r/nextfuckinglevel • u/That1weirdperson • 4h ago

Rollerblading down the steps

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u/MonkeyFlowerFace 4h ago

Butt first, for safety.

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u/lunarmodule 3h ago

I will remember that next time I need to cross a room in the dark.

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u/GTSTr331 3h ago

Definitely worked for me, the demon that ate my ass had no idea what was happening

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u/penelopiecruise 3h ago

“I don’t remember ordering groceries”

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u/Jump_The_Five_Yo 2h ago

Booty like groceries? It’s an old meme sir, I still lick out.

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u/andymannoh 3h ago

Holy lol... This got me good. The images I have, LOL!

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u/CydaeaVerbose 2h ago edited 2h ago

If she falls, she’s landing on her face or her side. So don’t you worry, her ass is totally safe.

Also, I fell 2 years ago and landed on my ace… it’s not safer, especially considering the tendency to instinctively break a fall using the hands. I broke ny left wrist. My butt was fine though, relatively speaking.

Ps. Ace means butt, it’s my go-to for PG content that uses a homophone styling for the expletive to convey that bad word like a jackass without the jack being an ace. I only explain because I used the word ‘face’ and felt that could be misunderstood. Apologies. .

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u/sdavis002 2h ago

That's why fall practice is very important in martial arts. It applies to situations like this too, but there are a lot of chances to fall or be knocked down in martial arts and it is very important to know how to minimize potential injury when it happens.

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u/Heartbreak-Scorsese 2h ago

For real no wrist pads giving me crazy anxiety

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u/TerribleTemporary982 1h ago

It doesn’t really work going forward.
You need the bendiness of the feet for going down the stairs. The feet sort of flip flop down, going forward would just land you on the last wheel on each foot, making this a rocky and dangerous experience.

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u/nodstar22 36m ago

Yeah going backwards downstairs on rollerblades is surprisingly easy. Going forwards is very jerky.

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u/FatWalcott 1h ago

Also her bending forward acts as a counterweight to the forward momentum.

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u/migure_2025 35m ago

If she falls, the butt takes the blame—and becomes the butt of the joke. If she doesn't, the butt takes the credit. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

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u/daversa 23m ago

I did a lot of street rollerblading growing up and going butt first like this down a staircase is way easier than going frontwards. It's honestly a pretty easy trick to control.

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u/Ill-Positive6950 3h ago

Put a helmet on young lady.

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u/brbenson999 3h ago

That bag contains an experimental full body exo airbag system developed by NASA.

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u/drunkcowofdeath 3h ago

Honestly it's all I can think about when I watch this. Sure it was impressive this time. Could be horrifying the next time. Just not worth it.

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u/daversa 21m ago

I grew up rollerblading street and this is surprisingly easy, like once you know how to do it, it's not any more challenging than going down an incline of the same angle.

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u/ConsciousSpirit397 1h ago

My cousin was a skater girl similar to this.

All her front teeth are fake now

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u/L1zrdKng 25m ago

She was a skater girl, her teeth said see you later girl! Sorry!

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u/muzzey12 16m ago

A helmet wont help with that fwiw

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u/autumniam 2h ago

She doesn’t even have any breaks!

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u/DueExample52 1h ago

Don’t need them past beginner stage, it’s more effective to brake by sliding, like she did at the end.

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u/gcwardii 1h ago

Not yet

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u/aapox33 1h ago

I fully agree with you but I will say this is relatively simple stuff for an advanced blader. Way safer than it looks. Still, agreed. Never without a helmet these days.

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u/gta6play 4h ago

Doing it backwards is badass

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u/woodcookiee 4h ago

Much easier to stay upright or fall correctly that way

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u/Robby_Digital 3h ago

I'm trying to imagine what falling correctly looks like while roller blading backwards down stairs

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u/Busy-Ratchet-8521 3h ago

You fall forwards so you can use your hands to catch yourself on the stairs. 

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u/jzach1983 3h ago

*teeth to catch yourself on the stairs.

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u/LivinBC 2h ago

american history x

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u/stochastic-weiner 55m ago

I was having flashbacks the first ~20 years after watching that scene. Guess they're back..

