PHOTO REPORT: GHETTO GAMES 2018 Freddy White July 30, 2018 Articles, Competitions, Events, Featured 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,...
ROSKILDE FESTIVAL 2017 – IN LOVELY MEMORIES Freddy White June 11, 2018 Articles, Events, Featured, Hotwire, News 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...
ABRISS 4 TAGE TRAILER Josip Jagić May 31, 2018 Competitions, Events, Hotwire, News, Videos Just a few more weeks to go to the next Abriss Real Street Comp in Berlin. Join them in Berlin for a four day program starting on the 14th culminating in a street contest on the 16th of June 2018. More info on...
FISE WORLD MONTPELLIER 2018: LIVE UPDATE #5 Freddy White May 14, 2018 Articles, Competitions, Events, Featured 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...
FISE WORLD MONTPELLIER 2018: LIVE UPDATE #4 Freddy White May 13, 2018 Articles, Competitions, Events, Featured 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,...
FISE WORLD MONTPELLIER 2018: LIVE UPDATE #3 Freddy White May 12, 2018 Articles, Competitions, Events 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...
FISE WORLD MONTPELLIER: LIVE UPDATE #2 Freddy White May 11, 2018 Articles, Competitions, Events 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....
FISE WORLD MONTPELLIER 2018: LIVE UPDATE #1 Freddy White May 10, 2018 Articles, Competitions, Events 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...
FISE WORLD MONTPELLIER 2018: LIVE UPDATE #0 Freddy White May 9, 2018 Articles, Competitions, Events 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...
EUROPEAN SNAKERUN: NEW EVENT PLATFORM Josip Jagić May 9, 2018 Events, Featured, Hotwire, News Jonas Rogge, the man behind Berlins' Abriss contest series joined forces with the organizers of Amsterdam's Shred da Ground and the Copenhagen Blade Days to bring you a new, exciting event platform. As told...
PANNONIAN CHALLENGE 2018: COME COMPETE AND PARTY Josip Jagić May 5, 2018 Articles, Competitions, Events, Featured, Hotwire, News The Pannonian Challenge. Imagine a small skatepark located at a former basketball / handball court grow for years until it became one of the biggest and best outdoor parks in Europe, with all it's...
MIND THE GAP: BLADING FOR 27 THOUSAND PEOPLE Josip Jagić May 2, 2018 Articles, Events, Featured, News, Videos What started as a simple setup for a one-off show in 2006 became the Mind The Gap competition with 27 thousand people watching last week at the Kingsday celebrations at a music festival in the Netherlands. And...
REPORT: FISE WORLD HIROSHIMA 2018 Freddy White April 10, 2018 Articles, Competitions, Events, Featured Words like "amazing", "great" or "outstanding" get thrown around a lot, but when it comes to the FISE event which took place in Hiroshima last weekend, it is safe to say the latter deserved all of these...
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT – IN DENMARK Be-Mag March 19, 2018 Articles, Event News, Events, Featured, Hotwire, News On March 31st in Brande, Denmark something remarkable is happening: The blading competition RAM JAM is hosting more kids than adults! So far there has been registered more than 40 kids attending the...
FACES OF WINTERCLASH IN B&W Be-Mag March 5, 2018 Competitions, Events, Featured, Hotwire, News Take a minute to find yourself in the portraits of this year's Winterclash by Matthew...
BE-MAG E-ZINE1: 2017 TOP TEN Be-Mag February 16, 2018 Articles, Events, Featured, Hotwire, News Here it is, Be-Mag's first e-zine, announcing the winners of the 2017 Be-Mag Top Ten...
COMPETITION REPORT: TOO COLD TO SKATE OUTSIDE 6 Ryan Loewy January 28, 2018 Event Reports, Events, Featured, Hotwire, News Originally, the contest began in Nashville, Tn. It was still operated under the older event title of TCTBO. Though the name has changed, so has the location, and so has the day of the week. It is still a...
BLADING CAMP IS A LESSON IN FRIENDSHIP Josip Jagić December 23, 2017 Events, Featured, Hotwire, News The undoubtable success of this year's Blading Camp organized by Josh Glowicki and his partners Montre Livingston, Scott Quinn, Richie Eisler, Manon Derien and Mery Munoz again reminds us of the importance of...
COMPETITION GALLERY & EDIT: BLADESGIVING 2017 Ryan Loewy December 1, 2017 Event Reports, Events, Featured, General News, Hotwire, News, Tours A strong presence in the southern scene, Florida has produced a wealth of incredible talent, and with their 7th annual Bladesgiving competition, it doesn't look like it's losing any steam. Introduction:...
THE 2017 BLADING CUP PHOTOGRAPHED BY ALEX KLEPIKOW Josip Jagić November 6, 2017 Competitions, Event News, Events, Featured, Hotwire, News Continuing our coverage of the 2017 Blading Cup, Alex Klepikow provided us with another look at this year's incredible event held in downtown Santa Ana, California. Introduction: Ryan Loewy Photographs by...