IRSB Milan: a bone braker
We've just come home from another weekend away. This time the event we gathered for was the IRSB (Italian Rolling Street Battle) in Milan.
Let's start by saying that this is not a report of the event since i've been more busy doing other things than following the whole contest, so it's just a snippet of what we've been able to see.
I'll start by confessing that we missed the whole Saturday sessions. Apart from a visit at the first spot we went away before they moved to the first flat rail.
On Sunday we overslept and missed most of the semifinal rounds again, but we were there for the finals and that's were the drama starts.
The final's spot was a gnarly one: a huge drop rail on the side of a fire escape stairway.
This time we were there before everyone (yeah, we had a car and the had to wait for the bus!) and we checked out the scenario.
Used syringe needles, cardboards and smell of pee. Not bad for a place you're supposed to skate (and fall on). When the guys of the IRSB arrived they were pretty concerned about the situation and they started discussing about moving the final to another spot. But no spot was good enough to substitute, so we stuck to this beast.
While the crew was discussing, of course the french guys (sorry, no names, but i bet you'll find them in the IRSB report on Italianrolling, they've better memory than us! Stephane de Freitas and Diego Guilloud) started skating the rail. Stephane was the most confident and showed even some switch-ups.
Then slowly the 5 skaters in the final round started warming up. But no clean distinction between warm up and competition skating was made, so other people climbed the stairs to skate the rail.
The finalist were mostly part of the Bisca team:
- Jason Adriani
- Mauro Moi
- Nicola Fiorenza
- Diego Guilloud
- Stephane de Freitas
After a while this black beast made its first victim: the a guy named Sven didn't land a trick and broke something in his leg. We called an ambulance and the other finalists started to get scared.
Nicola Fiorenza pulled just one trick at first try and without even warming up: kind grind. Then he stopped skating.
Jason Adriani did the same after a few attemps of a bs backslide.
Meanwhile Mauro "Nano" Moi started to warm up with some royales and also our "rookie of the year" Pietro Bulfon put his skates on and started to try to topsoul the rail. He fell various times and went close at least as many, and he would have probably laced it if he didn't fall badly on his ankle and broke himself too.
After the second ambulance came nobody wanted to really skate anymore. Just Nano kept his skates and finally laced his frontside fastslide (best trick of IRSB) and Cesare Rio brought some glory home with a sweet royale.
On the overall this IRSB has been a pretty scary event, but has featured some sick skating from Italy's finest and the cool guys from France.
Check out all the pictures in our Flickr photostream!
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3 comments on "IRSB Milan: a bone braker"
Great stuff man - loving your blog / flickr / youtube updates! I want some bisca stickers haha
Oh!!! awesome dudes!!!!!!!
Thanks guys!
No problem for the stickers Tim, send me your address!!
