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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!

Hey, my name is Cameron Talbott, I am from Missoula, Montana and I ride for Valo and Aggressive Mall. Recently I took a trip to a small village in Belize, where I did some volunteer work for a place called Liberty Children's Home. Prior to leaving I contacted my friend Justin from Amall to see if he would be in to sending some stuff down for the kids. Even though my trip had nothing to do with skating, Justin was more than willing to send me down we some things to help contribute.

On Saturday 14th of May the demo team gathered for the last time. We were supposed to do the pre-demos before the big show inside Cloetta Center which is Linköpings big sport arena where they usually host hockey games. Around 8000 people went by the mini and watched for a bit before heading into the big show so I guess we had a big crowd watching that day.

Watch these edits to find out what went down at the competition at Hangaren Hot Sports Center during the Linköping Skateweek 2011!

Uk Razors Flow Jamie Stenner and Ian Henrie stepped into the new Razors Horn Pro Skates. Sim Warren has caught them on tape while they were shredding this sweet weather-proofed skatepark.

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.