Catching Up On Tips, Catching Up On Photos, Catching Up On News

Catching Up On Tips: Here are a few article from the past week that contain tips; Roller En Ligne has an article about custom moulding skates. The following link will take you to an article where Christophe Audoir writes about boot selection.


The Inline Planet posted last week's skate tip from Joey Mantia; Three Keys of Technique.


Joey Mantia after a gold medal 500-meter at the 2007 world roller speed skating championships in Cali, Colombia
Catching Up On Photos: Well there's only one photo album that I haven't linked to- it's from the Scooter's Indoor Speed Club practice from last Sunday- some of the kids- pictures taken by Stephen Fisher.



2008-01-20 Mississauga Scooter’s Kids
Finishing The Catch Up On News: Alrighty, these are the final links from the last week+ that I've been 'holding onto'.

Here are a few news items- Canadian short track speed skater & Olympic medalist Jonothan Guilmette is retiring from speed skating in March- see Guilmette à la retraite for more.


A few good men- myself, Aaron Arndt, Herb Gayle, Jonothan Guilmette, Olivier Jean, and Morgan Williams
Rebecca (Bont) & Mitch had a baby girl named Zara Lily a few days ago- see Congrates Becka for more. That would make Alexander Bont an uncle- welcome to unclehood Alex!!


Rebecca & Zara Lily
Roller En Ligne has posted an interview of Jana Gegner by Vincent Esnault. If you're looking for the Englishe version on Team Rollerblade, click here.


Jana Gegner after the 2007 Rennes Marathon
Team Rollerblade has an interview with Laura Lardani.


Laura Lardani
Many people have been asking me about the TAZ- the Taz is a multi-sport skating faclility to be build in Montreal. Plans include a 200-meter indoor track. It looks like the ground breaking will take place in March. Click here for more.

The World Cup Topics for 2008 thread on Bont's Forum has had a bunch of news items posted in the last week. Most of the news is about teams and skaters.

Speedskating-online has some articles of interest- see Tyler Goff: destined to become a speed skater and also the latest spot news; The World Sprint Championships in Heerenveen.