How did you start your adventure with rollerblading events? The first Winterclash was the beginning?

I started a couple of years before the first Winterclash. I was organizing the “Real street DD” for a couple of years in a row and also started with smaller skatepark events in my hometown Dresden.
The Winterclash idea came up when I felt like I want to organize something a little bigger outside my hometown. After the success of the first Winterclash everything just kept on going from this point.

The huge responsibility and lots of stuff to take care during such big event won’t let you to compete by yourself, do you regret it?

Definitely no problem with that! I still enjoy competing in events now and then, but the whole “behind the scenes” thing and making things happen became more fun for me and there’s absolutely no problem with not competing. And I don’t feel I could compete on this level anyway ;) [...]

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The Mantra website posted an interview of Jojo jacobi!

Download: JojoJacobi_Interview.pdf.
Thanks Emanuel.

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Jojo Jacobi, skating the Ignition Valley Skatepark with his Valo TV2’s.

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Introduce yourself.

Hello everybody. My name is Johannes Jacobi but everybody just calls me Jojo.

I´m 23 years old and I live in Germany / Ignition Valley.

How did it happen, that you came into aggressive inline? How many years have you been skating already?

I’m skating 14 years already. I got some kids skates with plastic wheels and than I just started to jump around with it. After a couple of years I became a part of the local show team and traveled around Germany for some halfpipe shows.

Because of the traveling and all the experiences I became more addicted than expected… and here I am!

Check the Full Interview on skaters.ru.
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Photos: Kuba Urbanczyk & Misiek z Wroclawia

Check a report of the Never Winter Jam 2008 on Inmag.

Never Winter Jam official edit made by Radek Kojtych.

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Interview with Jojo Jacobi – organiser of Winterclash:

SZ: In the most cases, when inmag.info is the offical media supporter of an event, I do my best to create the detailed story, which not only focus on the skating/event process but shows the other aspects of the event. As one of the guest who came to Poland and competed, You seem to be a good person to talk it through. I would like to ask You a few questions as You are the organiser of the biggest rollerblading event in the world – Winterclash. So let`s start, first of all how did you like Wrocław?

JOJO: Hm… That’s always a hard question, due the fact that on tour I usually just see the skatepark and some street spots. But this time it was a bit better. We went out two nights in a row and I could see the center of Wrocław by night. It looks really nice and got some beautiful parts. Too bad I couldn’t see more. But I already arranged a tourist city tour for my next visit. [...]

Read the full interview on Inmag (bottom of the page).

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Jojo Jacobi Kizer Frame + Chimera Wheel Promo Edit.
Via Risemagazine.de.

2008-04-08: Skating Only Edit.
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Jojo Jacobi of Winterclash fame shows some skills at the Ignition park. Kizer Edit, Honza Edit

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Midland Mag published a Jojo Jacobi Interview :

For the beginning can you tell me little about yourself, date of birth, full name and how long have been skating ?

Hej hej, my name is Johannes Jacobi but since 10 years I’m just “Jojo Jacobi”. I’m 21 years old and I’m skating for a bit more than 10 years now. After 5 years of skating I got more into it and started to organise small Realstreet Events in my hometown. Over the years it was getting bigger and I thought about a big event in another town. And thats when everything started for real.

What made you start with rollerblading ?

For that I just got a stereotype answer. A friend of mine had skates and I was interested in it. So I got my first skates (full plasitic) as a birhtday present and I started to jump around right in the next days. For this day on, I never stopped again.

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Here is an interview of Jojo Jacobi ; if you don’t know Jojo, he is the organiser of the Winterclash Contest, works at Ignition Skateshop and he’s a pretty good skater !

What is Rollerblading for you ?

Rollerblading is what I am…

Sounds stupid.. I know! But what would I be without all the traveling in the last years, all the experiences, the friends in so much different countries? What would I be without all the good times on skates, the chill sessions with my best friends at the local skatepark and the feeling at big and even small events ? A lot of people are answering this question the same way and you probably think its just stereotype stuff.

But it isn’t!!! I´m skating for a bit more than 9 years now, that’s nearly the half of my life. Since the first Winterclash i have Rollerblading in my head for 24/7. I had a normal job in a shoe store. During the day at work i thought about new ideas all the time. When there was nothing to do i just walked around as if i would be on drugs – just because i had so much stuff in my head. In the evening after the work i run back at home to my computer and started to work again for what i was believing in. I slept 4-5 hours a night, lost friendships, wasn’t able to see my parents once a week and saw my girlfriend just in the bed.

But that was exactly what i wanted to do! I had ideas and i wanted to realize them. Why? Because i love rollerblading and without it, i would be a completely other person. And with the Winterclash i got my chance to give something back. [...]

Link (Photos at the end of the interview)

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