Well, if you started worrying about your weight, don’t give up skating, this is the perfect activity to handle your problems ;)

Heather’s love affair with in-line skating started innocently enough. An undergraduate at Queen’s University in Kingston during the mid-1990s, she was looking for a physical outlet that would help her slough off the stress of her studies.

“The in-line skating craze was just catching on then,” Heather recalled. “I was in a second-hand clothing store and saw a pair of beaten up plastic, pink and white skates that looked like they¹d been owned by a child and I bought them for $3.”

A year and a move to Montreal later and Heather was practicing moves on her skates that would eventually help her to shed 35 pounds* and streamline her body. “I had moved to Montreal to attend Concordia University. I’d get home, feed the cats, strap on my blades and go to an empty parking lot in my neighbourhood to practice twists and turns because I knew it would be good for my waistline. And I’d practice backing up because I knew that would be good for the gluteus muscles in my rear.”

Eventually, she began wearing the skates to run errands, a habit she maintains today. “I pack a pair of sandals in my backpack and skate to the ATM, supermarket and dry cleaners,” she said. “Slowly but surely, I’ve noticed my body toning up.”

In-line skating is the perfect activity to tone legs and buttocks, say fitness experts. And the good news is that it’s so much fun, it doesn’t even feel like exercise. [...]

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Here are the new wheels from Famus, the french wheel brand established in Marseille.

New Models :
- Classic team : 57mm 93a
- Bruno Lowe : 57mm 93a
- Mathias Silhan : 57mm 93a
- Kevin Quentin : 57mm 93a

When it comes to picking skates and parts for your skates there are so many options. Back when I started skating the only thing you could customize were your wheels, now days there is an infinite amount of different possibilities for a skate. You can change the colors, cuffs, liners, frames, and soul plates. It makes skating more appealing to people because they can have their setup be just how they want it.

The ability to customize your skates also makes people better at rollerblading. This is because certain people are comfortable with certain skate parts. The more comfortable you are in a skate set up the more likely you are to try some harder tricks. And since you can put almost any part on any skate, rollers are finding exactly what feels good for them.

Picking the right skate frames is a big deal. It can make or break a pair of rollerblades. You have a wide variety of frames to choose from, and they all have their own feel to them and they all skate a little bit differently. Ground Control, Kizer, Xsjado, Fifty-Fifty, and Able are a few of the most popular frames out there. I personally skated Xsjado frames for about a year. Once it was time to change frames I was not sure of what frame I should choose. [...]

Read the Review on RW by K. Steez and Captain Johnson

up : Able Vinny Minton 3 White & Red Pro frames

up : Able Team Series 3 Gray & Black frames

Photos above courtesy of Empire. You can check more infos about the Able Series III Frames here.

Discover some rolling arwork by Ghost Custom, a gifted korean artist :

Artworks : Page 1 | Page 2

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East side have less time for rollerbooting in a year, but still we have some nice fruitbooters. A part of Moscow and Kiev summer time was filmed and cut by Yri “fitil” Pavlov Just for fun, nothing else… enjoy !

Download : JUstforFUN3.wmv | mirror (23 mb)

Black Hearted Collaboration : Eric Perkett Pro Wheel
55mm, 88A. Thanks Ryan Loewy !

The Game is an innovative competition based on team battle and matching tricks.

The first Game was set up in USA where the american team: Aaron Feinberg, Franky Morales, Chris Haffey, Jeff Stockwell, Mike Johnson, Rachard Johnson beat the world team represented by: Carlom Pianowski, Chaz Sands, Stefan Horngacher, Richie Eisler, Albert Hooi and Andrey Zaytsev.

Link (thanks Basza). A video is availiable here.

About Brian Aragon :

Whats good people, I’m Brian Aragon. I guess most of you know me from rollerblading, I’m thankful for that and thank all of you for supporting the industry and such a dope sport.

Besides skating I go to College and love learning, one day I plan on being a physical therapist. I’m a very open minded person even though I have my own views I love hearing what other people think and why they think that way. I like people who have their own style and their own beliefs and don’t allow themselves to be conformed by society or the people they hang out with. I love traveling and luckily skating has given me the opportunity to experience cutures and see things most people my age don’t get the chance to. I smile a lot and try not to take life so seriously , I’m sarcastic, and I’m alwasys joking. I love my family and friends they are always there for me… [...]

Black Market, Brian Aragon’s Profile :

Ego, Brian Aragon Part 2 :

The first issue of the VZR Freestyle Mag was released, it’s a pdf you can download (check the link below). The text is in spanish, and features artworks, photos and a review of the Remz Frankie Morales Skates.

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up, left : Photo by Sam, check his photo set of the event here. More photo by Juju here.

Juju-Power was at the Lg Action Sports Contest in Paris that took place at the Trocadero (september 2006), and he filmed almost all the runs that went there ! A big thank to you.

Check the runs of Katie Ketchum, Jenna Downing, Martina Svobodova, Chris Haffey, Chaz Sands, Mathias Silhan, Stephane de Freitas, Fallon Hefferman, Stephane alfano, Oli Short, Takeshi Yasutoko, Taig Kris and Fabiola da Silva :

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Ben Schwab Photo Set by Jeff Linett + Sequences :
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Rolling Rock Real Street Contest 2006
The 2006 IMYTA Qualification in Switzerland

Rolling Rock / Switzerland published an edit of this Imyta Qualification Contest that took place the 26th of August 2006.

Link | Mirror

You can check the results, some photos and stream the first edit of the contest here.

Here is a photo report of the PIT 2006 Contest that took place in Essen (Germany). Featuring Ward Gabriels, Daan Hegt, Adrian Anne, Dick Heerkens, Cristian Berg, Tyron Ballantine and Gagi Wagenblast.

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