Razors Cult Brian Shima 1 Retro // Aggressive Inline Skate Review

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These are the Razors Shima 1 Retro. They retail for around $300 US. Razors released the original Shima skate in 2001, and these are an updated tribute 20 years later.
They’re built on the same Cult shell with the same iconic lacing system. The liners are based on the Reign V3HT but feature a large SHIMA embroidered on the cuff, just like the originals. They come stock with Ground Control Featherlight 3 frames with flat 60mm Ground Control wheels, and ABEC 5 bearings.
What makes the Shima unique is the lacing system. Typically plastic shell boots are a single hard material around the lacing area, making it difficult to tighten. The Shima lacing system is flexible and sucks your foot into the boot when tightened, which is a big improvement.
0:00 Intro
1:02 First impressions
5:22 Further Testing
5:44 Wrap up
Disclosure: I purchased these skates for review with help from my supporters on Patreon.
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@solidsnake4125 3 жыл бұрын

That wall with the razors, reign and throne omg that's so beautiful

@LeslieJones_RSTRCTD 3 жыл бұрын

The skates design looks so timeless!

@chilli-iceolive-abode2447 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like you upped the production value even more with this review! I thought the lines and animation was a really nice touch and it was nice having that blue backdrop at the end with some relevant parts. 🤟

@cateyenebula 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, the shelved background is AMAZING! The lighting is just perfect too.

@DirtyNoiz84 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful Blades !

@elpismi5811 2 жыл бұрын

Your grabs got a lot better.

@BladeGeeks 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice review, perfect length and all relevant information is on point. Thank you for the great contribution! BladeGeeks Germany

@scottmansfield6472 3 жыл бұрын

Razors the way to go,had the original Shima back in the day.🤘Been riding them ever since,just got the classic SLs & they are even better!

@thecount5559 3 жыл бұрын

Hey! New background. Nice!

@SoundForgeStudio Жыл бұрын

The memories that those skate bring back. I had these when that first came out as well as the Shima 2s. I also remember when the universal frame came out by 50/50 on that skate originally the Shima 2s had the GC frames I think.. cool video my guy!! Also my first skate the the razor cult back in 1997.

@gh0stkat440 3 жыл бұрын

Loved the 8-bit gamer music This setup with the anti rocker is the way to go

@patrickschaeffer9703 3 жыл бұрын

I'm riding flat 68mm in my Roman Abrates.... although, I suppose Aeons are a different beast. I will say, as my first pair of skates in a good 15 years, the Roman Abrate Aeon 68s are the best skate I have ever used in my 30 or so years of rolling. It is cool to see some throwback stuff for nostalgia sake, I wouldn't mind some Kevin Gillian USD Psirus' again.

@tornasukiii745 3 жыл бұрын

Making them stock 60 flat on FLT3s is such a weird decision I wonder why they even did that. They had to know how bad that was going to be for boot tricks.

@chilli-iceolive-abode2447 3 жыл бұрын

I reckon they just wanted to justify a slightly higher price for the pro model so whacked 8 wheels on. I don't know what setup the original shimas came with, but I'd hazard a guess it was a flat setup no idea which frame though.

@josephludens9269 3 жыл бұрын

I wanted these in 2001 but I was 18 and could only afford the cults.

@klisher 3 жыл бұрын

Music is good. I listened to the most recent podcast this morning , where was a brief thing you mentioned that made me think, you must have watched the 1st 2 episodes of Falcon and the Winter soilder. (green wizard) haha.

@BacktoBlading 3 жыл бұрын

Lol, busted

@klisher 3 жыл бұрын

@@BacktoBlading haha.

@Twonthedon Жыл бұрын

Man i wanted these so bad in 2001 I was 11 trying to find a way to just get the liner and put them in my usd’s

@sweyn8054 3 жыл бұрын

Crazy these are "retro" now.

@howiep5175 3 жыл бұрын

I brought cults in 2001. I hate the liner. But the skates were great. Now I wonder if I can still skate them after 20 years?

@BacktoBlading 3 жыл бұрын

I think the liners are easy to upgrade, but those old boots might not have held up all that well. Worth a try though.

@w1llthajawbreakder 3 жыл бұрын

Guessing you'd have to modify the soulplate if you wanted to put the oysi medium frames on here?

@BacktoBlading 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, a lot. Those things aren’t easy

@w1llthajawbreakder 3 жыл бұрын

@@BacktoBlading thanks for the reply! love your videos. dang okay..I might still give them a shot, I really like those frames

@ronnieronnie8549 Жыл бұрын

Are they light or heavy

@cyclopegaming464 3 жыл бұрын

What are the small wheels for if there dont touch anything? Could someone explain?

