This year, the spots built for the event will be even crazier! From rainbow boxes and rainbow rails to the mighty dragon rail that was featured in 2011. Skaters will have an enormous choice of spots for their skills to feast on.
Thursday and Friday will be dedicated to the ‘Lausanne Revival’: the old school skaters meeting ; meaning free skating, BBQ and swimming sessions by the lake. The legendary HS36 skatepark with its freshly renovated bowl will be open and skatable for free.
Song: FM Belfast – Vertigo.
This year a Freeride downhill run will be held during the whole weekend in the mythical ‘Vallée de la Jeunesse’, as well as a slalom competition in Vidy next to the bowl. Rollerblade will again be giving initiation sessions for the kids.
Saturday begins with qualifications in all categories! In the evening the traditional Rollerdisco will be held at the Docks, next to the HS36 skatepark, so do not forget your quads, fluorescent pants, wigs and funky dance moves!
And Sunday, the Grand Finale with finals in Pro, Amateur and Girls categories. The prize money sums up to CHF 6000.- Do not miss this special rendez-vous of the inline skating family!
The best accommodation is located right next to the site at the youth hostel or at the campsite with it’s direct access to the bowl. A special price and camping site will be provided for skaters.
Sometimes a timeline preview turns into an edit, and this is one of those times.
After a meet up at Carmel Valley Skatepark we got kicked out of and sessioned a couple street spots with Louie Zamora, Nick Wood, Hayden Ball, Steve Steinmetz, Damien Wilson and Lyle Shivak. Good times. – One.
As a middle-school-age skateboarder growing up in the late ’90s, I was conditioned to hate rollerbladers. According to doctrine laid down by skateboarding magazines, this relatively new sport looked goofy, didn’t involve as much risk and, hence, was totally “gay.” (It usually went unmentioned that rollerblading also posed an economic threat to the skateboard industry.)
When a rollerblader moved into my apartment complex, however, I learned the joys of “aggressive” inline skating, which involves doing tricks and stunts. Thinking back, some of my fondest memories of those otherwise dreadful adolescent years involve me slapping on a pair of scratched-up blades, rigging a metal rail against a shopping cart and whiling away the hours doing soul grinds—one of the more basic tricks—over and over again. [...]
We’d like to publicly acknowledge Franky Morales‘s contributions for the past few years and announce that as of today he will no longer be a part of Remz.
We didn’t anticipate parting ways and there has been a common project in the works for the past few months, a second Franky OS skate, which we both decided to still release soon.
Doing what you love, be it skating at pro level or running a skate company, can also have a tough business side to it and some decisions can be hard to make.
Kato and Franky have come to this mutually and believe it will ultimately create a better situation for everyone involved.
We look forward to the future and new team opportunities with excitement and anticipation, and wish Franky well wherever his path may lead.
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