Heelys: A Light Retrospective
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00:00 ahh heelys lmaoo
5:44 lmaooo heelysss subsribe
7:32 heyyy lmaoooo
tags: #heelys - Komedie
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Thank you Gabi, very cool
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@@Don_Dewitt😨😨
Make a shirt with some Heelys on it! That would be totally radical!
I like how you were like “I’m going to try to learn an outmoded fad at the most judgmental place on earth… a skate park.” That was genuinely very sweet and cute. Y’all did a great job, and I left a nice comment on Seth’s video as well.
Skateparks are only judgemental if youre getting in everyone's way. Other than that it's a super supportive community
@@matthewW97 I’m just taking the piss, I know over all they tend to be very supportive environments. I wish there had been an accessible one when I was a kid!
I don’t think I can handle the potential injuries now or I’d pop by one. A dude at Alien Workshop asked if he could trade me for me original hand painted first board Alien Workshop released, so I’ve got a newer board. He admitted he couldn’t give me anything close to what it was worth but he promised it would get a good home, so I ended up with a new compete deck and the frog stab deck signed by the head honch (who doesn’t sign anything). Sorry, I have nowhere in my real life to share this story so it just came out here LOL.
@@imdoneplus your story is cool! I hope that board is well appreciated in it's new home
Thanks mom
@@HooLeePhucingSheet I did not realize how that sounded until I just read it again.
my parents wouldn’t let me have heely’s because they were ‘unsafe’ but bought me moon shoes instead, a literal death contraption.
I've had both, and I definitely injured myself way worse with heelys 😅 with moon shoes what hurt was the immense disappointment.
UTUBETROLLPOLICE IS BETTER.
Oh God, I had Moon Shoes and I genuinely don't know how I never injured myself with them
Wow my mom was the complete opposite! I never broke anything in Heelys but I was pretty cool at school, I gotta say 😎
I wanted moon shoes sooooo bad when I was a kid. Santa never delivered LMFAO
Now I know why.....
If you think Heely's rejecting an offer for 120 million then selling years later for less than half is painful, Tumblr was sold to Yahoo for 1 billion dollars and was later sold for 3 Million.
May it continue to haunt the internet for a long time to come
@@brook_angel RIP Tumblr
@@orion10x10 Tumblr still exists and operates today LOL?
@@auliamate like I said; RIP Tumblr
@@orion10x10 wdym? It's still alive
This is like the "quit telling everyone I'm dead" thing
My bestie bought some for herself as an adult and kept rolling room to room, just to spew (joking) lame insults and crash as she rolled away since she had no control over it yet. It was the funniest shit to see ever
God I'd be straight up seal clapping, falling over on the couch or floor laughing seeing that, that sounds amazing LMAO
@@AsuraTheBass no it was so good I was definetly weezing lol she's comedic gold
UTUBETROLLPOLICE IS BETTER.
I'll love to be with you!
Gabi, you absolutely look cool in a helmet and elbow pads. Nothing is cooler than safety.
@ville2_ ville more like vile you're annoying 😂😅😊
I have knee and elbow pads just like yours, and I think they are cool!
No, she didn't. She'll still never fuck you.
This reminds me of that saying "nothing is sexyier than consent" (which both sayings are true)
That’s right kids! Don’t forget, safety is coolest! 👍
I like how you specified that skis don't actually have wheels after including ice skates.
Knives are nature's wheels
@@NimhLabs😂
I was one of the Heelys casualties 🥲 When I was 9 years old, I took my 60lb+ dog out for a walk while I was wearing my Heelys. She ended up walking (running) me and I face planted onto the concrete. 4 stitches and a permanent dent in my forehead later, I live to tell the tale
Tbf, the issue there wasnt the Heelys, it was the dog
I say this havin had a cousin suffer a similar fate when they wore roller blades and took a big dog for a walk... He saw a cat and gave chase, they tried to stop him thinkin their like 100 lb at most body was gonna stop that dog from gettin his next meal (yeah... This dog was brutal when he caught cats; bcuz he was raised as a huntin dog, and short of his owner rdy to shout the command to stop (with threat of force if not), that dog was gonna go all out on anythin he caught)
I dont remember how bad my cousins injuries were, but i do know they nvr walked a dog that size with rollerblades on after that
For a size idea, this was an older german shepherd of avgish build; on the old side but still able to pull his own, and my cousin for that matter :P
@SylviaRustyFae as much as I hate dogs (especially of the cat chasing variety), the problem absolutely WERE the Heelys there! The dog trying to run after something is to be expected!
