RANDY "ROADHOUSE" SPIZER: YOUNG and TALENTED! (Rolling Reactions)

[@kinziemeadows4681]

Takes me back. One thing that blew me away about his first section when he was 15, were his royales. No one did them better than he did at that time. And on big stuff too.

[@neutra__l8525]

Yeah, him and bryan bell had such a sweet stance.

[@lPROWLINXLl]

that first school was my middle school mesa view in huntington beach ca this video was called VG 3

[@bryangibney]

I love watching him and Jon Julio on Instagram now. Spizer was my favorite growing up

[@blakereoh]

one of my favs cause he skated when i did i was around the same age

[@aBudSmoker22]

Picked up a copy of the Crow video and was like aye! It's Butch!

[@dmofOfficial]

Deshi Iain McCleod were my most favorite skates of all time ;)

[@Jdoom13]

Roadhouse was always my favorite skater! I started in 95'

[@RR-bd4jp]

Finally I was trying for so long to remember this cats name. I had searched all USD riders and gave up. Then I was convinced it was Champion Baumstimler. Lol Randy "roadhouse" Spizer okay. It just randomly came up with on a skatevideo. I searched even for highlighted hair USD guy 😂

[@mean-genes]

Awesome video. Thanks. Keep up the GREAT work!

[@dbycrash]

I went to NSGA in 1997 and met all the people from fifty/50 after chatting with many on #aggressive IRC chat. Jon Julio had a pair of USDs with the first frames they released and he was cool enough to actually give them to me. I wear a size 10 and rocked his 7 and a halfs for years. NISS was happening at the same time and I remember Jon took 2nd behind Matt Hermaneck(SCRIBE). Randy was there with Champion just being a goofball… you just mentioned Lawrence in the vid as I was writing this.. Lawdog. See if he remembers any of this(on 2nd thought it may have been 1998)

[@AndreJHoward]

I started skating around the same time as Randy and I always loved watching him skate! Great pick Man!!!

[@CleM-D-K]

I loved 2nd Regime too. The 2R logo was soo sick, almost iconic to me as the Mindgame man, England lion, and the Senate S.

[@jayd6778]

That wasn't a cell phone in his VG3 section. That was a cordless home phone. This was filmed in early 1995, released in early 1996, it was entirely possible to have a cellphone then, but none of us did nor did he, and that wasn't.

[@MrAbehensley]

Best royale in the game.

[@neutra__l8525]

him and Bryan Bell, its a tuff call :)

[@hoodedcobra1531]

I used to talk to him all the time. Kind grinds were his fav he loved doing. this was like 2006-2007

[@JDIXON-lr7kd]

🔥

[@Ben_Rolls]

Loved Randy spizer dude was so sick, second regime sell you soul to roll what a edit. Rolling smashed aggressive inline, as good as aggressive inline was rolling took it to a new level. Also that was the track that played when you watched that rolling edit of Randy spizer probably due to licensing.

[@Chwarg]

I played both - Rolling and Aggressive Inline. Rolling was far better in my opinion. To this day I still keep an original XBox just to play Rolling from time to time.

[@00ABBITT00]

Roadhouse was my idol growing up. VG3 had a huge impact on my skating. Also, I don’t think Rolling ever released in North America.

[@guychi-chifly950]

Definitely a pit stop worthy era if you owned a time machine.

[@august_blader2458]

He realy did me feel old in thet toy story crown

[@IJustFiguredThisOut]

