One Minute, One Spot

Some call him Iowa’s golden boy. Some call him Log Cabin. I know him simply as Logan, a rollerblader in every sense and a prospect we should all pay attention to. Logan Clark of Des Moines is a normal kid, until he puts some Remz on his feet. Then, he becomes something much more than that: A ripper, a blading ambassador, and a smiling maniac. Logan rarely is found without a smile on his face, and even more rarely spotted without his blades on his feet. I’ve grown to respect Logan for these reasons and more. Logan is a big part of the Iowa scene, always making people want to strap up and shred. I’ve said it before that his attitude is infectious and I’ll say it again. He never stops skating. I’m sure you’ll be seeing his motivation in person at a comp near you very soon. And if not, you can always catch him somewhere on the streets of Iowa doing what he does best.

Back in the day there was Japan's posterboy Chiaki Ito appearing on all the major contests (XGames, ASA etc.) worldwide. Today there are some new faces and talents stepping up the game and drawing a lot more attention to Japan from the rest of the rolling world again. We approached Yuto (one of the new talents) two weeks ago and received this edit almost 24 hours later. This guy not only impressed us with his dedication, but more with his solid skating talent that you can see in this edit. When he answered the questions that we sent him there was one answer that made us smile. His favorite skater from back in the day is Alex Broskow (and not for example Chiaki Ito). Yuto seems to be just too new-school to know any of the legendary skaters. But seeing his One Minute One Spot there is no sign of being new school anymore...he already seems to be conscience-proof and talented like the older guys.

"After winning the chosen-few.com 10 trick liner competition Michael asked me to do a "one minute - one spot" edit for the Be-Mag site, getting a good camera man ain't easy when you need one due to every one's work schedules - however, Kola came through for me, so me and my wife picked him and Welland up one Monday and hit up Henfeild on the way to Eastbourne's new park. It was a rare hot day and the park was empty so we got straight to it. I'm always nervous when filming as I don't do it on the regular and I know Kola gets down with all the dowgs... It came out all cool, hope you like it - enjoy!"

Berlin is huge and it seems there are spots everywhere, but only a few are cool for chill sessions and not only for shooting. One of them is this curb spot which just invites people to enjoy some long lines. Time to test this one… Berlins “super local” Bart Laubsch is skating since forever and even though it becomes silent around him once in a while he is still ripping it. If he feels like, he just pops out of nowhere and surprises the crowd as well as himself with new tricks or just impresses with his unique style and way of control. Time to give Germany's former “PIT Champion” a “One Minute One Spot”!

Martin van Drunen, or you know him from the Rollerdam series (online videos), Conference edits or interviews on Be-mag...i think you'll agree that this guy always comes hard! The only skater I know inside out, but still he always finds a way to make me say WOW! We've skated this rail frequently but never will you see Martin do a trick on a spot he already did. It's hard to be fresh.. but its even harder to stay fresh and thats what martin is all about! My favorite rollerblader!

This spot is a school well known to most local skaters, its on 17th and Windsor in the heart of the city. There has been some recent pressure washing off wax activity here which may lead to capping, so I thought I should get some clips before the school becomes unskateable. This place is like a little skatepark, there are tons of ledges, some decent lines, weird shit in the front, and a guardrail that we cut the middle support of to skate the rail. This was shot on Sunday August 22, 2010 on a cloudy and sunny day in the always beautiful city of Vancouver.

Even though I had lived in Solana beach, the first year I moved to San Diego back in 2003 I never knew about this school. I found this school just a few weeks ago and just started messing around on the ledge to see what I could do. Then I started looking at other aspects of the spot like the huge roots coming out of the ground in the center of the planter and the side ledge. The rails at the entrance of the school did not have much runway but they were still skate able too. I had my tricks all planned out and wanted to start filming the next day.

Lately Ive been skating a lot with my homies Chris & Dome. We decided to raise some money to buy a generator to be able to skate some nice night sessions. When Be-mag asked me to come up with an "One Minute One Spot"-edit we already filmed how we bought our baby so we came up with the idea to make the one minute one spot our first generator edit.

Oli Benet is one of those rare occurrences- a rollerblader born with a business brain. It takes a particular strength of character to manage a skate team- making business decisions affecting a group of friends is never an enviable task. Most who try it because it sounds cool are destined to fail, yet Oli has always found a way to make it work for him. He is an asset to Powerslide; blessed with impeccable, solid style and a very English sense of humour, he has brought fresh ideas to fruition while being one of the major promoters of rollerblading to a mass market. He also has rather questionable taste in hairstyles, but I could never hold that against him.

Brian Moore, producer of the upcoming film "The City Never Sleeps", brings back some great talents to your screen. In his new film John Sullivan will get his own profile. For a taste of his profile Brian filmed an exclusive One Minute One Spot with John. Even though you may have not seen a lot from John in the past couple months, there is no denying that John knows how to entertain his audience - especially in the light of this exclusive One Minute One Spot. This is truly One Spot killed by One Man in One Minute.

This box is the only decent skateable thing in my hometown, so it seemed like best place to try the new skates. I've put my camera on the tripod and here you can see the result after 30 minutes of skating...

This 1 Minute 1 Spot was filmed at a rollerblader made handrail up in Denton, Texas. The rail is both low and mellow, and hardly ever a bust, perfect for a 1 minute 1 spot.- Lucas Palmer

Three years ago, us boys in Santee got pissed that all the good rails around here were capped, and we sucked at hand rails, so we asked our sponsors to help us build a training ground. 4X4, M1, and Remz contributed to us along with our own money to build a practice rail in Damien's yard. Since then we've been having regular legendary BBQ's and sessions like this one shown were we skate the rail and have good ole American fun. This weekend Damien, Rob, Joey and Sammy Chase and me (Nick Wood) got down like we always do all summer long. When I started seeing the "One Minute One Spot" edits I thought that our weekly BBQ's were perfect for that forum. If the Internet homo's want to bust my ball's about doing a Two minute edit they can do the math and see there is 58 seconds of skating, so suck it from Santee.

This skatepark in New Brittain, CT has started popping up in blade media over the last few years, which, for those of us who grew up skating here is kind of funny. Stanley used to be (and still kind of is) a joke of a park.

I have always wanted to skate this spot ever since i moved to Calgary, now im glad its over. Police would drive by the bridge every 20 mins eyeballing our sick skates, I got completely murdered on the bank the first time i tried it (out for 2 weeks).

Giorgio Oehlers, no new kid anymore, but a respected name in the scene. Winner of the Winterclash Amateurs in 2008 and the man behind the Rollerdam Vol.1 & Vol.2 series (online movies) where he has, in both, an amazing profile. Giorgio is also a guy who you'll never see practising, he tries the trick once and laces it first try like if he is being doing the moves for years already. Check out this 'one minute one spot' on a rail in Sliedrecht (the Netherlands) where he simply kills it. I don't know that many people who can skate a rail like that and don't even fall one time the whole session!