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Shawn Adair just posted up an edit of a park session he had on July 21st. Shawn has great style and it only seems to be getting better, so check out the edit.

-Nick. D

Pimp Cup Top 8 Qualifiers.

The List of the Top 8 rollers to compete in the Pimp Cup advanced competition are as follow (in no particular order).

Mike d
Jon C
Knight
jerry B
Serge D
Aaron M
DP
Rob aka Rat

The list was posted on the VM- Messageboard by Darren Potts, the competition organizer. These top 8 have qualified for the Mid-West skate competition in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 4th. The post with the info can be found HERE.

-Nick. D

Brand New Richie Eisler Undercover Wheel

Thats right, Richie just got another pro wheel from Undercover and this time it has a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas theme. The wheels have a new compound that has been tested by Richie himself and they come in 57mm/90d. The only place I have seen these wheels sold so far is Skatepile, and can be seen HERE. If anyone running a Canadian shop sees this post, I highly suggest you sell these wheels, as the Richie anti-rockers were some of the best selling wheels last year, plus your supporting a Canadian roller.

**This information was given to me through E-mail by Patrick Fagan **

-Nick. D

Looks like Able frames is hosting a tour with its riders from July 30th to August 10th. It is an all American tour, hitting Reno, Salt Lake City, and Colorado. The tour itself will have faces such as Vinny Minton, Ivan Narez and Tory Treseder along with many others. Check out the Empir3 distribution website for more details.

-Nick. D

More Visual Minority Updates

The Visual Minority blog ran by Will Pursell just posted up pictures of the Pimp Cup competition that went down this year. There are a lot of skating and life style shots that I think everyone should check out, especially people who attended. You can check out the VM blog HERE.

Here is a sample of the photos that Will took (Which I take no credit for, and are not exclusive to Canadian Roll).

-Nick. D

Valo just released their summer and winter line pictures in PDF format. The Catalogue features the all new Valo frames, wheels, clothing, and the EB.1 Maroon skates as well as the Jon Julio velcro skates. You can download the PDF catalogue HERE or just use the web page to browse the catalogue.

-Nick.D

Visual Minority Blog Updates

Will Pursell has updated the Visual Minority blog with photos from the Hamilton Skate Weekend, Thursday Night Skate at Iceland skatepark photos, and pictures from the Drunken Pirate Party. All the photo sets are amazing, as we have come to expect from Will. I highly suggest everyone checks out each one.

Here are some pictures taken from the Visual Minority blog.

H.S.W Event.

Thursday Night Iceland Session.

Drunken Pirate Party.

If you want to check out the rest go HERE.

-Nick.D

Pimp Cup Edit On Project-Black Website

It looks like Project-Black did a great job choosing the top Ontario rollers to represent them, because at the Pimp Cup competition their team took all 3 top placing positions (Sean Knight 3rd, Jon Craig 2nd, Mike David 1st). Project Black now has released an edit of Pimp Cup 2007 showcasing not only their great team, but other rollers who participated in the competition. You can check out the edit on the Project-Black main page HERE. Respect goes out to Matt Vigneux for creating the edit.

-Nick. D

No one in this industry has had their pants or style talked about more then Chris Farmer, so it should come as no surprise that he will be getting the first pro jean from Vibralux Denim. Adam Johnson has just put up pictures of the new Jeans on Be-Mag and here is what they look like.

If you want to check out the Be-MAg post Adam made you can go HERE.

-Nick.D

Hey everybody guess what? The site/blog just turned 1 year old today. I never thought it would catch on as much as it has and I am really thankful people like the content that is on here. I hope the site has achieved some of it’s goals of uniting rollers, informing them and keeping them interested in the life style. As always I encourage anyone to give me information on my e-mails (soulassassin___2003@hotmail.com OR canadianroll@hotmail.com) and I will post it up, don’t be shy, even if I have never met you before, just let me know of an event, competition, session or anything you have coming up.

I will continue to strive to get as much information to you as possible, and hopefully see the community of Canadian rollers grow. I would like to thank everybody that helped me during my first year to help the site run smoothly as possible,Roger Wilkinson for pushing me to skate and get photos, Brian Lofgren for always providing new ideas and footage, my girlfriend Agnes Krajewski for constantly pointing out my grammatical errors, which I’m sure she will point out in this post as well, everyone that gave me interviews in my first year, you guys helped more then you can imagine, and finally people who check out the site regularly.

-Nick D’Amico.