Sch3lp’s Blog

Been neglecting my blog thanks to new hypes such as: MySpace and Facebook.
So here are some of the highlights in my life of 2008.

Discovered:

• “The Flight of the Conchords” (they’re from New Zealand)
• “Chuck”
• “The Sopranos” (I know, I’m late…)
• “Black Lagoon”
• “Battlestar Galactica”
• “The Presets”
• “RJD2”
• Dubstep (Cal & Syke @ Stubru)
• Quake Live!
• Texas Hold’Em Poker

Rediscovered:

• “Amon Tobin”
• some 90s hits
• Quake Live! (because generally speaking, it’s just Quake3)

These are some of the skating highlights:
Got myself some Seba High’s (2008 model)!

Went to Singapore for the 2008 WSSA World Slalom Championship, under the banner of . Got to know lots of new people, became more close with a certain few skaters. Had an awesome time. Got really sick on the flight home though, but that’s an entire story at itself.

ConeCrazy has been developing at a steady pace. We gave 2 series of 10 times 2hour freestyle slalom lessons to a dozen students of Lommel Inline.We went to Battle Warsaw in Poland where we made lots of new friends. Also went to BattleUK 3. The amount of regular slalomskaters is growing slightly and the general level of everybody is rising every week. It’s almost weekly that we go to sportshall “Demerstrand” in Diepenbeek. We also got team t-shirts and made lots of publicity on the RollerParade’s in Hasselt and Antwerp, also worth mentioning are the numerous demonstrations we did.
We also started the organisation of Battle Belgium 2009.

Had a memorable evening at Jill’s RollerDisco in the St-Niklaas NewPact skatepark, which burned down a few months ago

Went to ’s Slalom retreat pilot in London, met lots of new awesome people. Learned a bunch of technical tricks (Yes! From Naomi!)!

Competed at the IFSA competition in Brussels (first real international freestyle slalom competition in Belgium)

Went to the IFSA competition in Milano, Italy as a judge… and screwed lots of stuff up :s On the plus-side, I met Ciro and Rosella, possibly the nicest people I’ve met in my entire life.

Work:
Now working one year in Cegeka’s Software Factory, and it’s still friggin’ awesome.

Relationships:
Experienced some eye-opening events in relation to the fascinating subject that is: women.

Bad news:
My grandmother on my father’s side passed away. My dad doesn’t have any parents left anymore now .

That’s about it for 2008. As you can see nothing ground-breaking stuff there.
Current situation:
Still single, still working happily at Cegeka, still skating, sort of stopped Kendo :s, don’t game as much as I used to (which I really don’t mind actually), not going on a snowboarding holiday this year (want to spend more time going to Freestyle Slalom competitions).

And last but not least, leaving for Moscow tomorrow ! *psyched*

I’ll do my best to update this blog every so often, if you actually wanna stay in touch with me, I recommend Facebook. It’s the new “Msn”.
I’ll definitely update after my trip to Moscow. Woo !

*Sch3lp signing out*

Goddamn, Dubai really is zero-tolerance when it comes to law enforcement.
Even one of the top Drum’n'Bass DJ’s doesn’t slip through the net.
Read this: Grooverider sentenced to four years

It’s been a while so I’ve got lots of news to tell and even more pictures to share.

We went to the 4WheelFreestyle weekend in Mönchengladbach, Germany, where a lot of “famous” skaters went to, and where one of the events of the World Slalom Series took place.
I had a great time meeting all of them and of course meeting our friends from the Netherlands again. Also met a few other _really_ cool people from Poland. Shout-out to Lidia and Rafal !
Next to “meeting new people”, there was also skating to be done of course. I had the “luck” to be in the same battle-group as Xuan Le (who ranked third) and Christian Leffel (who eventually won the competition). Only the 2 first of each battle-group qualify for the next round, so yeah, obviously I got bumped quite fast .
I had a great time nonetheless, and I’ve added lots of new tricks to my skillset as well.

Big thank you to Rudy Op ‘t Veld for teaching me lots of stalls, and to Naomi and Tae-hong (coach of the Korean NoBreak team) for some stylish moves.
Now that I’m in my “thank you’s”, might as well go on and give thanks to 4WheelFreestyle for the great organisation and location. Real good work guys.

Thanks to Diederik Schouten for bringing along my brand new blue Seba 2008’s with you, so I could use them to jump over 1m15 in the FreeJump competition (first time I competed in FreeJump and got 2nd place! woo! yay!).

And thanks DJ (sorry, forgot your name already ) for showing me this track-title: Moloko - Sing it back (Matthew Herbert’s Tasteful Dub). Pure bliss!

Biggest thanks go out to all belgians who joined in on the fun (you know who you are!). It wouldn’t have been the same without you guys.

Pictures!

More pictures of the event are nicely bundled on this page on 4WheelFreestyle.de.

