Dominik was and will always be a welcome addition the bread basket of bladers in NYC. Whether he is in the Bronx getting evicted with Shardy by his landlord, blading uptown with Nigel, or being a dirt bag in Bed-Stuy with Josh and myself, Dominik will always be missed in NYC. Okay, enough with the crying brown nose bullshit. Dominik came through NYC like a Blitzkrieg. After his eviction from Shardy's domicile he had the pleasure of finding a pad close to Josh and I with two very strange room mates. One of which who apparently liked to bring home random foreigners to watch movies or trash the apartment with. Haha! So when I had a room available in my place I told him to get the fuck out of there. That was the beginning of our little German experience. Always wielding some sort of point and shoot camera and sunglasses, Dominik is always down to blade or hang. What a funny "super hero" to have around. Thanks for coming through to teach us the ways of the Germans (Bier), introducing us to Sophie and Lucia – sexy German ladies – and just being the one we miss. Dominik "Fucking" Wagner, the German Champion of NYC! Wahoooo!
After my friends and colleagues from Hedonskate arrived late Friday evening we woke up to beautiful sunshine on a Saturday morning with a great weekend waiting for us. Instead of explaining step by step what went down during the weekend, I decided to ask Dominik Wagner, Jojo Jacobi, Bart Laubsch and Basza Takemura to write about some of their personal experiences from the event that was a beautiful weekend full of blading, good weather and friends!
Ever since the first rolling videos hit the market in the early '90's, certain releases – such as 'The Hoax' and VG installments, or later published milestones like 'Coup de Tat' and 'Brain Fear Gone' – have changed not only the way people tend to look at and think about the specific scenes and rollerbladers portrayed, but also rolling culture itself. Even though I think it's too early to say what long term effect the release of GC.1 will have on the rolling world it undoubtedly has heightened my expectations regarding filming and video graphic techniques. Adding the extremely high production quality to the skills of one of the best teams in rollerblading yet, the math basically does itself. The Ground Control team video represents the passion and hard work Jon Elliott and his crew have put into their dream, resulting in one of the most spectacular videos to date.
Welcome to the island of Falster! The island that hosts this years Danish Championships in Aggressive Inline, the competition that bears the honorable name of "Pony Cup". The competition this year was the pinnacle of three years of really good Pony Cups. The Pony has grown from a competition next to a horse stable, to a proper Danish championship involving a lot of sponsors and a lot of international rollerbladers attending.
Contributors from Be-Mag come from all over the world. In fact, one of the aspects that make this media outlet so successful is the joint effort given from the rolling world covering every rideable inch of the globe. Aggressive skating, while seemingly non-existent to the pop-culture world, has grown in leaps and bounds over the past few years. The dynamic has changed in so many ways since the early 1990s that each aspect in growth of style, amplitude, technology, culture, etc. has gone through it’s own little piece of the overall revolution.
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.
Gregory just uploaded this fine, fiiiine edit composed of footage from last summer. Mainly filmed in and around Roskilde and Copenhagen, it features Montre Livingston, Dominik Wagner, Christian Berg and many others. Looks like he also sneaked a little Cali footage in. So not really an Europe edit. Whatever... just check it out!
Jan Welch recently moved back to his hometown of Austin, TX from sunny San Diego. He's just posted up some vintage blading from Rat-Tail for the world to enjoy. Check out the Vicious bearings team video "Sleeze" intro.
Some more clips from this years Bitter Cold Showdown 2012.
Here is another edit from this years BCSD 2012 shot by Aaron D Schultz.
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.
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
