ITW with Ewen Fernandez

-Hey ewen could you introduce yourself in few words?

-I'm Ewen Fernandez,i'm 18 and i'm living in Bouayes in the suburb of Nantes.During the week i'm living in Nantes in a special building for sportsmen and i'm also studying in a special school what allows me to train twice a day with my teammate Thomas Boucher and Yann Guyader and some other French skaters.

-You join the Matter-World inline center team for your first year senior with 4 former world champion,i guess it will be such a cool experience for you to skate with world class skaters along the marathon season isn't it?What are the main goals for you during this very first season in the world circus?

-I always dreamed to join one day a Top team and contest the biggest races worldwide like the World-Inline-Cup and this dream comes true thanks to Matter and Powerslide because they gave me the opportunity to race the Biggest marathon worldwide.The coming season is gonna be a great experience for me because i'll race with big champions(My mates)and versus the fastest guy on earth.I'm eager to race my very first big marathon.I'm realistic i know it is gonna be tough at the beginning cause i'm a new comer on the WIC and everybody has a big experience but i will do my best to help my mate on order to catch some good results.I know that's what i have to do, to become one day the leader of a top team, that's the game.I really don't wanna disappoint Matter and Powerslide cause they gave me a really good apportunity to show everybody what i'm able to do and i know there's a lot of skater that like to be in such a team.
My goals for this very first season in senior with the Matter team are; first to help my mates as much as possible at each marathon and get some podium at the national champs in order to be in the national team for the European and World championships.

-You raced last week in Portugal with the French national team with your mate Thomas Boucher, it seems you done quite well ,tell us in few word about this experience.

-This race was my first race in senior and it was a good way to learn the way to skate against world class skaters like Pier Davide Romani and Garikoitz Lerga, it was also my first race with the senior national team. There was already a good complicity and we found easily automatism.I was always focused and i was listening to Thomas's advices in order to work as well as possible and help him to catch the victory easily.I learned a lot with Thomas ,because the races are a way different from junior races.I wish i will learn a lot along the season with Nelson, Jorges, Yann and Thomas and continue to improve myself.

-For this very first season in senior your race schedule will be smaller than the other member of the Matter -World inline center team,you will contest the French Inline Cup and three world-cups abroad(Basel,Sempach and Berlin), how do feel and what is your approach before the coming races pretty different from the traditionnal races you were used to skate?

-I really enjoy skating marathon eventhough it has to be raced a way different from the traditionnal races.I'll have to stay wise during the first K on order not to be done after 10k.I feel pretty good and i'm ready to rumble.I'm no so nervous, i would say i'm eager to race with my mates and work for them till i'm dying :).I think i can be usefull for them as i got 2nd last year at the marathon of the World championship in Anyang "Korea" behind Peter Michael member of the Powerslide phuzion team.

-Aside from the marathon with Matter , being member of French national team is also a goal for you isn't it?

-The national team is and will always be a goal for me,i think it's an honor to represent his country at Euros and Worlds.Moreover i dream to contest the Worldchampionship in the coming seasons, that's why it's important to me to be part of the team

-Anything to add?

-I just would like to say a BIG THANK to Matter and all the Poweslide crew(Matthias, Jurgen, Joost, Patrick etc) for giving me the opportunity to race at the highest level and having confidence in me.
-I also would like to thank Thomas Boucher and Yann Guyader because thanks to them i achieved my dream while joining the Matter team and they are also helping me a lot daily at the training while giving me a lot of advices
-Last thank to my coatches Pacal Briand, Arnaud Gicquel and Chrystelle Bouchet


I'M READY FOR THE SEASON TO START

Fabio Francolini's profile.Member of the Powerslide Phuzion world team

First name:Fabio

Family name:Francolini

Age:20

Place of birth:Milano

Hometown:Cantu "Italy"

Club:Cardano inline

Current team:Powerslide Phuzion world team

Former team:Alessi-Pro,Roces

Career highlights:

2005: European championship Juterborg"Germany":Silver medal 10k points Road
Bronze medal 10K relay Road