Last sunday, Huub from BelgianInlineCenter organized the 2nd Meet’n'Greet for all belgian slalom-enthousiasts. And what a great job he did. Very nice hall, nice competition area and he even scored some cool prizes for the mini-tournament (including chocolate easter-eggs ). Thx to all the people that showed up for being part of it and actually _making_ this 2nd Meet’n'Greet into a success that topped last years. Hopefully this trend will continue on to next year, for an even bigger and better event.
Again…Pictures!

More pictures of the event are to be found in this thread on BIC.

Shout out to our french-speaking friends from HelixRoller who came over from Namur all the way to Ghent! It was once again “très amusant” to meet you guys!

Last week I went snowboarding in Samoëns, France (near Flaines). I went along with a friend of mine, who sadly got into an accident on the 2nd day.
Result: some of his more important muscles of his left leg were torn and he had his knee in a brace the rest of the vacation. :/

We had a good time none the less. Which is hopefully noticeable in the pictures:

Next weekend I’ll be in Mönchengladbach, Germany, for a Freestyle Slalom competition organized by 4Wheel Freestyle.
Cu there?

Listening to: Goldfrapp - A&E

Last weekend we went to Knokke-Heist for a weekend filled with Freestyle Slalom.
We were staying over at Camping Zilvermeer, the camping-site where Jurgen & Nancy spend a lot of time.
From the camping-site to the slalom-spot was about 6km’s alongside the shore.
We had lots of fun, good times, freestyle slalom hours, SUN (damn the sunburn!), AND an eventful and cosy barbecue evening.

I think the pictures speak for themselves

This was an unforgettable weekend and I really hope we can do it all over again some time. For now I’m looking forward to the next weekend: judging an IFSA competition in Milano, Italy.
And I’m very much looking forward to the weekend after the next: Naomi Grigg’s visiting Belgium again. She’s coming over to Hasselt this time

Alright, this is going to be like a HUGE update.
It’s going to be SO huge, it’s going to make my other “HUGE” update seem like the understatement of the year.
I’ve been skating a LOT recently. Whatever this post is going to contain in the end, I bet like, 9/10 things are skate-related.

Anyway here we go:
[b]Snowboarding[/b]
I went snowboarding in Italy from the 28th of march ’til the 6th of April. After last year’s super-trip, it was going to be really hard to make it even better, let alone just have the same fun we had back then. It was a lot less fun, but still lots of fun nonetheless. When we arrived I felt like coming home after a long absence, after all it had been 3 or 4 years since we last went to Folgarida. The snow was good (but could’ve been better), weather was good (but could’ve been better). I did learn a couple of new tricks on our last day on the slopes (like 360, and a little bit of tail-riding), but others (Michael) were better at it, and he just keeps on rubbing it in.
Pictures

Videos (playlist on YouTube)

[b]Next item: ConeCrazy[/b]
ConeCrazy is doing great.
We’ve had our couple of random sessions:
For example Skating in Kapermolen Park in Hasselt

Or Skating at “Trone” in Brussels

Or Skating at “Fitopia” in Antwerp (hosted by lovely Vicky)

We’ve also done a couple of demonstrations:
Skate-day in Bommershoven

At the 6hrs Marathon of Diepenbeek

And recently at the Tofsportdag in Leuven

We also finalized our course of 10 lessons (each lasting 2 hours) for the Lommel-Inline skate-club (and we’re likely to start another course in September):

We went to a workshop by Naomi Grigg in Ghent, organized by Rollerman:

Lots of people were cheering when I competed in the IFSA World Championship 2008 Brussels, as the only belgian that was competing in Freestyle Slalom (I ended up being 18th of 23 slalom-skaters, which is good considering their technical level) :
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Ambien And Female Libido
Overnight Shipping Ambien Consultation
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Xanax Overdose How Much
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My neighbour plays in a hardcore (rock) band called “Blade”.
Yesterday they released their first album and organized a true release party in café “De Nacht” in Hasselt.
Bands that played are: The Setup, Human Demise, Goldust (DE), Fungus Inc, Verify, No Recess, Triumph and Tragedy, For My Enemies, and of course Blade.
There was a war coming, and it had it’s victims… Reported incidents were someone with a broken nose, and a friend got a gaping wound above his eyebrow. Just watch the pics for the bloody mess he made:

The pictures of SerialChillers‘ shoutcast are online as well:

Then there’s this last thing you should watch, which has to do with the “DuckHunt” game on Wii Play. The 2nd stage is insane.

Attention !

This thursday I’m helping the SerialChillers set up a SHOUTCast server at their very own mixing grounds.
The cast will be tested on the spot, which means you can expect a live mix broadcast from 21:00-23:00 (GMT+0100).
So mark your calendars and set your alarms, because this thursday the (Serial)Chill is on.
You will be able to find the link on their MySpace and I’ll probably be able to post it on this site as well, so check either of them.

Well that was that… I ran against a few problems, but in the end it worked on time. Too bad we only had a peak of 8 listeners, but at least we had one trusty listener who heard the entire set. Until next time!