August 27th 2010- Roller & Inline Speed Skating News

By SSW on August 27, 2010

Here’s the latest roller & inline speed skating news-

REPORTS & RESULTS

I tried to find another video to show you The Extra Special Thing. But I can’t…you had to be there. What I wanted to show you was how Joey Mantia makes skating look like ballet. Power and grace combined. It was really cool to watch. Even someone like me who knows nothing about skating could appreciate it. I’m really glad I was there.

The 2010 Rink Rabbits World Team- photo from First Loser

Ten skaters teamed up to skate 1000km’s, broken up in 8 stages- photo from here

Taking on the 24 hours solo at Le Mans in France- photo shared by REL

NEWS- MISC, BLOGS, EVENTS

International inline skating coach Bill Begg believes Timaru could host the World Inline Speed Skating Championships in 2015 once the proposed new rink on Caroline Bay goes ahead.

EVENTS- WORLDS & MORE

The road from Two Harbors to Duluth will be smoother than ever for nearly 3,000 skaters in the 15th NorthShore Inline Marathon and half-marathon on Sept. 11.

PICTURES & VIDEOS

European Championships- photo from Pattinaggio Bellusco

100k in Hallum- photo from Tims ProSkateShots

Pro masters at the Chicagoland Inline Marathon- photo from Dawn Stoppelmoor

European Championships- photo from Pattinaggio Bellusco

Sabine Berg (middle- smallest- in white & blue looking out) racing in 2002 in Germany- photo from Georg Opperskalski

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August 25th 2010- Roller & Inline Speed Skating News

By SSW on August 25, 2010

Here’s some of the latest in news, results, & more from the world of roller & inline speed skating

I’ll post links to videos and pictures later tonight or tomorrow.

RESULTS & REPORTS


Women’s finish at Germay’s X Race- photo from here

BLOGS & SKATERS

The national team from Belgium also has a new national coach, Jorge Botero. I’m really really looking forward to Worlds to meet him and learn as much as possible from him! On Wouter Hebbrecht his blog you can read much more about him, but I’m already convinced that the Belgium team will do great with him as our coach.

EVENTS

NEWS, LINKS, MISC

Revolutionized thinking for WORLD INLINE CUP 2011, I believe will be of major interest to individual skaters, sponsors & very importantly host Federation countries, major announcements shortly, the WIC will move very shortly to dispell rumours & thoughts of factional splits.

A training camp for kids was held in Germany- photo from here

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August 19th 2010- Roller & Inline Speed Skating News

By SSW on August 19, 2010

Here’s a lot of news from the world of roller & inline speed skating;

RESULTS & REPORTS

German skaters earned two bronze medals at Euros- photo from InlineNews.de

UPCOMING EVENTS

So yes the hometeam will win, yes they will be strong & yes for sure they will be desperate to Win, it will be tough for the visitors, even without the altidude situaion

MISC & NEWS

SKATERS & BLOGS

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August 12th 2010- Roller & Inline Speed Skating News

By SSW on August 12, 2010

Here are some links to recent going-ons from the world of roller & inline speed skating;

RESULTS & REPORT

NEWS & MISC

Colombia of course will gain more medals, France definately, Argentina, Belguim & the two neighbours Venezuela & Chile, New Zealand might stay around the same, but expect some colour change. Mexico & Portugal are getting closer, but not quite there yet. As for Holland who goes to the Ice & who does not, could be the difference between a possibly one or two medals.

PICTURES & VIDEOS

Men’s lead pack at the World Inline Cup in Bern- photo from WIC

Minnesota Half Marathon- photo from Dale Larson

Big Apple Roll- photo from Mike Tillman

Skating up France’s Mont Ventoux- photo from Eric Guérin

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July 27th 2010- Roller & Inline Speed Skating News

By SSW on July 27, 2010

Here’s some of the latest roller & inline speed skating news;

RESULTS & REPORTS

NEWS & MISC

Now Quinteen what I can say about the future is this, that WIC are looking at expanding & going on to bigger & better things on a World wide basis, as far as Switzerland is concerned I am not living there for several months a year now, so I do not know the feeling, But the organization I work for the AIC has signed a contract with WIC to be their official partner for Asia & Oceania except for Korea & Japan & we will become very active in 2011, a similar arrangement in other continents would be great for World wide expansion.

PICTURES & VIDEOS

Canadian Championship marathon- photo from Linda Wright-Wood

Masters at the 2010 Chicago Inline Marathon- photo from DuffManOhYea

2010 Incheon World Cup- photo from 김천수

Photo from RollerEnLigne

Italian Inline Cup # in Venice- photo from Ferrara World Inline Team

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July 23rd 2010- Roller & Inline Speed Skating News

By SSW on July 24, 2010

Here’s a ton of roller & inline speed skating news & material;

REPORTS & RESULTS

MISC- BLOG, EQUIPMENT, ADVICE

EVENTS & UPCOMING

PICTURES & VIDEOS

Central American & Caribbean Games- photo from Liga Vallecaucana de Patinaje

USA Indoor Nationals- photo from Megan Gillis

KPN in waarde- photo from Tims ProSkateShots

Training in Sweden- photo from Sk8SKOOL

Matter 2010 – 09 – B-Roll from Powerslide TV on Vimeo.