World championship Suzhou"China":
Silver medal 1000 meters Track
Silver medal 20k elimination Track

2006: European championship Cassano d'adda "Italy":
Silver medal 15k elimination Track
Silver medal 10k points Road
Silver medal 20k elimination Road
Bronze medal 10k relay Track

World championship Anyang "Korea":
Silver medal 10k relay Road

World inline cup:
Second place WIC Dijon "France"
Second place WIC Suhzou "China"

Coming next

-We would like to inform you that by the end of the week will be online interviews with Thomas Boucher and Ewen Fernandez both member of the brand new Matter-World inline center Team.

-Next week will be available Jorges Cifuentes's profile and tech release about the well known XXX frame which is now available in several colors(Gold, Red, Pink, Blue and World champion edition"Pascal briand") and lenght from 12'8 to 13'3

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Ronan Sanchez winner in Pola de Siero

While some of our Matter guys were in Lagos, Portugal, with their national team,our Spanish guy,Ronan Sanchez,new comer in the Dutch based team Timmerman-Powerslide was representing in Pola de Siero for the Siero's half marathon.The race took place in the suburb of Pola de siero with really bad weather condition; it was raining hard.Just back from Cartagena, Colombia,Ronan broke away to cross the finish line alone and caught his first victory of the season on a marathon.It announce a good season for him for his first complete season in the World-Inline-Cup

Lagos race report:Last day

Today was the last day of the international race in Lagos Portugal.All the skaters were racing the marathon as the last race of the event.The french national team in which were racing Thomas and Ewen was the strongest.Thomas and Ewen had to work their

maters as they already won every races.Two frenchy broke away and caught the victory.Ewen shown once again his international class by winning the bunch sprint and took a good 3rd place.Thomas finished in the pack after doing a huge work for his mates.

Race result:

1st:Robin Duez FRA French national team

2nd:Fabien Hascouet FRA French national team

3rd:Ewen Fernandez FRA Matter-World inline center(French national team)

WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE OUR FIGHT!!! WE WONT GIVE UP, WE WANT IT TO BE LEGALIZED

Lagos race report:Day 2

Successfull week end for the Matter-World inline team.After winning the 10k Thomas Boucher won both races yesterday the 500 and the 10k points.Ewen is doing perfectly his teammate job , leading Thomas to the victory in each race.Ewen finished 3rd in the 10k points but was eliminated in the semi final of the 500 which is not to bad for a long distance racer.


Results of the day:


500meters:


1st:Thomas Boucher FRA Matter-world inline center
2nd:Mauro Casu ITA Bologna
3rd:Inigo Vindondo ESP Marianistas


10k points:


1st Thomas Boucher FRA Matter-world inline center
2nd:Pier davide Romani ITA Bologna
3rd:Ewen Fernandez FRA Matter-world inline center

Lagos race report:Day 1

Two of the guys belonging to the Matter-World inline center team are currently contesting the international race in lagos Portugal.

Yesterday was the 10k on the track.Ewen Fernandez the new comer in the team broke away for a long time but was unfortunalty caught 500 meters to the end.Thomas just back from Colombia three days ago shown his talent to everybody and won the race in front of other famous skaters.Garikoitz Lerga took the second place and Pier davide Romani finished third.Ewen finally finished in the pack and shown his class and was ready to race with the world's bests

Full success in argentina for the Powerslide girls

After winning on the track Powerslide girls keep going.Melisa Bonnet member of the new World inline center-Powerslide team took the victory in the marathon of Mar del Patin.Her mate,Natalia Arturo Finished in a good sixth place.These two girls will contest the WIC in europe in the upcoming season with Nachi Shinozuka from Japan and Yvonne Burgi from Swizerland.It should be a good mix for winning many races along the marathon season.Their first race all together will be the team time trial in Basel.In this same race Silviana posada took the silver medal while Sandra Gomez got 5th which is a good results for a skaters coming from Europe as she's still training in the cold.

