The History Of Inline & Roller Skating // Featuring Tiago Le Meur and Aussie Inline Skater

[@DeezSkates]

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[@Inliner242]

Just gave a thumbs up, Subscribed to you months ago. David, the best spokesperson Skating can give today's modern fam; you did an excellent job in the overall structure of this video. You're going to continue to grow in both channel and skill. Good job my friend

[@coyotestylepro1150]

Was part 2 ever made?

[@memorizeitwithmusic612]

Your channel deserves so many more subscribers. I love how much work you put into your videos and your oration is so relaxing.

[@toby9999]

The disco culture of the 70's is when I learned to roller skate. Many great memories. Roller sakating isn't so big now but there are still a few good rinks here in Melbourne.

[@winstonloh1051]

This is so enjoyable to watch! Thank you for your research! As a skateboarder i am fascinated with how little the trucks have changed from roller skates! Skateboarding owes gratitude to roller skating!

[@cr8sk828]

Fantastic production! Thank you to everyone involved! I started with the metal wheel, strap on the foot atrocities. I was 2 years old. Nobody knew where the came from, but they knew they were not getting them off my feet! I slept in them. Side note: with the popularity of fibers, woods and renovated antique skates these days, it makes me wonder why it wasn't more popular earlier

[@cunawarit]

Oh, I do remember slippery wheels. I remember using skates that attached to my shoes with straps and used hard wheels... they weren't terrible, you just had to use them differently.

[@greenbean97]

I'm excited for the next chapter of roller skating history!

[@JakeyDill]

Solid effort man, I thoroughly enjoyed this.

[@a.m.3118]

Boy you are pure energy !!! I like that. Keep it going mate

[@FlickSuicide]

I am so excited to get my moonlight roller skates... I haven't had a pair since I had that metal set of skates as a kid.

[@a7c777]

I think roller skating history isn't very popularly known due to the fact that there isn't much of a competitive aspect to it in terms of spectating the sports around them. It's often done in rinks, or streets as a means of hanging out with friends and as an alternative mode of transportation. Hopefully we can see figure-roller skating or trick skating in the olympics someday but until then I feel like the cultural/social aspect behind roller skating as a spectator sport will always have a very non-uniform structure which will make things either intimidating or not very enticing for new spectators and skating historians/hobbyists

[@DeezSkates]

Well put. That's a good point.

[@karlojca]

Such a great video David! Thanks for sharing your research! History is so interesting, specially about our favourite sport. It's incredible how it goes so back in time. Thanks as well to all who collaborated in your video whose channels I also follow in KZbin (the french and aussie inline skaters 🤗). Happy holidays and looking forward to the next history episode!!!

[@DeezSkates]

Hey Karlo! Long time no see! Happy Holidays to you as well my friend!

[@CanadaBladers]

Excellent content. Awesome research. Fabulous contribution to the community.

[@ThirtyandRollin]

This is so great! Thanks for this and happy holidays!

[@DeezSkates]

Happy Holidays! 🎄

[@glorilys]

Ho very interesting! Love this! I do have an old pair of rollerskate metal and leather strap.

[@RichHayterSkater]

Wow! Well done on your research and presentation, superb! Was a nice little cameo from Tiago there too! Have a great Christmas, Dude! Here’s hoping 21’s a better year!🤞

[@moneymarty1]

Fascinating and informative. I can't wait for the next installment!

[@godjhaka7376]

Those the skates we have at all our local rinks. In the glass, wood and metal wheels lol

[@fisherchi]

I’m reposting since I accidentally deleted my original. When I was a young kid, about 6 or 7, I remember my friend had one of these all steel skates. It had a screw in the middle which when loosened allowed the state to accommodate larger shoe sizes. When I tried them, I remember that the ride was really rough and slippery, but they worked. After the novelty of these skates wore off in about a month, the new popular thing was to convert them to scooters. Separate one of the skates and attach it to a long piece of wood about 3 ft long on the front and back. Then attach a fruit basket to the front, and then a makeshift handle. The precursor to the modern push scooters. You questioned why they didn’t use ball bearings in the wheels earlier and my guess would be that maybe they didn’t have the tech at the time to make bearings that small and precise, or the cost was too expensive. Probably the same for using India Rubber. I love the Tiago section. Why was he holding a loaf of French bread? Too funny. Thanks for creating this mini documentary of the history of skates. It was light hearted and very informative. And I know it’s a bit late but Merry Christmas and happy New Year.

