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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...