But while walking a big dog with rollerskates is absolutely stupid and 100% the person's fault, with Heelys the problem is much less obvious, especially to a little child. You would think that Heelys would have enough solid contact patch to firmly plant your feet on the ground and stop the dog from pulling away, but what do you do when you're being pulled forward? Well, you instinctively lean back and concentrate most of your weight on your heels... the heels with the wheels! 💁
@@LRM12o8 I think that rollerskates and Heelys are equally unobvious, to the child, as the danger they present in this situation; the core issue here is one of the kids bein neglected by the adults in their life who shud be watchin them better in these scenarios and/or better educatin their kids as to why we dont do things like this, before they come up
My own biofam the reason it happened was bcuz the adults in our lives completely neglected us on the daily; injuries happened at least every other month due to their lack of care for us and just lettin us do reckless things like ride dirt bikes without supervision when still single digit aged
@@LRM12o8 And when i describe the issue of bein the dog, i meant that such a kid shudve nvr been tasked with walkin such a dog on their own; with or without heelys/skates. The dog is too big and **can pull** that child even if the child doesntve wheels; the dog is far stronger than the small child
I saw a professional production of The Little Mermaid and all the undersea actors were in Heelys and one of the eels totally biffed it
Omg please tell me that's recorded somewhere
Im such a sucker for this video. I lived in China when they first came out and I was some of the first to them & got them and everyone in the mall starred at me the first year of scooting across malls😂
Omg same. I felt like a cool kid ahead of their time when I wore my Chinese Heelys out before all the other kids did in 2004 haha.
@@liltwilightstar nooo wayyy🤣 woahhh chinese heely’s were the bomb
never forget the performance of Starlight Express (the musical) I saw a few years ago that featured every cast member on heelies bc they were portraying trains. Nothing beats a dramatic monologue followed by a sad heely away lmao
That’s actually brilliant lmao
Wait that's such a good way to do Starlight Express 😂
They’re normally on roller skates. Was this a professional production?
@@heatherduke7703 I know, but Heelys was a fun twist! It was a college production in Manhattan
bro a week ago i wore my sister’s heelys to my school’s homecoming dance. so many people i don’t even know came up to me like “holy shit i didn’t think those were real” and i did end up with some pretty gnarly bruises on my knees, but it was totally worth it. heelys 4 life
my mom only let me get them as a kid because i was super into roller skating and then roller blading, and was good, so she was like “yeah sure lol you know what you’re doing” but had me get the x2 ones because there was more support so it was kinda safer. i never got hurt in them and just glided around like home depot lol, but that’s definitely because i had been skating properly for years prior
As an adult in my thirties who picked roller skating back up last year... I kinda want a pair of heelies so I can finally scoot around home Depot like in my dreams
@@annasullivan2564 idk where you live, but around my city (seattle) a lot of stores, as long as you are not making a scene, they have let me inline skate in stores to buy stuff :) you should ask lol some emplyees dont care enough/a lot of ppl dont get paid enough to care lol
@@Nornwoo.inline I think the only reason theyd take much of an issue, short of unwarrantd assumptions of bad behaviour, cud potentially be the dmg to the floors wax coatin which makes it much easier to clean each day
But... Im prty sure thats more of an outdated problem nowadays and even if one were to scrape a wheel against that wax hard; it wud just do cosmetic dmg that wud come out when the janitors scrub the floors.