In the men's race Kepa Caballero from Alessi-Powerslide finished 6th

Berenice Moreno's profile.New comer in the powerslide family

First name:Berenice

Familyname:Moreno

Age:24

Place of birth:Cartagena

Hometown:Cartagena"Colombia"

Club:Metropolitano

Current team:Sponsored by Powerslide as a single athlete

Former team:Bont

Career Highlights:

National achievement:

1995-2006:National champion each year

International achievement:

1995:South American champion

1996-1997:Winner of Olympic festival in Mexico

1996-1999:Junior world champion each year

1999:Panamerican champion in Wennipeg

2000-2001-2005-2006:Senior World champion

Blog and rolling-alliance home page news

We just would like to inform you that every 1st and 15th of each month will be posted on the blog and also on the rolling-alliance home page an interview of a skater belonging to the PS family.Once a month will be posted a PS product report with all Tech delails.The rolling-alliance page will be updated more often with inside team video,races report,training tips etc.
Powerslide is working hard to improve its promotion and its communication.We hope that everbody is gonna be satisfied

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Powerslide girls in Mar del Plata Argentina

While some of our male skaters were in Cartagena, our Powerslide girls were representing at Mar de patin, in Mar de Plata Argentina.Our newest addition to the Powerslide team in Silviana Posada,world champion from Argentina.She was the big star ofthe tournament with the most titles by far.

Also participating was Sandra Gomez,our Alessi girl.She was racing in the colors of the Catalonian selection.

Skating in the same races were Melisa Bonnet and Natalia Arthuro.

These two strong Argentinians will be headed for Europe to participate in the WIC and SIC this year in a new to be formed team that will be based inSwizerland under the guidings of guru Dany Grab.

Powerslide and Inlincecenter cooperate to give skaters from all over the world the chance to compete in the biggest events worldwide

Powerslide Team TT helmet

We did this helmet specially for the French National TT championships that will take place at the end of March in the little city of Damgan on the werstern shore of France(French Brittany),two weeks before the opening race of the WIC in Seoul.

Thomas and Pascal should use it to race

Nelson Garzon's profile.Member of Matter-World inline center team

First name: Nelson

Family name:Garzon

Age:21

Place of birth:Bogota

Hometown:Bogota"Colombia"

Club:F.San mateo

Current Team:Matter-World inline center

Former team:As it's gonna be his first year on the WIC, matter team his first team

Career highlights

2005:World champion 10k points road(Suzhou-China)

silver medal 20k elimination road

silver medal 10k points-elimination track

2006: Bronze medal relay track(Anyang-Korea)

Bronze medal 20k elimination track

Silver medal 20k elimination Road

Powerslide world team 2007

Backwards:Fabio,Peter,Kalon

Forwards:Alexis,Pascal

Some pictures from Cartagena Bolivar 150 years

Good mood in cartagena with all the guests

Track of Cartagena

From left to right:

Nelson, Thomas and Jorges

Coming soon

Profiles of Guys from NEW-ZEALAND, COLOMBIA and ITALY belonging to both Powerslide and Matter team will be available soon online.We apologize for the delay

Alexis Contin's profile.Member of Powerslide world team

First name:Alexis

Family name:Contin

Age:20

Place of birth:Saint malo

Nationality:French

Hometown:Joure"Nederlands"

Club:Levallois SC

Current team:Powerslide world team

Former team:Rollerblade world

Carreer highlights:

2004: World champion marathon (Laquila-Italy)

2 times european champion

2005:World champion 20k elimination track and both relay road and track( Suzhou-China)

Winner of WIC Rennes and WIC Nice

5Th WIC overall ranking

4 times European champion

2006:Winner WIC class1 Biel

3rd WIC class1 Paris

Switched to ice during the inline of season

Pascal Briand's profile.Member of Powerslide world team

First name:Pascal

Family name:Briand

Age:30

Place of birth:Saint-brieuc

Hometown:Nantes"France"

Nationnality:French

Club:RC Penthièvre

Current team:Powerslide world team

Former team:Salomon(97-05)

Career highlights:

