Inline Street Skaters of Europe!

Dusseldorf Rollnacht Night Skate 2009

2009-06-03T11:17:00.003+01:00

From the German, 4WheelFreestyle Team, comes this 2009 video of the night skate in Dusseldorf: Rollnacht Dusseldorf.
Title: Rollnacht Dusseldorf 2009
From: 4WheelFreestyle
Length: 6 minutes, 4 seconds

http://www.4wheelfreestyle.de

Graz, Austria: City Skate

2009-05-29T19:48:00.004+01:00

A lively skate around Austria's second largest city.
Title: Cityskating Graz
From: schnee7
Length: 2 minutes 55 seconds

http://www.nightskating.at/

Helsinki: Skating Stairs

2009-01-13T23:13:00.003Z

Skating the stairs in Finland's capital in 2006!
Title: Rollerblading
from: heinonmake

http://www.youtube.com/heinonmake

London Santa Skate 2008!

2008-12-19T20:36:00.003Z

350 skating Santas take to the streets in this exuberant festive season video. Captured by the camera of Rebecca Cornford. And led by the fittest looking reindeer in England in the year 2008 - it's rumoured, Rudolph, did the choreography - this is London's answer to the economic gloom. There is a lot of red. There is a lot of fun...

Title: SantaSkate 08
from Rebecca Cornford
Length: 10 minutes 54 seconds

http://www.youtube.com/beccabing
http://www.londonskate.com

Greg Mirzoyan, Ben Brilliante & Stephane Zuber Freeskate in Paris

2008-12-16T21:52:00.005Z

Stunningly good video of freeskaters, Greg Mirzoyan, Ben Brilliante and Stephane Zuber rollerblading through the streets of Paris.

Title: Greg Mirzoyan, Ben Brilliante, Stephane Zuber Freeskate
Length: 6 minutes 54 seconds
From Rekil Studio

http://www.912crew.com
http://www.rekil.ru/

European Skate Tour, 2006: the trailer

2008-11-30T19:37:00.006Z

A compilation of skate days and nights in Europe in 2006. With Robo directing the camera, this looks to have been a great vacation during August and September of that year. This is a trailer; Robo has made individual videos of each skate of his tour; the Nice Skate is also on this blog (see sidebar).

The video was filmed in Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Nice, Avignon, Barcelona, Geneva, Luzern and Annecy.

Title: Robo Skates Around Europe: 2006 Trailer
Filmed and edited by Robo
Length: 8 minutes, 41 seconds

http://uk.youtube.com/RoboRidesAround

Dublin Rollerblading

2008-11-07T19:35:00.004Z

Featuring the skating of Brian Barron, this film by Alfred Hooi, provides an interesting view of the little reported Irish rollerblading scene. It's shot in Dublin's fair city with an arresting soundtrack.

Video: Rollerblading Ireland
Directed by Albert Hooi
Produced by Albert Hooi & Ger Benson
Skater: Brian Barron
Music by Emmanuel Santarroma - Metropolitain

http://uk.youtube.com/roshpick

Le Passage, a film by Thomas Braud

2008-11-02T11:19:00.005Z

A beautiful short film directed by Thomas Braud. Shot on location in Paris it features the skating of Xuan Lee.

Video: "Le Passage"
Director: Thomas Braud
Choreographer: Jean-Christophe Bieton
Producer: Arouna Lipschitz
Rider: Xuan Lee
Original Music: Kidedo
(length: 1 minute 31 seconds)

http://www.thomasbraud.com
http://www.v2lam.fr

Rome Freestyle Skater Franco Pulicati

2008-10-30T10:09:00.008Z

Seventy year old Italian freestyle skater, Franco Pulicati, shows his best tricks, and some of his training in this video shot in Rome. There are many inline skaters fifty or forty years younger who can't compete with this man's skill and talent. Inspiring!

