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Mathias Silhan & Jon Matter were in Zurich for a day. An occasion for 21Lifestyles to learn a little more about their mindset and the driving force behind these two friends hailing from Strasbourg (France). Involved with the scene for a long time now, they told us about their personal experiences, talked about their vision for streetskating, as well as their future involvement with the GTK Tour 2011

As you may have already heard, the City of Escondido is in the process of deciding wether the our skatepark is worth keeping open. Help us preserve a landmark in Southern California blading, please post this flyer wherever you can to help us promote our rescue session, this Saturday at Escondido Skatepark, May 7th from 4pm - 7pm. You'd better believe that all the legends and local rippers will be out to support, so even if you aren't able to skate, it'll still be great to watch! Let's show the city how important our park is to us. They've got the funds, we've got the numbers! Save Escondido Skatepark!

On a rainy Tuesday night in April, I dropped my plans and headed south to skate a quick session with Franco Cammayo and Dominik Wagner at Shields Skatepark in Flemington, NJ. Dominik had spent several weeks of April in NYC to work on the second installment to his published photography book titled "Forever Now."

It’s Friday the 22nd of April, time for the world premiere of Australian DVD ‘Seven Rats’. It was in a dark and filthy cobblestone alleyway right in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD that the red carpet was rolled out for all who attended. The appropriately named ‘Rancho Notorious’ was the venue for the evening. Inside on the first level was an old warehouse converted into a gallery showcasing talented Melbourne artists, but this didn’t take importance away from the bar which was serving the finest local and imported beers, wine, and an enormous cheese platter (real rat food). Like most who attended, Josh Clarke strolled in with his eyes set on the bar. The event and venue was one that Melbourne rollerbladers had not experienced before for a premiere, and everyone knew this meant something special.

We are sad to bring you this announcement. One of our long companions in pushing skating is closing as of now. Ignition has been supporting Be-Mag since the very first day they launched. Thank you for all your support! We will also do a more in-depth story with ignition once the dust has settled.

Here is yet another edit featuring Alex Broskow, Brian Freeman, Killa Kai, Dave Lang, Montre Livingston, Jimmy Shuda and many more. Peep it.

In 2001 I briefly met a man who everyone was trying to speak to, all the young skater kids wanted to see his next big trick and I have to admit I did, too. This man was Richard John Taylor who had been ripping up the scene since he turned professional at the age of 15 after winning the World Amateur International Inline Skate Series. If you have never heard of Richard, someone you know would have. All you have to do is see videos of Richard to see why he was so admired and famous for his upbeat attitude to life, he coined the phrase “It’s all good” and those three words could not encapsulate his character better.

We have so many skate parks in LA county. We also have a huge blade scene that is growing faster than ever. With those two things in mind Jonathan Labez, Jeremy Soderburg and myself, Quinn Feldman, decided to put together "First Sunday Sessions." So every first Sunday of every month we pick a skate park and organize a giant session.

Time to look ahead to the Slamm Jamm 13. Here is a short recap edit of what went down in the past years of this traditional UK rolling contest.

Wheelscene.co.uk just released an interview with Austria's finest Gabriel Hyden.

Check out this park edit featuring Florida's youngster Roman Daricek at Myers skatepark.

Germany’s biggest extreme sports channel – sport2.de – just posted up a review about our latest video production...