 Powerslide-Racing.com News によると、去年のOct 25,に Pascal Briand (FRA)、Oct 28,に Fabio Francolini (ITA)、Nov 17,に Thomas Boucher (FRA)、Dec 21,に Kalon Dobbin (NZL)と契約を交わし2006 WIC に向けTeam体制が整ったと思っていましたが、Powerslide core tripleX bootsの供給を受ける５人目のスケーターとして元Team RollerbladeのAlexis Contin (FRA)の名が挙がってきました。もはや、Powerslideは2006 WIC 総合優勝しか眼中に無いのかも。Triple X Contin Pro 2007
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Thomas Boucher | 
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Kalon Dobbin | 
Alexis Contin | 
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Ｔhe French Alexis Contin complete member of the Powerslide International
 | The news of the World Inline Cup, but talks about the international equipment Powerslide. This time has been, to present I complete member of the masculine equipment of the Powerslide International. The first name was the one of the French, Pascal Briand, followed of the Italian, Fabio Francolini. But late they presented the name the third skater, who was the one of the French Thomas Boucher.
Another surprise, was the fourth name, of the New Zealander runner, Kalon Dobbin, after weeks without knowing I complete skater who would be between his rows, only yesterday, notified. He young French skater, Alexis Contin, will be the fifth skater for the equipment. This young skater, surprised all, when in the Championship of World 2004 in Italy, he took control of the first seat in marathon.
According to sleeplessness the German mark, Powerslide in its publicity : A young, audacious face, with great talent. A face that you have seen in podiums of World Games, World-wide Championships, European Championships... Altogether, a face that you have seen win. Its face will remember during long time, a face with a smile. | 
World Inline Cup 2005 in Nice 42,5km (VRK.DK speedskating) | | Hardly on 19 years of age, already it counts on 4 world-wide titles. I title world-wide of marathon Podiums in the World Games, maratones of World Inline Cup and European titles. It is the new European sensation of the skating, and we are proud that Alexis Contin is member of the equipment Powerslide International. But Alexis, will be but that a skater. It worked with the development of products. He this working already in a limited edition of its own products, that was based on boots and groups. | Core XXX Alexis Contin Model Boots
Next but new features on the World Inline Cup 2006. |  |  |
Powerslide International WIC Cooperations 2006
Powerslide put strong efforts into the next World Inline Cup season. Just recently we have announced the 5th and last member of the Powerslide Racing Team 2006. Alexis Contin, one of europeans super heroes is completing the team around Pascal Briand, Thomas Boucher, (both France), young gun Fabio Francolini (Italy) and the most successful skater of the World Games 2005 Kalon Dobbin (NZA). “We tried to form a strong team which can work well together” sais Powerslide founder Matthias Knoll and adds with a smile: “I hope we can kick some ass next season. There are a few very good teams and it will be an interesting race series 2006.”
Holland formed its first World Cup team! The new formed Timmermann/Powerslide team will be supported by Powerslide. The athletes trust the high quality product of the german based skate manufacturer who has lounched an incredible line for 2006. Team Timmermann/Powerslide will use products from Powerslide (Boots, frames, beabrings, accessories), Core Racing (boots, frames) and Matter (wheels) for the entire season. World Champion Arnoud Giquel surprisingly signed up with Timmermann/Powerslide and will give the team all his experience. European Champion Yann Guyadere also from France is the youngster among the team members. The team will be completet by dutch national skaters like Karlo Timmermann, Mark Hortsen and Emiele Blauw. Martin van Hooidong, the former team manager of the dutch Rollerblade team will work in the background making the life of the team members as comfortable as possibe to be able to focus on skating.
Alessi Pro from Italy also teamed up with Powerslide officially for 2006. After last years “shake-hand cooperation” for Matter wheels the team will be now equiped from head to foot with products from the Powerslide “Rolling-Alliance” family. Alessi/Powerslide will start with a men and women team in the WIC circuit. Both teams are not filled completely right now, but are in the final stages of their negotiations. So far the men team consist of 3 italian skaters like Matteo Amabili, Ivan Francolini, Mirco Frizzarin (all from Italy) and Cepa Caballero from Spain who raced a few world cup races last year without a team with respectable results finishing just with the leading pack just bebaten by a few meters.
Cepa´s girlfriend Sandra Gomez switched from Powerslide to Alesssi/Powerslide and has some strong team mates with Laura Ghezzi and ice Olympian Adelina Mara
Powerslide News (Feb 13, 2006)
Fabio Francolini: I OWN THE ROAD AND THE PARTY
Thomas Boucher: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!
Alex Contin: LEKKERDING
Pascal Briand: SKATE LIKA A CHAMPION
Kalon Dobbin: CHAMPIONS ARE MADE, NOT BORN |
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| Contin skates up to 'Heren-A' and claims Alkmaar Marathon | | 19-year old Frenchman Alexis Contin on Sunday won the ' Aannemersbedrijf De Jong Ursem Marathon' 125-lap A-Men event in Alkmaar (see the pictures), fulfilling the predictions of some, amazing others, and continuing his rise and rise in one season opening in longtrack marathon skating. | Lets track the Alexis Contin progress as he takes on his first season of Marathon ice racing in the Netherlands. No need to take notes here, we'll just stick to the facts:
Starting the season in the Mens B division, having never raced before on the Dutch ice, Contin beat out seasoned B skaters and highly-touted upcoming juniors to win the Alkmaar opener in 75 laps, while Miel Rosendaal won the A-division 100 lap event. Just 2 days later in the busy race schedule, Contin was 4th with Swiss Alain Gloor (himself a 2005 Inline World Championship medallist) 3rd in the 100 lap Mens B event, as household name Jan-Martien Heideman won the Mens A 125 lap event. | Alkmaar Heren-A
Contin claims victory in the 125-lap marathon. | Essent 3-Days
Alexis claims Day 3, and the 'sprint' of 40 laps | One week later at the Breda oval, Contin won again in B, taking the 75 lap event with the consistent Alain Gloor 3rd ・as Nefit's champion, the Dutch-based Frenchman Cedric Michaud, took out the Mens A 125 lap marathon. The result was repeated the following week, with Contin 1st and Gloor 3rd in Mens B at Den Haag.