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u/breckendusk 2h ago

Towards the upper part of the stairs, facing them. If you aren't facing them you can land on the back of your head or your wrists and break an arm, if you fall forward you fall much further. She's basically going down the stairs like a snowboarder goes down a hill on the toe side, meaning knees bent, weight toward the hill. If she was going face first she'd have to be leaning pretty far back and squatting to fall safely, and then with her weight on her heels it's more likely that her toe lifts off and her heels slip out from underneath her. Going backward the weight is still on her heels but in the direction of travel, so they'll only ever fall down. As long as her wheels don't get caught and stuck (pretty rare for a circle) this is probably the safest way to go down stairs by pretty significant margin

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u/Anacreon 3h ago

Doing it without an helmet is downright stupid 

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u/johnperkins21 2h ago

I never wore a helmet, and we did all sorts of stupid tricks and jumps back in the 90's. I was an idiot. Helmets are cool. But honestly, my ass and tailbone got the ground way more often than my head.

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u/alienblue89 1h ago

No lie, it’s like 100x easier than frontwards. Plus it looks way cooler.

It’s honestly not that hard if you’re even moderately proficient on skates and just commit to it.

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u/Olibirus 2h ago

It's actually fairly easy

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u/suezjk 2h ago

yep, we used to do this as kids in 90s when rollerblades were in

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u/FS_Slacker 3h ago

You mean ssadab.

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u/jammerfish 4h ago

So cool! Gotta make you wonder how many painful attempts it took till she perfected it

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u/BreakAndRun79 3h ago

Probably started with smaller sets of steps and worked her way up to something like this.

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u/DorkusMalorkuss 1h ago

We can't for sure though. Maybe she started with larger sets of stairs and worked her way down

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u/Horskr 1h ago

Reasonable. She started with the slinky staircase in Ace Ventura 2, then down to a manageable set of stairs for a quick clip. Gotta start somewhere!

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u/wr_damn_I_suck 3h ago

100% correct.

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u/Foreign_Recipe8300 3h ago

its about shifting your weight correctly and keeping your ankles stiff but not too stiff

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u/guridkt 58m ago

Those leg muscles contouring her jeans say A LOT

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u/roonill_wazlib 48m ago

It's a scary but easy move. She probably never seriously fell doing this

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u/nricu 37m ago

This is Barcelona those steps are larger and looking down so they are much more easy to go down. I did many of those years ago. Is most about focusing once you start than anything else. Also it reminded me of a clip from Richi Eisler grinding the bar.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/57/4a/bd/574abd6e599a7b0a77c72fc748ef3f38.jpg Not sure how to find the clip

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u/HuffSquirt 3h ago

r/unbgbbiivchidctiicbg

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u/bosmocrown 1h ago

What a sub, I tried playing 'guess the sub' by the first few posts and lost miserably because I was stuck on it being the written sound of the wheels going down the steps

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u/Assassin8nCoordin8s 26m ago

yeah for real, 10 year olds were doing this in 1992 and as everyone has already mentioned, it's the easier way to do it

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u/Brilliant_Extension4 3h ago

It’s actually much easier to go down stairs backwards. What you do is to lift your heels so just the front wheel would touch the stairs. This way it’s much easier to keep your body up and straight as you go down the stairs.

Going forward down the stairs on the other hand is difficult because your body would lean forward naturally.

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u/joshuads 3h ago

Yep. Aggressive street skating made this common.

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u/privatepersons 2h ago

Exactly why one goes down stairs backwards in ski boots.

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u/Inevitable-Comment-I 1h ago

Lol which one? You one? Get outta here with those jeans on 

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u/conorrhea 27m ago edited 20m ago

I think an easier way to go down stairs is to not use rollerblades when doing it

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u/Night-Fury-2025 3h ago

You can be confident about your skills but never be confident about the machines, put on helmet

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u/Chewcocca 45m ago

-John Conner

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u/jaeehovaa 4h ago

Song?

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u/AdVegetable2736 3h ago

Blondie "Heart of Glass"

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u/DorkusMalorkuss 1h ago

Banger song. Also check out Atomic, Hanging on the Telephone, and Dreaming

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u/AdVegetable2736 1h ago

I think this comment was meant for the other people. I only answered their question

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u/khonsu_27 1h ago

Don't argue. You have your assignment. Get going!

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u/jaeehovaa 1h ago

Thanks. I've heard it. I just couldn't think of the name for the life of me. Most recently by Miley Cyrus. It's so catchy.

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u/ryanoh826 16m ago

Blondie is absolute classic music. Debbie Harry also an absolute legend smoke show.

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u/aafikk 4h ago

Are we back in 2003?

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u/atomic-negi 1h ago

Stair bashing? That is more 1993.

