Canadian Roll News # 40

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If you go to the ONE magazine website you will be able to download the second chapter of the first magazine as a PDF file, that alone is news worthy, but this is CANADIAN ROLL and you know I love me my Canadian skating, so what made this second chapter so amazing was a Better Than Baseball review done by Justin Eisinger. It seems with the introduction of ONE the SOL crew, and more important Canada is getting the recognition they deserve, and in all honesty I could not think of a better skate video to do this. When I saw Better Than Baseball I witnessed a visual symphony that I believe everyone should experience. My favorite quotes from the article would have to be “Better Than Baseball” is sure to bring the often misinterpreted Canadian scene some much-needed but possibly confused attention.” And, “…these guys skate like they stared at reruns of Pee Wee’s Playhouse too long after eating a bowl of Lucky Charms laced with LSD.” I couldn’t have put it better myself. So go check out the Chapter 2 of the first ONE magazine and feel proud to be a Canadian skater, because we kick ass, EH!.

Video News

Recently clips from the Shop-Task Ontario video involving a bum giving skate lessons to some Greater Toronto Skaters, has been posted on Youtube. These clips seem to be getting a lot of play on Youtube, as well as a lot of hits on Rollernews and I believe I saw a Be-Mag thread about them. It is great to see a great DVD get recognition. So if you haven’t gotten a copy of Shop-Task Ontario E-mail shoptask@hotmail.com and go buy a copy, it will be money well spent. You can check out the clips HERE and HERE.

Recently Jon Craig has posted an edit on VM-Magazine messageboard, which he called Skaters of the GTA on Youtube. I personally think the skating is amazing and a good representation of the Greater Toronto Area, so a big thank you goes out to Jon for spending time creating the edit and giving us something to watch that is truly Canadian. You can check out the post HERE and the video HERE.

Matt G. from the Outaline messageboard has recently posted a Skatepark clips from Penticton and Ben Lee park, which shows innovative skating of the park. I think it is a great series of clips that everyone should check out on Youtube. So you can see the post HERE and the video HERE.

Rumor News

Usually rumors don’t make news, or at least not very good news, but recently some really great hints have been dropped. Firstly Garett aka “Blader” has made hints at a brand new frame from kizer that supports people who ride flat and anti-rocker. You can check out there posts on the Outaline messageboard HERE and HERE. Since Garett has been working on redoing the Kizer website, his word is as good as gold to me that these things are real, in fact even if he didn’t work on the website his word would be as good as gold.

Lately, if you have gone to the VM-Messageboard you would notice posts saying “Project Black is coming”, what project black is, I have no clue, but it seems alot of the GTA figure heads know whats going on and it is going to be big, so keep your eye on that. Check out the Project Black website HERE.
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