World LT Masters, Cheek's Roanoke, USA Races, 3 Keys To Speed, Skating Budget, REL News, Jeugdmarathon, Link, Enjoy Skating, Italian Indoor Vids, Begg

World LT Masters: Click here and you'll be able to find all sorts of results from the World Masters LT Championships.

Andrew Love has a couple of more entries leading up to the competition; see Erfurt and 3 years & 500 posts.. Looks like Andrew had the fastest 500-meter time of all skaters.


'I was relieved, with the tightness of the track, to have the inner start/final outer in the 500m'- photo and caption from Andrew Love
Cheek's Roanoke: Michael Cheek posted a report on the Blue Ridge (Roanoke) Challenge. He writes 'Basically the meet lived up to the nickname of 'winter nationals'' and goes on to say 'UGLY-ummm nothing really.. I crashed on the last corner of the 5 lap when that pesky pylon reached out and grabbed my foot. That was pretty ugly'.

USA Races: Here's some USA Roller Sports information; USA Indoor Nationals schedule and a whole bunch of information on the USA Banked Track & Road Championships.

3 Keys To Speed: Here's a super good skate tip from the Inline Planet written by the legenday Tony Muse; Three Keys to Technique.


'Tony Muse is edged out in the skate vs cyle challenge at the Downers Grove Criterium (circa 1995). Winning the race was Olympic gold medalist Steve Hegg'- caption and photo from the Inline Planet
Skating Budget: Here's a good question for many of us; So Whats Your Skating Budget?.

REL News: Here are a few updates from Roller En Ligne; the roller location map of France is quite full- click on the little yellow dots and you'll get more places to skate.

Click here for a report on the French Indoor Nationals in Saint Brieuc.


Photo from Roller En Ligne
Click here for Chapelle-sur-Erdre results.

I found this link thanks to REL; an interview (en Francais) with Ewen Fernandez.


Ewen Fernandez (in the white, blue, and red France colours) at the 2006 Junior World Roller Speed Skating Championships in Anyang, Korea
Jeugdmarathon: Harm de Boer Fotografie posted some photos from the Jeugdmarathon (pages 6 and 7 have photos of all sorts of falls...).


Photo from Harm de Boer Fotografie

Photo from Harm de Boer Fotografie
Link: How cool is this? My site is linked on the 2008 World Roller Speed Skating Championships Enlaces de interes (links) page under the Mundo De Patinaje section.

Enjoy Skating: A short post by Jacky Shu and perfect for this time of the year- Still Skating- he says 'but more importantly, I began to have fun in skating'. Also check out today's Enjoyed it.

Italian Indoor Vids: Here are a couple of videos from the recent Italian Indoor Championships (I don't remember if I linked to them or not). I found them on Pattinaggio Bellusco- check them out here and here.

Begg: More endorsments are coming in for Barry Publow's Science Of Speed- one of the more recent positive reviews comes from Bill Begg- in Bont's forum, he writes '...Originally when he was involved as the Canadian coach the results were not forth comming, so that was something which was basically beyond his control.

Myself & many others were judging him on his coaching results, rather than his ability to write a decent book, I am a Great Coach, who can Write, He is a Great Bookwriter who can Coach.

In a similar situation the late Charlie Whalig, said to me when I first went to coach Colombia, that I would be judged on my predecesor Bobby Kaiser's results & achievements.

I told him I had no fear of that, Bobby Kaiser was a skating great, I was not, but I am a great Coach, but he is not. SAme Game, but different areas of speciality expertise.

But What Barry does Very Good & better than I for one & most of the rest of the World do, is gather Specifically Skating Information & utilizing his knowledge & present it in email or Book form to the World.

These people that are good enough to,or auctually do it are very rare & few & Far between, they have to make sales to try & survive, in order to hope they can one day write another book, so if we knock them around to much, they might go down for the count & thats the end of that.

Barry has to overcome the fact that he comes from Canada,which is not a Colombia, Korea or Italy of the skating World, so has to work even harder to coalate his information.

So one advantage is that he is not ingrained in any particular system, with indoctrined ideas, so he can probably have a more subjective view of the overall picture.

Another big advantage for us people, is that it is in English, not Italian or Spanish, where most the material originates from. So English Coaching versions are few & far between'.

Meanwhile, if you're looking for Beggsport Coaching Series information or you wish to ask some questions of the videos, click here.