I figured the title would get people to see this, and I hope it worked. The reason why you get to see Stefan Horngacher’s Icons section is because he has been featured on the main page of the Redbull website, which is great exposure for rolling. So enjoy.
Hogie posted this insane Dustin Halleran profile on our messageboard. Watch the profile and think back to times when there were things like East Coast VG’s!
Revolution skate shop just put up a video of Dustin Latimer making a new groove for his Nimh souls. The video is pretty informative and you get to watch D.L skate. There is no downside.
Chris Haffey is going to be at Woodward West during Winter camp to skate, teach, & session with all campers.
Its the Perfect Holiday Gift! For the first time Ever, Woodward West is offering Winter Camp for inline, skateboarding, BMX, and mountain biking! You won’t want to miss it!
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Footage from Birmingham, AL and Chicago. Features the skating of James Beary, Philip Moore, Mike Buckalew, Jeremy Toney, Trace Taylor, Daniel Pope, and David Sizemore.
This year’s German Championships are very special. Some of the hottest events from 2006 unite and become one big festival. Be a part of the head-to-head runs at the Big Knock Out. Similar to the world soccer preliminary rounds you will have to battle every freestyle roller in your group. The top scorers qualify for the knock out rounds ‘til there are only two of them left to skate the finals. BKO prize money:...
Valo just updated the Oli Short section on their team page. The new update shows previous magazine covers Oli has made in the past, it seems not a lot of these magazines have survived, good to know Be-Mag will always be around.
The Conference just put up the latest installment of Knet’s custom skates. and this time we get to see USD Classic Throne Rachard Johnson, Sifika SL 550, USd red laces, Kizer Fluid Adam Zurawiecki, Rachard Johnson M1 wheels, Kizer Abec 5 bearings.
The Conference just posted up an edit of an event they sponsored, the Iowa River Rumble. The edit showcases some great skating and it looks like everyone at the competition had fun, so check it out.
Fred Andersson just made an edit for the Conference web page which shows him skating park in his new Harmanus CH1s. Definitely a relaxed park edit that came out well.
For the Dutch Open, saturday the 1st of December in Rotterdam, they expect a lot of competitors and it is preferable to subscribe already online if you want to compete.
Brett Dasovic just put up a great edit / review of the Razor Icon’s skate. The edit and Review goes through everything new on the skate, plus shows some things Brett does to the skate so he can ride them better. Along with the review come a great edit as well so check it out.
Mason Richard just put up an edit of him skating his new Remz 0801s and it came out really well. You get to see some street skating, some park skating, and a skateboarder falls, entertaining stuff.
SOL Crew, the makers of Cirque Duh SOL Eh? and Better than Baseball, bring you an advertisement for their next release, Mushroom Blading. A Trailer for the video is supposed to drop January 2008, and for more information click the link to their website.
People that know me, know that I love Oli Short which is why I was blown away from his section in The Rain. The section was just put on youtube, and I believe it is some of his best skating. Check it out.
Devious Distribution just expanded and includes Fifty/50 frames and England clothing. There team also expanded as well, now Leon Humphries will be the exclusive England rider in the UK. Frazer Watson and Ty Brissett will be riding for Fifty/50 with Dom West on the flow team.
Like every year, the organisers made a “welcomes you” edit for the X-mas Battle Royale. The riders list is now online and there will be a girls street competition!
The Conference website just announced that there will be a limited run of the new Ch1 skates next week, and those who do not act quickly will have to wait another 3 weeks to pick them up.
The first 50 orders will get the Clip DVD for free with the shipment. For now it’s just possible to order from Europe. For international shippings, please contact Ucon directly.
Kevin Dowling invites you to come to the HoHoHoes: 6 models confirmed this year….Dirty Show premier is supposed to be at an 18+ bar by Norcross…OhSnapKid.com photography will be on location all day snapping away….I think this is going to be a great year…good times indeed….I think its the only contest that you get to look at hot girls in next to nothing the whole day…skating…women…friends…nothing better...
December 8th is a night you all need to mark in your calendars and get yourselfs to Manchester. Ukskate skatepark jam in the day, Clip 4 premiere in the evening followed by dj’s and a huge party to launch the beginning of the only uk blade magazine in existence.
Avichai Wechsler from Israel came up with a sick idea. Everybody on the Be-mag messageboard can post a trick he wants to see Avichai do. Check out the edit!
The Razors 2007 U.K DVD is about to drop and features a lot of great skating, if you don’t believe me check out the trailer below. The Video drops this Christmas.
