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Inline... speed... road... ice... quad... track... pro... team... fitness... rec... jam... roller-hockey... roller-soccer... roller-basketball... But our real passion is road skating. Athens-to-Atlanta is all about road skating.
A short video of great Inspirational Quotes from Eddie Uehara in Las Vegas - thanks Eddie!
INSPIRATIONAL ROAD SKATING VIDEOS
TEAM USA - SERIOUS TRAINING IN COLORADO
A great montage of outdoor training (tough stuff) at Colorado Olympic banked track and indoor meets:....
INLION - ROAD SKATING
Great montage of outdoor training, road work, a fantastic leaping break-out and theFinish Line:
JOEY MANTIA - ROAD SKATING
This is how it's done on the road, including Double Push, Cross-Overs, etc.. Thanks, Joey!
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Inspiration for the rest of us, also aspiring to excellence. Thanks, Nick!Speed Skate Video
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Wheeled-mania: buckle-up for some crazy rides!THE 31-WHEEL ROLLER-TRANSFORMER!
Ten wheels weren't enough... Roller-Transformer Frenchman Jean-Yves Blondeau tackles bridges, garage ramps, iceless concrete bobsled chutes, the streets and sidewalks of Paris and the French countryside on his custom-designed 31-wheel rollersuit - fully equiped for rolling on feet, hands, elbows, knees, chest and back... And he does.NOW FOR SOME SERIOUS SPEED
French cruise missle Jean-Yves Blondeau - in his 60 MPH, 31-wheel, full-body inline skate wheel suit - competing in the 2003 IGSA (International Gravity Sports Association) World Championships.If you're dying for one more Jean-Yves video, click Urban Roller-Commando Transformer video.
NEW YORK BICYCLE MADNESS!..
To Guns 'n Roses Welcome to the Jungle - Lucas Brunelle's classic video of a cycle couriers' jam race in heavy New York traffic... this is beyond insane:....
Hats off to bicycle and skate messengers everywhere...
MOZART - BY ROLLERBLADE
A New Yorker plays the theme from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor - on bottles, with specially equipped RollerBlades:
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LEARNING SPEED ON SKATES
Saudi Arabian style - to beautiful Middle Eastern music:Saudi Speed Skating Practice for 2015 Olympics
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- Aug 8, 2007 1:27 PM NEW! A2A 10K (plus the usual - 38-mile, 52.4-mile & 87-mile events)
- Mar 8, 2007 6:00 AM A2A 2007 on Reality TV - for a GREAT cause! Thanks to Matthew Whitty.
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
A2A offers THREE events in one day: a 38-mile Marathon-Plus, a 52.4-mile Double-Marathon and the classic 87 Mile Ultra Marathon: The World's Greatest Roadskate.
Athens-to-Atlanta is for road skaters of every flavor -
Speed skating is not required*, but fun and a spirit of camaraderie are mandatory. In addition to the top world speed skaters, we regularly have some folks come in hours after the clock is turned off, and they get a standing ovation at the awards ceremony: for perseverance. That's the spirit of Athens-to-Atlanta.
Athens-to-Atlanta is for anyone that loves skating, the camraderie of other skaters and skate afficiandos - and a good challenge. A2A offers a new criterium-style 10K on a closed, short-circuit course (approximately 1 mile, wholly within Piedmont Park), a 38 Mile Marathon-Plus, a 52.4 Mile Double-Marathon and the classic 87 Mile Ultra Marathon.
REGISTER FOR YOUR DISTANCE NOW!
GO STRAIGHT TO REGISTRATION at:
http://www.active.com/event_detail.cfm?event_id=1375147
Then, check out the A2A website at: A2A.net
Please also join the Forum at the A2A MySpace Group and the skater-talk on the A2A Listserv
speed skaters, fitness, recreational, inline or quad, pro and team skaters: Athens-to-Atlanta is the most anticipated event on the calendar of skaters the world over - from Italy to San Diego, from Germany to Korea, from China to Boston, from Sweden to Japan, from Montreal to Colombia, from Tahiti to The Skate Farm...
the training season for the skating-year culminates in one of several distance events offered by Athens-to-Atlanta.
* Inline skates are not required either: A2A was originally skated exclusively on quad skates, and quad skaters are still welcome at Athens-to-Atlanta.
Old friends gather on Friday night to survey the skylines of mid- and downtown Atlanta, celebrate on Saturday with a fun-skate in downtown Athens, and tighten their laces at dawn on Sunday morning for the 7:30 departure for the skate to Piedmont Park in Atlanta - 87 miles away. Whether you plan to skate the new 10K (wholly within Piedmont Park), the 38 Mile Marathon-Plus, the 52.4 Mile Double Marathon, or the 87 Mile Ultra Marathon - you'll find extraordinary challenges, competition and friendships in every mile.