1997-2003:Numerous time winner of WIC events

world champion sprint 1999(Santiago de chile-Chile) 2001(Valence d'agen-France 3 titles) and 2002(Ostende-Belgium)

13 times european champion

winner of WIC overall ranking 03

2004:4 times silver medalist World championships(Laquila-Italy)

2005:3 times world champion(Suzhou-China)

2006:4 th WIC overall ranking

2nd WIC Engadin

Winner FIC Rouen

Winner FIC Nimes

Winner FIC Lilles

Coming next Alexis Contin's profile

Powerslide team uniform and helmet

CARTAGENA BOLIVAR 150 YEARS

Last day:Marathon

We just got the results of the marathon a couple of minutes ago while talking to Thomas over messenger.As we guessed Thomas did pretty well on the marathon."It was a really hard race with brakeaways and an amazing Diego rosero"said thomas.The victory was taken by Diego Rosero that broke away and crossed the line alone while the second place was taken by Joey Mantia USA winning the bunch sprint and third place taken by Massi Presti ITA always fit in this kind of race.4thFelipe andres Munoz COL,5th Julian Rivera COL. Thomas got a good 6th place followed by his team mate Jorges cifuentes that shown everybody he's fast on road either track.Bad luck for Nelson that broke his boots during the race.

Next race report: "LAGOS" PORTUGAL next week

CARTAGENA BOLIVAR 150 YEARS

Third day:road races

After catching good placement on track the guys from the Matter-inline center team captured good placement again on the road.Jorges Cifuentes won the 500m in a time of 40'64 in front of Juan Tobon COL from RB World and Carlos Neira COL.In this race Thomas got some difficulties again and got 20th(it seems it's really tough for the europeans to get used to the traditionnal races in this early season especially with the temperature gap in between the two continents and also the time lags)anyway we wish him good luck for the marathon and hope he's gonna do well.Nelson did also a pretty good race in the 10k points catching the second place with 11 points behind Andres Felipe Munoz COL 13 points which seems to be in a really good shape in this early season.Third place was taken by Pedro Bacerra COL with 3points.Jorges did well again with a 4th place in this race which is usually not his speciality.

We will inform you about the team results in the marathon as soon as they will be available.

Powerslide world team 2007

The Powerslide world team changed slightly in 2007 and the up coming season should be a good one for the team as all the team members got to know eachother better in 2006.We wish them the best and good luck to all of you

POWERSLIDE WORLD TEAM 2007:

Pascal Briand France

Alexis Contin France

Kalon Dobbin New Zealand

Fabio Francolini Italy

Peter Michael New Zealand(new comer in 2007)

Yann Guyader's profile.Member of Matter-World inline center team

First name:Yann

Family name:Guyader

Age:22

Place of birth:Nantes

Hometown:Nantes "France"

Nationality:French

Club:Asta

Current team:Matter-World inline center

Former team:Mariani WRC,Timmerman-Powerslide

Career highlights:

2006:world champion relay track

silver medal marathon

4 times european champion

winner WIC Engadin setting new marathon record 51'13(fastest marathon ever) and WIC Munich ISPO

3rd WIC Rennes and WIC dijon

2005: silver medal 10k road WC Anyang

european champion 15k track and relay road

Coming next Pascal Briand's profile

Ewen Fernandez's profile.Member of Matter-World nline center team

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• First name:Ewen

Family name:Fernandez

Age:18

Place of birh:Saint Lô

Hometwon:Bouayes"France"

Nationality:French

Club:Patineurs d'herbauges

Current team:Matter-World Inline center

Former team:As it's gonna be his first year senior,Matter is gonna be his first team

Highlights:

2006: Silver medal marathon junior WC anyang

2005: Gold medal relay track junior WC Suzhou

2004:4 times junior European champion

Coming next Yann Guyader's profile

Thomas Boucher's profile.Member of Matter-World inline center team

First name:Thomas

Family name:Boucher

Age:24

Place of birth:Nantes

Home town:Nantes"France"

