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Mind the Gap goes Switzerland. Sven Boekhorst's event series just had this year's first stop. As usual this event attracted a lot of spectators.

First Sundays was awesome as usual, we had over 50 people at this session come out and enjoy a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon at the new Lincoln Skate Plaza. We had people like Kruise Sapstein, Rob G, Anthony Williams, Russell Day, Chris Calkins, Rudy Avila, of course Jeremy Soderburg who is one of the organizers and a ton of other rippers. The skate park has such a nice flow to it and I spent most of my time on skating the nice small p-rail which was a lot fun for everyone. We had a 50 person p-rail session going on at one point during the day.

I decided to hold this session a month ago because I did not see a lot of people since Winterclash and Try2Roll. I usually meet my friends from Stuttgart and Munich very rarely, too. A good movie and the facts that Marco Baltrokko is about to become a father, Highspeed Manu moves together with his long-time girlfriend and Daniel Rothenberger just got 30 years contributed in the title: Old Men In New Parks.

The Rolling Rock skate shop & park was founded in 1996 by Simon Eichenberger and Thomas Georg. Local heroes like Beni Huber started skating here and the Rolling Rock Team consisted of influential Swiss skaters like Sandro Brun, Jona Messerli, Cossimo Tassone und Beat Schillmeier. Theres just a small market for "aggressive" skating in Switzerland and that’s one of the reasons why the skatepark is built to cater to families and their weekend recreation. A round course, hockey fields, a trampoline and lots of small stuff to have fun on with the family. Of course there was the big vert ramp and the large curved quarter which fills one entire side of the park.

On day 3 of the tour, we woke up to a sunny Tarragona's day, everything looked perfect, and we decided to go Reus Skatepark to meet with the other bladers and start the sesh. The weather was super hot under the killer spanish sun. For lunch time, we moved to a bar to have some tapas.

As a pure rolling magazine we are heavily interested in showing you the rawest and best talents in our industry. While you might have seen a dozen edits of these people, you most likely didn't get a chance to take a deeper look into their life outside the rolling aspect. With this new format we want to give you the opportunity to get to know more about your favourite pros. We decided to kick off this new picture-based format with Jeff Stockwell who has been in the game for more than a decade and has been one of the most influential rollers ever! Jeff sent us some of his favourite shots that open the curtain a bit and will give you a good insight into his character.

We arrived early at the Villanova la Geltru so we decided to eat an early lunch made up purely of meat, grease, fried foods, eggs and grease and went on to the park to represent. It was good to see some familiar faces of the Barcelona scene alongside a ridiculous amount of scooter riders. I had heard scootering was on the rise, but this was absolutely ridiculous. There was over 40 scooter riders per square meter.

Inercia is the most important shop in Spain, supporting a crew of the most representative and best street skaters from Barcelona. This crew just decided to have a chill weekend skating parks in towns around Barcelona, having good times with all the kids and bladers around!

Tuesday 10th of May. Around 3 pm we all met up at the first spot which is a really good ledge in the center of Linköping by this really big concert and performance center called Konsert & Kongress. The cops showed up and gave us escort the whole day so we could get on with our contest without having people interfere. On 4 pm we started the competition and as usual Joachim Wall, Samuel Cabezas and Joakim Lundberg were lacing good tricks on the ledge. We sessioned the ledge for about an hour and after announcing the best skater of the spot – which was Samuel Cabezas – we all moved on to the next spot.

Welcome to the midwest. Witness the endless spread of corn. The tilled earth reborn. You are now traveling through a story about rollerblading – a story about what it’s like to be a rollerblader in a small town, about the bonds between bladers, about the confusion of growing up, about really bad skate spots. You are entering another dimension. That’s the sign post up ahead...

On May 7th, a few good friends and I headed down to the Neglected Truth Skate Shop 7th Annual Birthday Box Jam. The jam was held in an empty parking lot down the street on just about the grittiest piece of black top you could ask for. The lot is sloped downhill and provides for a perfect street course; minus the hike back up every 3 minutes. This year the jam had more obstacles than ever and lived up to its expectations. The NT Birthday Box Jam seems to improve each year and maintains support from some of the gnarliest of bladers.

Friday 6th of May around midnight Joe Atkinson arrived in Linköping as our secret guest rider for the Skateweek comps and demos. Joe has been a good friend of mine for years now and I'm really happy to have him over for this event. As it was getting late we just chilled for a bit then went to bed since Saturday was gonna be a busy day for us.