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The official rankings of the Winterclash 2006:
Street Pros
01 Brian Aragon
02 Stephane Alfano
03 Chaz Sands

Street Amateur
01 Tyran Ballantine
02 Michael Leibner
03 Sidney Hansen
04 Benny Lantzsch

Ignition Rail to rail Contest
Avichai – Topsoul to 540 Kindgrind

Grindhouse Cash for Trick
Jacob Juul – 540 tr backside Savannah on a square Rail

We have just posted the first trailer for the upcoming Winterclash DVD. Check it out, the filming and editing is bad ass and it shows some pretty sick tricks including Aragon’s winning Dis 540 Tr Topacid.

Go to www.winterclash.com !
There you can find the liks to more pictures and the first edits.
We are working on clips for you here at be-mag – so check it tomorrow again!

Thank you… thank you a thousand times.
This was all I could say at Saturday night. But there and then this was enough. I want to thank all of you. Thank you for coming, especially if you are one of those who came from very far away to Mühlhausen. You made this weekend possible.

When I stood right the middle of the masses and when it got really loud for the first time I realised why I had been working for nine months. So many rollerbladers at one spot, so many people who pushed rollerblading to the highest level…

I think that the 4th of February showed what rollerblading is capable of. We infected a whole city with the Winterclash hype and we showed that rollerblading is something needs to be taken serious.

This Winterclash only was the second edition of this event. That this event could get that big in such a short time is almost like a miracle. I’m not an event manager. I’m just a little boy and this weekend made me aware of how many things I still have to learn. But it was a good start and I know that quite some things have to be changed and improved.

I also want to apologize! Please excuse if you were one of the guys who had stuff stolen or if you felt insulted because there was no space and we had to tell you to leave several times. Unfortunately I did not calculate with such a mass of rollerbladers. This is something which became really obvious and sometimes we simply were overstrained. But we want to ensure you that we will find solutions for these problems until next year.

Right now I want to get rid of something really important. FUCK YOU to all the people which are dumb as shit and which can’t be happy without going nuts. The whole city of Mühlhausen and the whole team of the skatepark were supporting this event 100 percent and tried to help us wherever they could. At Saturday night they were stunned by the spirit and by the way rollerblading can look. But on Sunday morning they told me that they will never again permit a rollerblading event there. They already had the German championship in skateboarding there but they had never before seen such antisocial people like the ones they saw at the night after the Winterclash! If you build waste-piles on the funbox – if you block the kiln until the hall if full of smoke and if you throw bicycle rims at the owner of the park because he tries to clean up – if whole hotel rooms are destroyed and if people have to be put into jail. I know that there are people like these everywhere and that you can’t prevent something like this. But it is insane that 20 people can destroy what 700 people experienced and created. You are one of the reasons why rollerblading can’t be taken serious. You make us look like a bunch of idiots; you make us appear as if we could not behave like human beings. The people there were so amazed by rollerblading and by what happened… But it only took 20 people to destroy this. These idiots were the reason why all the good impressions were erased at the next morning.

This was the only thing that really annoyed and upset me.

Aside from this, this is the first time that I’m really content with one of my events and I’m highly motivated to top everything next year! I want to once again thank all the people which made all this possible. First of all this is all the people who were there! I want to thank my designer Robert Winkler because he created all the nice graphics and was with me from the very beginning. Thank you to all my sponsors Concrete Rudolph, Ignition Skateshop, Grindhouse, UCON, The Conference and X World Skateshop. My partners Be-Mag and CLIP. Thank you to the judges, the people that helped out at the entrance, the girls at the bar and the team of the skatepark. And I also want to thank Sebastian Lehmann for moderating almost the whole Winterclash. It was a very, very tough job which he, in my opinion, handled really well and I’m very thankful for this!

If there is any criticism or any suggestions please don’t hesitate to contact me at jojo@winterclash.com!

We will meet again this summer – I’m planning a lot of things for you!

Jojo Jacobi

Check out the Austrian Inline Forum for some nice photos taken by Mr Gabriel Hyden.

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The day was crazy, I have never been to a contest where there was so many kids hyped on skating. The atmosphere was perfect the best skaters from all over europe and a few of us americans thrown in the mix. The way skating progresses is amazing and today proved that, everyone was lacing tricks that many people including me have never seen. I made finals and me and stephane alfano had a head to head battle. In the end I ended up winning with some tricks that im sure will be mentioned in the article. Winterclash was the biggest contest ive been a part of other than and imyta and I thank everyone involved and all the skaters who traveled to make this weekend something very special!

The AM finals were crazy as well. Everybody was skating so hard especially Tyron and some Germans, friends of Jojo, who helped organise the comp destroyed everything and made it look like the pro finals. Michael laced dis truetopporn, dis true fishy and dis 450 royale on a square handrail. Benny Lantsch landed a huge dis soul on the quater and Tryon stepped it up with a all kinds of FC tricks on the kinkrail. He finally won though I really have to give credit to the two germans because they skated hard.

When the AM finals where over the Pros stepped up and really showed what they got. Everybody was skating so hard it was unbelieveable. Chaz Sands laced something like a Fakie 630 Royale to Ao Topsoul 720 out in the quater though it could have been a rotation more or less. Brian Aragon was killing it again and ultimately beat Chaz and made it to the finals. In the other group Stephan Alfano made his way to the head to head battle. Aragon landed the Dis 450 TTS on the rail and right after that he laced a picture perfect Dis 450 Tr Mizou. Stephan attempted his signature 1280 but didn’t land it and he also missed the huge Dis 450 Royale on the quater. Aragon finally landed a Dis 540 Tr Topacid and everybody was going mad. Stephan Alfano tried a Dis 720 soul out of a quater to flat rail but finally fell so hard that he didn’t try it again.

Mad props to the Prince for lacing the Dis 540 Tr Topacid, especially since he did it with so much ease… Oh yeah and Mark Stamer just reminded me that the rail is square as if it wasn’t already hard enough….

Ps: Thanks a lot to everybody that helped organise the comp, all the sponsors, all the skaters and all the people that came out. The atmosphere was unbelieveable, it was probably the best competition i have ever been to. Jojo did an amazing job. Thanks to Basti for moderating, you probably had the hardest task and won’t have a voice for 3 weeks or something. ....

So here’s the skaters that made it to the finals:

Pros: Cosimo, Al Hooi, Laurent Calame, Brian Aragon, Chaz Sands, Adil Farhoui, Dominik Wagner, Jon Julio and Mathias Silhan

2nd group: Anthony Avella, Piotr Crombrowski, Max Visser, Marc Dubied, Chris Weber, T-Rex, Frederik Andersson, Stephane Alfano and Etienne Montet

AMs:

1st group: Roman Abrate, Sydney Hansen, Viktor Pillau, David Mounigan, Alex Dimitru, Tryon Ballentine, Sebastian Siwczynski, Avichai Wechsler, Chris Bacher and David Louik

2nd group: Benny Lantsch, Michi Leibner, Bruno Willemark, Daan Hegt, Dick Heerkens, Bas Berghuis, Stephan de Freitas, Jon Matter, Becci Wallace and the only girl Frieda Reisch.

Actually you guys are reading this before it’s been announced here at the Winterclash.

there are so many skaters from so many countries…the level is insane…check the pics…winterclash is going off…!!

fuck the germans because im so super toll stuff is the best guy ever he looks like harry pfotter and jesse and me are the best fakking skaTERS ever in the WORLD NOU COMES MISTER JULIO
Bye bye dUTCH UH44 and if you are not gay you sHould buy LOMP