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2007-03-25T08:37:00.000+01:00

We would like to inform you that all the press releases will be now available at www.powerslide-racing.com, We wont add any new release to the blog as we did it while the new Powerslide racing page was under construction. Thank you for your understanding. The rolling-alliance page will be now updated daily with tech, race and press releases. Have a look at http://www.powerslide-racing.com

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French Nationals

2007-03-18T22:06:00.000+01:00

Next week end will take place in the little city of "Damgan" on the western shore of France in the south of French brittany.Skaters will compete during both days of the week end with an individual TT on saturday, 3k for juniors and 5k for seniors on a very windy circuit.On sunday will be the thoughest race of the week end with a 42k race for junior women, men and senior women and a 70k for senior men on a 4k circuit with very few corners and windy straights.Back from hell after a big crash in sempach in a 2006 and a successfull ice season Tristan Loy the oldest guy of the bunch seems to be once again the one to beat but all the guys from both Powerslide and Matter team are ready for the battle.Pascal which seemed to be the strongest last week in the 50 k of la "Ferté Bernard" seems to be capable to catch the victory as well as the other Ps guys Thomas Boucher,Ewen Fernandez and Alexis Contin just back from the Ice Skating single distance Worlds in Salt Lake City USA.In the women race the winner of 2006 Nathalie Barbotin from the italian based team Alessi-Powerslide-Pierrel is back after spending 5 month in India training in better weather condition than the cold european winter.All the PS guys are ready to go and we should have a pretty good show with all this world class skaters trying to catch the national champion jersey.Lets cross the finger to get good weather conditions, what is not really common in French Brittany more used to rainy days.

Pictures and races report will be online as soon as possible after each race.

GOOD LUCK TOO ALL THE SKATERS BELONGIN TO THE POWERSLIDE FAMILY

New rolling-alliance page available.

2007-03-15T15:15:00.000+01:00

The Rolling-Alliance page has been updated lately.With an awesome new design this page will provide you all the powerslide daily racing news with: photo, news, interviews, tech releases from arround the world.

HAVE A LOOK TO THE PAGE AT: http://www.rolling-alliance.com

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Matter-World Inline Center winning again

2007-03-15T15:13:00.000+01:00

Last sunday in the small city of "La Ferté Bernard" close to the well known city of "Le Mans" for its 24hours car race was the very first marathon of the season in France.The 200 skaters were ready to go on a tricky circuit after a long while without competing since the last marathon in 2006 .Lucky them the weather condition were great,15° with a full blue sky and the sun was shinning.At 3pm was the start and some world class skaters were there.Nico Wieduwielt and Pascal Ramali the two world class German skaters from the Zepto-Bont team were there after spending some weeks training in Nantes with the Matter team and Pascal Briand.Ewen Fernandez from the Matter-World inline center team and Pascal Briand from the Powerslide-Phuzion factory team were also there to catch their first victory of the season on marathon.The race was a 50 k race which is usually the best preparation for the french skaters before the 70k French National championships, that's why some other good french skaters were there like Julien Depaux World champion on the relay track in Anyang with the two member of the Matter-World Inline Center team Thomas Boucher and Yann Guyader.The race was tough, a lot of skaters were trying to brake away, especially Pascal which seemed to be in a really good shape back from the ice winter season.Unfortunatly everybody was jumping behind him and nobody wanted to relay him...Ewen tried also many times to break with Nico and Pascal both member of the Zepto-Bont but the road was really smooth and the pack was always catching them.Everyody seemed to be waiting for a bunch sprint when Pascal Ramali broke away and went for a kind of single time trial. After seeing the gap increasing Pascal briand tried again to catch the skater from the Zepto team but they were nothing to do everybody was following him,that was the moment when Ewen Fernandez and Julien Sourisseau from Loops Racing deceided to attack and try to catch the single guy ahead.After shasing for more than 5k they finally caught Pascal Ramali.They were 1 lap to go and 500 meter to the end Ewen went to the front and launched the sprint, nobody was able to overtake him and Ewen took his very first victory in senior on Marathon in front of Pascal Ramali and Julien Sourisseau after catching the silver medal in Anyang in junior.The bunch sprint was won by Nico Wieduwilt which attacked 1k to the end followed by Pascal Briand probably the strongest man in the race.