[@andrewwindsor2287]

New sub!!! I love all things wheels and boards 😝💯💯💯

[@Dypsomaniart]

Great video, i had no idea inline skates were the first to be created, very interesting and entertaining, thanks

[@isaccduarte9241]

Thank you so much ❤️👏🏻

[@SirPrancelot1]

Fantastic, fascinating video. Tyers Volito is extraordinary, an inline rockered skate two centuries ahead of its time. If rubber had been known about then it surely would have been a huge success and the history of skating would have been radically different. Really look forward to part two of this! Merry Christmas from England and all the best for the New Year.

[@DeezSkates]

Merry Christmas, my friend! 🎄

[@Gypsy388]

I Love love this Information! Ill suscribe to your page! Thank you! This is so interesting.

[@Thequadchannel]

great job, well presented. Congratulations sir.

[@mbr2155]

Hi, thanks for this excellent Video and to invitiert Tiago. I watched several times( 100 times or more :-) )your video of the Katana Frames. I am just a beginnen but you inspired me to start with the Katana Frame. So I ordered the Kaze 90 this day. Thanks for your Inspiration from you and the other skaters especially You and Tiago. I wish you merry christmas and a happy new year.

[@DeezSkates]

Merry Christmas! 🎁

[@ollieanthem9213]

It's cool to see how enthralled you are with all things skate!

[@Mayonez891]

@deezskates hi David!! Do you think there will be a part 2?? I looked on your channel and I didn't see any follow up. I would love to see the evolution of roller skates. I looked it up myself online but there wasn't much information available. I had no idea skating started in the 1700's or that ball bearings were such old technology!! Thank you so much for this incredibly insightful video. Cheers from Canada ❤

[@DeezSkates]

Hey! Thanks so much. I am really glad you enjoyed it. I am not sure when I’ll make a part two. I intended to by now, but life has been in the way. This video took weeks of planning and work and was probably the hardest one I’ve made so far. I still plan on doing a follow up.. I’m just not sure when it’ll happen.

[@hauntrepreneurs]

The clock makers skate mechanism to stop the wheels from rolling backward was so the skater could propel themselves forward pushing against the locking mechanism. They would only have to scissor their feet back and forth to go forward. No pushing off the side of the skate needed.

[@gargameo4560]

Wow, these are fairly maneuverable, who would of say. Ofc with your great skills even more so.

[@medusamedicates9771]

Waiting on part 2

[@UnpopularOpinion42]

Good stuff! Thank you

[@wheathin24]

Is there a part two!!

[@suspendedanimation9458]

After 15 mins of watching, i notice the fireplace isn't real

[@godjhaka7376]

Slip wheels are still fun. Wood, fomac premieres still being made. Maybe can find the old original sure grips. BTW Black people invented skating. It's on the walls in Kemet in Heiroglyphics. Also Bill Butler created dancing on skates, which he called Jammin'.

[@AMAYspeedskatingacademyIndore]

Good job

[@smkmd1961]

What do you know of the organizations that operated competetive skating? Orgs. such as RSROA?

[@WitchonWheels]

Wow, thanks for all the effort you put into research and for making this underrated part of history available in such an entertaining and informative way. Looking back at my first pair of quads compared to todays carbon skates I already feel like at least a little part of that history as well :D

[@benjiblading2548]

The problem with ball bearings at the time was that such small ball bearings weren’t nearly as efficient or easy to manufacture due to less precision in manufacturing back in the day

[@JamisonMyth]

If you can point me to where you found info about this Hans Brigner character, I'd be really interested to learn more. Many thanks!

