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! :)

Last weekend we went to a Freestyle Slalom clinic, given by the one and only Naomi Grigg.
We learned quite a few new tricks, and also had some guidance in style.
Too bad it didn't last longer than 2 days, I really didn't want to go home.
We made some new friends, and got to see old friends again.

For me, personally, it was the first time I met Naomi. And I have to say, eventhough I heard a lot about her and watched her videos on the internet many many times, meeting her in person is different. She has this really familiar vibe to her that is hard to explain. Suffice to say that she is, in fact, a really cool person, and really good at teaching as well.

The pictures I took can be found in our gallery.
Here are some pictures that Marleen took.
And here are some pictures of Arnold and Jurgen.
Thomas also recorded a bunch of video's, maybe he'll put some of that stuff online as well.

There is another workshop in 2 weeks, in Belgium this time, so it's kind of hard for us NOT to join that one as well :)
Looking forward already.
You can find more info about this workshop here.