Ofc, this assumes a decent sized store; if its small enuf they may not have a scrubber and thus fixin that by hand may be a bigger issue and also, bein smaller they may worry about space with someone scootin around
I always wanted Heelys, but my mom never let me get them. (I had some weird shoes with pop-out wheels that I loved, but quickly outgrew.) My Catholic School bully had them. It was hilarious watching the wheels get confiscated at school. Karma for all the BS she put me through.
The karma you didn't see was all the times she ate shit learning to use them. Even my ex who was a sponsored competitive rollerblader had embarrassing and painful "learning experiences". It's like when someone who plays guitar thinks they're going to automatically be a badass at Guitar Hero. Except you get injured.
I promise she had ego (and ass) bruising blunders... even if nobody saw them, SHE knew... It's so humiliating and part of you knows they aren't as cool as you want them to be 😂 and THEN after enduring the humbling training just to use them she gets them confiscated, she must have felt pretty fucking dumb 🙃 sounds like she deserved it.
The guy who invented Heelys lived in my small hometown in Texas. I got a couple pairs for free because a kid I knew would help him with stuff from time to time. His garage was FULL OF THEM. He would seriously just give out Heelys randomly. One of the pairs I got was the best, most expensive pair that WASN’T AVAILABLE at the time. I got my pair and my friends thought I got a knock off pair until like a month AFTER I got them they were released. I was AWESOME on Heelys!
when i was in highschool around 2017-2018 i was in a small group of heely wearers. we all had different tools to pop our wheels out and we put in these professional skateboard bearings in the wheels. we were so lame but it was awesome. we were also high all the time. good times.
I unironically love Heelys: I got my first pair age 27 (they arrived on my doorstep so I must've got them on eBay late one night and very very drunk) I always wanted them and then I HAD them and they're brilliant.
You never ordered them, it was an immaculate delivery... You're the chosen one. The universe wants you to Heely
I work at a huge factory. A few years ago we had a boss who wore these. Dude was a ninja with those. He could be on you in seconds and you would have no idea.
😂 I'm a warehouse manager and seeing that would CRACK ME THE F UP 😂😂
When I heard JNCO jeans were back again, I got so excited. Then I went to their website and was reminded that those jeans make maxi skirts look modest. Jesus, what were we thinking?
seriously, I live in the pnw so 9 months of the year it's raining, they'd be soaked up to my knees and they'd tear from stepping on them while they're wet and have tears halfway up the calf. I think I gave up on them in 2000 and switched to vintage and dickies... which are also coming back.
@@roxyamuseddickies have been a staple in the skating community since the 90s they never went out of style
If you are old enough to remember when they were last in fashion, you are too old to wear them 👵🏻
Ngl… I had to look up JNCO jeans because I didn’t know what tf those were, only to realize that I just didn’t know the brand name of those types of jeans 💀
I was born in the early 2000s but I learned about those jeans from being goth/alternative because there are a lot of similar styles pants that are popular in the alt fashion scene. (Granted, they are much less baggy and less… strangely shaped compared to JNCO jeans lol)
But it also looks like JNCO jeans have toned down some of their designs, and they look similar to the alternative fashion ones I usually see and wear, so I honestly might get a pair for myself!
My best friend’s dad are fun of us when we wore them and called them ‘street sweepers’
I’m really sorry Gabi, but you guys saying that you got bullied so hard by teenagers at the skate park that you had to find another place to practice at was so funny to me 😭
I remember those back in the day. I used to want those too.
People want to go back in time to buy cheap Bitcoin, I wanna go back in time so I can flex my Heelys on the school playground
Petition for a heelys and gabi belle colab before they are banned
Also gabi if you see this I love ur vids ❤️
UTUBETROLLPOLICE IS BETTER,
Honestly thought they were😅 like 2 years after their release lmao proud tho that they've come far enough that adult me is still able to watch people who have them with envy 20 years later🥲
@@Picklemick33 don’t we all…
@@Picklemick33 i recently bought SpongeBob heelys!