RACE RESULTS:

1st: Ewen Fernandez FRA Matter-World Inline Center

2nd:Pascal Ramali GER Zepto-Bont

3rd:Julien Sourisseau FRA Loops Racing

4th:Nico Wieduwilt GER Zepto-Bont

5th:Pascal Briand FRA Powerslide Phuzion

ITW with Thomas boucher

2007-03-14T10:26:00.001+01:00

Hey thomas, how was the training during the winter after a pretty long season in 2006?

-After the 2006 season i was really tired,that's why i took some rest to recover from this huge season.I did not skate for a month before restarting training easily. In comparison with the previous winter i restarted training hard like a month later, in the early january to be in a good shape at the end of may-beginning of june which is gonna be a tough month for us since we're gonna skate marathon every weekend and sometimes twice.I had the same training schedule with running session, indoor training, plyometrics and outdoor training and some indoor soccer for fun.They main difference for me since the previous winter is that i tried ice skating in the Nederlands for a month to get fun, by the way i did some ice marathon in B and i got quite a lot of fun. The winter here in europe is always a long way to go since you train in the cold that's why i'm pretty happy to restart the inline season to catch some rays.

-This year you are joining the brand new Matter-World Inline Center team, you left the Powerslide world team but you still belong to the BIG Powerslide family; how do you feel with this change for your career in the future? What are you waiting from this new challenge?

-As everybody knows the WIC rules slighlty changed for 2007 from 5 skaters to 4 skaters for the races overseas that's why powerslide couldn't keep all of us as we all wanted to do all the races.I had a one year contract and the others signed for two years that's why i left the team, but i really wanted to stay in the Powerslide family as all the Powerslide crew gave me such a big support in 2006 and thanks to them i'm still in the family. I'm really happy to join the Matter-World Inline Center team eventhough i would have been happy too to stay in the PS team as i truely believe that the best way to build a strong team is to stay all together for a long while in order to create some automatism as Salomon did in the past. I'm ready for the season to begin and i'm eager to be in Seoul.But now i'm fully devoted to the Matter team and i'm ready to catch some big victories in 2007, i will also have to be like a captain for my mates since apart Yann all the other guys are new on the WIC and they need to learn the way to skate a marathon.I wanna achieve this new challenge and for sure this year is gonna be one of the most chalenging season for me.

-After representing in Cartagena, you won quite easily the international tournament in Lagos Portugal. What were the main differences between this two big events? Tell us about this two experiences.

-Each year the winter is a way too long, so when Guido (Patincarrera) emailed me and told me i was invited to race in Cartagena Colombia, i was really happy to be able to compete on a high level while the other french guys were freezing at training in France.I knew i wouldn't fight for the victorybut this competion was a good way to start the new season. In Lagos, i was contesting in the colors of the French selection.After2006 season little disappointing, i decided to focus much more on traditionnal races. I think it's really important, cause then after skating more often track and road racing, the training for worlds gets easier and you are used to this tough races. The main difference between this two event was the level. Indeed in Colombia, the event was part of the qualifying race to be part of the national team for the worlds in Cali, so all the top Colombian skaters were really fit there.I was just arriving from France were the tempature was arround 3° and there in Colombia it was really hot like 30°. Added to the lime lag the temperature gap did not help me to skate well. It was almost the same for all the European skaters, but day after day and race after race i felt better and better and i finally finished with a good 6th place on the marathon ahead some world class Colombian skaters. In Lagos there were not any south american skaters, so eventough there were some world class skaters like Pier Davide Romani and Garikoitz Lerga we couldn't do any comparison.Back from Cartagena i had a good rythm, that's why i won the first race, you know the difference between me and the other skaters was exactly the same as in Cartagena when i raced the first day versus the Colombians, but i was suprise to sprint versus Garikoitz cause i didn't expect him to be that fast. Eventhough Lagos was not that big i got a lot of fun to race there, especially when i won the point race which was for me the first time in senior. I was pretty happy to beat Pier Davide which got 4th on that race at worlds in Anyang but i really wanna dedicate this victory to ewen that did an amazing job for me.

-Ewen is new in the team and for his first year in senior he's gonna contest the FIC and some WIC, it seems he did really well his job to bring you to the victory in Lagos...What are you expecting from him for the upcoming season?

-As a first race in senior, Ewen did a really good job. I knew he would do it well anyway, because i knew he would listen to my advices during the race. Ewen is that kind of guy that kill himself to bring you to the victory like was Franck Cardin in the past. Both are not so fast but they can kill everybody and help you till dying. I wish him to have a career as successfull as Franck. Ewen he still young and we have to be carefull not to burn him too early because he's not used to race every week end, but for sure if he's trainng well and listening to our advices he will be one of the best workers worldwide on marathon and traditionnal races. You can count on him in the future.