According to the Roller Warehouse blog Senate are still making T-shirts, and pretty good looking ones at that. What you see below is the Senate Old English S Burst Tee
The world premiers for Clip 4 have just been announced. The Premiers will take place on December 1st though to the 15th in varying countries, for more information look below. Click on the link if you need more information on the Berlin and Paris events.
Another great Spanish edit by the great Marce, featuring Conference riders Martin Benza and Jefferson Santana, Azur,Uani,Ivan Garcia,Cerro,Marce,Emilio Subirá,Net,Pulga,Iago Asorey,Cristina Bonilla,Raktus and more!
The Job Julio blog just update with pictures of some orange soul plates that were being put on the all white velcro T.V 1s. I am not sure if this is an official announcement that orange souls are going to be put into production, but what I do know is that they look good.
Revolution skate shop just put up a picture of Jon Elliott with the Nimh boot, and I decided to give people their daily fix of Nimh information / pictures. Enjoy!
Rollerhome just put up a great buyers guide that features many of the key rollerblades people may be buying this year, so if your in the market for a new pair of rollerboots check it out. The skates featured in the buyers guide are as follows,
Nimh Shima V1
Razor Icons Skate
Rollerblade Point 8
Rollerblade Downtown 4s
Valo Digital 002
Valo J.J Velcro
Remz 08ones
Deshi Ch1
Rachard Johnson Classic Throne. ...
Smooth and mellow was the mood of the day, and it’s also the mood of the edit. So check it out as Tim, Grant, and Nate bust some moves on this Lazy Sunday.
Skaters in Trowbridge, Wiltshire just got lucky as the council has started building their new £150k skate park.Opening date is scheduled for early December…
Jon Elliott and Brian Shima welcome the arrival of the Nimh Skates to
the Rat Tail warehouse. Here they are standing on one of four stacks of
boxes we unloaded this morning from a 40 foot container, which was
blocking a lane of traffic in front of our office. The first orders are
currently being packed and shipped and should be available in ALL stores
in the United States next week.
The Nimh website just updated with new that the new Nimh boots reached the Rat-Tail warehouse. The order are being packed and shipped and the skates should hit all United States shops next week.
Visual Minority, Canada’s web based rolling magazine, just put up a great article of the Toronto Skate Battle (TSB) competition that went down this year. The article features a design lay out and write up by Dave Ghent with photos by Will Pursell and talks about a competition that has a lot of history behind it, so check it out.
Tested by pros for years the Cult is the perfect skate for beginners and intermediate skaters. It features a replaceable soul frame, a comfortable liner with excellent heel support and fiberglass reinforced Nylon anti-rocker wheels. The backslide plate is replaceable and comes with a perfectly positioned groove for immediate out-of-the-box use. It protects the boot and is inexpensive to replace when worn out.
Marce from our messageboard just posted up a great edit of a Spanish tour (starting in Madrid and ending in Barcelona) that went down in 2005. All I can say is that Spain has some amazing spots.
After several long years of waiting, Outer Limitz
(the only retailer of Be-mag in perth) has finally re-launched
their website, check it out: http://www.outerlimitz.com/
Rollerhome just posted a link to an old ASA members only magazine that was written in 1999. The magazine features some interesting articles, such as a look at Jon Julio in 1999 when Runners Project was still around, and he had a little thing with Fabiola.
The Razors website just put up a promotional ad for the Icons team video and the skates. The short edit shows some clips from the Icons video and flashes some pictures at you of the skates.
5 years after GC’s Murda freestyle frame revolutionized the industry Ground Control took the concept to a whole new level: The Formula 1 Freestyle frame comes with a new oversized H-Block which covers over 80 % of the frame and offers the first true wheel-to-wheel freestyle H-Block.
This is an edit from Romanian visit in Poland featuring some clips from Hedonskate Team Riders: Mateusz Kowalski (Hedonskate, Chimera, Ucon), Mirek Ragan (Hedonskate Onwer), Jakub Olejarz (Hedonskate, Xjsado) and Przemek Madej (Hedonskate, Usd, Stygma).
Here is an edit made from summer 2007. The editor couldn’t finish the edit because he had some trouble whit his computer dont expect big tricks its just a chilling edit…
FHM just did an online interview with Fabiola da Silva. The interview is short and focuses on her skating career, plus you get to see some great pictures.
Freddy White from our messageboard just posted up an old section of Neou Men, from Kizer’s Outsider video. The skating is amazing people should definitely check it out.