You literally gave me a flashback to middle school with the LaLa Land and Secondhand Serenade references. I hadn’t even thought about fall for you in at least 10 years, but you better believe I belted out the entire rest of the song after hearing that one line
My little brother wore those to school everyday. As soon as he got to his classroom he would have to give the wheels to his teacher to hold onto until the end of the day. He just bought his 5yr old a pair. Also, skechers made shoes with two sets of wheels that would flip down from this impossible hard button to push. I had those in like 2002. More stable, less convenient.
Oh, man. I wanted those Skechers ones so bad as a kid. I had the ad for them from some kids magazine (Nickelodeon?) up on my wall. I never did manifest them into existence.
My parents got me the sketchers ones! The buttons were so hard to push as a kid! I loved rolling through Costco on them though. 😊 Thank you for unlocking a good memory for me.
Gabi... I NEVER comment on CZcams videos but I just couldn't pass this one by. This is a masterpiece. The sound effects, the commentary, the editing its all just flawless. I've watched your videos for ages but this one is just on another level I'm obsessed 😭😭😭
I really enjoyed the editing too! ❤
As a kid, heelies scared the bejesus out of me. I knew a kid who literally cracked their skull open from a very nasty fall on my block. Needless to say, I was very content with my rollerskates. Another product that scared me was the RipStick. How you could easily twist your ankles and mess up your legs while riding that freaked me out when I'd see people ride it. My bamboo long board was way more than enough for me. The sketchers shape ups rocking shoes were my shit though. Even though it turned out to be bad for you, those were my sweet spot for little me's rush of adrenaline.
Longboards are amazing. I love near the beach and we have a walkway that goes from one side of town to the other and then all the way to the next town. It's just smooth concrete all the way.
There was nothing better in summer than just dropping a tab with my friend and being able to skate pretty much all day and not have to loop or skate the same spot over and over
Edit: Omg, talking about ripsticks, I just got a short for these things called freeskates. It's the same motion as a ripstick, but there's no stick. It's just a wheel and a tiny platform and then you have another one for your other shoe. It looks terrifying.
Yeah wheely devices are cool and all, but I turned down the wrong street once and it was a 45 degree slope with a hard turn and a guardrail at the bottom. Wasn't able to form a plan to avoid crashing in the few seconds of accelerating towards inevitable doom and then I broke my face and cracked a rib. Donated my longboard to a friend and never looked back lmao.
@@Kraus- That's pretty crazy man. I always ride straight on to a grass verge when that happens, cause grass is better than concrete hahaha
I was super into rollerblades as a kid and got Heelys one year and wore them all the time when I couldn't wear my rollerblades. Until one day I tried to run to cross the street, forgot I had fucking wheels on my feet and ate shit in the middle of the road 😭. One of the most embarrassing moments of my life and hurt so bad. Still had to walk like 40 minutes to school wearing them too and couldnt take the wheels out since I didn't have the tool so I was limping and sliding the whole way lmao
I really should have just crashed into one of the cars along the side of the street lmao.
This makes me feel so much better that I was too poor to buy Heelys when they were popular. I injure myself in the most boring ways possible. These would have killed me for sure.
Heely's are quite easy to learn honestly and this comes from someone with no balance (i cant ski, ice skate, rollerskate or skate regular). I don't know if i'd still be able to do it now 20 years later but when i was 8 i caught up pretty darn quick with how they work. It's all about running awkwardly with it and transitioning into the stance that it needs with a little hop.
I'm 19, and I've legit never heard of Heelys until this year. I guess everybody is talking about them and bringing them back.
They seem like a gadget that a cartoon character would have when in a pinch.
im 20 they were the coolest shit in primary school
You are young enough, that you might have been concieved while your parents were wearing Heekys =P
@@NimhLabsknockin Heelys 😆
I was too old to wear them. I feel your pain 😅
@@hicknopunk you mean you don't feel all the pain you avoided 😆
I love that you went to one of the most well known/respected/influential skateparks in skateboarding IN THE ENTIRE WORLD to do this. It makes it way better than if you had just gone to the public park down the road.
Yeah, nah.
Don't oversell it.
Not every skater knows that place, nor cares.