-In 2006 you got pretty good results in WIC with 8th overall but you didn't reach your goals in the international champs...What are gonna be your goals in 2007?

-Last year i really wanted to do a good WIC season but unfortunatly i was not really lucky, several times i was close to catch a podium like in seoul where i got 4th. I know it's more important to win a WIC race than always being in the top then but to me when you are in the top 10 overall it's also showing your ability to skate on a high level the whole season, that's why in 2007 i'll try to finish again well placed overall but the main target will be to catch some podiums and victory in WIC. I'm also focused on Worlds this year after being a little disappointed of my results in anyang last year...

SO LET'S TRAIN HARD AND KEEP GOING

POWERSLIDE CUSTOM BOOTS

2007-03-12T21:38:00.000+01:00

A small step form POWERSLIDE, but a giant leap for mankind

POWERSLIDE CUSTOM SKATE BOOTS

Since Powerslide started with Speed Skating in 2002, Powerslide has innovated:Heatmouldbale resin (SHMR-Technology), Skeleton concept for perfect fit and performance, X-Slot mounting on boots and frames, the first products in speed designed and engineered for women, adjustbale buckle positions and the X-Torsion bar with integrated ventilation.Powerslide started with modest entry level speed skates, with composite shells with good fit and performance and has worked its way up to leading and ground breaking technology in skating. So the new CUSTOM project is a natural step in the determination of POWERSLIDE to be the best and most active brand in inline speed skating."Right now we cover all price points for boots with POWERSLIDE and CORE. Furthermore we can now honestly state that we have the most successful frame in world championship history, the XXX, with 15 titles in 2006. Therefore, customs boots were the only missing link and we all agree that having an own custom program completes our status as the 360 degrees speed company", said Joost van Schaik, sales manager and fomer Dutch PRO speedskater.Actually, the development of the POWERSLIDE brand can be measured by the world titles won: in 2003 zero, in 2004 two, in 2005 5 titles and in 2006 we gathered no less as 12 world titles on POWERSLIDE racing boots.Together with top skaters throughout the world, our own team skaters and technical product specialists we have worked on the custom project since september 2005. Now we are happy to announce the complete POWERSLIDE custom program. Highest technology for world class athletes and speedskating lovers, who want the ultimate fit and performance.POWERSLIDE and CORE guarantee:- perfect fit- perfect powertransfer and performance- 100% customer satisfaction- in time delivery with a fixed delivery date- made in Germany customs bootsBut POWERSLIDE would not be POWERSLIDE if we would not offer some new and unique TECHNOLOGY:New patent pending "Hollow Tubes Inserts" will be included in ALL custom shells to make the shell stiffer, lighter and garantee a perfect powertransfer.You can order the Powerslide custom boot in any of the following designs:- Powerslide C4 2007- Powerslide C2 Pascal Briand PRO- Core XXX Alexis Contin PRO
More details to follow soon at this site, or if you want to know more NOW, please contact us at custom@powerslide.de

Timmerman-Powerslide world team 2007

2007-03-12T20:48:00.000+01:00

Timmerman-Powerslide Since this week the Timmerman-Powerslide team is training together in Holland. The team, with Shinki Yamamoto, Ronan Sanchez, Karlo Timmerman, Mark Horsten en Gary Hekman are preparing for the upcoming season.
After the succesfull season 2006, Yann Guyader left the team to join the new Matter worldteam. Team Timmerman-Powerslide give a chance to the young Spanish Ronan Sanchez and the Japanese champion Shinki Yamamoto. together with the contracted Dutch champion marathon Gary Hekman, Dutch champion elimination Mark Horsten and Dutch champion 500 Karlo Timmerman the team is ready to compete in 2007.
The team is proud to present Timmerman Transport and Powerslide as the mainsponsors of 2007. Together with some new sponsors, the team is looking forward t the new season. Next week the team will travel to Gijon (spain) for a trainingscamp together with the flowteam. European champion Jan Blokhuijsen is a new member of the flowteam.

Nachi Shinozuka:

Japanese Nachi Shinozuka travelled with Shinki to Holland. She will join the Timmerman-Powerslide team for the trainingscamp to spain and will race some races in Holland for Timmerman-Powerslide. In the World-Inline-cup she will join the Powerslide-World-inlinecenter team. Nachi is marathon champion 2006 of japan.

