Powerslide Arise RD - Black/White/Red Inline Skates

Are you looking for a pair of skates to race in, but not quite ready for a low cut boot? Maybe you are looking something fast to cover long distances? Want performance without sacrificing comfort? If you said yes to any of these questions, it’s your lucky day. Powerslide cooked up something special.

Powerslide Arise is a new generation of semi-race skates from German brand. These skates were built from the ground up to deliver excellent performance and riding experience to skaters who are ready to make the jump from fitness models to faster ones. Forget everything you know about similar, past skates from Powerslide – Arise are truly a next level. Arise boot is of really high quality – their carbon shell is equipped with Trinity mounting, ensuring excellent energy transfer on push as well as precise control. Furthermore, the vibrations generated during skating spread more evenly than in case of two point mountings, making Arise much more comfortable to ride on rough surfaces. The center of gravity is super low, too. Overall, these skates are lightweight, great fiting and can be heat-moulded for further increase in comfort and precision. This is true not only for the carbon shell, but for inner MyFit foams, too.

Arise RD is made for those who look for fast and agile, high quality skates for skating long distances in both road and urban environments. To give user maximum comfort, Powerslide have implemented an innovative external cuff – it is mounted on just one screw on the rear of the heel, removing two side pivot points which quite often caused problems with ankles in high-cut marathon skates. You can quickly and easily take it off, if you want more ankle freedom.

The frame used in Arise RD is very interesting one. This Elite Casted model measures 270 mm and fits three 110 mm wheels. It is a lightweight setup offering plenty of speed, but also agile enough to give you much needed versatility and error margin while skating in the city. This is a perfect trade-off between fast but long speedskating frames and more agile, but slower fitness ones. This makes these skates a great choice for those who make the jump from fitness models to faster ones for the first time.

The Arise RD boot is so versatile, you can even swap these frames later for totally different ones and still have a fun and well performing setup. Use 4x90 or 4x110 frames and you’ve just made yourself a great inline alpine skates. Use shorter, freeskating frames and they will feel right at home in urban enviroment. Even freestyle slalom is not off-limits. Because this boot is compatible with all Trinity mounting frames, the array of options is super rich.

In the frame you’ll find new Undercover RAW wheels. These are made using the same famous urethane compound as regular Undercover wheels, but are made in China instead of USA. Worry not, though, their quality is still very high. The 85A hardness, bullet profile and excellent rebound make them real speed demons. They roll thanks to Wicked ABEC9 bearings, which are a very good trade-off between quality and price.

If you want to taste the speed offered by high cut speedskating boot, but are not yet sure if this is your thing or worry that proper, dedicated setups will be too overwhelming – Arise RD are for you. Even if you won’t like them for what they are, the path to change the frames and transform them in to a very different setup is open – and thanks to superb, customizable boot design, such modifications actually make sense.