Video entitled: Franco Freestyle Skater
Camera: Francesco
with Alessio & Niccolo
Length: 1 minute 57 seconds

http://www.pincio.com/

Helsinki Slalom Skaters at Midnight

2008-10-15T11:28:00.003+01:00

Oliver Loser and Janne Ahonen of Helsinki's, Finnish Freestyle Slalom Skaters, dodging among the cones on the streets of Finland's capital one dark and enjoyable night. It's got a good soundtrack, too.

Video entitled: Sleepless
from excimer78
length: 3minutes 1 second

http://www.ffss.fi/

Nice Friday Night Skate

2008-10-14T19:46:00.002+01:00

A Friday Night Skate in Nice. Joyful chaos at times and even slightly anarchic. I want to do this! This is a south of France episode from the film maker's: Robo Skates Around Europe: 2006.

Video: Friday Night Skate, Nice: September, 2006 by RoboRidesAround
Length: 9 minutes 57 seconds

http://uk.youtube.com/RoboRidesAround

Bologna skater Daniele Lenzi:Sunday after the Rain

2008-10-14T11:41:00.004+01:00

Not a city skate with crowds of skaters but a beautifully shot, short film of the talented, Italian skater, Daniele Lenzi, on a Sunday morning, after the rain, getting his wheels wet. In an expert way.

Video: Wet Slowmotion by daniele173
Rider: Daniele Lenzi
Edit: Sara Masi & Daniele Lenzi
Music: Sunday Morning by Velvet Underground
Length: 1 minute 55 seconds

http://uk.youtube.com/user/danielel73

London Shoot the Skate 2008

2008-10-13T20:14:00.001+01:00

The London skate scene in the first six months of 2008. This is an exciting compilation shot from the lens of KarmaBrown76 (London's Santa Skate, Parts 1 & 2 by KarmaBrown76 is also featured on this blog).

Video: Shoot the Skate '08 Jan-June
from KarmaBrown76
Length: 2 minutes, 5 seconds

http://www.youtube.com/karmabrown76

Cannes Film Festival on Rollerblades

2008-10-13T11:05:00.004+01:00

On getting his short film, Eyelids, accepted at the Cannes Film Festival, Brad Bischoff picks up his mistress (his rollerblades) and takes off to Cannes. A different view here of one of the short film contenders in this year's festival, 2008.

Video: Film vs Rollerblading by Brad Bischoff
Music: Doug Orey
Length: 3 minutes 12 seconds

http://www.lookatrubbish.com/

Zurich Monday Night Skate TV Commercial

2008-10-12T18:59:00.002+01:00

Shot this spring, 2008, this is a TV commercial for Zurich's Monday Night Skate. All those empty seats featured are in Switzerland's Letzigrund Stadium.

Title: Monday Night Skate Commercial: Zurich
Video length: 31 seconds
Uncertain of credits but it's from mmoviesdotnet on YouTube

http://uk.youtube.com/mmoviesdotnet

Bucharest Night of the Living Skaters!

2008-10-12T12:07:00.003+01:00

Romania: the land of midnight vampires and the setting for Bram Stoker's Dracula now gives us a Friday Night Skate with the best skate night title in Europe: The Night of the Living Skaters. It's taking place every Friday in the capital, Bucharest.

The film maker here, MavOne, has written "...it isn't a horror movie...".

Hmmm... a likely story. I smell blood...

Video: Night of the Living Skaters
Camera & Editing: MavOne
Soundtrack: Rollin' by Limp Bizkit
(3 minutes, 36 seconds)

http://uk.youtube.com/Mav0ne

Trieste Torchlit Rollermania 2008

2008-10-11T20:53:00.002+01:00

Fire from the gods flickers in the night in the Italian city of Trieste as this procession of inline skaters carrying torches rolls through its streets.

Here be skaters - lit by fire.

