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Like every year, Be-Mag will report live from the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. One of the most special festivals in the World will open its doors on Saturday night and next to happy vibes, beautiful people, great music and tons of stuff to do, there will also be some shows to present Inline to a wider public.

It rained all day today. I am now writing from Milan, Italy where we are on our 3rd day of the Nomades Tour. I have now officially been on the road for a month and 2 days and I uh... am not actually sure how to feel about it, haha. Life has changed quite a bit for me in the last month and a half. Before I left I was living in Orange County and was a Raw Vegan for 2 and a half months. Now I am not living in Orange County any more, am back on the road till at least August 16th (when RB Cali Tour ends) and have been basically on the bread, cheese, beer, and fizzy water diet since I have been in Europe. I love fizzy water.

Traitement was filmed and edited by Jonas Hansson and features skating by Dominik Wagner, Robert Guerrero, Jacob Juul, Gabriel Hyden, Mathieu Heinemann, Anders Rishøj and Marc Moreno. This Be-Mag production was filmed in Paris, Copenhagen, Berlin, Chicago, Innsbruck, Barcelona and New York. The video is now available for download on Freestyle Culture!

After the price giving at the Fise we left straight to Italy for the RB 2012 Collection presentation. In total it was a 950 km drive which took us 8 hours. I started driving the first 2 hours but soon I felt my eyes getting heavy. So Rob took over and drove almost straight to Italy, thanks to the Red Bull he took 2 hours before arriving.

We started our journey from the Barcelona airport to pick up Svenergy. Once he got situated and we tetris-ed our luggage in the Rollerblade vehicle, we started on our way to Montpellier. I must admit, My nose was buried in my sketchbook almost the whole trip. When we arrived, we settled into our badass bungalow right on the ocean front. After we brought our luggage inside, we headed over to the bar Fise had sponsored. I was pleased to see that the name of this particular bar was the “Manhattan”, dressed appropriately with red, white, and blue stars and stripes almost in every direction. I was almost helpless to feel anything but a little cocky seeing on how I'm a southern blood American.

I was in Italy last week and I began to do the write up for our stay in Barcelona when I somehow just deleted the whole thing. What was most interesting to me was that I wasn't mad. I mean, I felt myself start to get mad and start to react like any rational person might after doing such a thing, but this time was different. I felt like I had the option not to. I mean, it already happened, and it was by no means a conscious move towards righteousness but it was already said and done with. So after having to tell Greg and Sven about it I let it go. A pretty awesome transformation on my behalf. For myself anyways.

Good things take time - you all know that. We haven't been the first to throw out the Chaz Sands Invite 2011 contest edit. But we are sure that this what you can see here compensates your waiting. And the good thing, this is just the first edit. Another one is one the road. So lean back, get some Popcorn and enjoy the show.

And here is another edit straight from Scotland featuring the boys on the Scottish streets and on different skateparks. Always a pleasure to see the fast growing scene from Scotland. Keep it up.

Unused footage of Colin filmed between 2008 and 2010. Enjoy!

High Touch video magazine number 9 is featuring the 14 years old young gun Eiji Sakihara from Japan.

After a week of non-stop rain in New York City, we finally had a day in the sun to shred. Foley square would be the meet up location for the “End of the World” session with the Valo Team. Bladers came from all boroughs in NYC for a chance to hang out and skate with some of their favorite pros. Present were Jon Julio, Erik Bailey, Franco Cammayo, Alex Broskow, Ivan Narez, Brandon Smith and Victor Arias. The session began on the steps of the Supreme Court Building, where people seemed to be getting worked coming off the court house gap.

Team Rollerblade International is touring Europe from late April to end of June and Rob just sent us this nice little photo update documenting their trip through his very eyes and words. We hope to get a little series going with this, so stay tuned!