Friday, 10th of April
Around 2 o'clock I had to pick up Dominic and Dick at ‘s-Hertogenbosch Central station because we were going to have a small road trip to the warehouse of Rollerblade in Switzerland. I had to pick up some goods for the team. Not really planned other destinations for this trip on beforehand, while driving we decided to visit Matthias Ogger in München and to check out the city of Luxembourg on our way back because we heard there are some sick spots to skate.

The first 40 kilometres took us around 2 hours because of a big Friday afternoon traffic jam. Dominic knew a nice spot close to the highway and a MC Donald. So we decided to take the exit and already have a small skate and eat session. The spot was a creative obstacle, quarter like, in the middle of a city park which was not even made for skating. We had a lot of fun and the weather was perfect.

Around 6 o'clock we decided to continue our drive to Switzerland, around 7 hours to go. We did not book a hotel yet so at 1 o'clock at night we still had to find one. Luckily we found one just 5 minutes away from the warehouse.

Saturday, 11th of April
The next morning at 9 o'clock we met Sami at the warehouse where we stayed two hours looking for all the goods.





We also found some really cool urban skates that have the same booth as the Estilo skates. Dick and Dominic started to modify them, resulting in the urban skate with the soulplate and the aggressive frame. Actually there are so many possibilities and colour combinations that we did not waste much of our time there but decided to customize some versions at home. After leaving the warehouse we first looked for some spots to skate.

In the small village surrounded by mountains we found a small rail next to a bank where we skated. After that we had to continue our journey because we had to meet Matthias in Munich.

On our way we found a pretty sick drop rail and later along the road some spot we created ourselves. We even included an old bathtub in the spot.









Around 6 o'clock we arrived in Munich where we had a small night session with Matthias at some ledges. That night we could sleep at Holger Thalmann's place which was really cool but first we went out to have some drinks.

Sunday, 12th of April
After a nice breakfast (spaghetti), around 12 o'clock we went to some small curbs to warm up. After that we drove to a curved curb and a sick double kink ledge. The weather was perfect again and Matthias and Dick were doing some hard tricks on the curb.

After destroying the spot we went to a bowl nearby, located next to a lake. A lot of people were swimming already, the weather was nice but the water must still have been very cold. I tried a few transfers and Dick did some nice lines in the bowl.

Saturday evening we tried to skate the kink rails in front of the BMW building but the security kicked us out after a couple of tries. Before leaving Munich, I still wanted to skate them again. The plan was to go there and quickly skate the rails just for the photo.
I went up the stairs together with Dick but unfortunately I did not clear the kink within the 3 attempts we had. Only that is not visible on the photo ;-)





It was getting late already so we said goodbye to Matthias and Holger and started another 6 hours drive to Luxembourg.

Monday, 13th of April
We found a good hotel close to the business district. This district is full of rails and ledges. After a short sleep we woke up early so we could skate the whole day. The first spot were some nice curbs near a theatre which were really fast and nice to skate some lines.









The next spots was a pretty big ledge with a drop, Dick started with a backside royale and he finished with a clean true spin mizou. I started with a soul grind and tried some other stuff but in the end of the session on the ledge my knees were hearting. So I decided to film Dick the rest of the day.











We found two nice kink rails that Dick both cleared.










After that we were all pretty tired of all the travelling and skating and the next day we all had to wake up early for work or school so around 16:00 we got a our stuff together and went back home...

Photos made by Dominic Swagemakers.