@@thelegioncollectivefacts, I’ve been in the skate community for 8 years and know the top 20 worldwide parks through vids ect, not once have I ever seen that skatepark nor care lol
@@XxGamer42069xX ok, they run one of the bigger mail orders and have a massive pro contest people travel worldwide to attend but yeah you are right, no one has ever heard of it.
What park is this?
Im an ‘05 kid and never heard someone talk bad about heelys. I always thought they were so cool, and therefore good. I wanted a pair so badly
Gabi Belle's Pro Heely now available on PS1 and Dreamcast 🤩
I don't care what the reality is, I still think Heelys are as cool as I did in 2005. I saw a little girl wearing them the other day and holy moly she was the coolest-looking girl I've seen for a long time. As soon as Gabi started looking even slightly comfortable in hers, I suddenly thought, "wow, I never realised how cool Gabi Belle was".
I loved these things when I went to the hardware store with my dad as a kid. You can go really fast and far when you get a good running start on polished cement.
I remember owning a pair of Heelys and absolutely FLYING down Sam's Club aisles. I haven't cherished that memory in at least a decade. Thank you.
HOLY SHIT I JUST BOUGHT HEELYS TOO! My mom told me they were banned everywhere so I never got them until now. I’m 20
After begging my mom for months for them, I tried them out and fell once. Never put the wheels back on again. Child me hated getting boo boos
My bf is insanely good at heely's 😭 I have no idea when he learned to do it bc I've known him for 6 years and he knew how to do it before we started talking. He only uses them less now because they hurt his feet to wear but he used to wheel through the halls when we were in high-school all the time
as someone who owned a pair of heelys as a kid, and would heely around everywhere any chance I got, I am convinced its like riding a bike and that I'd be just as good...... realistically I'm like 150 lbs heavier than I was at that time and I seriously think id be at risk of cracking my head open
My mom, a pediatrician, bless her, bought me and my bestie heelies when we were young and even took us to skate parks etc. My bestie was seemingly a natural and j was never able roll ( bc i was too scared). Rip Heelys i was never cool enough 😭😭
gabi proudly standing in her helmet, elbow and knee pads at the end during the patron list is just so great. incredibly sticker worthy. 9:35
I think heelys had some sort of comeback in Germany a few years ago. A couple of teens at the youth center I work at had these and skated around the building for some weeks. I think my niece had them as well.
Loved you saying that wearing them felt like "you're about to fall over and break your skull open" cuz uhh.... that literally happened to me lmao. I still have a bump on my head from cracking my skull open because of heelys lol
How'd you fall?
The Tony Hawks Pro Skater special trick sound FX are totally killing me lol.
Being able to live out your childhood dreams is a special thing. Witness history, heathens. 😂😂 Also, I love the collab videos with Chris. His content is amazing.
rolly shoes
the good ol' knee slapper!!! I was so happy when y'all did this collab bc I love both your channels!!!
I used these to roll down the ramp at my graduation. Don't regret it one bit.
Gabi Balls does it again 👏
Gabi balls is crazy lmfao 🤣
UTUBETROLLPOLICE IS BETTER,
I used to wear them in 2010 or so.
The only case you can hurt yourself rolling in them if you learn how to do it by yourself.
I was assisted by my both grandmothers and everything was smooth. Two adults holding your hands really helped me.
For what I'm very thankful to them.
3:50 The fact that One is playing at the skate park just reminds me somethings will never change
Lol. I remember when these got popular. I had only been out of high school for a few years at the time and was working in the food court at my local mall (which honestly was peak young adult in the mid 2000s). We had kids wiping out all over the place and our mall banned them entirely within a year. Good times 😅
Chris James is criminally undersubscribed. He’s damn hilarious.
