Sch3lp’s Blog

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) :

If you’re going to spend the next 3 minutes just surfing the web, you’ll be better of by listening to this:

RJD2 _is_ God.

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

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!

May your dreams come true, and have a healthy 2008.

Some of you may already know, I’m starting the new year with a new job. Tomorrow will be my first day at the Software Factory of Cegeka in Heverlee. Last friday I said goodbye to my colleagues at Ineos Oxide, I’m most certainly going to miss them a lot. But when a career opportunity like this one passes by, you have to seize it, and that’s what I did.

Mood: excited
Listening to: Klaxons - Gravity’s Rainbow (Soulwax Remix)

Johnny Chung Lee has used a Wiimote and a sensor bar to make 3D a more realistic experience via HeadTracking.
You should definitely check out this video:

Fix already blogged about this guy when he had a project that simulated the holographic interface in Minority Report:

You gotta check this out, the internets command you!