_Thank you everyone for coming to watch Valo4Life

The Valo video is a power house feature and a must have for any one who appreciates what skating is today. The tricks are fresh and the time and craft that went into making this video is extremely high level stuff. Aside from the bonus footage the main running time is about an hour so there is plenty to take in.

Thank you Lylac Skate shop in Montreal for hooking it up with the original shipment that was lost in the mail and thank you Jon for the speedy backup copy.

Just before the original premiere date I went on a road trip with Aaron Wheat to our neighbor city Montreal to skate and meet Guillaume Roy of Shop Lylac to grab a copy of the video. Even though we didnt get it at that time, the trip was awesome and like always I cant wait to go back. This is the “In search of valo4life” edit. Session features Dan Lefebre, Aaron Wheat, Sylvain Chaussee, Maxence Valade and Nicky Adams.Enjoy!

- Dan

Along the way from RollToronto.ca on Vimeo.

_Valo4Life Premiere is ON!

This Sunday, Toronto’s ‘The Central’ bar and restaurant plays host to the Ontario premiere of Valo’s latest masterpiece- Valo4Life. With fully tricked out sections from each of their elite pro team, this DVD is a banger! The event starts at 4pm with the movie airing at 4.30 once everyone has got a drink in hand and some grub in front of them.

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603 Markham Street
Toronto, ON M6G 2L7
(416) 913-4586
The Central Website

Rumour has it that attendees are in for an extra special treat…

_Well… this is awkward.

I love vert. I love vert so much sometimes I forget what I’m doing and imagine I’m lofting a giant 540, gravity wailing unhappily as I pivot upside down around my head for an all to brief moment. I digress- the point I’m gently butchering is that vert skating single-handedly rescued rollerblading for me. I look forward to Wednesday night like no other- it is the one evening in the week when I get to fly.

Tonight I got kicked out of the only park in Ontario with a vert ramp (name withheld because honestly we all know where I’m talking about). Apparently making the coping slide faster is unacceptable- silly rabbit, coping isn’t meant for grinding! I found myself being accused of waxing the coping for at least a year and being asked abruptly to leave. For months and months I have defended the park to my friends- “I know the street course sucks, but the vert is amazing!” and forcing them against their better judgement to turn up and skate with me. I’ve encouraged my neighbours to bring their kids along week after week and have helped to nurture a slowly expanding beginner scene in Toronto again.
For months now there has been a feeling that certain members of staff have been going out of their way to remind us that we’re a minority sport and tolerated at best. What the hell?

I’ve been told to ask again in a month if I can skate vert again; I don’t want to go back and beg for their permission to give them money. I’ve tried to be patient with the staff; tried to defend their decision to progressively downgrade the street course; to defend their abuse of my friends, to defend their sheer intolerance of another sport that just happens to be less popular than theirs right now.

Where is the breaking point? I think I finally reached it. I’m not in any way suggesting a boycott of the park; as the aggressive gentleman said tonight, they don’t care if we communally stop showing up- they believe they’re doing us a favour putting on a blading night and it won’t hurt them in the slightest if they just cancel it altogether.

I did NOT see that coming.

Night.

_Inflow Edits *Update* by Darren Potts and Aaron Wheat

Another week, another Inflow edit, amirite? Here’s two edits to brighten your day and drag you out of the winter doldrums! Sunday night is the new Wednesday night.

Darren put together an edit from two weeks ago (with rare footage of the elusive Colin Parrish)-

Wheat put together some quick hits from last night- Thanks Wheat, you’re a boss.