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REPORT | MILE HIGH BATTLE 2018

Be-MagOctober 10, 2018

As ever, the only sure thing about a street comp is high blood pressure. Here in Denver, a little over a week ago, Luke Bender hosted the Mile High City’s annua... Read More...

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COLUMN | STONER TAKING NOTICE OF HIS BODY AND AGE

Be-MagSeptember 14, 2018

Our columnist-at-large Frank Stoner recently skated for this short section with Michael Langhausen on camera. As a seasoned, meaning old, beat-up blader, Frank ... Read More...

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: A STYLE CHALLENGE

Be-MagJuly 19, 2018

Style is one of these things that seems to have baffled humanity for a very long time. In the discipline of Rhetoric, the debate has been going on for about 2,5... Read More...

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION | WE’RE NOT BROTHERS

Be-MagJuly 2, 2018

On Sunday afternoon I was watching the World Cup and saw the final shoot-out between Croatia and Denmark. It was a very tense situation because the goal-keepers... Read More...

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: THE DEBRIEFING

Be-MagJune 28, 2018

One of the patterns that we've all experienced now for (going on) decades is the ritual coffee, beer, Gatorade, Coca-Colas, beer, or smoking that comes after a ... Read More...

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: LANGUAGE AS SANDBOX

Be-MagApril 21, 2018

Over the last few years or so, I’ve heard the term “sandbox” being used more and more—particularly in tech domains and video game discourse. If you haven’t hear... Read More...

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MILE HIGH BATTLE 2017 BY LUKE BENDER

Be-MagOctober 5, 2017

The Mile High Battle was again a success this year. Luke Bender says that they had an amazing year filled with all sorts of entertainment and top notch skating:... Read More...

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2017 COLORADO ROAD TRIP BY ANT MEDINA

Be-MagAugust 15, 2017

Looks like this year's Colorado Road Trip was one of the best ever, as we'll soon hear from Be-Mag's Frank Stoner, who was also there. Ant Medina finalised and... Read More...

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: SMILEY & DOM’S BBQ AND THE RED QUEEN HYPOTHESIS

Josip JagićJune 16, 2017

Every summer “Smiley” Jason Mosley and Dom Montoya run a BBQ and skate event here in Colorado. It was designed originally (simply) to get the folks from Denver ... Read More...

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: ADVICE FOR GETTING A BLADE THING AROUND

Michael BayrJanuary 16, 2017

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'... Read More...

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MILE HIGH BATTLE 2016

Be-MagOctober 18, 2016

So much stuff went down in the past few days that we didn't have enough time slots to put everything in and write a little bit about it. The 2016 Mile High Bat... Read More...

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: THE COLORADO ROAD TRIP 2016

Michael BayrSeptember 4, 2016

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 ... Read More...

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: The Myth of the Blade Fam

Michael BayrAugust 16, 2016

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... Read More...

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WE NEED MORE OF ROSIE O’DONOGHUE

Be-MagAugust 1, 2016

Quite honestly, we need more girl skaters in general to bring more diversity and more different perspectives to rollerblading. This is a topic soon to be discus... Read More...

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For Your Consideration: Burning Questions – the Monday Edition

Michael BayrJuly 18, 2016

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 la... Read More...

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For Your Consideration: Tim Adams Just Rolled The Hard Six

Michael BayrJuly 5, 2016

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 ... Read More...

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For Your Consideration: Burning Questions – Part 2

Michael BayrJune 7, 2016

In the first "Burning Questions" episode, Be-Mag all-star columnist, rhetorician and cognitive linguist Frank Stoner recruited our infamous messageboard to expa... Read More...

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For Your Consideration: Burning Questions from the Message Board

Michael BayrApril 28, 2016

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 abo... Read More...

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For Your Consideration: The Humble Frontside (Part 1)

Michael BayrFebruary 9, 2016

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 everyth... Read More...

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For Your Consideration: Educated Guesses (Pt 3)

Michael BayrJune 3, 2015

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 kno... Read More...

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For Your Consideration: Educated Guesses (Pt 2)

Michael BayrMay 9, 2015

On the high end of my estimates, there may be as many as 20,000 to 25,000 “aggressive” rollerbladers in the world right now. On the low end, there may be as few... Read More...

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