I was at the 2010 Chile mega earthquake, on a 20th floor I actually helped the neighbors to evacuate walking down the 20 floors on the escape ladders in the darkness , wearing my Heelys. As an adult fan of Heelys , it had them near my bed when the earthquake started, and as the light went off I couldn’t think much just grabbed them, luckily I had experience with them but it was crazy.
i actually had these as a kid and they were awesome. i lived on top of a huge hill and my school was also on top of a hill. my buddy had them too so we would race down the hills
My school was elementary school and high school in one, only connected by a small hallway that had three stairs on the right side, and a ramp for disabled people on the left. Obviously that was never used cause we were a school with like 300 students max, none of which needed a wheelchair in all the years I was there, so naturally the ramp became THE Heely hotspot before classes and during lunch breaks, especially since the small kiosk to buy snacks and whatnot was in the High School part at the end of the ramp.
It didn't need no two weeks for the school to ban the rolls in the Heelys, not cause it was dangerous or anything, but cause they left marks on that weird plastic floor we had, and the cleaning ladies complained about it.
Killing it with the tony hawk sound effects😂
My brother and I had heelys as kids. My mom would always send him to get the milk at grocery stores faster while I’d stay behind bc I’d be too scared of falling. Good times.
listening to all those natural harmonics at the end was the cherry on top that this needed to time warp me back.
I bought these for my 30th birthday because I never had a pair as a kid. The first time I tried to skate without holding onto something, I fell and sprained my ankle in the kitchen lmao. Extremely embarrassing to have to call in sick because of a Heelys accident. 😂
my elementary school did little mermaid as the school play. heelies were used to simulate the swimming, it was awesome
The editing in this video was so much fun! Also watching Gabi and her friend just goof around was great 🎉
I had a knockoff that had another slightly smaller wheel at the front so you didnt have to balance on your heels. It seemed less cool since there was two wheels but it was pretty easy to just skate as you pleased. I grew out of em pretty fast unfortunately...
I had heelys as a kid and genuinely enjoyed them after figuring out how to not be unstable, but having to carry around the inserts that made them into normal shoes when you needed to walk as well as the tool for swapping the wheels and inserts was so impractical. They were great fun, but they were eventually replaced with regular shoes that are far more sensible for everyday use. I would get another pair now as an adult if I could think of any situation where I would actually use them and could justify the price
5:30 small misspoke phrase. This was a great video! Thanks for the retrospective.
This is so funny because I actually got heelys when they first were popular but I was in my early 20s. I worked in a campus environment where I had to travel between buildings all the time. I would heely around without a care in the world. Had no idea they were considered dangerous or that they were banned everywhere. A friend gave them to me as a gift and I wore them all the time until they wore out, and then I could never find another pair. I thought they were great for getting around the large campus I worked at.
One of my best friends rolled across the stage at graduation in heelys. I hope heelys make a come back.
I love how u just lean into ur weaknesses. It's so brave of you
All through highschool, i met former wheeliers who still had wheelie shoes, but they had the wheels long since removed.
Though one person kept their wheels on their person and popped them on as soon as the final bell rang. Youd see him sliding through the crowd every so often.
My friends got me heelys for my 18th birthday last year! And i absolutely love them! I couldn't use them for the first couple months because it always rains where i live. But you can bet your ass that as soon as the weather started clearing up, I used them at any change I got. I legitimately started wearing them at my high school lmao. And at first I was scared people would think I was weird, but I genuinely got positive reactions from students and teachers. 10/10 I love my heelys and I love wearing them at any chance I get :))
Only gabi can pull off mentioning the sponsor like 5 times in a 10 minute long video and still make it entertaining
Back in the day I got my s8n Heely's and he was a natural 🤣 He even bought himself a pair after he was an adult 😁
Nothing makes me feel more 50+ years old than watching you guys with wheels between the soles of your shoes and the earth...In whatever configuration those wheels happen to be. Skateboards, in-lines, scooters, Heely's.
Doesn't matter, it all makes every one of my old injuries hurt.
1:25 the candle on bouth ends got me.
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Heelys were great at school because they rolled really easily on smooth floors... Like in school hallways. I really liked roller-blading when I was in elementary school, so i found it pretty natural to pick up and did it at school (around 5th to 8th grade) whenever i could get away with it... Which was not very often. The worst part was having to walk on my toes.
