Heelys: A Light Retrospective

MY GOOD PAL CHRIS: @ChrisJamesTV

━SOCIALS━

━COMMUNITY━

━MUSIC━

━BUSINESS━
━CHAPTERS━
00:00 ahh heelys lmaoo
5:44 lmaooo heelysss subsribe
7:32 heyyy lmaoooo

tags: #heelys

[imdoneplus]

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.

[sophiejohnson]

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

[sonie]

my parents wouldn’t let me have heely’s because they were ‘unsafe’ but bought me moon shoes instead, a literal death contraption.

[orionx]

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.

[rileyri]

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

[TheBestcommentor]

I like how you specified that skis don't actually have wheels after including ice skates.

[paulstrife]

Gabi, you absolutely look cool in a helmet and elbow pads. Nothing is cooler than safety.

[jennarhodes]

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

[willmax]

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😂

[EmilyImperfectly]

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

[stvsmbb]

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

[J-Rod]

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!

[gothcsm]

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 😭

[cyrus]

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

[ThePrettyTomboy]

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. 😂

[nerdoftheatre]

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.

[scotchbox]

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.

[ryhen]

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.

[ehrenloudermilk]

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.

[LilaTheMoo]

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?