For Our Favorite MySpace Videos, click on "View My:" then "Videos" in the left column, then click on "My Favorites"
Sam Snead Photographer
Mauro Guenci's Finish Line shot by Tish Gorman.
Peter Doucet's Inline Racing Webpage.
Ask anyone that has ever skated or volunteered for Athens-to-Atlanta: this is their favorite - there is no other skate event like this in the world.
A2A is sponsored by the Georgia International Road Skating Association girsa.org, in conjunction with the founding-sponsor - Atlanta's original road skating club: the Atlanta Peachtree Road Rollers aprr.org.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Skaters, volunteers and friends.
Athens-to-Atlanta welcomes skaters from six continents. We'd like to meet more skaters from small towns - anywhere in the world - skaters that would love to find other skaters out there that share a love of the open road, of meeting new friends and reconnecting with old ones, and of celebrating together through this annual gathering.
For road skaters of every flavor - fitness, recreational, speed skaters, inline or quad, pro and team skaters -
Athens-to-Atlanta is the most anticipated event on the calendar of skaters the world over.
From San Diego to Boston, from Sweden to China, from Australia to Japan, from Russia to Korea, from Montreal to
Columbia, from Detroit to Hawaii, from Seattle to Ft. Lauderdale, from Tahiti to Timbuktu - the training season for the skating-year culminates in Athens-to-Atlanta.
Old (and new) friends gather on Friday night for a skating survey of the evening skylines of mid and downtown Atlanta,
celebrate on Saturday with a fun-skate in downtown Athens, and tighten their laces at dawn on Sunday morning for the 7:30 departure for the skate to Piedmont Park in Atlanta - 87 miles away (or one of the other events offered).
Athens-to-Atlanta: every skater's favorite road skate.
TRAINING FEATURES:
Note: speed skating skills NOT required for A2A - but better skating is always a good thing... Stay tuned for more great videos.
These videos do not cover basic, core-conditioning: crunches, back-ups, pushups, etc. - or cardiovascular conditioning with a heart-rate monitor. For that info, see the A2A Group Forums or the A2A Listserv
DRY LAND SKATING
Courtesy of the Ottawa Inline Skating Club - thank you for these great training videos!
PLYOMETRICS for DRY LAND SKATING
Plyometrics increase strength, coordination and balance; the following two videos cover the basic skating leap and cross-overs.
PLYOMETRIC: SKATE LEAP WITH TOUCH BACK
PLYOMETRIC: CROSS OVER BOUNDING
For self guided plyometrics training (with 30+ demo videos),
visit the extensive online program online at the
- and their excellent resource list at the bottom of that page.
THE DOUBLE PUSH
An essential speed skater's tool. Superb training from eight-time winner of Athens-to-Atlanta, Eddy Matzger: how to "double push" - or power stroke on the outstroke AND the return. Eddy breaks the stroke into bite-size parts, then puts the pieces togther. Thank you, Eddy.
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Courtesy of LondonSkaters.com: thanks, Mike!
DOUBLE PUSH FOR PACE LINE BREAK-OUT
PACE LINE BREAK-OUT
TEAM TRAINING
EXTREME HILL BREAKING - THE DEATH ARCH
Eddy Matzger taught himself to skate on the hills of San Francisco... His amazing, uber slalom-breaking performance on an narrow, rail-less arch over a river in Seoul, Korea:
Courtesy of LondonSkaters.com: thanks, Mike!
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Eddy Matzger's "Skate Central"
Eddy Matzger's Workshop Schedule
Scheduled workshops - near you, and at the Skate Farm
Eddy Matzger's Skate Farm
- Train at Eddy's farm in the beautiful Virginia mountains
Pascal Briand, Team Salomon World Champion Speed Skater: great use of Double Push to break-out of a pace line and decisively take the lead (including slo-mo review). Coaching by Christophe Audoir.
Team RollerBlade DP - watch slo-mo of skater leaping out to attack with a sprint (great footage).
Great Slovenian speed skating team footage:
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INSANE! BONUS VIDEO
80 KPH ON ONE LEG
BACKWARDS ON 10% DOWNHILL GRADE!
Meet Enrico "Fearless" Perano:
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Athens-to-Atlanta A2A MySpace and A2A Group are maintained by Scott Nilsson in Atlanta - also on Zaadz at scottnilsson.zaadz.com and at LinkedIn for professional contacts: linkedin.com/in/scottnilsson
Scott and Kristy are at 2nilssons.com and our MySpace at myspace.com/2nilssons
For enjoyment and to support the dance community, Scott & Kristy maintain 900+ select Dance Quotes, and 60-plus videos, plus Dance Quote of the Day (and Social Dance Quote of the Day) at: http://2nilssons.com/dancequotes.htm - Enjoy!
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