[@DeezSkates]

Hi, James. First off, I mispronounced his name. It's Hans Brinker, best I can tell. I linked a ton of info in the description. There is very little real info on Hans Brinker though. It's a somewhat unrecorded period of roller skating. It's been a long time since I made this video so I do not really remember a lot of the info in the sources. I'd do a google search for something like "Hans Brinker Roller Skates" and start form there. Some old books exist on the subject, but good luck getting your hands on them. Best we can hope for is a paraphrasing from someone who has read them.

[@JamisonMyth]

​@@DeezSkates thanks Deez! through searching I found out about a Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates, an American book heavily influenced by Dutch folk tales, that first popularized ice skating in America, and eventually I did find a page mentioning the skeeler existing in the early 1700s in Holland. It took awhile just because I guessed wrong on the spelling. Regardless of the details, the roller skate seemed to have been born out of the much older practice of ice skating combined with the newer culture of technological innovation in western Europe in emerging modern era. As the development of the modern economy created more recreation time for people it led to the creation of a whole recreation industry. During this era we see the creation of roller rinks, but we also see the first ski resorts, the first national parks, etc. Eventually this grew and spread enough that it cross pollinated with surfing culture in California and Hawaii and birthed skateboarding. It took thousands of years for skiing and surfing's trajectories to converge, and in the process birth skateboarding. Only 10 years later skiing and surfing would converge again, this time directly, to create snowboarding.

[@DeezSkates]

Thanks for sharing all that James! Very interesting stuff!

[@frankandreaswenzel]

Hey, I am Swiss and I translate German/English every now and then. I also happen to have a theater background, so I might be able to give you a rundown on what the play is about. Don't know how long it will take though as I have a lot to do.

[@DeezSkates]

Thanks for the comment, Frank! If you find the time, the links to the document about the German play are at the very bottom section of the description.

[@35nee]

@@DeezSkates it is a ballet and it only mentions ice skating.

[@DeezSkates]

Yes! I kicked myself for not mentioning that in the video. It was an ice ballet that substituted roller skates because as they got to the production process they started realizing that it was not practical to build an ice rink on the stage. I completely left that out of the video and didn’t realize it until I was near the end of the editing process.

[@jabo7908]

Did you translate it already? I scanned it but didn't find the play any interesting. As it is a ballet, there is not much story. Skates are not really mentioned, but in one part it is mentioned that the scene should look like a frozen canal and i suppose that the ice skating on that canal is performed on roller skates. The main character puts his ice skates on and is falling directly. A part from that it is about a rich family and their daughter is falling in love with a painter (or "colour rubber", what seems to be the old austrian word for it. :D)

[@handcoding]

Dude-those are the skates!

[@ojyochan]

There should be a skate brand called Merlin Skates with wizard imagery.

[@naps4haps]

For real. Open market right there

[@hayleywilliams8750]

It was john joseph in the 1800 or 1700 not quite sure

[@InfamousInternetVillainJackSix]

I don't even skate and that was interesting as hell. Excellent video, Bro. Can't wait for Part 2. Side note: You think maybe the reason the wheels sucked and didn't have bearings, were because they were inspired by wagon wheels? I mean, early automobiles were based on wagon wheels well into the 1900's. I would question what wheels they were inspired by. As an inventor myself, inventors tend to have literal Eureka moments. I feel like these primitive dudes were walking down a roughly paved road one day, thinking about ice skating, and a wagon rolled by. And they were just like "I should fucking put wagon wheels on my shoes!" Just a thought.

[@DeezSkates]

That’s a really good point. Sounds plausible to me.

[@bulliemthembu5846]

ada wrote the first computer program lol

[@anasboxaoui9141]

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[@sarek8472]

Interesting take, short docublog. You may be on to something.

[@Monkey-Boy2006]

LOL Yeah, very informative but he does stray off topic a lot. : - D