Chris Haffey’s runs during the 2007 L.G Action Sports competition have just been put up on youtube, so if you want to see what a winner looks like, check it out
The Ucon website just put up an interview with co-founder Jochen Smuda. This interview gives some information on what people can expect in Clip 4, why Ucon moved to Berlin, and much, much more.
Since 5 years the Dutch Open Inline is organized by Skateland Rotterdam, one of the best indoor skateparks of the Benelux. They have a very nice course specialy for rollerbladers. In 2006 Skateland changed the name of the competition to Dutch Open, before it was named the Dutch championships.
Last year was a great success, with lot’s of international riders like Stephane Alfano...
Rzeszow Konrad Tomaka is a physical education teacher in high school. He organizes after school lessons in aggressive skating. To see the newspaper article check out the Hedon website!
Fifty-50 just updated their website with news that their new winter clothing line was just shipped to their warehouse, so people will be seeing it in stores soon.
New information has been posted about the Bitter Cold Showdown competition. This year the event will take place in February on the 22nd and 23rd and will be hosted at the Flow Skatepark in Columbus, Ohio.
Jon Julio just updated his blog on the Valo website with pictures from the LG Action Sports preliminaries. Some of the shots came out rather good, such as this one from Eric Bailey.
I just found another Colorado Edit. The skaters which are featured are: Danny McCabe, Chris Burlingame, Kevin Carey, Chris Walker, Myself, Ty Jones and Roilen Ivester!
Klas Olsson interviewed Gabriel Hyden for Midland magazine. Gabriel is one of the best rollerbladers in Europe as well as a very unique person. Check out his interview!
The Valo website just put up the LG preliminary results on their website. They also posted up video of Broskow and Bailey’s runs.
1st – place Erik Bailey
2nd – place Alex Broskow
3rd- Brian Aragon
4th – Chris Haffey
5th – Mathias Silhan
A new Vibralux T-shirt will be coming out for Black-Friday (the day after American Thanksgiving) that is called "Tape Jam". The shirt retails for $20 American for the short sleeve and $25 American for the long sleeve and comes in the colors of white, black and Khaki green.
This is possibly one of the funniest Halloween edits that I have ever seen. The edit comes from Mobb Media productions and features rollers from Ontario, Canada dressing up for Halloween and hitting up a skate park.
The guys from the Roc City Skate website have just put up a full HD edit / documentary of what Rochester, New York skating is like. If you want to see the edit / documentary your going to have to download it, because it massive size (117mb) doesn’t really allow for an embedded quick time video.
I found an edit about the German Masterships Inline Halfpipe 2007! If you don’t like youtube’s quality check out their homepage for the high quality stuff!
An Adrian Wallace edit was made Matty Watky, and showcases some clips of Adrian that have been used and some that haven’t. Overall, a great edit people should check out.
Kingdom magazine are in the process of putting up old pictures from past web issues. The first picture of this process is Si Cox launching a mute 360 grab out of a royal.
Aggressive.com has just been put back online. This is good news for people who remember the old website, and a good chance for people who never saw it to check it out in a new lay out.
Endorsed by the Razors Pro team the ICONS features the brand new Formula 1 frame from Ground Control. Its centerpiece is an oversized H-block for flat or anti-rocker set-up, which can be replaced by a Freestyle H-block(optional) to create a true wheel-to-wheel freestyle frame. A new patented technology provides the strength and stiffness of a one-piece frame.
Also new is the JUG Neoprene liner which features a super durable neoprene gasket and provides support and fit like a...
The Valo website just fixed a link to their new Clip(s) of the day, which features Jon Julio, Austin Paz, Soichiro Kanashima, and Franco Cammayo skating a park in Allen Texas.
Razors Podcast # 45 shows what went down at the SDSF Open. Not only do you get to see great skating from all your favorite pros, but you also get a small look at the trade show.
Two Taiwanese skaters known as Neo and Killer K travelled to San Diego via a Nike SB sponsorship from back home. I wonder if Nike SB is aware of the fact that skateboarding is not the same as rollerblading…
Brian Shima severely injured both of his shins and one of his knees. He most likely will have to go into surgery and be out of commission for several months.
Once again Rampworx Skatepark plays host to one of the UK’s premier rolling events SLAMM JAMM IX. As well as hosting the Rampworx Battle Royal where the winner gets flown to Germany for the Winterclash. Check the video to see what went down only on Revival.