Thank You CAN Fund

I would like to the Canadian Athletes Now Fund for their incredible and appreciated support. The fund, which ‘is a not-for-profit organization devoted solely to raising funds and awareness for Canada’s athletes‘, awarded me a grant to assist me with travel, competing & entries, equipment, nutrition & medical help, and training.
Best of all, check out CAN Fund’s [...]

Penguins Can Fly

I just think this is really cool; Penguins- see the video below- if you were waiting for penguins to fly as a sign to donate $ to SSW, well watch this video

Zen 10 Follow-up- Jennifer Rodriguez

Check out Andrew Love’s Zen 10 Follow-up, Jennifer Rodriguez. This Zen 10 is good and it is comprehensive- make sure you read it.
And once again, Andrew Love and Jessica are expecting their first child- see HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!! for more. Exciting news, isn’t it??

Training & News’ Fastest Man On The Track

Training & News has a few of recent entries that you may enjoy reading (or looking at in case you can’t decode the language)- see FMOT, Fastest man on the track, and Stage dag 1 & 2.

Renard 507 Boots

Roller En Ligne has published a review of the Renard 507 (this is where Peter drools) boots. I know someone who really wants pink Renard boots.

Chile Selection Report

A few days ago, Patin Carrera published a report on the most recent of Chile’s National Selection competition.

Christopher Verdugo- photo posted on Patin Carrera and by Carlos Batias

Tampa Classic Invitational Pictures

Check out these pictures from the Tampa Classic Invitational.

Making Use Of The Wind

In It’s Like Indoor, Only Outdoor, Candy Wong explains how making use of the wind was explained/ practiced at last night’s TISC practice. She says ‘To make the best use of wind, the attacker should force the pack to accelerate into the headwind. That means the attacker should be skating full speed and reaches the [...]

Aaron Arndt; Still Swamped

Aaron Arndt’s latest entry is called Still Swamped. He touches on some ‘recent history’ of skating and explains his set-up. He writes ‘Speaking of cool, also notice the Bell Razor helmet, far and away the coolest helmet of the decade…‘.
I agree about the Bell Razor helmet. I’ll never forget the time I bought one. I cost [...]

Ohno Zone- Apolo In Arkansas

Check out Ohno Zone’s latest entry; Apolo in Arkansas which has links to a few articles.

Mexico- The Introduction Of The Players

Road Rash Chronicles has an entry called Before we begin….. You’ll be introduced to the Canadian faces that were recently skating & competing in Mexico. You can expect more entries & posts about Mexico.

‘Ed (aka Spiderman or Hombre de la araña)‘- photo from Road Rash Chronicles

2008 Bont Vaypor Images

Check out the images of the 2008 Bont Vaypor skates.

SkatEtrain’s Tabata-Based Training Method

Here’s a training article for you; SkatEtrain’s Tabata-Based Training Method. It is written that ‘High intensity interval training (HIIT), also referred to as Tabata, is becoming an increasingly popular training method that is proving to be highly effective for burning body fat increasing both aerobic and anaerobic performance. Short but very hard and extremely intense [...]

Texas Road Rash Photos

Check out the latest set of Texas Road Rash photos by Darlene Prois posted on the Inline Planet.

Start of the Texas Road Rash- photo by Darlene Prois