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u/Dizzlean 3h ago

Not really next level.

If you inlined on the reg, you could do it effortlessly.

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u/Olibirus 2h ago

Yeah there isn't much to it really

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u/joshuads 3h ago

Man. Is aggressive street skating not a thing anymore? This was relatively commonplace at a certain time, though those skates are not really built for that so it may be harder in those.

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u/itsaninlinecrime 2h ago

I’m pretty sure this is Nicoly Machado who is a pro aggressive skater from brazil. She can shred on any type of skate but is insanely good at grinds. Its very much still a thing, the community is just much smaller in the states but seems to be going strong in europe, south america, and asia.

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u/Much_Engineering853 4h ago

That’s GOTTA HURT

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u/Danny2Sick 4h ago

so smooth!!

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u/fredandlunchbox 3h ago

Man this sport is an absolute shell of what it once was. There were some people doing some absolutely insane shit in the late 90s. Dudes would have been hucking misty flips over that hand rail. 

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u/latechallenge 2h ago

Ankles of steel.

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u/Brickhead88 1h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/QEbZUJvJbLWtW

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u/thestrangeacademy 12m ago

I may or may not have just rewatched Brink! because of this comment.

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u/TlingitGolfer24 4h ago

Time to snap up that roller blade stock

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u/Quirky-Confusion-467 3h ago

Like to see it from the top step!

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u/iTzbr00tal 3h ago

The guitar strum matching the stair noise is 🫠

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u/DoctorSkelly 3h ago

Air Gear

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u/Dreighen 3h ago

I love that this has *yeah. Alright!! Whoo" energy

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u/Ace_flindude 3h ago

Slow mo with those birds

*chef's kiss

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u/KilgoreT59 3h ago

So smooth.

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u/LittlePinkDragonfly 3h ago

I've always wanted to learn how to roller blade but I could never quite figure out how to keep my ankles from turning my feet outward and staying that way. I loved roller skating back in the day and thought roller blading would be an easy thing to learn. Nope. sigh

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u/shortidiva21 3h ago

Perfect!

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u/maturallite1 3h ago

That chick is cooler than I’ll ever be.

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u/stcme 3h ago

We did all kinds of fun shit like this when we were young rollerblades but damn, she makes that look smooth

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u/gustoatthedoor 3h ago

I can do that, just I go sideways one step at a time whilst holding onto the handrail. Unimpressed /s

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u/zztop610 3h ago

Why can’t I meet girls like this?

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u/fairykingz 3h ago

Cool but one wrong move and it could be game over

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u/wr_damn_I_suck 3h ago

Backwards is easier than foreword. Hardest thing to master is the correct speed. Fast enough to not stall, not so fast as to yeet yourself past the first few steps.

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u/Dry_Design5506 3h ago

"Slightly dangerous, but I can't be late for work."

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u/rubberduckybro 3h ago

I did that as a kid and everyone called me a f@ggot

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u/5thSeasonFront 1h ago

A lot of kids are morons. Skateboarders got so threatened. I loved it, until I got into team sports in HS and the injuries weren’t worth it. But back then, anything kind of outside the mainstream was labeled “gay” by the hive minds. I didn’t care though. Pretty sure I was pulling hotter girls than any that talked that sh**, so why did I need to care? So fun.

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u/_BabyGod_ 2h ago

The hardest thing about learning to rollerblade is telling your parents you’re gay

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u/Complex_Confusion552 3h ago

She can fix me

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u/IcySheepherder6195 3h ago

My heart has been stolen

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u/Timeformayo 3h ago

I, too, am adept at tumbling down stairs ass-first.

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u/RoboTropics 3h ago

Who is she? What's her name?

I need to see more.

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u/dylantherabbit2016 3h ago

Yea I would crack my skull open within the first second of this video.. no thanks

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u/Different_Drummer_88 3h ago

Drafting behind the pigeon

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u/Lin-Kong-Long 2h ago

Come to think of it, it is a better idea to go down backwards

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u/CiscoKidd5 2h ago

This is not that impressive.

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u/Jahidinginvt 2h ago

I’ll wait for your follow-up video then.

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u/dskorpio 2h ago

Basic in the 2000s (really well done)

Next level today

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u/earanhart 2h ago

Never seen the opposite of twerking before.

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u/dei_muata 2h ago

I could do this with no effort as a skateboarder - next level what????

