Nike Killshot Roller Skates
6 Comments Published by Joel June 28th, 2007 in Clothes, Sports. Share This
Roller-skating used to be a big deal. In the ’80s, my small town had its own rink with a competitive speed skating team. It wasn’t something weird, either. People were actually proud when their kids did well.
When the roller-skating craze started in the late ’70s, Nike thought it could get on the fun train by issuing these bizarre skate made by bolting a pair of Killshot squash shoes onto a skate chassis. The whole thing looks so slipshod I wouldn’t be surprised to see half-inch bolts sticking up through the soles.
You can buy a used pair today for several hundred dollars, should you choose, but please don’t. Instead convince your girlfriend or wife to join a roller derby league and then send pictures of her in her uniform, complete with knee-high socks, to me. For a science experiment, of course.
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My wife just put a pair of nearly identical (perhaps identical?) skates that she picked up in a thrift store a few years ago out on the cub last weekend.
And by cub, I mean curb.
the running shoe style skate was the default design for years, which to me seems stupid. skates need ankle support. that’s why i endorse the knee-high wrestling boot grafted to a skate chassis for all rollergirls.
you know, i am having a roller skating party tonight, and i need some ideas for my outfit… any picures?
Wow… Havent heard of a roller skating party in years. But I used to have a blast with my school friends every Saturday night at the roller rink. Those were the days!
Oh dude, those skates are freaking sweet. I roller skate all the time, even sell roller skates online, but have never run across those!
Seems like they would be wicked cool to sport.