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July 20th 2010- Roller & Inline Speed Skating News

By SSW on July 20, 2010

Here is lots of roller & inline speed skating news to keep you reading, looking at pictures, and watching videos for a while;

REPORTS & RESULTS

The last 2km through my eyes: Ferre just did his last acceleration to catch a late single breakaway so now it was Maarten his job to keep the speed high. At 1km to go the Powerslide train and Bont train tried to come over us but I managed to go between them with the help of Maarten. Also team Stadler did an attack and they had the lead. At 700m from the line the speed dropped just a little but at that point I knew it was my chance to go, I accelerated and took the lead followed by Nayib Tobon and team Stadler. As I hoped I could go as first into the last corner and finish first followed by Nayib Tobon and Giacomo Cuncu finished third.

NEWS & MISC

2010 is my 13th year of inline. I’ve been on my current skates for exactly 3 years. They were about the best that money could buy when they were new. The skates are my 4 th pair of “racing” skates in 10 seasons and I am expecting to get a couple more seasons out of them (now that I have patched up the damage caused by a car tire). This year I have been averaging about 13 outings per month, the very same as in 2000. However, I take rests fairly often and actively skate for perhaps 45 -50 minutes on average.

Bont has founds its way on to a lot more feet at this year’s Tour de France than in years past- photo by James Huang

EVENTS, UPCOMING

PICTURES & VIDEOS

Young skaters at the Eastern Seaboard Series’ Summerfest- photo from Dave Dolnick

Eastern Seaboard Series- Stephan Charron helps out little Mathilde Charron- photo from Lehigh Valley SportsFest

Jonathan Blair (2nd), Joey Mantia (1st), Will Bowen (3rd) at USA’s Indoor Champs – photo from Danger Racing Ccn Sport

2010 Riverjump- photo from Frank Räcker

Training at the International Inline Complex- photo from International Inline Complex

France’s Track Championships- photo from RollerSisters

Training for the upcoming Canadian Championships in Calgary- photo from Ana Garrido

GIC in Bremen- photo from BartSwings

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July 14th 2010- Short Track & Long Track Speed Skating News

By SSW on July 14, 2010

Here’s the latest in ice speed skating;

SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING

LONG TRACK SPEED SKATING

Anni Friesinger-Postma is ending her speed skating carreer- photo from Erik Pasman (www.schaatsfotosonline.nl)

Triple Olympic speedskating gold medalist Anni Friesinger-Postma is ending her career after undergoing an operation on her right knee.

The 33-year-old German says on her website that she had hoped to participate in the 2011 world championships in Inzell. But she added: “I have to recognize now that my knee doesn’t allow me to continue in high-performance sports.”

Working for cheap on short notice wasn’t enough to convince the U.S. Speedskating board of directors he was their man, so Brad Olch opted to step down.

“Let’s just say the board decided to go in a different direction,” Olch said. “I thought things were going along pretty well. I thought everybody was happy.”

Upon discovering he wouldn’t be one of the final two candidates for the organization’s executive director opening, Olch relinquished his role as interim CEO two weeks before Monday’s hiring of Olympian Mark Greenwald.

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July 6th 2010- Roller & Inline Speed Skating News

By SSW on July 6, 2010

Here’s plenty of roller & inline speed skating news;

EVENTS & UPCOMING

REPORTS & RESULTS

Live TV by Ustream

PICTURES & VIDEOS

KPN Inline Cup in Staphorst- photo from Helena Van Wassenhove

Spain’s Championships- photo from Antonio Jiménez García

At the Spain Championships- photo from ElPatinador

German Championships- photo from Bildimpressionen

Bart Swings leads the way at the KPN Inline Cup in Staphorst- photo from Tims ProSkateShots

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July 4th 2010- Short Track Speed Skating News

By SSW on July 4, 2010

Here’s the latest short track speed skating news that I found;

Belgium’s Pieter Gysel is retiring from short track speed skating- photo from here

There is still some debate about whether a training season should start with LSD training or HIIT training. One very successful cycling club uses HIIT right from the start before introducing LSD training in to the program. It makes sense as competitive cycling is a sport where a very high cadence (pedal revolutions per minute) is important. If you start out training using a slower cadence it’s harder to shift to a higher cadence because your legs are more used to turning over slowly. I guess in my opinion it depends somewhat on the base conditioning of the athlete. Totally untrained athletes will benefit from either LSD or HIIT. But a well trained athlete with a multi-year training history may be more ready to jump in to HIIT training earlier than an untrained athlete.

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