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Huy Le Box sesh photos

Dave Ghent — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:26:18 +0000

Huy is a talented photographer, and has been around since rollerblading took off in Toronto. I look forward to seeing more of his work. He got a few good shots from the Box Sesh, check them out.

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RollToronto Box Sesh Edit

Dave Ghent — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:03:47 +0000

RollToronto Box Sesh from RollToronto.ca on Vimeo.

Thanks for everyone that came out, it was a great time. And thanks to our sponsors for hooking up prizes: Vibralux, Street Artist, Razors, and Ground Control. The session as so much fun, we hope to have another one soon.

- Dave Ghent

RollToronto Box Sesh

Dave Ghent — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:35:38 +0000

SWS Toronto Edit

Dave Ghent — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:56:02 +0000

I randomly got an email a while back from my friend James Fisher asking “hey do you want some visitors?” Since I can’t blade, and can only live vicariously through others, I said sure, come on down.

James loaded his little VW Rabbit full, and showed up with Cody Boulay, Mikey Blair and Brian Weis.

The week consisted of:

-car crashes

-head wounds

-NHL 09 smack talk

-Mr. Noodles/E Z Mac

- AND this edit here:

Toronto Edit from cody boulay on Vimeo.

Big thanks to Rebecca for being so understanding for having a bunch of strangers crash with us, and a shout out to the SWS crew.

- Kevin Chow

Montreal Classic, June 2010

Guy — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:42:53 +0000

Canada’s biggest and most prestigious contest returned for another year, but bringing the event forward to June produced a smaller attendance- although the quality of skating was unaffected.
The amateur contest continued to be nothing short of a Montreal showcase demo with the locals taking full advantage of hours of practise to comfortably own the top spots… Respect to Max Free, Kevin Lapierre and Dan Millar who stood out for me. (Cont’d. after video)

Montreal Classic 2010 – RollToronto.ca from RollToronto.ca on Vimeo.

The Pro contest -despite a smaller turnout than previous years- was as tense as always. Jerry Butler pushing through exhaustion to throw down some of the biggest stunts capable in such a challenging park; Adrien Anne was style personified with relaxed butter-smooth switchups and a flawless zero fish down the big grindbox.
Franco Cammayo is a force of nature! Having taken a brutal fall halfway through the final (so bad it warranted the music being turned off and silence falling on the park) he pulled himself back up and carried on as if he didn’t just dent the floor with his back. Roman Abrate was smooth and showed off natural spins to fakie switch spins into grinds… mental. Chris Haffey did Haffey, turned up and killed it with his first trick- fullcab true soul to fullcab out. Everything he did was flawless. It was great to see him landing tricks first time that last year took him five or six attempts and shows just how much at the top of his game he continues to be… he deserved the win.

Finally; A massive thank you and congratulations to Stephane Julien and Marie-France Denoncourt, who were married on the day of the Classic but still were kind enough to let us stay at their house!

Montreal Classic rocked.

Montreal Classic 2010 Results

Dave Ghent — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:20:35 +0000

Haffey came and destroyed it with first try 540 true porns and everything else huge you can imagine. Franco Camayo went big, ate shit, then came back to bust out again. And Roman laced a huge 540 ao soul on the wall ledge. A lower than normal turnout still produced a great pro finals. Great work Dan Laroche and Guillaume Roy.

1st Chris Haffey
2nd Roman Abrate
3rd Franco Camayo
4th Adrien Anne
5th Jerry Butler

Official Roll Toronto Brampton 4 Box Edit

Guy — Tue, 25 May 2010 01:11:16 +0000

Its been a week, but its been worth every second of the wait. I happen to believe that the people I skate and hang out with are the coolest people on the planet, so I love that we’re taking representation seriously- I mean, have you seen the quality of the footage in this edit? Of course not, you’re probably reading this first, and good for you. Take my word for it, its going to blow the top of your mind off and possibly even leave you with some permanent damage.

Dan Lefebre is filming on a Canon 5d Mk2 using a combination of a 15mm fisheye lens and a 200mm lens and the results are breathtaking. Things you need to know about the event- Nick Wood handled the BBQ like a champ; We (well, Steve Kiley, but we were there in spirit) built our own grindbox and it ROCKED the pants off of the event, completely stealing the focus from the rest of the park; Some dude cut his head open but kept on skating regardless and Max Free hammered the biggest, gnarliest step up gap in the park… but I don’t know where the footage is.

Nonetheless- here’s Dan Lefebre’s latest HD edit, I hope you enjoy it, thanks to Dan for putting in work and thanks again to REMZ,
SHOP TASK, STREET ARTIST and VIBRALUX for their love and support, Brampton City Council for the clearance to use the park and DAVE GHENT for running the show. Can’t wait for next year! You can see a recap of the event up at Be-Mag as well.

Brampton Comp 2010 from RollToronto.ca on Vimeo.

More Brampton Contest Photos!

GuyC — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:53:58 +0000

While we eagerly await the final Brampton Contest 4 official Roll Toronto video edit, I thought I’d put a post together to showcase some of the extraordinarily good photos that people took of the event.

This first collection were taken by Huy Le who has been consistently churning out fantastic photos recently; its great to see a photographer who is constantly developing their style.

The second collection of photos come from Chris Dowswell, whose other work you can see on his blog HERE.

The video should be with you early next week ; )

Brampton Comp Results!

GuyC — Mon, 17 May 2010 01:36:58 +0000

All right, all right- I know almost every single person who checks this blog was there anyway, so you all know the results- but for those of you who don’t know, the Brampton Comp was a complete success today! Over 150 people showed up and over 60 people entered this WRS Event.

I’d like to take the opportunity to thank Dave Ghent who has tirelessly worked with Brampton Council to organise the event year after year, Corey Grantham who was instrumental in co-ordinating with the WRS staff and bringing Remz pro-rider Nick Wood into the mix and Steve Kiley for building the latest edition to the park hardware, the 14 ft long 3 ft high Roll Toronto grindbox!

Aaaand now the results!

Amateur Event
1st Pierre Olivier
2nd Alex Armbruster
3rd Adam Petrov
4th Tyler Hantor
5th Jeremy Quirion

Pro Event
1st Mike Lukewich
2nd Guy Crawford
3rd Jerry Butler
4th Nate Taylor
5th Kevin Lapierre
6th Mike David
7th Danny Beer
8th Benedict Chevrier
9th AJ Delong
10th Hans Hirsbrunner

UPDATE- Seb Gosselin stayed up all night throwing this together so that we could put it online today- Thanks so much, Seb!

Brampton Comp 4 from sebastien Gosselin on Vimeo.

Trip to Kamloops

Dave Ghent — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:12:19 +0000

I couldn’t help re-posting this. Original post on Blog-Task

Our little trip to Kamloops. from AJ DeLong on Vimeo.