History Lesson

Be-Mag is proud to present to you The Legacy Series pilot episode featuring the legendary Mike Scott. The Legacy Series is a new video project conceived by Manuel Rodriguez @Manrod22 to document former and...

Article by Kevin Little Photos by Brittany Little On August 27th of this year we reached the five year anniversary of the loss of Bryan Bell, an inline skating pioneer. For those too young to have been a...

The guys over at The Blade Museum just published this wonderful article about the first Senate anti-rocker wheels ever produced, the Senate C-Notes and Bribes. Go over to their website to check it out, by...

Jan Welch got his old buddy Steve Steinmetz to digitalize the Jon Elliott, Jeff Stockwell and Chris Haffey split section from DBV4 Quatro that Jan filmed and edited back in 2000/2001. For bladers coming up in...

The short lived, only seven issues lasting Rejects mag created by Wes Driver gave us much more than we could have hoped in the early 2000s. Every issue came with a full rollerblading video, and each one...

Razors and Beau Cottington's Uncloned was one of the turn of the millenium rollerblading videos that made a lasting impact on the impressable kids that skated during the period. The filming and the soundtrack...

Oh man, the early nineties were a great time to be a little kid. Nintendo, neon colors, New Kids on The Block, Beverly Hills 90210 on TV. If you were a kid in Eastern Europe, chances are Beverly Hills 90210...

Maaaan, that $enate hoodie, one of the most sought after items in rollerblading. That's what style was about if you were a young and budding rollerblader in the times soon after Hoax 2 'Anarchy over America',...

Forget VG Rootz (not VG20), this video might be the lost Holy Graal of rollerblading. Dayton Coopersmith is a triple OG rollerblader, who skipped school to film for Hoax II, actually taught Jon Julio how to...

Every now and then you receive a message on your phone that changes your life. You always have to read these texts three or four times, because you’re so used to the breezy, meaningless crap you usually look...

Joe Navran is without a doubt one of the most influential videographers in the history of the sport, and through both the tricks & characters featured in his flicks, he single-handedly changed blading and...

This is by far not everything I have in my back catalogue. After scanning relentlessly through almost 1000 rolls of film or more it has been an amazing history lesson for myself.  Forgotten memories flooding...

If you ever checked out a blade magazine, chances are high you are already familiar with Adam Kola’s work. Over the past two decades, he has shot most of your favorite pros and his photos got featured in...

During its many years of existence, Be-Mag has covered many phases, featured a whole bunch of talented bladers, and showcased countless incredible tricks. We have always tried to give our readers the best of...

It was supposed to be a three part feature with one of the legends of our sport. That was, until Jeremy Stephenson dug into his archives and brought back to life a priceless gift. That was until he decided to...

For the third part of The Billy O’Neill Story, we asked some of his friends and people he worked with along the way about their stories, and memories of the times they spent with Fish. When you have people...

The talent of a great blader doesn't only show in the way they skate, but also in the way they present their blading to the world. Real skills often shine through the screen, and that is the reason why we...

On the verge of the new century, the print blade media was still heavily dominated by the legendary publication that ignited a whole movement. Daily Bread magazine was available in bookstores worldwide, and an...

Not only is Billy O’Neill one of the best bladers of all time, he also might be one of the best things that ever happened to blading. He delivered some of the greatest video parts in history, inspired a...

The Blading Hall of Fame was created earlier this year, with a view to historically cataloguing all the pro blades since the first Tarmac CE back in ‘94. Launched initially with 50 blades documented, and...