@user-tu5gj5nz8b 3 жыл бұрын

they help you lock on to grinds

@cyclopegaming464 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-tu5gj5nz8b like, would it be a Problem to remove them entirely? Thanks for the response 😁👍

@Danielson1818 3 жыл бұрын

They are called anti-rockers. You can use many different types. Some are plastic just for grinding. The problem is they slip on stairs or ramps when they touch. Easier to grind, but harder to skate around. There is also urethane. Those are just regular grippy wheels that are smaller. They don't slide as good as plastic, but better then full sized wheels. The best reason to use them is because they ride around better than plastic. Going over bumps, stairs, ramps is just fine like normal wheels when they touch. You can remove the inside wheels if you want. I know many people who learned grinds that way. Having no wheels inside is called "freestyle" frames. They are the easiest for grinding, but a real problem for riding around. You can fall or slip really easy without inside wheels. Hope that helped. Let me know if you need more info.

@chilli-iceolive-abode2447 3 жыл бұрын

@@cyclopegaming464 Yeah, back in the day we'd always just remove them which works fine, but having anti rockers can also help keep you locked on cuz of their position either side of the h block. 👍

@user-tu5gj5nz8b 3 жыл бұрын

@@Danielson1818 most anti rockers are actually really hard tho and slide well

@Mikefantasia22 3 жыл бұрын

So the " forward lift", in the " raised heel" of the shima is nada. Combined with the absolute largest shock absorber in the industry, you can only have a max lift of 1.24 inches. Its not the high heels or forward lean ppl make it out to be. I have my shimas set up with shock absorbers in

@BacktoBlading 3 жыл бұрын

I think it’s what people prefer that’s the point. Lots of people love something with a lot of forward lean. Just not my preference.

@jimjohnson9948 3 жыл бұрын

As an old school skater it really feels like "wheel bite" and the inability to do grinds without anti-rocker setups (which grants you literally like less than a centimeter of more space and harder wheels) is really a skill based issue. I skated for 10 years and never used anti-rocker except waaay back when I was compensating for the lack of an H block. Iunno. This whole area of rhetoric seems developed from the newer generation of rollerbladers....seeems like bullshit. More space to grind = less wheel bite.... Wow. Incredible logic. So land on the space that is clearly large enough to not hit the wheels.

@BacktoBlading 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely not true. Wider split can still have wheelbite, like these FLT3 bite more than the 50/50 Balance frames with the same setup. Video from two years ago having no issue with the right frame/wheels: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pq2Cf8mjv6yZnKc.html

@jimjohnson9948 3 жыл бұрын

@@BacktoBlading what I'm saying is that it's not about whether or not it "bites" more, it's about what you're grinding and why. If you hit a ledge, which is what you're doing to keep reviews inclusive, show me a topsoul or something with topside to show your skill at hitting a ledge. Can you lean that hard? Not trying to be an ass but I dunno if you can at your skill level. Everyone quickly understands its about how you bend your legs to topside a ledge. Same thing with H block, midgame "wheelbite". Like do a soul grind on that ledge from the right (right footed main for soul grind) and the angle of the front foot will be / that. I'm saying that the entire attitude that you need to "fit your skates to be better at what your doing" is kinda bullshit. People did this without it for like 2 decades.

@gazmo147 3 жыл бұрын

Newer generation of rollerbladers 😂 when I was skating when I was 10 in the late 90’s/early 2000’s, all the good skaters ( I was not one of those btw!) were running anti-rockers, the aeons i bought last year are the first skates I’ve seen in 20 years run flat 😂 why make it harder for yourself? This dude is not trying to showcase top level skating, he’s giving a review for the average skater.

@jimjohnson9948 3 жыл бұрын

@@gazmo147 You missed the point. It's about APPLICATION. Good skaters use anti-rockers for specific, usually street, applications. So I understand where you'd think that the "good skaters all used anti-rocker" if you were watching street skating videos in that era. Did you watch/do any of the other forms of skating? Park street, halfpipe? Did people skating these, or rails, or stairs, or many others need antirocker to perform these grinds? There are "good skaters" as specialists in all these categories. Again, Shima was skating anti-rocker at the time, so why didn't he sell his skates stock anti-rocker? Because Shima was a traveling street skater. Because good skaters know it's for a specific purpose. And now it's kinda been mythologyzed by newer skaters that antirocker is more applicable than it is.

@jimjohnson9948 3 жыл бұрын

@@gazmo147 90% of the problems of "wheel bite" on rails and other contexts built FOR rollerblading are solved by adapting your technique to the normal aggressive skates' H-Block of that era.