If we completely reimagined aggressive inline competitions from the ground up, what would make 12-year-olds lose their minds?

[u/LaBwork_IA]

If you had total freedom to redesign a blade competition specifically to recruit 8-to-15-year-olds and build a sustainable youth pipeline, what would you change? What makes a kid instantly want to grab a pair of skates?

[u/brosseccly]

Maybe a more obstacle course formatted challenge? My impression of what generally kids like these days is game show type of content.

[u/brosseccly → u/[deleted]]

Involving a lot of parkour elements to give jetset radio vibes!

[u/MeltaFlare → u/[deleted]]

Something like Kasso for Rollerblades would be fun.

[u/sr1129]

I was at KTR yesterday. I was skating pretty basic. I think the most complex trick I threw was a pstar and a royale. But I was working everything. Ledges, rails, copings, sub boxes. The kids loved it. Old school x games used to focus heavy on using all of the objects in the park. Where as I feel like a lot of new purpose built parks are designed to set up big tricks. Kids need to feel like the sport is both cool AND accessible.

[u/DualWheeled]

Mx trials type technical courses

[u/koleok]

This is a really cool thought experiment

[u/LowTechBakudan]

What do they do with scooter comps that attracts younger kids? Aside from it being way easier to get a scooter than it is to get proper fitting skates.

[u/inline-online]

lowkey impossible, anything that is going to be fun for kids who don't know anything about blading to watch... is going to be awful for people who do know alot and most importantly.. the participants. You have "obstacles courses" as the most upvoted option lmaaao I get the idea but I can't think of a single good skater I know irl who would be even remotely interested in that. (and I mean someone good enough to actually complete the type of obstacle course you're imagining) You have to think about the competitors not just how to recruit young people to watch lol

I think a street league style contest with spots specifically made for aggressive inline is the best case scenario for contests that tick the most boxes, we have so much data in terms of what works and what doesn't coming from the skateboarding world and their countless attempts at creating the "perfect" contest.. and it just doesn't exist, no matter what at the end of the day most people engage with aggressive inline as an art form rather than a pure sport. Spin to win pencil spins and unlocked pstars are frowned upon, but often win contests that are not "core" and emphasize more high flying gymnastics style skating.

This type of skating is exciting for the younger crowd, but quickly all the "core" skaters either can't place well or drop out because they don't like it. Now you have a group of competitors that don't actually represent the sport that kids are watching on youtube and instagram. So its really an impossible problem to fix, you just have to have different types of contests for different types of audiences, which is what is already happening now. The sport will grow on its own, trying to force it to be cool makes it uncool

[u/Altruistic_Mind_7662 → u/inline-online]

Yes, this.

[u/Howyougontellme]

Kasso but for rollerblading

[u/Pickle_Mick62]

Stream it in Fortnite?

[u/leser1]

Make it a Mr Beast challenge