The Leading Nations in the World of Skating: Inline Downhill
The Downhill Skating scene has a kernel of countries for which the culture of skating is just as extreme as the practice itself. Alexandre Lebrun is lifting the veil...
View ArticleHow to clean and take care of your bearings?
As an essential part of your skates’ performance, your bearings have to be closely looked after. You don’t always necessarily have to dismantle them. But if this is the only option left, here are a...
View ArticleA meeting with Sébastien Rastegar, downhill racer and also qualified for 2017...
Sébastien Rastegar is a French inline downhill skater and he is qualified for the first stage of the Redbull Crashed Ice in Marseille (France)...
View ArticleHow to Choose Your Skates?
Esthetics set aside — being a very personal criterion —, choosing a pair of skates, inlines or quads, lies on many objective criteria, varying according to several parameters: type of practice,...
View ArticleGuided Tour of the 2017 Roller Games Facilities in Nanjing, China (3/3)
This is the last part of our guided tour of the facilities that will host the 2017 World Roller Games. Let's finish the tour with the areas dedicated to Downhill Skating, Inline Alpine, and Artistic...
View ArticleVisiting the World Roller Museum in Nanjing, China
While visiting the facilities of the next Roller Games in Nanjing, we had the opportunity of visiting the FIRS World Roller Museum, which opened for the Speed Skating World Championships in September...
View ArticleDownhill Falls: First Leg of the 2017 Inline Downhill World Cup in Sora, Italy
The first leg of the 2017 Inline Downhill World Cup took place in Sora (Frosinone), Italy, on June 24 and 25. Situated between Roma and Naples, the little town boasted a 1.3km downhill route, both...
View ArticleSecond Leg of the 2017 Downhill World Cup: Ambrose Downhill in Sant'Ambrogio...
The second leg of the 2017 Downhill World Cup took place in Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella on July 1 and 2, 2017. The 2.8 km course, set up north of Verona on the heights of the lake, gave a hard time...
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