Author Freddy White

Though there's no shortage of solid reasons to pay the extraordinary city of Amsterdam a visit, last week's USWA brought yet another piece of evidence to the case. Also known as the Urban Sports Week...

By any given standard, 20 years is a long time in the little world of inline skating. Half-baked ideas, short-lived companies & events that come and go, it seems like anything that manages to survive for a...

What a Sunday! There was so much blade action happening in Montpellier on the final day of the 23rd FISE edition that it was literally impossible to be everywhere and cover everything. In between juniors,...

Saturday is usually packed with action and the schedule incredibly busy here at FISE Montpellier. Not to forget the massive crowds gathered around every course, as 125.000 spectators joined the event...

More than half a million spectators, 2000 registered athletes and too many competitions to keep track of: Welcome to Montpellier for the FISE's 23rd edition! But who's really counting anymore... Perhaps some...

The French apparel brand Arcena has been at the forefront of the French scene for close to fifteen years now, and with an international team featuring the likes of CJ Wellsmore or Antony Pottier, they also...

After a little warm up in Saudi Arabia with their Battle of the Champions in March, the hard-working people over at FISE officially launched their 2019 World Series in Japan last month. For the second time, a...

There's about five hours worth of sand between Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital, and the city of Al Hofuf, located at the heart of the country's largest natural oasis. If there's one thing the hard-working...

Formosa would have looked extremely different if it weren't for Po-Tsang Lee. The unsung hero of the latest Cayenne adventure in Taiwan, Po-Tsang actually quit his job when his manager refused to give him...

Marking the end of the contest season, this last weekend might have been the most important of the whole year for inline skating. On one side of the planet, a true legend of the sport organized the 8th annual...

How much do you know about Bulgaria? Not a lot probably, although you might have heard about murdered journalists and nationwide corruption if you've been following the news lately. And chances are you haven't...

How a city of barely 40,000 inhabitants came to host one of the biggest action sports events in Europe may remain a source of wonder for a long time. Year after year, seeing the lovely beach town of Ventspils,...

Life moves in circles. And if the only thing that is constant in life is change itself, there is a delightful sense of irony in finding myself writing these words today. Sure, a lot has happened in the last...

After grey clouds came the rain: While the whole week had been warm and sunny, drawing massive crowds to the annual FISE World Montpellier, fate dealt the 2018 edition a cruel blow as torrential rain...

And then came grey clouds: With the weekend came the chance of heavy rains on Saturday evening too, and that probability played a big part in how things went for the Pro semi-finals. But with the weekend,...

Well, your boys kept on running: Here we are with another Live Update from sunny Montpellier! As we got closer to the weekend, the already crowded FISE site doubled its capacity on Friday, which is...

Aching bones and sleepy brains: Nothing that a solid breakfast can't cure, and soon enough your favorite team of sleep deprived reporters were back on track, throwing ideas and making plans for the day....

Too little sleep and too many things to do: It's official, FISE opens to the public today, and the people of Montpellier were already posted at the site's entrance as we made our way through for another...

The start before the start, the day before FISE: Welcome to Montpellier, where after picking up Latvian wonderboy and Be-Mag photographer Kaspars Alksnis from the airport shuttle, we took this first timer...

First, Belgium's Antony Pottier got sick the night before he was supposed to leave the country, and therefore had to cancel his whole trip to Japan. Then, the batteries for Maxime Genoud's digital camera got...