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Just a channel to show my progress in Aggressive Inline Skating and my 3d printed/hand made Skate parts and Boots. This is a hobby of mine and im using my new found passion again in aggressive skating as a means to build my strength and stamina up while doing something positive I used to do 24 years ago. 

I got my first pair of inline skates in 1991 at age 6 on some Toys R Us skates. after a few years and after being something I was clearly passionate about i then went on to getting my first 'proper' pair of skates with decent bearings and wheels that weren’t just a hard plastic skate from Skate attack skate shop . I got the Rollerblade GL,s. and I still remember how amazingly agile and fast they felt compared to what I had been using.

I then start getting into Aggressive skating at around age 11 in 1997 getting the Out Daisys as my first Aggressive skate. 

My next aggressive skate which I got from Club Blue Room (when it still had the Mini Ramp downstairs) was the first Roces 5th Element in Wine-Red and black colour way  in 1998 with the leather inlays on the liner and first dual flex plastic mould skates and felt like a massive upgrade from my Out Daisy skates with metal grind plates, terrible liners and tank like feel.

Club Blue Room had a tone of Aggressive Skate clothes/stickers pretty much everything Aggressive skate related, I used to love going there and seeing what they had new in.

My next skate was the Roces Khuti's a few years later, being the first Roces boot to have the Quick release buckle system.

My final skate before I stopped skating was just after the UFS (Universal Frame System) came out and was Razors first Genesys Boot called the Razors Murda skate from the rider Mike "Murda" Johnson. I remember how nice they felt locking onto grinds with a proper chunky and wide soul plate and deep royal groove.

I then stopped aggressive skating around 15-16 years old around 2000/01. 

I didn't aggressive skate again until 2022, 23 years later!

From 2005 to 2008 I worked at Club Blue Room (Centrol London Skate Shop) and for a small period got into Freestyle skating/ slalom / Street skating using a Salomon boot and a UFS 80mm Banana Rockered Aluminium frame. 

At Club blue room ive sold 100's of Recreational/Fitness skates to all kinds of people including Wheels and bearing and accessories and often changed wheels and bearings and generally gave advice on the specs of the skates we stocked.

During working their Salomon Stopped making skates. That was Blue Rooms main stock of recreational Salomon skates including the FSK range and we had a few of the ST Aggressive skates as well when Salomon just randomly seemed to stop manufacturing skate stuff completely and at the time put a massive dent in what we sold.

Back then Club blue room only stocked 1 or 2 Aggressive skates and only towards the end of my employment there did the new Razors Sl boot come out and they started to get more into and stocking more Aggressive Inline skates at the shop. I learnt a lot from David Whitehead, Raymond Lee and Don while I was there! 

I have a pation for making things and spent most of my 20 supplying Industrial and commercial cleaning equipment supplying and repairing all the equipment myself including Pressure washers, Vacuum cleaners and different cleaning equipment I no inside out and can repair and find faults in most the machines I supplied. 

After being made redundant in 2016 following an injury to my ankle my life rapidly changed. Im now trying to get fit and build my strength up while trying to fulfil my reborn pation for Aggressive Inline Skating. I also love designing and making the things I use so it was inevitable in designing an Aggressive skate for me to skate on. This is a hobby for me and Enjoy the new journey im on.