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Photos by Dominic Swagemakers.

Last sunday the third edition of Mind the Gap was held in the city centre of Rotterdam in The Netherlands. This edition of Mind the Gap was bigger and better than the 2 previous finals held in Rotterdam. 17 qualified rollerbladers impressed the judges and the audience with technical grinds and huge spins over DJ Jameszoo, who was on the turntables in the 5 meter big gap.

Mind the Gap was part of the Your World “city games”. On sunday the commercial street “Coolsingel” banned al cars. Several thousand visitors experienced different demo’s and shows. During the final round everybody was focused on Mind the Gap, spectators lined up over a length of 60 meters. The excitement was in air

The 5 skaters who qualified for the final round were hyped and all had a shot at the cash money prize of Euro 555,-
Giorgio Oehlers from Rotterdam, 2nd place in 2008, did not deliver in the final round like he did in the prelims. He became 4th. 1st place winner of 2007 Yuri Botelho from Spain had some smooth runs. Unfortunately his 2009 contest ended on a 5th place.

Rotterdam local Martin van Drunen is wellknown for his smooth en technical style of rollerblading. He showed the judges clean spins and grinds deserving a 3th place, he did not go big enough for gold or silver.

American David Sizemore and Frenchman Romain Godenaire were still in the running. Romain goes very powerfull and explosive, David flows and executes his tricks smooth and very technical. A very hard task for the belgian and 2 dutch judges. Romain could not convince the judges enough he became 2nd. The style and high level tricks done by David Sizemore troughout the whole final earned the honour and biggest trophee of Mind the Gap 2009.

The organisation is very proud with another great edition of Mind the Gap and the great atmosphere created during the city games. Thanks go out to all the rollerbladers, spectators, Your World, 1OAK and Rollerblade. Without these Mind the Gap would not be Mind the Gap.
Special shout out to winner David Sizemore!

Some Clips of the top 5 Riders:

Results

1. David Sizemore, USA
2. Romain Godenaire, France
3. Martin v. Drunen, NL
4. Giorgio Oelhers, NL
5, Yuri Botelho, Spain

Thanks Sven Boekhort / Team TRS.

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Mind The Gap Prelims @ “HipHop In Duketown” in Den Bosch 2009.

Organised By Sven Boekhorst & Randy Abels for SB Events.

Featuring: Romain Godenaire, Edwin Wieringh, Jeremy Kessler, Warren Digne, Steve Swain & more.

Larger version of the Mind the Gap 2009 Flyer.

up: Video Filmed & Edited by Remy Cadier.

Songs: The Reflex – Duran Duran ; Intergalactic – Beastie Boys ; Queens Of The Stone Age – The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret.

up: Edit by Jeroen “minime” Wullems.

MTG @ Den Bosch Results:

1e Romain Godenaire
2e Jeremy Kessler
3e Steve Swain
4e Warren Digne
5e Edwin Wieringh

Visit mtg-contest.com.
Thanks Sven & Minime.

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Mind the Gap flyer, 11th of July 2009.
Location: Den Bosch, the Netherlands.

Mind the Gap final is going to in Rotterdam on the 20th of september 2009. More info after the 11th of July.

Thanks Sven.

Visit mtg-contest.com.

up: Sven Boekhorst (enlarge the picture).

More pictures here on Flickr.
Photos by Dominic Swagemakers.

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Edit of Mind the Gap 2008, the biggest dutch rollerblading contest.

Organized by Sven Boekhorst.

Featuring skaters like: Chaz Sandz,Stephane Alfano and many more Dutchies!

Results:

1: Stephane Alfano
2: Martin van Drunen
3: Chaz Sands

Thanks Dominic Swagemakers.

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One day to go for the Mind the Gap 2008 contest at “Binnenrotte” in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). The prepation is almost done, and it seems like the weather is going to be nice as well.

Tuesday evening there will be a pre-sessions in Skateland (The indoor skatepark of Rotterdam). International pro-riders will be there already as well.

MIND THE GAP 2008 promo edit:

Visit mtg-contest.com.

Thanks Dominic Swagemakers.

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Edit of the first version of Mind the Gap (16 septermber 2007, Coolsingel – Rotterdam). Amazing skating battles won by Yuri Bathello (Spain). Via

Thanks Dominic

Related News:

• Mind The Gap : Pre Session Footage. Featuring Sven Boekhorst, Chaz Sands and more
• Mind the Gap : Photos
• Mind The Gap : Infos & video

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Featuring Sven Boekhorst, Chaz Sands and more. Thanks Scott.

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Mind The Gap ; organised by Sven Boekhorst (16 september 2007 Coolsingel Rotterdam).

Check some photos by Bibi Ragazzo. Link
(FENFANIX TEAM RAGAZZO PRODUCTION).

You still can check the Mind the Gap promo video here.

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