Competitions

Check out this edit that got released today. The course seems to be different and unique, so is the skating! Enjoy.

Pony Cup 2011 was a great experience. A lot of really good bladers attended this year and the competition – in contrast to its rather small name – featured some seriously good skating by Jojo Jacobi, Alex Burston and Jacob Juul as well as an elite troop of young guns that were ripping the park to shreds in the junior competition!

David Johns from Orlando has been jumping around at the Pow-wow exclusively for Be-Mag. And as you see in the picture set below, David is not only the guy that tries to get the best skating shots, he is also deep in finding good and interesting content apart from the skating. More pictures by David on Be-Mag real soon!

Here are some highlights from this years pro competition. Edit by Scotty Swemba and Frankie Terranova.

Here is another photo update including captions provided by David Johns. Congrats to David Sizemore for taking this year's title!

Jason Reyna put together a few bangers by David Sizemore who performed well at this year's PowWow, Florida's largest rolling comp.

The Under 18 division kicked off last night as the start to the Pow-wow Pro/Am. Congrats to Zachary Pollak for taking first. See everyone today as the tradeshow kicks off at noon!

First batch of pics from the contest. Coco Sanchez, Chiaki Ito, Anthony Avella, Chris Haffey, Leo Kamburov, Franky Zhang, Cesar Andrade and many more showing their best of tricks to impress the judges.

The Asian X-Games are taking place in Shanghai, China this weekend and the likes of Brian Aragon, Chris Haffey, Takeshi Yasutoko and many more are present to show the audience what they're about. Blading legend Matteo Attanasio agreed on doing some live-updates for Be-Mag while he was over there for the event.

David Johns from Orlando is on his way to the Panhandle PowWow 2011 which is taking place at Kona Skatepark in Jacksonville (FL) this upcoming weekend (April 29th-30th 2011). In tow he has Damien Wilson, Michael 'Gumby' Braud, Andrew Jaccuzi and Keaton Newson. As you can see below the crew detected some decent spots on their trip and left their marks on each one. Check out the first picture Gallery here. More pics are about to follow.

The first ever Donate and Skate charitable rollerblading event took place in Cedar Park, Texas on April 16th 2011. The goal of the contest was to provide rollerblades to those interested in the sport, but who might not have the funds readily available to buy brand new skates. Instead of a contest entry fee, competitors donated used skates, wheels or frames. Then, during the contest, the nice staff of Rec N Roll Skateshop helped match up the pieces and assembled skates for those in need. It was great seeing so many kids excited about picking out their own parts and trying on their new skates. A few brave kids even tried rolling the skatepark for their first time – it was a beautiful sight!

The Gladiator contest was born in the mind of Cédric Duchemin, and along with his partner in crime Stéphane Luchie, they brought this project to life and made it one of the best park contests of the year, eventually earning itself 3 stars on the WRS rankings. Both really good skaters and great people, those we call “Duch & Stouf” put a lot of work and energy on the line to make this event happen. Originally meant to be a trilogy, the great atmosphere and positive response from the scene kept it going until this year, for its sixth edition. Whether or not there will be another one in the future is still uncertain, but we can only hope the crew finds a way to bring us another incredible event next year!

This years ARO was one for the locals. CJ Wellsmore, whose exceptional park skating skills are a product of growing up in the Canberra scene, took first place from his close friend Rhys Bell while Danny Jensen came a close third in the countries premiere Rolling Event. Check out this report and an exclusive Be-Mag edit from Dom West!

Last Saturday the third and final round of the Dutch Championship series took place. The best Dutch riders were present to compete for the final points. The win in the junior's division took Tasheed Zaalman from Rotterdam and the senior title was taken by Dick Heerkens from Amsterdam. Although both were in the top of the ranking before the final round already, it was still a round full of excitement.

The last years first Rollacoasta Session in Schleswig was still a rather spontaneous get together of rollerbladers from Flensburg, Hamburg and parts of Denmark. At that time nobody thought about advancing this session to a regular gathering of the northern rollerblading scene. But since there hasn't been much going on in terms of events apart from the X-Mas Jam it presents itself as a great opportunity to change that and give the sleepy scene some valuable momentum.

On April 16, we headed to Kona Skatepark in preparation for this year's Pow-wow Pro/Am. In conjunction with Central Flordia Rolling we held a Box-build, Pre-session to create a little excitement prior to the event. This is a brief over view of what went down, and a teaser of just some of the obstacles added to the course. This year's Pow-wow is going to be the best yet. So if you have not started planning to attend, you better get on it.Hope to see you there, Blake Taylor, Pow-wow Organizer

And the winner is...

It's taken some time but it's worth it. Well, maybe not because of some technical hassles and wireless broadband not being great in the bush Capital. Some pics and clips from through the heats. Headcam thanks to Gav Drumm and Liquid Image.

ARO 011 is underway with the big names already in attendance.

Here's a quick promo for the Australian Rolling Open which will take place at Woden Skatepark in Canberra this weekend (16/04/11). Make sure to join the event or come back to our site since we will be live-updating from this event.

Bitter Cold Showdown 2011 is a thing of the past but we still have plenty of unused competition pics by our staff photographers to show you. Enjoy this first batch of unseen photos from this year's event by Jeremy Stephenson!