General numbers are going down since the late nineties. That’s what most people running a business in blading for that long will tell you behind closed doors. But how come there is still shops out there, if everything is going downhill for 20+ years already? We want to know what it really takes to run...Read More

Some say, being a professional means being able to make a living of it. In times when our scene isn’t the biggest anymore and almost everyone competing in PRO at Winterclash is living a normal life with a normal job, there seems to be a different meaning to the term PRO. But there’s different stories...Read More

If you fall, get back up. Well, what if that’s easier said than done. What if your skating is the best it can possibly be, and you’re on top of the game and one little fall changes everything? Taking a long break, having to go through surgery and recovery? Is it possible to get back...Read More

There was a time when a pro rider could earn $ 10.000+ by just putting a sticker of a brand on the helmet. Huge prize money, proper contracts with good monthly payment, huge travel budgets and fancy hotels. It was possible to make a living of blading. And than, slowly, things started to change, budgets...Read More

When everyone is whining about tricks and spots being so small today, Beat Schillmeier is laughing out loud while destroying the next rail or ledge that most humans wouldn’t even touch. His edits and video parts are a celebration of the term “hammertime” and his technical abilities on rails are just as great. We are...Read More

2019 has been the last time Yuri Botelho competed at Winterclash. In the meantime he changed his boot sponsor and is now pat of the Gawds team – and he is just as much on fire as always. We are looking forward to welcome back the Brazilian street-weapon in just a few days. Photo: Javiera...Read More

Every once in a while, when people start to believe that everything in blading has been done before, when watching several blading edits in a row turns everything into an ever same uninspiring puree, we need something refreshing. Something unexpected, something irritating, provoking and something creative and mind-opening. Danny Beer releasing some new clips has...Read More

Be creative, be funny, be stupid – win a lifetime guest list spot for Winterclash, 3 minutes of fame on the Winterclash podium and a Skatepro gift card. That’s right: We teamed up with Skatepro to reward and honor the best, most funny, most creative, most amazing sign of the weekend. This can be anything...Read More

Spins, flips, disaster grinds and all of that combined. Stephen Swain always went bigger than most others. If you have ever seen him at a “chill” session at Rampworx Skatepark or at one of the events held there, you know what we are talking about. Highspeed, all in, hammertime! During the past years he stepped...Read More

Sean Darst is a street skater by heart. The few clips that are available make us want more. Much more. And every time he strapped his boots on for a few tricks at Winterclash he became one of the eye catchers of the heat. There is so much details to be found in his riding...Read More