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Childs Play - The Wheels Of Doom Kite Skates |
 | | Usually it's the people standing up who get all the attention, but Childs noticed that at kite festivals he attended it was the sitters - the buggy pilots - who were hogging the limelight, while he and other roller-kiters skated in obscurity along the asphalt perimeter. |
 | | Childs looked at grass skis, a la Steve Shapson, "but when the wind's cranking, he's going about two mile per hour." Childs looked at the German platform skates, ski boots fixed to a large wheel front and back, "but they were too cumbersome," he says. |
 | | In January Childs made a trip to the Buggy Boogie Thang on Ivanpah Dry Lake in Nevada, where he showed off his skates for the world's top buggy pilots and clocked the fastest speed on the lake. |
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