{"id":159169,"date":"2020-10-26T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=159169"},"modified":"2020-10-26T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T01:46:09","slug":"video-rollerman-extreme-downhill-rollerblading-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=159169","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; ROLLERMAN \u2013 Extreme Downhill Rollerblading Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rollerman suit is Jean-Yves\u2019s own invention, he was a student at an industrial design school in Paris in 1994, and for his final graduation project, he created the Rollerman suit. <\/p>\n<p>He wanted to create something that didn\u2019t yet exist, perhaps even something that filled gaps in gliding postures in sports, with a goal to enable the human body to move freely in all possible positions. <\/p>\n<p>Combining these impulses with his love for skating, he created a suit of full-body armor, equipped with 32 wheels placed on the hands, feet, knees, torso, arms, and back.<\/p>\n<p>It takes about 2 months to mould a complete suit, and the suits sell for $4500 euro or about $5000 US Dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Now even though Jean-Yves is known as the Rollerman, and the suit would be best known as a rollersuit, wheel suit or rollerblade suit, but the activity of using the suit, is referred to as Buggy Rollin, which is a term coined by Jean-Yves himself, but it\u2019s also known as body blading, roller suiting, and wheel suiting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gGaOMT677TM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rollerman suit is Jean-Yves\u2019s own invention, he was a student at an industrial design school in Paris in 1994, and for his final graduation project, he created the Rollerman suit. He wanted to create something that didn\u2019t yet exist, perhaps even something that filled gaps in gliding postures in sports, with a goal to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,49,59,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-misc","category-skate-roller-inline-ice","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159170,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159169\/revisions\/159170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}