Ronan Sanchez winner Spanish indoorchampionship:

Last weekend Ronan Sanchez of Timmerman Powerslide won the Spanish indoorchampionship. He won both the 1000m and 3000 pointrace. After winning in Gijon, Timmerman-Powerslide is starting well again in 2007!

Brand new design for the Matter juice wheel

2007-03-12T20:44:00.000+01:00

MATTER is coming in 2007 with a brand new design for the fastest wheel on earth approved by the best skaters worldwide!!!how do you like it?

M1 & M2 inline skates

2007-03-12T20:40:00.000+01:00

You probably know them from the ice, but now they have come to the streets. M1 and M2, first production line with 165 mounting distance, fit great together with the V-Type frame, ask your dealer for them. Surely he will give you a good deal.

Powerslide winning on the ice

2007-03-06T09:55:00.000+01:00

Last week in the Nederlands, was won an ice marathon(very popular sport out there) on the "finishlinePOWERSLIDE" blade.
Powerslide caught its first victory on ice and shown his ability to make high quality stuff either on ice after showing their skills on inline.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Nathalie Barbotin's profile.Member of Alessi-Powerslide-Pierrel international team

2007-03-02T17:43:00.000+01:00

First name:Nathalie

Family name:Barbotin

Age:32

Place of birth:Roanne

Hometown:Touvois "France"

Club:Beaumanoir Dinan

Current team:Alessi-Powerslide-Pierrel International

Former team:Roces,Saab -salomon,Kia-Verducci,Kia,Mmc-Salomon

Career highlights:

2006:European championship Cassano D'adda "Italy":

Gold medal relay road
Gold medal Elimination Track

World inline cup:

Winner WIC Paris
Winner WIC Suzhou"China"
3rd place WIC Engadin"Swizerland"
3rd place WIC Team time trial Basel"Swizerland"

NEW!!! POWERSLIDE CUSTOMS RANGE

2007-03-02T16:52:00.000+01:00

After making stock boots,frames and skates apparel POWERSLIDE has now his own custom shoes maker.All the POWERSLIDE stock boots range will be available in customs what will allow the customers to have a huge choice. POWERSLIDE will the first brand to have such a huge customs range.
The price of this customs should be arround 950 and 1050 euros(depends of the uppers model) .This customs will be hand made with the highest quality materials.Those products have been tested already by the professionnal athletes of the powerslide and matter teams and guys like Yann Guyader are already using them
Email for further information

ITW with Ewen Fernandez

2007-02-28T20:27:00.000+01:00

-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

2007-02-28T18:31:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-26T17:06:00.000+01:00

-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

Feel the taste of SPEED

2007-02-26T12:45:00.000+01:00

SAY YES...to the ultimate set up for winning races

DON'T BE SCARED TO SKATE FASTER THAN EVER

THE NEW REVOLUTION IS NOW ON SALE

Ronan Sanchez winner in Pola de Siero

2007-02-20T09:33:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-19T21:49:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-19T19:37:00.000+01:00

Lagos race report:Day 2

2007-02-19T10:23:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-18T11:06:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-18T09:39:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-16T18:29:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-16T13:20:00.000+01:00

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

IT'S HERE TO STAY

2007-02-15T20:32:00.000+01:00

WANTED...

...FOR WINNING RACES

Powerslide girls in Mar del Plata Argentina

2007-02-15T12:04:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-14T20:14:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-14T15:35:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-13T15:42:00.000+01:00

Backwards:Fabio,Peter,Kalon

Forwards:Alexis,Pascal

Some pictures from Cartagena Bolivar 150 years

2007-02-13T12:08:00.000+01:00

Good mood in cartagena with all the guests

Track of Cartagena

From left to right:

Nelson, Thomas and Jorges

Coming soon

2007-02-13T11:55:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-13T11:37:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-13T09:22:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-12T16:25:00.000+01:00

CARTAGENA BOLIVAR 150 YEARS

2007-02-11T21:31:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-11T21:06:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-11T01:17:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-11T01:01:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-11T00:51:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-11T00:22:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-10T12:55:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-10T10:55:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-09T22:53:00.000+01:00

POWERSLIDE-MATTER promotion convertible smart car

2007-02-09T22:02:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-09T21:32:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-09T20:27:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-09T17:17:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-09T14:23:00.000+01:00

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:)