As 2011 draws to close, we can look back fondly on a year full of incredible edits. Hammers have been laid and creative lines have been laced. So while you’re recovering from the festive celebrations, crack open another can and have a look back at this small reminder. Here are the ten most popular videos from 2011!
Are you as excited about the new Ground Control video as we are? You probably should be. For over a decade Ground Control have been leading the pack in frame design and have become a staple in the rollerblading community. In order to commemorate the videos release we’ll be giving away three free copies in a prize raffle!
'Supervillains' is a short blade flick which sums up a whole year of filming around my hometown area in the west of Germany and some days in Berlin, Mannheim and Heidelberg. I'm dropping this edit on my birthday today as a present to myself and my buddies.
Photographer Stephanie Barthelmess set up a little photo booth at the X-Mas Jam in Hamburg, Germany last year. These photos are further effort of ours to make it easier for you to decide wether or not you should be attending this year's event which is going to take place this weekend. As if it even needed consideration... there is absolutely no reason not to go. Enjoy the photos!
The Be-Mag production 'Traitement' by Jonas Hansson has been nominated for the Adventure Film Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. The film will be competing with other adventure features like 'The Art of Flight', the most expensive Snowboard film ever produced, as well as the highly praised Mountain Biking piece 'LifeCycles', which also pushed production value for extreme sport flicks to new heights.
It's official: Gabriel Hyden will receive the next Chimera pro wheel. While this is a good thing in general, Chimera takes it to a new level and wants you to decide which design they should choose. Take advantage of this unique opportunity and cast your vote! If you don't want to participate in the decision-making you might as well want to watch the promotional edit Gabriel put together for this.
Here is a Razors podcast featuring the NYC Street Invite 2011 action. Edit by Phillip Long.
More and more edits are popping up from the NYC Street Invite. Here we've got an edit for you from the Skatelife.TV crew who were also pretty close with their lense to the action that took place under one of Brooklyn's bridges.
Usually ODNY wasn't suppose to cover this competition but a good friend was awesome enough to hook up the media pass. Immediately when looking at the obstacles, the NY Invitational sets it self apart from all other comps. Offering unique spots to skate like an old beat up Cadillac, constructions tubes, U-haul trailer, and a huge dumpster to name a few. Not to mention that this comp was very reminiscent of the old IMYTA competitions. The obstacles were all put together by the craftsmanship of Jose Disla & the C.O. team along with other NY locals that showed up the day of construction to support and offer a helping hand. New York owes such a great competition to the Bernal Heights Collective - a medicinal marijuana shop from San Francisco whom sponsored the events large prize.
One of the biggest and sickest skate contests located under a Brooklyn bridge is over and out. Alex Broskow is the man of the weekend taking home 5.000$ and the highly coveted title of the first NYC Street invite champion. One of our core filmers Sam DeAngelis is already going through 5GB of footage he gathered over the past weekend. To ease the waiting he comes up with a short trailer for the upcoming be-mag edit. Keep your eyes peeled for more gold clips coming out of his hands.
After reading a lot of awesome stories telling us why you should win this DVD we were able to pick out three winners among the best stories. The winners are Sebastian Banks from Denmark, Peter Neil from the UK, and Max Cortes from Sweden. Congratulations guys! We will send the DVD to you as soon as possible! Didn't win in this raffle? Dry your tears because there will be another prize raffle soon!
Check out which news posts and articles were viewed the most in the last week of 2011.
Beau Cottington is slowly uploading all his gems. Peep Razors' 2003 team video 'Closer' featuring Dre Powell, Micah Yeager, Robert Lievanos, Omar Wysong, Brian Shima, Jeff Stockwell, Dominik Wagner, Ben Harmanus, Sam Davis, Leon Humphries, Eric Perkett, Mike Albritton, Sandro Brun, Jona Messerli, Mike Johnson, Jon Elliott and more.
Peep this edit featuring Bart Laubsch, Patrick Ridder, Chris Berg, Dominik Wagner, Dave Benski, Gabriel Hyden, and Marc Moreno all repping Blackjack. Blackjack is a proud supporter of Be-Mag. So support the supporters and check out their gear once it drops! It'll be available exclusively through Hedonskate.
Round 2/Day 1 voting is now live on WRSuploaded.com with David Sizemore vs. Dominik Wagner & Kevin Lapierre vs. Mathias Silhan. You've got 24 hours to crack your votes until the next 2 battles! Round 1 Fan Favorite online voting: Jansons, Juul, Kelso, and Prell advance to next round.
E Z Goeazy comes up with compilation of all bails at the NYC Invitational 2011.
Check out this edit featuring the NYC rollers plus friends. New York will be hosting two big competitions within the next month, so keep your peeled for more coverage coming straight from the big apple!
All of these faces have been filmed at Winterclash in February 2011. These times, it was a less personal and more or less wider approach on who to film. Some friends, some strangers, some blading stars, some of my teenage heroes and some others. -Mark Heuss
Here we go with Dominiks section of the Ignition City Guide Berlin DVD.
D-Wag is currently in New York to work on a photo essay of the street skating scene in NY. Check out this interview he did with IROLLNY.
Here we go. Never Winter Jam III 2010! This year, the Never Winter Jam has been added to the Wold Rolling Series ranking. The event will take place on march 20th in Wroclaw. Once again, the top polish and european skaters will compete for the titl...
On the 18th of September the Revelation Cup takes place in the Skatelounge Giessen, Germany. The contest crew is coming up with a lot of specials which will give you an amazing time.
To celebrate over a decade of Ground Control frames, comes the film to define a generation. The UK Premiere of the much anticipated Ground Control DVD, a film by local Simon Mulvaney. The premiere is on December 9th at the Rampworx Skatepark in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Skater: Dominik Wagner
Trick: Air
Photographer: Felix Strosetzki
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Skater: Dominik Wagner
Trick: Topsoul
Photographer: Philipp Forstner
Location: Vienna, Austria
Skater: Dominik Wagner
Trick: Big 540 grab all the way to the pavement
Photographer: Kenneth Nguyen
Location: Roskilde festival 2008
Skater: Dominik Wagner
Trick: 360 over the fence
Photographer: Philipp Forstner
Location: Vienna
Skater: Dominik Wagner
Trick: launch to front fulltorque
Photographer: Alex Schneider
Location: Dresden / Germany
Skater: Dominik Wagner
Trick: Mute
Photographer: Alex Schneider
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Skater: Dominik Wagner
Trick: Backslide
Photographer: Philipp Forstner
Location: Vienna, Austria
Skater: Dominik Wagner
Trick: Torque
Photographer: Dominik Rietzel
Location: Berlin, Germany