That scooter kid @3:50 is the most skatepark thing I’ve ever seen
I had a pair as a kid and adored them. Can't remember how long it took me to learn to use them, but on days when I used them constantly, my shins hurt like hell from keeping my toes pointed up off the ground. And cleaning out the wheels to make sure they didn't jam was pretty annoying. I was devastated when I outgrew them, by which point they were super worn out. Never had an accident with them, and they were probably one of the least dangerous things I did as a kid tbh.
I purchased a pair of heelys as an adult and use them all the time as an efficient way to navigate grocery stores and airports. Glad to see the heelys awareness
I remember when I got my wheels taken away when i skated down the isle of the bus .🤣🤣 I looooved heeles.
Definitely the best video in my opinion. The awkwardness, the 2000s emo, the nearly fatal catastrophes. Great video.
that =3 transition brought a smile to my face
I had the grind plate shoes. Those were pretty fun and easy enough for me since I used skates often.
Those you could only use them for small grinds because no wheels at the end with to much speed would cause you to eat it.
Heely’s are AMAZING, and are made in up to and including giant full grown man feet size. I use my black ones in the office. Perfect for those carpets!
I actually bought a pair of these about 2 years ago when I had them as a kid. I still instinctively remembered how to use them. That is now an ancencestral blood memory.
I live in Norway and I remember heelys being popular here in 2010-2015 ish. Quite a while after America, and under new company owners. If the same thing is occuring elsewhere, I can see where they still get revenue from. The ones I had were a kind with two wheels, in a vertical line like rollerblades kind of. I cannot imagine how hard it must have been to balance with only one wheel. It was also cool to take out the wheels and walk around in them, but that freaking hurt your heels so bad.. I really do hope this trend never comes back, but like all others it probably will.
my sister suprised me with heelys from a reseller and, at 21 years old, i'm obsessed with them
One of my most painful childhood memories is I always had big feet and heelys in the stores near me were only in small sizes (I was in 4th grade and used shoes size 43-11 american), by the time my parents caved in and got me some that actually fit, the trend was dead and with my first fall i just didnt use them again
This vid is just too adorkable!
If any of y’all have ever heard of WGI and a group called Gateway percussion in 2018 we had a whole show called “The Push” were the drumline had to play our whole show in heelys and we had a couple parts where we were playing and skating together choreographicly. Needless to say that shit was fuckin hard
I remember Heelys. The sad part is that I was about 10 years too old for them, but I had sneakers with LEDs as kid in the early-mid 90's.
Great, now I'm depressed again. And I want Heelys.
i literally have been considering doing exactly this, and this video makes me so happy
I did the same thing. Bought heelys in a fit of nostalgia without doing any research, tried them once, realized how hard they were to use and how dangerous they were, and I haven't put the wheels in since
The sound effects in this vid made me so happy
my sister bought some heelys a few years ago, and wore them to school, and a teacher saw her and bought some of his own to skate around the school in
Heelys are practical! I love using mine at the airport or mall
I remember these being huge for a bit when I was in elementary school circa 2003, I had a couple pairs (one had a “grind plate”) and got pretty damn good at them. I mean I skated, biked, etc even rollerbladed (on the dl) and so it just seemed natural at the time. I’m surprised I never got seriously hurt, I biffed it hard a couple times but nothing serious. My younger (2 years) brother (but close friend since we met) was constantly eating it… poor bastard… He was good at it overall though. I think being from an affluent suburb of LA (Los Angeles not Louisiana) is why I seem to remember every pop culture trend arriving way sooner than most people I know/read about online (especially as kid before the internet was like now or maybe I was too young because every adult/teen had laptops and there was at least one desktop in every home. Anyway I’m a late millennial for reference.
truly great camera work in this video
Where I live, this was also a time where shoes with built-in retractable roller skates were also a thing. I went with Heelys because they were lighter and more versatile. I enjoyed a few good years riding through the mall with those babies.
I have a feeling these will come back, i never got them, but I need them. I NEED THEM.