Our friends over at Blade Ventures have had quite the trip through South America the past eight months. The journey began when Marian Sorge and Santiago Lopez departed Brazil on…
Caleb Smith Goes on an Epic Winter Skate Adventure Throughout the USA
Caleb Smith is an aggressive, urban and distance skater from Des Moines, Iowa. This past winter he had some time off work and decided to make a trip and get…
The Roll ATL Grand Opening: Atlanta’s Newest Skate Shop
One of the most frustrating things for many skaters is finding an actual brick and mortar retail store to try on and buy skates at. In the past decade cities…
Skater Migration 2018: Social Rollerblading in Miami, Florida
I hadn’t planned on going to Skater Migration this year. In truth, I was still exhausted from Athens to Atlanta and was recovering financially from an extensive 2017 skate season.…
Mike Lempko About to Embark on a Coast to Coast USA Adventure
Mike Lempko is a 26-year-old inline skater from Buffalo, New York. He has lived in Denver for the last three and a half years but recently returned to Buffalo to…
Tomy Hyser & The Rollerblade 10K Challenge “Fun With New Friends”
Tom Hyser is a 42-year-old former professional aggressive inline skater from Roswell, Georgia near Atlanta. Tom ran skatepile.com, an online skate shop, from 1999-2008. Since then he has been working…
Caleb Smith to Solo Skate South America Starting This Fall
I’m very excited to announce that I have made plans and am fully committed to rollerblading across South America starting this fall. It is a dream of mine to rollerblade…
5 Things I Did Wrong & 5 Things I Did Right at A2A 2017
A First-Timer’s Perspective Skating the Athens to Atlanta Ultra-Marathon A2A was last October, and I still can’t quite believe it happened. This post has actually been months in the making…
Angie Wong the Woman Behind the Pengzhou International Marathon
From Professional Skater to Event Organizer, Angie Wong is Pushing the Sport in China The Pengzhou International Marathon near Chengdu, China took place April 21st, 2018. The event not only…
Ninja Blader Sean Michaelson Competes on American Ninja Warrior
Sean Michaelson is an aggressive Libertyville, Illinois, skater living in Winthrop Harbor. He turned 34 years old on April 30th, the night he achieved his dream of running on American…