identity second. We may come to think of ourselves as a ___ person because we are first understand us as a ___ person, alongside any stereotypes that might entail. When I was 18, I had a period of feeling strongly Tamil (one of my genetic halves) despite not speaking the language, not knowing much if anything about the culture, and never having been to Sri Lanka. In hindsight, I can see this was a reaction to how I felt I was an outsider growing up. - Two: factual identity is immutable. Exactly as you said, you cannot change it. But I have ultimately come to peace with my identity (my only crisis is if someone asks where in the UK I'm from, do I say London or Oxford) by framing my identity as the totality of the factors that went in to making me. Ultimately, no initial questions will help you gauge what a stranger's upbringing and life were like. 'I grew up in London.' Do you mean Chelsea, Hackney, Harrow, Tower Hamlets...? 'My parents are both Russian.' Can you speak Russian? How much Russian have you heard from people outside of your family? 'I grew up in Japan.' Did you go to Japanese school or International school? When people make conclusions about your identity based on these questions with deliberately limited scope, they are trying with limited tools form a picture of who you are and what made you. But you know what made you, you were there. It is only really a problem of communication, not of who you are. If the reality of your identity is not easily expressible, then that is a problem of language, not of you. Funnily enough, I am actually British person rollerblading around a small Japanese town while waiting on an apartment application in Tokyo and hoping they won't dismiss me for only having a 1 year visa. I'm 23 so I think I might be a bit older than you, but those were my thoughts.

良い動画！

are heelys legal in Japan? specifically tokyo streets?

公道走ってて警察に止められたりしないの？公道平気なら買いたいんだけど

Hello. Im gonna go to japan for the first time this october and would love to skate there. Do you know anyone I could possibly connect to? Like experienced rollerskaters there that I can jam with? Hopefully I could get a reply 🥰

めちゃくちゃいいところでインターンができてよかったですね！緑が本当に綺麗！ 僕は日本から離れて住んだこともないのでidentity crisisを経験をしたことがないので、conceptual identityを選べるのは本当に素晴らしいことだと思います！ そのうち日本にvisitした時にすべりましょう！

great video. what wheel size would you recommend for skating on bitumen and asphault? What's the smallest wheel size you would use for this? 80, 90, 100?

Lovely vlog, and you've got a very interesting background! I think this kind of identity crisis is pretty common nowadays, with the globalization and so many people having been influenced by different cultures in different times of their lives. Though I think it's especially common for Asians, probably since those and Western cultures can be very different in comparison? I've also lived in a different country than I was born in for majority of my life, and it's not so simple to answer the "where are you from" question 😁

Great video.

how about the role over there? can you skating around city

Glad to see you're still around! I really enjoy your videos.

Next time you are here again, definitely attend Wednesday Night Skate. If you haven’t already. Great vibes and lots of skaters

great vid... so brave skating such a big city as a tourist

Nice video of NYC! I love to skate there someday too! U should skate in Singapore, i think you will love it!

The other side of the Manhattan Bridge is the better side to skate, but has more cyclist and electric scooters/mopeds.

Great but... I'm appalled to see so many of you without any head protection. Even with years of rolling you're never exempt from any mishap such as this poor guy who has been skateboarding for years without any head protection 'till "bad luck" hit: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqOtl6x-ed2amNk

hei, can I join with your community?? Im Indonesian, and I will go to Japan on 9-16 Sept…

Going there next April. I’m bringing my rollerblades. In Kyoto and Tokyo should be fine right?

amazing!

This is the GG's garage. Hey, where's our pizza?

Yo quiero patinar por Tokio!!!! 😢

it's one of my bucket list skating in the city

Were you in London for studies? Congrats for a new beginning. Where are you going - or will it be a surprise reveal?

is that okay to skating in japan? i mean like vidio

Great video. What counts is the skillset. Personally I own PS Phuzion Krypton 80 since 2019. And I've just ordered today FR1 80 and very much looking forward to try it.

もうあなたがいなくて寂しいです

Hello, I'm in Osaka and I'd like to inquire about where to buy shoes.

Hi, why did the imperials give you blisters? Im looking to get a new skate but im scared - is it all about the sizing?

Hi, nice video this year I will go to Japan and I want to rollerskating around the city. I will looking for you I’m trying to rollerskate there

Hi Karen! Im a skater from London... Can you tell me where exactly you were at the start of the video? And also how to get in touch with Yuki san for any future events like this? I may go to Tokyo soon so it would be nice to know all the good skate spots and events... Thank you! 👏 Also also. Do you have instagram?

ロンドンの建物は、海外っぽくてカッコいい。

Love your videos! Happy skating :)

Hey can i ask how people find each other? Is it easy to find skating groups?

She's back!

I found your channel just in time! I hope you keep posting!

One of my favorite things to do in the mornings after making my cup of coffee, is watching your skate videos! Your videos are so motivational and encouraging to skaters❤

Welcome back!

those streets and sidewalks look so damn smooth, I'm jealous

i gotta skate there sometime, looks nice

Great to see you posting again.

do they still do this

Your videos are fantastic. Love to see skating in Japan. So clean and beautiful.

Hey there, why do you all prefer tri skates and with big wheels? Hope you can tell me :)

omggg i’m coming in august!!! do you guys still do this?