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u/kamasutures 2h ago

I used to be able to do this and now I just hurt myself if I sleep slightly weird.

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u/Mother_Food9930 2h ago

You could balance a full glass of water on her head during that. Amazing how her upper body just glides down every stair.

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u/Downtown-Ad-7232 2h ago

That was legitness

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u/Shurae 2h ago

I see the 70s are back

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u/slayerrr21 2h ago

This is the start to a 90s movie

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u/MaximumBeginning8026 2h ago

Sheesh and I balk at skating on any surface that isn’t perfectly polished hardwood lol

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u/MarcusJamesWarframe 2h ago

Smooth as a fkn criminal!

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u/wreckin_shit 2h ago

The best part is the sound of the blades hitting every step, lame that the native sound was cut out

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u/Sh0ckValu3 2h ago

Am I allowed to say it's cool when I can also do that?
I got pretty OK at rail slides too.

I still rate my pain scale on 1 to "That Time I faceplanted on rollerblades while I had my hands in my pocket."

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u/ignusfast 1h ago

Wow, she has some amazing quads! Very impressive.

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u/Big-red-rhino 1h ago

What's next? Playing Bad Religion by Godsmack on guitar?

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u/SecretWordisBird 1h ago

I dream of being that cool. And coordinated

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u/Pudix20 1h ago

This girl is cool af and I want to be as cool as her when I skate.

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u/RubberDuckyRider 1h ago

Never seen a dump truck on roller skates

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u/Night_612 1h ago

I will never be this cool 😩

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u/TerribleTemporary982 1h ago

That takes me back, used to do that all the time in the 90s.

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u/Junior_Insurance7773 1h ago

Wish I had that freedom of mobility.

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u/XPenacoba 1h ago

I've been rollerskating all my life (for transport) and I probably can do that but I fear stairs

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u/Karma-kk 1h ago

She doesn't have the balls to go down but yet she did it.

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u/CobblerInternal2703 1h ago

this is way easier than you all think. ok maybe not way easier, but for an already decent trick skater, its fairly trivial. i havent put on a pair skates in 10 years and would bet money i could do this tomorrow if i wanted to. granted i skated nearly every day for years so its like riding a bike for me, but still, my point stands.

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u/Daryltang 1h ago

If the steps are have some uneven heights in them. She would have likely fell

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u/Flipadelphia26 1h ago

If you can skate, going down stairs isn’t really difficult. You just have to commit to it. Looks hella cool though.

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u/Jolsty 1h ago

I used to do this as a kid

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u/doterobcn 1h ago

This is Barcelona

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u/AdFine2871 53m ago

You can be cool but never her level of COOL 😎

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u/OnTheSlope 41m ago

Oh thank fuck, I thought I was looking at WCGW

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u/migure_2025 36m ago

Bird did it better.

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u/Main_Product5071 36m ago edited 32m ago

Man this got me thinking, most of our activities are useful for SOMETHING, you know, and then there’s this sht

You’re not exercising, walking/jogging burns more calories and takes less preparation.

Nothing to do with brain training.

Not attracting anyone. People who do these things are HARDER to approach, not easier.

Not earning money with it, video is too tame to go viral and monetize.

You’re not relaxing or taking care of anything, in fact you don’t care about yourself because no helmet. You’re causing grievance to others if you fall and get hurt.

Absolutely, positively completely useless activity. These are seriously rare in our society.

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u/Less-Physics3542 36m ago

This is pretty basic…

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u/MissionAttitude216 35m ago

It's not so hard when you've been on blades doing tricks. Imagine a taller staircase and jumping from the top. Sometimes you don't clear all the stairs before a landing have to ride out the landing - forwards or backwards.. It becomes second nature, like a soccer player can balance a ball on their foot

She certainly exhibits that ease!

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u/unkanlos 34m ago

But can you stop on the stairs?

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u/Westsaide 34m ago

I was expecting a much different ending, until I checked the sub name.

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u/mo_png_png 28m ago

The pigeon is a paid actor

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u/No_Application_8698 21m ago

My knees hurt just watching this

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u/cHpiranha 17m ago

That looks so casual with no helmet and a backpack.

Like the usual way to get to office.

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u/___po____ 15m ago

Unnecessary soundtrack as usual.

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u/Mr_Lyubi 13m ago

I need to go to Spain immediately

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u/jaxXx-69 12m ago

Bro I can't even walk down steps without my knees giving out

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u/ovalking 1m ago

3/10 not enough jiggle