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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...