TLDR: Blading community good. Wholesome experience. (Story time)
So as an update to my last post (and some backstory)
It’s been 17 years since I last bladed. I had no one but buddies who skateboarded, so I picked that up and enjoyed it through highschool and adulthood, but stopped heavily skating when I started a family. Aside from the occasional “show up at the park, stretch and don’t land shit”
My girl got into quads, and would come to the skateparks with me to roll down banks, so I decided I should get some blades again even just to roll around with her while she gets confidence with her grind blocks to drop in. Then she dropped in and I was so proud, it reminded me of my first drop in.
So I go to fb marketplace and I’m lucky to find a pair of remz available in my size. I always loved remz but as a kid with a growing foot, my mom wasn’t down to shell out that much cash. So even after researching how many people hate the remz 2.5 I still grabbed them. I figured never having skated previous remz to compare to was good in this situation
I didn’t like how tall the mega frames felt on the skates the guy sold me, so I asked him if I could swap frames with one of the other options of skates that he was selling. He tells me “why don’t you take them all and just build a pair and give me the rest”
Hell yeah. I meet up with him an grab the other skates with my tools and go to a skatepark by his house so that I could test run everything and give him his stuff back the same day. (Mind you I JUST met this guy. So he was blindly trusting that I’d return the rest)
I build the remz the way I wanted, but for old times sake I tried the razors on as well (when I was a kid I only had k2s from academy and a pair of cult 7s)
Razors definitely felt more natural, but I had already ordered liners in hopes they’d fix my issue with the remz
Anyway so I leave the park and pack everything up to go meet the guy and give the other skates back. I was already planning on buying the razors from him just as another pair of skates sometime in the future, but I was gonna let him know in person.
I text him “hey I got my build figured out, I’m on my way to drop the other skates.”
He hits me with “100$ and it’s all yours”
(Not including the 225 I already bought the remz for)
So that’s total $325 for Razors SL, them skates 909, and remz 2.5. AND helmet and wrist guards AND some extra frames/wheels
I pulled over so fast and cash apped him.
So now I’ve finally got a pair of remz
I’ve got a pair of razors which is somehow so nostalgic for me just putting them on,
And a pair of them skates to bust my ass on.
Guys I’m on cloud 9. I drove home damnear misty eyed. I remember staying up late/early as a kid waiting for the fedex truck when I ordered my cult 7s so this was just.. insane to me.
The guy just made me promise to put it all to good use, and to go have a beer with him sometime. That won’t be a problem at all. Just seems like a huge sign that getting back into blading is going to bring a lot of needed positivity into my life.