Canadian Roll

The second annual Hamilton Skate Weekend (H.S.W) has been in the planning stages for quite sometime, and I am happy to announce that most of the loose ends have been tied up. We chose the second weekend of June to hold the event, as we feel that there is a greater opportunity for the largest possible turn out.

For those who do not know what the H.S.W is, the best way to explain the event is an anti-competition that is held in Hamilton, Ontario. At competitions people are judged against one another, which can create pressure. We here at CanadianRoll feel that this format, although useful, can be intimidating. The H.S.W is like a weekend long session where people are judged against their own abilities, if the judges feel you have stepped up your game in anyway then your name gets a check mark beside it. The more check marks you get the more chances you have to walk away with one of our numerous prizes (and this year we do mean numerous). Keep your eyes posted on CanadianRoll because some of the prizes will be shown in the upcoming days, with a few surprises thrown in. Like last years event people are allowed to sleep here in Hamilton (in fact it is pretty much expected), however you need to contact either me (Nick D’Amico: canadianroll@hotmail.com or canadianroll@gmail.com) Roger Wilkinson (st_80_roger@hotmail.com) or Brian Lofgren (waxup_allstar@hotmail.com) In order to reserve a spot before the event.

Unlike last years event, the prizes will be thrown out on the Saturday night (instead of the Sunday), which gives us the Sunday to have a relaxed session. What that means is if you want to grab some prizes you need to show up for the Friday and Saturday sessions.

That is all the updates for now, but be sure to keep checking in for more updates on the event.

Lastly, be sure to check back at the “Hamilton Skate Weekend” category that is at the top of the website (you can see it in the banner at the end of “blog” and “About Canadian Roll”) This Category will have ALL the information you need about the event.

-Nick. D

What are the “Lost Tapes” ? Well the Conference held a tour during the summer of 2006, which had some of the best skaters on their team on a European wide tour. However, the footage was lost, until recently! And lucky for us, we get to see it all for free on the ConferenceTV. The tour footage will be shown every Thursday from here on in (until they run out of footage). This week we get to see the trailers from the tour, which feature skating from Carlos Pianowski, Rachard Johnson, Billy O’Neill, Dominic Sagona, Adam Zurawiecki and Oli Benet, and were edited by Alex Rios. If you want to see the footage go HERE.

-Nick. D

These pictures were originally taken from the Roccityskate blog and showcases the fantastic photography of Nick Demarchi. If you want to see all of Nick’s shots go HERE.

Dan Barnes

Steve Bruning

Mike Torres

-Nick. D

If you have stopped by the Shop-Task website, you will have noticed that Leon Basin is going to all lengths to please his customers, and that includes putting on great deals like 3 T-Shirts for $45 dollars. What you did not know though is that Canadian Roll and Shop-Task are teaming up once again to save you even more money. If you do the 3 T-Shirt deal and you mention Canadian Roll in the comments box before you place your order Leon will make the order worth $39.99, thats right you save $5.01 just for mentioning Canadian Roll. So go ahead and stock up on T-Shirts HERE and save some money while supporting a great shop.

-Nick. D

Dave Ghent, the winner of the banner contest, which was thrown by Canadian Roll and Shop-Task, has just made an edit showing off his new skates! Be sure to be on the look out for new contests happening soon so you can get hooked up like Dave did.

-Nick. D

Well we here at Canadian Roll finally did it! The website expansion has finally been completed. Now you may say, “Things don’t look like they changed much, except for the banner” Well you would be completely wrong. If you look at right side of your screen you will notice there is a new links category called Canadian Roll and under that links category are 4 options Canadian Roll Lifestyles, Canadian Roll Reviews, Canadian Roll Spotlight, and Canadian Roll Opinions board. Each option will take you to a varying aspect of Canadian Roll as a whole, with a better overall look from before. To make you explore these options we have put up new content that you may be interested in, which is the following.

Canadian Roll Reviews.

(Banner By Jon Topping)

- A whole new in depth review on the Ground Control Forumla 1 Frame, which can be found HERE.

- Many new reviews are already completed and one will be posted each week for about 3 weeks

Canadian Roll Lifestyles

(Banner By Ariel Surya)

- A Whole write up on Canadian Roll’s history and what you can expect from us in the future. This article can be found on THIS PAGE.

- Many new picture galleries for the Dirty H (Hamilton, Ontario) can also be found on THIS PAGE.

Canadian Roll Spotlight

(Banner By Nick D’Amico, better banner coming soon)

- A big interview is in the works and will be posted up shortly, but to see all past interviews go HERE.

Canadian Roll Opinions Board

- A place you can talk about everything that is going on with Canadian Roll (whether you agree with our opinions, if you liked a certain post, if you hated it, you ideas on how to make Canadian Roll better etc etc…) You can check the board out HERE.

-Nick. D

If you have stopped by the Shop-Task website, you will have noticed that Leon Basin is going to all lengths to please his customers, and that includes putting on great deals like 3 T-Shirts for $45 dollars. What you did not know though is that Canadian Roll and Shop-Task are teaming up once again to save you even more money. If you do the 3 T-Shirt deal and you mention Canadian Roll in the comments box before you place your order Leon will make the order worth $39.99, thats right you save $5.01 just for mentioning Canadian Roll. So go ahead and stock up on T-Shirts HERE and save some money while supporting a great shop.

-Nick. D

If you have stopped by the Shop-Task website, you will have noticed that Leon Basin is going to all lengths to please his customers, and that includes putting on great deals like 3 T-Shirts for $45 dollars. What you did not know though is that Canadian Roll and Shop-Task are teaming up once again to save you even more money. If you do the 3 T-Shirt deal and you mention Canadian Roll in the comments box before you place your order Leon will make the order worth $39.99, thats right you save $5.01 just for mentioning Canadian Roll. So go ahead and stock up on T-Shirts HERE and save some money while supporting a great shop.