Competitions

We at Be-Mag try our best to let you experience competitions and events all over the world. What's even better then following our live-updates in front of a computer screen is to actually be there in person, of course. This is why we team up with organizers of your favourite events from time to time to raffle out some tickets. All you need to do is to answer a simple question. Your profound rolling knowledge or just a bit of luck will do the rest. This time we hook you up with three tickets for the famous Baltic Games that will take place from 14th to 16th of July in Gdansk, Poland.

Held on May 29th was the first street comp held in Florida in a while – the O-Town Throwdown. People gathered from all over the state, Georgia, and even Tennessee for a chance at the $300 first prize. This is the official 2011 O-Town Throwdown edit!

The Swiss comp in Basel was the smallest event I have ever had but the quality of talent was high. One of the important things about these street comps are to do something big for each skate scene. This comp had a small turn out but we had some of our youngest competitors. 3 skaters who were only 15 years old we're skating along side guys like Beat Schillmeier and Diego Guilloud.

This here goes out to everyone who´s still not sure about attending the 2011 A CHOSEN FEW Street Comp in Stuttgart, Germany: Be there or miss out on one of the most important events this year! Check out the edit and peep the spots Quinn Feldmann and local Sascha Lopez are prepping for saturday!

The Chosen Few Milton Keynes Street Comp was a great event. We knew rain could be a factor and it was but it didn't matter thanks to the Bus Station Ledges. We did two spots there. 1st spot was the long T ledge. We said the whole place was open to skate for the first round but everyone sort of got stuck on this long ledge. Burston did one of the nicest true top souls ever all the way off the end cab out and Aaron Turner almost laced the 10 pound rebate trick on the ledge. The infamous true fish. With a grab, of course.

Lublin is a moderate-sized city in eastern Poland, a place you probably never heard of. But last week something notable happened. Yet another great get-together for Polish rollerbladers, the fourth edition of our annual competition called East Side Jam.

I've never missed a Chaz Sands Invitational since they began, with them never failing to leave a great impression upon rollerblading. Truthfully this year I turned up with the half thought of "Will it match the last 4 years?" How wrong I could have been...

Because of the rain, we had to cancel the event which was supposed to be outside. We went to our indoor skatepark to do a Freestyle Bowl contest. The competition was a big success and everyone really enjoyed his day. Our next event will take place the first weekend of July. Thanks to everyone who's supporting us!

We caught up with Sven Boekhorst one day before the Chaz Sands Invite 2011 contest started in the media room. We also got a few clips from Sven during the practice session.

We went around asking the Pros and the Public who would win this year's WRS Chaz Sands Invite. We got answers and a bit more banter. Make sure to check back on be-mag.com since we are still working on more video releases that will give you a more detailed insight into the action of the contest.

This video is insane! So many tricks went down in the pro and am final it was unreal. Here is the official Rampworx video from the contest.

Richard Johnson send in some pics he took during yesterday's Chaz Sands Invite 2011. While you are skipping through the pics Richard is working on the exclusive edit for the event. So check back later to view the edit right on be-mag.

Some causal hotel drinking turned into something a tad more crazy last night...As you can see Quinny and a few others may have a hard time skating today. Some power naps are about to go down in the V.I.P room.

Razors UK Rider Scott Quinn flowing with style for his warm up for the Chaz Sands Invite 2011. Quinny will be competing in this years Pro Comp after winning SlammJamm 2010.

Remz Pro skater Franky Morales has already been killing the new A box in preparation for tomorrows contest.

Razors Pro skater Brian Aragon got to the skatepark a day early to get some practice in on the new obstacles.

The Asian X-Games is the only X-Games that still hosts rollerblading. Although X-Games is a household known brand-name and people who don’t know much about rollerblading might think it is the biggest competition for rollerbladers out there, it only has a 3-star rating on the WRS scale. That is obviously because of the amount of pro’s participating. It has less pro’s attending but more prize money (up to 10th place). But Asian X-Games is not about the money...

Orlando, most of the time, marks the meeting point for all of us bladers here in the Sunshine State. Also, one of the main reasons we decided to hold the first of many strings of street competitions here in Florida. Meet up spot was Barnett Skatepark. A small park with a perfect mini and an across and down rail to warm up at. Waited there for about an hour for people to show up until we headed out to the first spot. Before we headed out I made sure everyone had directions and also got with the judges to make sure we were on the same page. Lending their knowledge about the sport and tallying points was Shima Pro Rider, Joey Chase; Razors Flow Rider, Sammy Chase; Be-Mag Drama Queen, Rob Squire; and local skate veteran, Nate Ent.

Quite honestly The Chosen Few Santee Street Comp was great. Nick Wood and Damien Wilson made sure the BBQ was running at every spot with hot dogs and cheese burgers on deck. Over $200 of BBQ was sold and that money went to best trick at all the spots. The BBQ was something that added a little extra vibe to the competition. Great skating, great food, great people, Santee style. So thank you for lugging that thing around all day. We ended up with close to 200 people and 40 competitors. The first spot was the famous Chicano Park line ledges.

Good things are happening in France. The scene in Bordeaux recently threw down the West Coast Contest in their hometown skatepark. While this event is pretty young it was well organized and a good experience for everyone that attended. Watch these 3 edits that bear witness that the French can skate – and that rain cannot stop them from having a good time!

Yesterday we have randomly selected two winners for the Be-Mag & Rampworx Ticket Raffle for the 5th Chaz Sands Invite in Liverpool, England. And here they are!