Rollerblade starts off a new era of aggressive skates for 2009 with their brand new Solo Tribe model skate developed and tested by their hard working pro team. The RB Solo Tribe skates feature a durable shell, a v-cut cuff with new velcro style strap, new buckle placement to lock your foot in better and a redesigned soul plate system. The new RB Solo soul system features the backslide groove in the 1 piece outside soul which offers a completely flat sliding surface for soul tricks. They also designed the system to include a 1 piece inner negative plate as riders are continuing to incorporate more negative grind tricks into their bag of tricks.