On Sunday, May 26th, during the busy Memorial Day Weekend, Ski Essentials and Rollerblade teamed up in Stowe, Vermont to allow locals and tourist alike to demo Rollerblade skates. Rollerblade's…
Rollance UFS Ice Frames: An Interview with Creator Jean Denis-Caron
Jean Denis-Caron is a 35-year-old aggressive inline skater who produces Rollance UFS Ice Frames out of his home in Quebec City, Quebec. These frames have been quality tested on the…
Frank Lorenz Discusses Skating 13,368km to Win the 2018 Inline Skate Challenge
59-year-old Frank Lorenz of Germany won the Big Wheel Blading 2018 Inline Skating Distance Challenge skating 13,368.43 km (8,306.76 miles). He originally comes from Cologne, Germany but now lives in…
An Interview with Long Tonthat of Oak City Skate Shop
Oak City Skate Shop opened in September 2012 by Long Tonthat, a 30-year-old Raleigh native, passionate about skating for over 22 years.
From Aggressive to Distance: An Interview with Rob Dargiewicz, the 2018 Big Wheel Challenge Winner
Rob Dargiewicz is a 36-year-old aggressive inline skater from Derby, Connecticut. Two years ago, he also added distance skating to his blading arsenal. This year he won the 2018 Big…
Flying Eagle Skate Clubs: Getting Children to Fall in Love with Inline Skating
China has a population of 1.31 billion people and most likely the largest number of inline skaters in the world. Chinese skate brands have taken a different approach to marketing…
The 20th Colorado Road Trip Recap and Keaton Newsom’s Memorial
The Colorado Road Trip has now been an event for 20 consecutive years where we gather the crew and head into the mountains for the weekend to come together and…
The 2018 Big Wheel Distance Challenge Winners
The 2018 Inline Skating Distance Challenge This is the 2nd year we have hosted the Inline Skating Distance Challenge on the Endomondo app. The challenge is open to all inline…
Solá Equipment Launches Lightweight Metal Flat-Rocker 270mm Street Frame
Kyle Solá has been developing a lightweight metal flat-rocker frame since 2015. These frames have been skated on and tested by Dominik Wagner, Joe Atkinson and David Sizemore. Production Lot…
What Year Is It? A Weekend of Blading at Camp Woodward
In the late ‘60s, Ed Isabelle was a gymnastics coach at Penn State University in State College. He discovered an Amish farm about 30 miles east, that fatefully had a…