Today we were doing demonstrations in Hasselt, to collect some money for Music For Life, a charity organised by Studio Brussel, a popular radiostation.

We were in Leuven, where they have a big glass house, in which 3 radioshow hosts are remaining from the 19th til the 24th without food.
They continuously run the radiostation, and there are people on the radio that did something for MusicForLife and come to talk about their activity and how much they collected. So we decided to give it a shot as well, eventhough we knew the average waiting time was 2hours before you got a chance to say something on the radio.
But there we were at around 18h, and after standing in line for about an hour, in the freezing cold (about -5°C), we could have a little chat with the host Peter van de Veire. We could share with him the good news that we collected €118 throughout the day.

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Past saturday we had the opportunity to show our skills in a slalom demonstration on the SkateHappening in Bommershoven.
I'm proud to say we showed off our tricks, people really enjoyed it, and there was applause... a lot, of applause.
The synchronised run we had practiced was received pretty well too.

Next time we're gonna have to watch the time more carefully though, because our first demonstration was set up to be 15 minutes, and we added another 15. :)

Thank you to everyone who was demonstrating: Stijn, Evy, Marleen, Thomas, Tim and Jessy.
Thanks to Lou for the organisation and the opportunity for the demonstration.
And last, but not least, thanks to the crowd for the applause. It meant a lot.

Marleen took some pictures, available for your viewing pleasure over here.
And there were a bunch of photo's taken with Thomas' camera, I'm guessing they'll be online soon as well, along with a couple of video's.

On a sidenote: there also was a small hockey tournament, which we won by beating the other 4 teams. Yay us! :)

On saturday, the 8th of december, we're doing a 30 minute freestyle slalom demonstration at a skate event organized by "BSA" (Lou Cuppens).
They also have a little amateur inline hockey tournament going on there, and a professional quad hockey demonstration (last year they were really spectacular to watch).
The skate day starts with the events around 14h and ends with a sort of rollerdisco around 22h.
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Alright!
Tomorrow Thomas and myself are off to BattleUK II in Nottingham.
So keep your fingers crossed!
We're coming back on sunday, report and pictures will follow afterwards.

In the official aftermath report of the latest IFSA board meeting (25th october 2007), the competitions and where they will take place are listed.
To my surprise, Brussels, is included in this list.
This means we'll have an IFSA World Cup in Belgium in 2008!

The entire list of cities where an IFSA World Cup will be organized:

• France - Nice : World Cup 2008
• Belgium - Bruxelles : World Cup 2008
• Russia - Moscow : World Championship 2008
• China : World Cup 2008
• Spain - Barcelona : World Cup 2008
• Italy - Milano : World Cup 2008 (not confirmed yet)
• UK - London : World Cup 2008 (not confirmed yet)

You can read all other information about the board meeting here.

In the weekend of 20-21 october, we went to a workshop by Naomi Grigg, organized by Rollerman.
Since it had been a mere 2 weeks after we went to the previous Naomi Griggs workshop, she skipped the "introductory" speech and immediately got to the point...Learning new tricks.

We were taught Total Foot, the Kim Sung Jin entry (and Cambell original), Moonwalk, Sweep, Lazy volte, Re-volte, Pendululm, and a heel-toe spin. All in the course of 2 days. It was hard work for sure, but definitely worth it though. All of these tricks will come in handy when we're in Nottingham, representing Belgium in BattleUK II: Attack of the Cones. At least now we can bring "some" competition to the other "soldiers".

Among others our friends from "Le Bois de la Cambre" were there, along with our other friends from french-speaking Belgium, and it was delightful to see them again. Together with some dutch people (Ragnhild and Diederik), we shared some funny moments and learned from each other too. The atmosphere was very friendly, in contrary to the atmosphere in the belgian government at the moment... :s

Once again, we were lucky enough to be part of a succesful Naomi workshop. So thanks to the organisation, the participants (you know who you are!), and of course Naomi herself :)

Video material should be up whenever Thomas gets the time to edit it and upload it, in the meanwhile you can check out the pictures in our gallery. Also, here's a link to the photo's Carl took.

Today I got a private message in my mailbox from the guys over at 4WheelFreestyle.de, inviting "the belgians" to their Freestyle Skating Weekend.

Date: 15 - 17 february 2008.
Place: Münchengladbach, Germany

All other info after the break.

Naomi Grigg comes to Belgium !
Price is €85 (or €75 if you're a VRB member) for a total of 6 hours of teaching (spread over 2 days).
All the info can be found right here.