BE-MAG AND SKATEPRO JOIN FORCES TO STRENGTHEN ROLLERBLADING Josip Jagić October 3, 2017 Articles, Column, Featured, Hotwire, News Dear readers, rollerbladers and friends, We are very excited to announce the next step in the future of Be-Mag. What once started as a simple newsletter evolved into a print magazine and your go-to source...
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: ADVICE FOR GETTING A BLADE THING AROUND Frank Stoner January 16, 2017 Articles, Column, Featured, Hotwire, News, Tours A few weeks back Josip here at Be-Mag asked a few of us to share some thoughts on what we think 2017 will bring for rollerblading. Typical of myself, I couldn't say much other than, "I think it will be...
SNAKE RIVER SPECIAL 3 IS FULL OF SMALL SURPRISES – A REVIEW Josip Jagić January 15, 2017 Articles, Column, Featured, Hotwire, Media News, News, Videos I don't care about being objective, I always had a thing for Midwestern skating, ever since Hoax II. Now we got that out of the way... Erik Bill's Snake River Special 3 film is like a tutorial on how to...
CHAPTER II WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO GO BLADE Josip Jagić November 14, 2016 Articles, Column, Featured, Hotwire, Media News, News After more than three years in production, making it almost as expected as the Fiction team video, Vine St's Chapter II is finally available to the masses, yet again showcasing the world of rollerblading what...
The UHL, Street vs Vert, and The Divide Amongst Them Be-Mag September 18, 2016 Articles, Column, Events, Featured, Hotwire, News Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the UHL Competition in Las Vegas. It was happenstance I caught wind of this event to begin with. I’d been traveling for the past 6 months now. Having made stops...
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: THE COLORADO ROAD TRIP 2016 Frank Stoner September 4, 2016 Articles, Column, Event Reports, Featured Usually, the kind of question you ask will co-determine (or co-create) the kind of answer that you’re likely to get as a response. When the question is “Will you marry me?”, the answer is likely to...
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: The Myth of the Blade Fam Frank Stoner August 16, 2016 Articles, Column, Featured, General News In linguistics, we have a term for the kinds of words that can mean anything. Literally anything. No matter what you look at, point at, speak at… BOOM, there it is. Unlike my normal articles, this one...
For Your Consideration: Burning Questions – the Monday Edition Frank Stoner July 18, 2016 Articles, Column, Featured, News Words by: Frank Stoner Since we’ve already divided up my little writing project into a few different posts, we figured ‘why not go whole hog’ and do this last one as a Monday extravaganza. In...
For Your Consideration: Tim Adams Just Rolled The Hard Six Frank Stoner July 5, 2016 Articles, Column, Featured For a long time, I’ve wanted to write a piece on the very strange relationship the rollerblading community has with the gay community. For those of us who grew up in the 1990s, just about every altercation...
ARE YOU THERE? NOT PRO AND NEVER WANT TO BE Harry Abel July 1, 2016 Articles, Column, Featured, General News At a time of uncertainty, expression will be (and is) as important as ever. In case you missed the news, something different happened here in the UK the other day. We voted to leave the EU. Why? The motives...
For Your Consideration: Burning Questions – Part 2 Frank Stoner June 7, 2016 Articles, Column, Featured In the first "Burning Questions" episode, Be-Mag all-star columnist, rhetorician and cognitive linguist Frank Stoner recruited our infamous messageboard to expand the range of topics discussed in the space of...
For Your Consideration: Burning Questions from the Message Board Frank Stoner April 28, 2016 Articles, Column, Featured It’s no secret that I’ve been in something of a slump lately when it comes to writing articles for Be-Mag. I’m months overdue on a double article for Smiley about the (misguided) notion of Family in...
Are You There? Popular Rollerblading and Progression Harry Abel March 22, 2016 Articles, Column, Featured In this article I would like to explore what a Rollerblading culture based in standardization might look like and whether this could have an impact on Rollerblading's progression. Firstly, in a broad sense,...
Winterclash 2016: Before it all starts Johannes Jacobi February 17, 2016 Articles, Column, Featured It goes without saying that this Winterclash is going to be a very special one to me. It would have been hard to continue and run this event without the fundraiser, so in a way Winterclash is all yours, more...
For Your Consideration: The Humble Frontside (Part 1) Frank Stoner February 9, 2016 Articles, Column, Featured It turns out that the humble Frontside is a rather complicated little scamp and much can be said about it—so much so that I’m going to have to divide up everything I’d like to cover about it into two...
Are You There? Doing Dangerous Tricks Harry Abel December 6, 2015 Articles, Column, Featured Throughout my life I have had a tendency to think that I need to prove, demonstrate or defend certain aspects of myself so that I am perceived as a "real" or "normal" human being. This thought pattern comes...
Morning Mood: Sitting at the Adults’ Table Thomas Riffaud November 22, 2015 Articles, Column, Featured The time has come for me to write something for Be-Mag. A blader myself and Ph.D student in sociology, I feel some of my readings are indeed worth sharing. As I began my thesis 2 years ago, some books and...
About love, hate and happiness: A self-reflection Johannes Jacobi August 17, 2015 Articles, Column, Featured A few months ago I stopped working for Be-Mag and handed on my position as editor in chief to my beloved sidekick Freddy White. What started with writing for German blading magazines more than 10 years ago,...
Are you there? Trying to Make It Harry Abel July 19, 2015 Articles, Column, Featured I'm chomping down on a bulbous British beef burger in a quaint countryside pub on the tail end of a bleak south west winter, plagued by an idea desperate to be expressed I hardly notice the grease running down...
For Your Consideration: Educated Guesses (Pt 3) Frank Stoner June 3, 2015 Articles, Column, Featured In the prelude to this series, I wrote about the difficulty people and cultures face when trying to restore their native language from brink of a phenomenon known as ‘language death’ once certain...