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up: Piotrek Combrzynski.

Mind The Gap: Poland

A perfect sunny day for such an event like Mind the Gap. For the first time at the capital of Poland: Warsaw.

Straight up from beautiful shopping centre Zlote Tarasy performed on a specially prepared mobile skatepark brought by Holland’s Pro skater Sven Boekhorst, who is a project maker.

Including inline skaters like: Piotrek Combrzynski, Michal Piotrowski, Radek Kojtych (CanisLatrans), Lukasz Kazmierczak, Krystian Zarzeczny, Marek Doniec and Lukasz Malewski.

Results: 1st Piotrek Combrzynski, 2nd Lukasz Kazmierczak, 3rd Marek Doniec.

Edited by Maciej Tomkow ; Animation Fx Filip Krol ; filmed by Maciej Tomkow & Matt Kacprowicz. Equipment: Canon 5dmark2, 7d
16-35mm 2.8, 50mm 1.8, 100mm 2.8 macro, 70-200mm 4.0, 10-20mm 3.5-5.6, Glidecam 2000Pro, Sennheiser MKE400, Manfrotto tripod + 501Hdv.

Music: Lupe Fiasco – Daydreamin.

Mind the Gap: HipHop in Duketown (Holland)

Featuring Tyron Ballantine, Alex Burston & more.

Don’t miss the Rotterdam Street Battle 2011 (Aug. 13), organized by Sven Boekhorst.

• Mind the Gap 2011 (June 25) Infos.
• More Mind the Gap Media.
• Visit Mtg-contest.com.

Mind The Gap 2010 (2nd stop) HipHopinDukeTown (July 17)

Results

1. Dick Heerkens
2. Giorgio Oelhers
3. Harrold Scholmer
4. Geaton Fernald
5. Sem Croft

6. Jelle Briggeman
7. Marc v. Wanum
8. Orveo Mac Donald
9. Eric Droogh
10. Daan de Wit

1st place: Dick Heerkens

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Sunday 12th of september was scheduled for the Mind the gap 2010 tour finals in collaboration with World on Wheels in the city centre of Eindhoven. The course was setup on the Saturday during a beautiful day. Nothing could go wrong…

Unfortunately Sunday was a huge downer for the riders and organisation. The rain came poring down for the whole day, it was impossible to do the Mind the Gap finals during the day.

The two highlights of the rainy day were: a small session in the kiddie course with David Sizemore killing even the smallest obstacles.

At around 17:30 the sky opened up and even the sun touched the Mind the Gap setup. A small rail session started with Dick Heerkens and Orveo Macdonald, the audience at the spot were surprised by the enthusiastic session.

The organisation of Mind the Gap decided not to end Mind the Gap 2010 without the final it deserves. We have decided to schedule a new stop for the finals.

The final will be held on Sunday September 26th in Rotterdam during the Urban Challenge, yes we’re going back like the years before.

An addition to the course will be the concrete skatepark at the location of Streetplaza Zuiderpark.

Timetable for 26.09.2010: 1st round – 15:20, 2nd round – 16:30, Final round – 18:00.

How to get to “Rotterdam Streetplaza” Zuiderpark??
From the central station of Rotterdam, metro D towards Spijkenisse De Akkers, exit Zuidplein?. From there it will be a 3 minute walk to the RE: MIND THE GAP finals 2010.

3rd stop Mind the Gap (World On Wheels, 12.09.2010)

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1st Mind the Gap stop: Breakfest festival 19.06.2010.

Results

1. Romain Godenaire, France
2. Fabio Ennes, Brazil
3. Taylor Latouche, France
4. Giorgio Oelhers, the Netherlands
5. Dick Heerkens, the Netherlands
6. Jelle Briggeman, the Netherlands
7. Orveo Mac Donald, the Netherlands
8. Chaz Sands, Scotland
9. Harrold Scholmer, the Netherlands
10. Nick Lomax, England

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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.

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

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Thanks Sven & Minime.

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.

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up: Sven Boekhorst (enlarge the picture).

More pictures here on Flickr.
Photos by Dominic Swagemakers.

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.

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:

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Thanks Dominic Swagemakers.

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

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