Coco Sanchez x Jaren Grob (All Wheels Sports).

“Saw it. Had to do it”. - Michael Braud. Original shot of the Roller Warehouse cover. Photo: Sean Keane. Original post & larger picture on Facebook.

Fester Wheels Pro Billy O’Neill passing thru the Gates of Hell in Arizona.

Billy O’Neill – Fishbrain (Gates of Hell, AZ). Photo: Revolutionskate.

Aaron Feinberg - Mindgame Hammer Pro Wheel: Will like a hammer. Steady. Persistent. Never Hesitating. Never Bending. Only Doing.

The Hammer visiting an old friend. Photo: Brian Konoske. Visit Konoske.com.

Who is Mark Korte and what does he have to do with rollerblading?

I can basically answer that by saying… I am the USD Enforcer, one of the founders of the Stretch Crew, and a Powerslide veteran… since a lot of kids might not know what in the hell that means, I will break it down.

I came to be part of USD in the late part of ‘98, when the team was Arlo Eisenberg, Champion Baumstimler, Dustin Latimer, Jon Julio, and Josh Petty. At the time I was only hired by Powerslide to push papers, but that changed after a week or so.

To make a long story short, I had found my calling. I got to know all of the USD team (which was going through a transition period, much like we are now) and I ended up being the filter between the company and the team; I might even go as far as to say the glue, and at the same time I was the International Sales Manager at Powerslide.

So I was able to combine all of that into helping make USD (and The Conference Brands that followed) the hottest thing available. During this period, of which I am very proud to be a part of, we had the undisputed best team in Rolling, I built a worldwide flow team to rival all others at the time, and worked with distributors in over 40 countries building USD.

I was very adament about everything having structure, and working with the best team of rollers in the world has moulded my personality to this day, and I am grateful to each and every one who ever rolled for USD. […]

Full Interview on Oneblademag.com.
Originally posted on Believeinone.com | backup on Archive.org.

Rollerblading’s Angelina, Fabiola Da Silva is doing vert shows (and getting this high). All this summer at Six Flags Magic Mountain. She is a part of Matt Hoffman’s “Danger Defying Daredevils” stunt show. I would say something about the name but apparently, they ride 2 motorcycles at a time in that Mad Max lookin’ sphere-cage. Via fifty-50.com (post on Archive.org).

Quoting Doug Urquhart:

I have been shooting for Black Market II : Barely Dead for a little over a month so far. This new flick is a documentary about the history of skating. Featuring interviews with Arlo Eisenberg, Mike Opalek, Jess Dyrenforth, Jon Elliott, Brian Shima, Chris Haffey, Shane Coburn + more!

All the skating content is shot on super 16mm motion picture film. Below are a few still frames from my recent California trip. These are freeze frames from the film transfer to HDCAM 1920×1080 10-bit uncompressed files… I have cut the file size to 50% of those dimensions so that they will be visable on your monitors.

Just remember… still frames don’t do much justice for how smooth & organic the film looks in motion! Also, all these shots were filmed at 48fps… so they are all true slow-motion… - Doug Urquhart.

Get ready for a full-blown trailer being released during Super Hick 2006 (first weekend of May).

Up: Backside Royal at the Nokia FISE, Photo: NicoBoozer.

Nicoboozer updated his website (link down), now featuring photos of the Montpellier FISE 2004, ESA 2004 and the “Evolution meets RASCA” event.

Up: Backside Royale to AO Soyale at the ESA 2004 Contest, Photo: NicoBoozer

Chris Haffey - fakie 630 disaster royale at the Barn Burner 2005 (results).

Larger picture | More pictures by Nic Kytlica.

Brian Aragon - Royal Up the Rail, 900 Out (2005) for Be-Mag.