Nationality:French

Club:ALSS

Current team:Matter-World inline center

Former teams:Saab-salomon,Powerslide world team

Career highlights:

2006: world champion relay track

european champion relay road,500m road

national champion marathon and time trial

2005: world champion relay road and track

silver medal 500m road

bronze medal 300m track

3 times european champion

2004: world champion 1000m track

Coming next Ewen Fernandez's profile

MATTER road wheels 07

The new "juice"Matter road wheels range will be available on spring 07 in three hardness "yellow 87A","natural 85A" and "green 83A" and five sizes "80mm-84mm-90mm-100mm-110mm"
New marathon wheels"marathon lite" are already available in two hardness "yellow 87A and "green 83A" and two sizes"100mm-110mm"
Stiffer with higher rebound to get a better roll on long straight marathon races


For further information about the wheels just
have a look on matterwheels website http://www.matterusa.com

CARTAGENA BOLIVAR 150 YEARS

First day:track races

Currently racing in colombia the MATTER team got some good results. Jorges captured a good 3rd place at the 300m time trial IN a time of 25.25 finishing behind Felipe andres Munoz COL 25.85 and Joey Mantia USA 26.17.Nelson got also a good 5th place at the point elimination race won by Diego Rosero COL while Thomas finished 18th.Unfortunatly Jorges got disqualified at the 1000m and will not be allowed to take part of the other race on road circuit.Quite hard races for all European guys as they are still doing long distance training while south american are doing interval training.South americans seem to be fitter than the Europeans.We'll see in the marathon if the Europeans usually better than the south american will be able to take the victory.Good luck to all of you guys(jorges,nelson and thomas)

MATTER team uniform and helmet

POWERSLIDE-MATTER promotion convertible smart car

to be seen at each big events in France:

-national championships (long distance,road and track)

-three tracks trophy

-French-Inline-Cup

-World-inline-Cup( RENNES & DIJON)

this car is also the Matter-Inline center Team car

MATTER-WORLD INLINE CENTER team 2007

Nelson GARZON-Colombia

22 years old

Jorges Luis CIFUENTES-Colombia

19 years old

Thomas BOUCHER-France

24 years old

Ewen FERNANDEZ-France

18 years old

Yann GUYADER-France

22 years old

NEW POWERSLIDE C6 BOOTS

Here is the new POWERSLIDE C6"Yann

GUYADER" pro boot.On this pictures (Yann's customs)powerslide is printed in turquoise blue but the stock boots should be printed in silver to fit better with powerslide frames and any other stuff.

Features of standard boot:
* fiberglas shell
* SHMR Technology (super heat mouldable resin - very easy heatmoulding)
* microfiber upper material
* 195mm mounting
* x-slot mounting system
* Neoprene/Lorino Lining
* Waxed laces C6

Brand new frames

coming soon: spring07

BRAND NEW CORE XXX FRAME 110mm*3+100*1

setting new standard!!!ugrade your speed.

LOWER,BETTER,FASTER,STRONGER:

as low as a 100mm frame this frame will give you the fast you lacked.Get the roll of 110mm wheels without any extra weight.

you want the rebound of 110mm wheels without loosing the control of your skates???this frame is made for you and will give you wings!!!

MADE IN STIFF ALUMINIUM AND USED BY THE BEST SKATERS WORLDWIDE WINNING LOTS OF TITLES AT WORLDS AND SETTING 4 WR IN KOREA THIS FRAME WILL GIVE YOU THE SPEED YOU ALWAYS DREAMT OF

Core XXX Alu 110mm x 3+100mm x 1

7000 aluminium

X-Power-Design™

single axle system

axles with torque system

Wheels: 110mm*3 + 100mm*1 / 100*3 + 90*1

Length: 13,3"

Mouhting: 195mm

Weight: 215g

WELCOME TO THE BRAND NEW BLOG OF THE PS-MATTER FAMILY

hello everybody,we are happy to present you the brand new blog of the PS-Matter family.We'll let you know along the season about the races results,each team daily life and put online some funny videos and pictures.Have a good time and enjoy it:)