I did the whole aggressive skating thing when I was in 7th grade until early 9th grade when I got into high school. So that would have been about 1995-1997. 8th grade is when it really took off and I got really good, doing it every day after school. The only thing that really limited me was my height at the time so I couldn't jump high enough to hit a lot of the handrails, but I could nail almost any trick and do it with beautiful style. I went to Woodward the summer after 8th grade, I got put in group 9 (Group 1 is beginner, 10 is like the best they would have going to Woodward). The week that I went (two of my best friends came with me that weeks also, one was put in group 9 with me, one was put in group 1 lol), but the week I went, Spizer, Juan Julio, Rawlinson Rivera, and I know there were some other ones if I went and looked at the pictures. I remember seeing Spizer roll past me in a golf cart, and when you're in 8th grade and a skater, and you see this kid in all these skate videos, he was like a skate God to us, and then I remember seeing him again when we were skating these on these half pipes. Of course when you have all of the skaters around and then he shows up, naturally everyone else is going to just kind of stop and watch and he is going to just drop down like it's nothing. Seeing Juan Julio was awesome as hell too I remember. I went up to Rawlinson and asked for a picture with him so I have that. I look stoned as hell but I'm only like 13 so I'm not. But then I got to high school and the drumming took over so I look fondly back at the skating days. I thought about it today, which led me here.

[@RetroHabit82]

Roadhouse the all time OG with Edwards, Mantz and Khris

[@rollingchamp]

I’m the opposite, never played Aggressive Inline but played a lot of rolling Edit: and smashed jet set radio - by far the best rollerblading game

[@Dudirgsioe]

Randy roadhouse spider had the dopest Senate gride wheels.

[@Randy1337]

With the old Majestic 12 you weren´t even able to souldgrind without soulplates. There just was no space to souldgrind. When the Salomon came out it was like a wonder to me. I could do so much more with them and they were the best skates ever even until today.

[@goofballbiscuits3647]

I went MJ 12 to ST8s. You could soul on MJs but the negative plate was straight up a hazard.

[@-GIANT-]

Huh? Dude i started on Lightnings and was doing all of the tricks. Not sure what youre talking about.

[@IJustFiguredThisOut]

I had MJ 12's but I think I remember it wore through all the way through on my right foot so there was just a hole there, so I went and bought a pair of K2 fattys. Those things just looked and felt great. The MJ 12's felt very mechanical, like they weren't made for aggressive skating (even thought they were), but the K2's the way they were designed I think helped you make the trick look good. Maybe the MJ12'S were good for me to have first to learn on. This was also in the mid-90's, so along time ago.

[@GVGames1986]

I had this game and the track is original, I remember. To be honest all of the skating parts on the game were really high standard. Bruno Lowe and Vinny Minton for example.

[@jonadevitt359]

Aggressive inline was a lot more arcadey and cartoony. Rolling was far superior from a skaters point of view. You could pre set switch ups with the d pad and id spend hours getting the perfect lines. Only issue was the spinning mechanics were a bit ott and you 900 into a grind on a rail every time. Its customisation was unreal so much merch and set ups from every company you could imagine. Great game for a skater. Not so much for a casual gamer.

[@GVGames1986]

Rolling had more authentic skaters and the tricks were labelled better and extensive (most grinds, airs and so on are available to add to your character). Aggressive Inline had more of a fun gaming feel to it. Rolling was more sober and realistic (neither were realistic per se due to manuals), but Rolling was more like the real thing we who have been around the sport know.

[@GVGames1986]

Julio, Shima and someone close to him, could have been Sagona (from memory) had a hand in developing the game Rolling. That is why all the tricks are labelled correctly and why SDSU and other well known rolling spots are included in the game. Also a ton of licensed skates and clothing including Julio's England clothing (pre-Valo).. Minton with his sig Salomons and Schrijn with his K2 Nemesis. No Haffey in the game though.

[@DistrictWitch]

man Deshis ENDED me lol - bought a pair, within a week broke my leg in four places and had to have reconstructive surgery, lucky I didn't have to have my leg amputated according to the doc! Very nice to grind in but the ankle support was so so bad/low etc, I know people still love them to this day but yeah, I'm convinced they're just death-traps.

[@CleM-D-K]

"Not a huge fan of the music" I agree but it's much better than that terrible "Hospital" song he had in "Juice" lmao.

[@joshb8976]

I think the problem rollerblading had was that everyone were such trend biters. One person would wear sweat pants and then that’s all we wore. It is actually embarrassing in hindsight. No individuality like they had with skateboarding. It sucked and I think it killed rollerblading. Hopefully it will make a comeback