Forget everything you know about liners, wheel setups, soul plates, grind plates, frame mounting, bearings, wheel profiles and sizes, bearing spacers, laces, H blocks, color ways and power straps.

What performance characteristics would the ideal trick-oriented inline skate for expert rollerbladers exhibit?

Wish list

Durability: nothing on the skate should break [unintentionally]

Solution(s): Strong, wear-resistant materials: UHMW, aluminum, carbon fiber applied with intention and minimalism. As few mechanical/hinged componenents as necessary.

Replaceability/Configurability: any part that wears out or needs to be another color or material should be replaced with ease. Skates should be customized trivially.

Solution(s ...

And the LORD said unto Arlo, Roll up to me onto the ledge, and be there: and I will give thee tablets of wax, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. And Arlo rose up, and his minister Chris Edwards: and Arlo rolled up onto the ledge of God -

• THOU shalt roll upon two small wheels with stones between them
• THOU shalt not step to thy grinds
• THOU shalt approach grinds forwards or backwards with skates in parallel
• THOU shalt not touch by hand the object being ground before or during grinding
• THOU ...