Video entitled: Rollermania 2008 Trieste
from Martinieffect
(length: 3 minutes 57 seconds)

http://uk.youtube.com/martinieffect

World Roller Tour of Finland does the Moscow Friday Night Skate, 2007

2008-10-11T14:51:00.003+01:00

Another video of the buzzing Moscow skating scene including a few shots of skating inside a local metro/tube train. Here, in a beautifully produced video is the World Roller Tour from Finland on an all-night Friday Night Skate in the Russian capital in June, 2007.

Video entitled: WRT Moscow 2007 - Friday Night Skating
from: WorldRoller Tour (9 minutes)
Credits:
Director/Camera/Editor: Petri Flander
Original concept/Producer: Tero Heinonen
Chief Entertainment Officer: Petri Junnilainen
2nd Camera: Christoffer Allen
Line Producer: Harri Haga
Stills: http://www.konstantinkrylov.com/
Soundtrack: "Beautiful Together" from Sealab

Oh, and they found love...

http://uk.youtube.com/worldrollertour

Rotterdam Wednesday Night Skate 2008

2008-10-11T10:14:00.002+01:00

Here's the Rotterdam Wednesday Night Skate in 2008. The Dutch season has begun and looks lots of fun in this video from tubeshivers in the Netherlands. A glimpse from another film maker of last year's (2007) Rotterdam skate can also be viewed elsewhere on this blog.

Video: 1 minute 54 seconds
Entitled: Wednesday Night Skate - Rotterdam, from tubeshivers

http://uk.youtube.com/tubeshivers

London's Sunday Stroll Skate

2008-10-10T20:36:00.003+01:00

Join ChaoYien, Sony and Vita from FSR Tarragona in Spain as they enjoy the Sunday Stroll in London. ChaoYien also filmed the Amsterdam Friday Night Skate featured on this blog.

Video: 4 minutes 36 seconds
Title: Sunday Stroll London Skate from ChaoYien

http://uk.youtube.com/chaoyien

Inline Skaters Wedding in England!

2008-10-10T09:22:00.004+01:00

This is not the usual European city skate video that features elsewhere on this blog. Here is a brief glimpse, at a traditional English wedding in a small country town outside London in 2005 - with the happy couple on wheels.

The bride and groom (skaters both on the slalom scene on Serpentine Road in London's Hyde Park) are skating off to future happiness on inlines; with the wedding party skating behind including professional inline skaters, Naomi Grigg and Asha Kirkby, this is an unconventional and charming glimpse of an English wedding a few years ago.

Entitled: Bride on Inline Wheels from Michael Rivers.
Video: 1 minute 4 seconds

http://uk.youtube.com/michaelrivers

Paris Rando Roller and Damaged Skates!

2008-10-09T23:58:00.002+01:00

Another interesting view of Paris and the Roller; here, one skater busts his skate - and one-footed - settles for drinks at the Bastille. Ah, Paris, and pavement life...

Video: (2 minutes 56 seconds) entitled: Rando Roller a Paris Foire (there should be accents on this title but I'm a klutz at the keyboard!) from reagabob

http://uk.youtube.com/reagabob

Bruges May Roller Parade 2007

2008-10-09T19:22:00.003+01:00

With the voice of Edith Piaf on the soundtrack, here are the skaters of Bruges in Belgium in the May Roller Parade of 2007.

Video: (2 minutes 53 seconds) Bruges Rollerparade from Jurgypetros

http://www.youtube.com/jurgypetros

Moscow Inline Night Skate

2008-10-09T11:15:00.001+01:00

With a laid back appealing soundtrack that starts 30 seconds into the film this is an interesting look at a skate night in the Russian capital in July of 2006.

Video (4 minutes 23 seconds) entitled: Inline Night Skating in Moscow
from evi1hare

http://www.youtube.com/evi1hare

Budapest Friday Night Skate

2008-10-08T11:59:00.003+01:00

Showing one minute of slalom before the start and finishing with a congo line of skaters through the Hungarian capital, this video must encourage buying a ticket this summer for Budapest.

Video (7 minutes) from Uracslaszlo

http://uk.youtube.com/uracslaszlo