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Though there's no shortage of solid reasons to pay the extraordinary city of Amsterdam a visit, last week's USWA brought yet another piece of evidence to the case. Also known as the Urban Sports Week...

  Former Be-Mag staff Freddy White pens about the wild history of one of blading's most epic events, Winterclash, for the latest issue of FISE UP. You can read the article...

By any given standard, 20 years is a long time in the little world of inline skating. Half-baked ideas, short-lived companies & events that come and go, it seems like anything that manages to survive for a...

What a Sunday! There was so much blade action happening in Montpellier on the final day of the 23rd FISE edition that it was literally impossible to be everywhere and cover everything. In between juniors,...

Saturday is usually packed with action and the schedule incredibly busy here at FISE Montpellier. Not to forget the massive crowds gathered around every course, as 125.000 spectators joined the event...

More than half a million spectators, 2000 registered athletes and too many competitions to keep track of: Welcome to Montpellier for the FISE's 23rd edition! But who's really counting anymore... Perhaps some...

The French apparel brand Arcena has been at the forefront of the French scene for close to fifteen years now, and with an international team featuring the likes of CJ Wellsmore or Antony Pottier, they also...

When I bought Nils Jansons' new documentary short / blade video Mind Your Step yesterday, I just went straight for the skating part of it. Smart move from Nils and both other creators of the video,...

After a little warm up in Saudi Arabia with their Battle of the Champions in March, the hard-working people over at FISE officially launched their 2019 World Series in Japan last month. For the second time, a...

There's about five hours worth of sand between Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital, and the city of Al Hofuf, located at the heart of the country's largest natural oasis. If there's one thing the hard-working...

OUR EDITORS PROVIDE THEIR PICKS FOR THE BEST OF THE YEAR. Josip Jagić Photo Courtesy of JJ End of the year lists demand from us to look back and settle the score, which is often burdened by...

OUR EDITORS PROVIDE THEIR PICKS FOR THE BEST OF THE YEAR. Portrait and Cover Portrait by Kaspars Alksnis    Disclaimer: When Ryan Loewy asked me to participate in Be-Mag's Editors’ Picks...

Thomas Riffaud is one of France's blading scene's best kept secrets. Not so much a secret, but Thomas has been more into showing other people's blading than his own. He's a great skater in his own name. He...

Formosa would have looked extremely different if it weren't for Po-Tsang Lee. The unsung hero of the latest Cayenne adventure in Taiwan, Po-Tsang actually quit his job when his manager refused to give him...

Marking the end of the contest season, this last weekend might have been the most important of the whole year for inline skating. On one side of the planet, a true legend of the sport organized the 8th annual...

How much do you know about Bulgaria? Not a lot probably, although you might have heard about murdered journalists and nationwide corruption if you've been following the news lately. And chances are you haven't...

The city of Chengdu has become a fixture of FISE, and this year again China will be hosting the World Series finals: With Mr. Joe Atkinson currently sitting on top of the rankings, it already promises for a...

You all know the team that goes on The Cayenne Project tour videos. David Sizemore, Chris Smith, Josh Glowicki, Chris Farmer, Richie Eisler, Dominik Wagner, Scott Quinn, Carson Starnes and Joe Atkinson, with...

Remember when you started skating? For many of us, blading was about the adrenalin pumping, the good times with the homies and not least, not giving a fuck about the rules or what anyone else thought of you....

Formosa is the third of the Cayenne Project series, started in 2015 by Benjamin Büttner, Karsten Boysen and Freddy White, with the stellar cast of the best skaters of today. David Sizemore, Chris Smith, Josh...