Be-Mag Wrap Up: June and July

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From now on we will bring you monthly wrap ups about what has been happening here over at Be-Mag since we we're getting constant requests and people wanted to know what was looming ahead or they just wanted to have a wrap up of what happened. For this time we will give you a short summary of the action that went down in June and July and will give you a little sneak peek of the things coming in August.

Photo: Philipp Forstner. The Be-Mag Roskilde tour skaters wearing Be-Mag Fashion samples. From left ro right: Stefan Horngacher, Mike Murda Johnson, Brian Aragon, Colin Kelso, Sean Kelso

ONLINE
We raised the speed with which we update the website and right now you have 3 live update articles going on at once along new pictures each day, video sections, update sections and a lot more content.

Here is a list of all the Live Update articles we featured lately:

Heat Tour: The final touches for the team dvd
The Be-Mag Roskilde Tour: touring to one of the biggest festivals
A week in Lake Owen: Our look into the world of summer camps
The Japan Sessions: Be-Mag tours Japan
The ISPO updates: All the newest gear
The ATL Sessions: Shooting with Doug for Barely Dead
The Valo Europe Tour: The Valo team once again causes mayhem in Europe
The Genre Team dvd: Behind the Scenes

The new issue of Be-roll is also in works, here is the 2nd issue of Be-Roll, a must see:
Be-Roll issue 2

Photo: Philipp Forstner. Doug interviewing Robert Guererro for Barely Dead.

PRINT
Be-Mag Print issue 19 is out now, just in case you haven't seen it yet

We are in the works for Be-Mag Print issue 20 which will be the photo issue. Photographers from all over the world have submitted their best shots for this issue and we are going through those to make sure that this will be a kick-ass issue. More surprises and changes will be released when this issue drops.
Other than that we are also working on issue 21 already and have sent photographers to all the biggest tours and things going on in rolling. All of the live updates featured online were also shot for the print issue, so the best shots are still on the downlow and will be featured in the up and coming print issues.

Jero and Jeromy Morris relaxing on Lake Owen.

TOUR

Be-Mag staged 2 big tours in the last 2 months, well actually it is 3 tours. 2 regular tours and one tour only featuring our photographer Philipp Forstner.
Tour 1 was the Be-Mag Roskilde tour. For this tour we packed some of the best skaters worldwide (Aragon, Murda, Sean Kelso, Colin Kelso, Stefan Horngacher and Chino) into a tour van and drove to one of the world's biggest music festivals, the Roskilde festival, where we held demos to show youngsters from all over the world the skillz of the world's finest. Camera men were on site, the whole thing was screened live over huge videowalls and the festival was sold out, meaning there were close to a 100.000 people on the festival area. The skaters had extra VIP treatment with all access passes. The whole festival was essentially a big party zone, so watch out for the coverage in print about this tour. Before we arrived in Roskilde we had a close to 2 week long tour through Europe.

Tour 2 is the Japan tour. We decided to mix things up this year a bit and to go to an exotic place, from where you don't see constantly coverage. This was Japan for this year. We took along Jeff Stockwell, Alex Broskow, Jeromy Morris for the tour and Jero and Mike Choley where there to document this.

The so called tour 3 is basically our photographer Philipp Forstner touring by himself through the USA and capturing all the best moments while he is there. So far he made it to Philly and then toured the East Coast with Genre. Now he is in Atlanta and is on the road with Doug from Misled Media for Barely Dead. Next on the road is Cali, more updates following as he is on the road.

FASHION
Not much to say about it this month, we finished the samples for the new line, some goods have already been delivered to us, the big announcement will be late August / early September. This line is a lot bigger then our last line and it includes following goods: a beanie, several sweaters, different bags, jeans, t-shirts, longsleeves and a lot more

Photo: Adam Kola. Erik Bailey disastering the kink rail at FISE on his way to victory during the Valo Europe tour.

MIKE CHOLEY VS THE WORLD: THE BE-MAG DVD
Early this year Mike Choley (whom we toured with during the Eurotrash tour a few years ago) told us that he wanted to travel the world and if that would be interesting for us. Well this definitely was interesting for us at that time. So we decided to make the ultimate coverage fo the world through the eyes of Mike Choley. He has been in Colombia and Japan so far. Next stop is Australia and then he will go to Europe. All is being decided as he is on the road so if you think he should come to your place, just drop us a comment.