Carriers Skate Shop has now been open for its fifth straight year and shop owner Fritz Peitzner has been diligently working to grow the inline skating scene in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and abroad. Since the success of the first Carriers Open, Fritz and his team of organizers have been putting in work to make their second annual event even more of a hit than their previous competition...
The evening before I was due to go on my first-ever trip to Athens earlier this year in January, I realized I had no idea what the aggressive inline scene was like there. I happened to be at Bay 66 skate park, London when someone told me, “I heard there’s a Bladehouse in Athens, and they have an amazing annual competition.” I was headed to the Greek capital for three months. Naturally, I was ecstatic to hear that there was a Bladehouse happening (an institution the Athens rollerblade scene gravitates around), complete with a rooftop skatepark and a mini ramp in the kitchen...