up : Martina Svobodova / Katie Ketchum

Inline Street Finals…And Hammers Were Thrown!

It was a nutty day, that’s for sure. The inline street finals were definitely one of the best I’ve seen lately and one of the hardest I’ve ever judged. Both the women and the men tore that course up – unfortunately, the course ripped a few of the skaters up too.

Fabiola da Silva hurt her knee in practice just before the finals. The medical staff thinks she may have torn her ACL. This is a serious blow for Fabiola, lets hope for the best! […]

Read the full article by Mike Opalek

Inline Street Finals : Results
Dallas, Texas - October 29, 2006

01. Erik Bailey
02. Stephane Alfano
03.Chris Haffey
04. Soichirino Kanashima
05. Aaron Feinberg
06. Brian Aragon
07. Nick Wood
08. Jeerasak Tassorn
09. Jaren Grob
10. Carl Hills

Women’s Inline Street Finals : Results
Dallas, Texas - October 29, 2006

01. Martina Svobodova
02. Katie Ketchum
03. Fallon Heffernan
04. Kaya Turski
05. Jenna Downing

The Inline Firing Squad: ASA Events Still Carries the Torch
Inline Vert finals

Inline skating, once the crown jewel in the action sports world, has now been banished from the network-owned action sports competitions and left for dead… except nobody told the inline skaters. Now ASA Events provides the only major arena for inliners to show us all the meaning of progression.

Watching the Extreme Games way back in 1995, one could not have predicted what the future would bring. One thing seemed quite certain though: inline skating was definitely a big part of that future. There were more inline skating events in the first X Games than any other single discipline! BMXer John Parker remembers “Inline used to be bigger than everything else combined and, then the bottom just fell out.” […]

Read the full Article by by Todd Seligman

Inline Vert Finals : Results
Dallas, Texas - October 29, 2006

01. Takeshi Yasutoko
02. Marc Englehart
03. Shane Yost
04. Fabiola da Silva
05. Cesar Mora
06. Rich Parker
07. Kevin Marron Lopez
08. Sven Boekhorst
09. Eito Yasutoko
10. Ayumi Kawasaki
11. Nicolas Mougin
12. Lamine Fathi

Valo published the results and some videos of the LG Action Sports : Dallas, Texas, that took place the 27-29 October 2006.

Results :

1. Erik Bailey
2. Stephane Alfano
3. Chris Haffey
4. Soichiro Kanashima

Videos :
right click, save as : quicktime movies

- Erik Bailey winning run
- Soichiro Kanashima run
- Erik Bailey prelims run

Nice Photo Set of the LG Action Sports, Paris Trocadero by Jonathan Sarago. Link

Related News :
- LG Action Sports (Paris Trocadero) on french Tv
- LG Action Sports Paris : Results & Reports
- LG Action Sports : Paris Trocadero, Street Finals
- LG Action Sports : Paris, Vert Finals & Photos
- LG Action Sports, Paris Trocadero (Sept 2006) : Runs

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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Paris Trocadero Photo Gallery
by Empir3 : Link

Takeshi Takes It Back
Inline Vert Finals Recap

After his first place finish in the prelims, Marc Englehart was up all night doing a rain dance. Still, the vert comp went off without a hitch. Taïg Khris threw down; Shane Yost killed it, but in the end, nobody could top the original golden boy, Takeshi Yasutoko.

Link

up : Fabiola da Silva

Inline Vert Finals : Results
Paris, France - September 3, 2006

1.Takeshi Yasutoko
2.Shane Yost
3.Taïg Khris
4. Sven Boekhorst
5. Marc Englehart
6. Nel Martin
7. Kevin Marron Lopez
8. Cesar Mora
9. Borja Fernandez
10. Nicolas Mougin

Related News :
- LG Action Sports (Paris Trocadero) on french Tv
- LG Action Sports : Paris Trocadero, Street Finals
- LG Action Sports Paris : Prelims Results & Reports

up : Mathias Silhan, who ranked 3rd

Mike Opalek, the ‘official ASA reporter’ wrote a report about the finals that took place in Paris on the 3rd of September 2006. You can read about the Paris Street and Vert Prelims here (report & results) and don’t miss the video that aired on french Tv (France 2) talking about the Lg Action Paris contest (in french, but the video is nice).

In the Shadow of the Tower

I never would have imagined there were so many rollerblading fans in Paris, but it felt like half the city turned up for the street finals. The French love their countrymen, so

Stephane Alfano and Steven Aleil were especially popular but they also went crazy for the girls and pretty much anybody who rocked.

Before the street comp, Fallon Heffernan popped her shoulder out of the socket twice. It looked like she wasn’t going to do much after a cautious first run. Fabiola on the other hand, did a solid run with a 540 over the box and a smooth soul down the double barrel rail that put her in first after the first run.

Katie Ketchum, Martina Svobodova and Jenna Downing all put together good lines, but after Fallon’s explosive second run, it was clear that she was going to take the women’s street.

In the men’s street event, Chris Haffey was the man to beat and there were a few people eying him to take his spot. Berlin’s winner Nicolas Schopfer didn’t skate as well as he should have. He did beat Oli but that’s not saying much since Oli showed up late and only took one run without a warm up. […]

Link

Inline Street : Men Finals Results
Paris, France - September 3, 2006

1. Chaz Sands
2. Chris Haffey
3. Mathias Silhan
4. Stephan De Freitas
5. Steven Aleil
6. Stephane Alfano
7. Warren Digne
8. Patrick Sutnen
9. Nicolas Schopfer
10. Oli Short

update :

Inline Street : Women Finals Results
Paris, France - September 3, 2006 (thanks Mushroom)

1. Fallon Heffernan
2. Jenna Downing
3. Fabiola Da Silva
4. Katie Ketchum
5. Martina Svobodova

up : Chris Haffey / Fabiola da Silva

Paris, France - September 2, 2006
Check the Promo Video of the event

Gay Paree Inline Street
Inline Street Prelims Recap

It was the American, 2005 LG Action Sports World Champion, Chris Haffey, who came out and stole the show in his second run.

A 900 over the launch box then went on to true mizou down the rail and a disaster soul down the rail box. He had the most consistent run with the best variety of tricks. We are looking forward to the finals tomorrow when we will see if Chris Haffey can take the gold.

Read the Article by Mike Opalek

Inline Street Prelims Results

1. Chris Haffey
2. Patrick Sutnen
3. Mathias Silhan
4. Nicolas Schopfer
5. Stephan De Freitas
6. Steven Aleil
7. Oli Short
8. Stephane Alfano
9. Chaz Sands
10. Warren Digne
11. Franky Morales
12. Bruno Lowe
13. Joey Egan
14. Sven Boekhorst
15. Randy Abels
16. Anderson Germano da Silva
17. Ilia Koutchakov
18. Anne Adrien
19. Stephane Luchie
20. Roman Abrate
21. Michael Buscaino
22. Laurent Calame

Inline In-Seine !
Inline Vert Prelims Recap
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