With the Essent 3-Days event starting on November 4 for the A Men only, Contin stepped up a division to contest the 60-, 70- and 40-lap events over 3 days. Finishing 54th behind winner Michaud on day 1, Contin was 5th as Heideman won the following day, then took a win in the 40-lap event on Day 3 ・with countryman and fellow '05 World Inline Champion Pascal Briand 3rd enjoying the relative 'sprint' distances. | Returning to full race distance a week later, Contin again finished mid-field in 49th at Eindhoven, but with his A-distance legs on the following day, placed 10th in Geleen, and a week later, incredibly (or not so, depending on your knowledge by this stage of his progress in recent weeks) won the 125-lap event as the tour returned to Alkmaar (Gloor finishing 7th there in the B division).
That brings us to today, as the entire Dutch marathon Speedskating community talks about Alexis and ・since Chad Hedrick set back-to-back World Records in the 5000m at Calgary, and the 1500m at Salt Lake just this week, ahead of the February Winter Olympic Games ・the apparent runaway success the World's top inline skaters as they cross over to skate on the ice. | Acceleration
Alexis Contin shows the cornering speed he has used to devastating advantage. |
In summary :
Contin placed 1st in the season opening race in the Mens B division, after which he placed 3rd, 1st and 1st in the following races in that division. He is currently ranked 13th in the A classment, after 10 races, only 6 of which he has participated in (because he was racing in the B division when the first 4 races of the season were held) ・having claimed 2 A-division wins in the process.
(Nov. 21, 2005)
the Mogemasports.com : Contin skates up to 'Heren-A' and claims Alkmaar Marathon
the MogemaSports inline forum : News: Contin claims Heren-A Marathon win! |
Alexis helps to improve your skating
Hi , my name is Alexis Contin. I´m 20 years old and I live in joure(holland), I am single and I am a professional speed skater in the Powerslide Phuzion worldteam!
I started inline skating when I was 5 years old and love it since then! I have been 4 times world champion senior and 6 times European champion and all this in my first 2 years senior. Now I am more focused on the marathon racing with the powerslide Phuzion team so I decided to don´t race the worlds and european anymore.
I also do ice skating in the winter on long track, I skate in the team of DSB and my trainer is Jac Orie.
I really enjoy to ride on inline here in holland where you have the best "fiestspad" in the world
Here are few tips to learn or improve your inline skating technique............
Tips for your skating :First for real beginners:
What is really important when you start to skate is to always think that your shoulders has to be in front of your ass! That way you will not fall backworks and you can get confidence in you. Too many beginners quit early because they keep falling on their back and that´s truly painfull! So always think to put your shoulders in the front. Also try to sit a little bit so don´t keep your legs straight, put an angle in your knee, this angle doesn´t have to be much in the beginning but will be more and more with the speed you will get after a while. And then try to push to the side and not to the back, after each push let you glide a little bit before the push again. You have to use each push by gliding after it. Also it´s more pleasant to let you roll after the push. That way you can feel the timing of skating and enjoy the fun of it.
For recreational skaters:
You already can skate and go pretty much whereever you want, what you got to learn is play more with your skate. That way you can react faster in different situations like jumping a walkway or braking suddenly to avoid danger! A really good exercise is slalom. Try to do slalom with only 1 foot then with both on the ground and even some backwords! After the slalom brake like in skiing except that in ski you let both of your glide on inline only one has to glide the other put it behind you that way you keep rolling and you can control the braking. Also start to jump, at the beginning not really high and then once you get more secure go higher. You can also try to skate with both skates always touching the ground. That way you can focus on pushing on the side which is the big base of skating. Try also to sit a bit lower when you want to make speed. That way your push is longer and so more efficient!
By the way all those exercises, jumping skate on the ground and so on, I always do it before the season to get more confident with my skate, as in a race you always encounter very strange situations!
For racing skater:
Of course you want to learn the double push! This movement looks a lot harder than what it is actually! The first exercise you can do is put one skate forward and the other in the back just like if you let let you roll with your body weight on 1 leg and you other leg in the back to get more stability! Then with the front legs try to swing a litle bit. So make half a circle one way and then back, do that for 70m and then change legs do that couple of times every time you go to skate. That makes you feel the swing of the double push. Then ask your training partner to hold you by the hand. For example he holds your right hand, then stand on your left foot and hang with your body weight over your legs. Do that in the straight away once you hang over it then make the same half circle as you did in the other exercice, again for 70 m and switch legs.
Once those 2 exercises are well under control, then try to skate on one skate only and do the half circle. Be careful, your body should not go up, you have to stay down and low, so the angle in your knee has to be small!
Now you can feel what the double push is, always remember it´s a combination of a nice half circle with your legs but also a transfer of your body weight!
Another part is the arm swing and this part goes for all the skater you need to swing your arm to get speed. So to train, remember that your thumb as to go to your nose and you have to stretch your back arm! Do this movement a couple of times without speed, then think about it when you skate easy. The most important is when you make speed really swing your arm strongly that will help you a lot!
That´s it for the few tips now. I wish you all some nice training sessions this summer and I hope to see you soon in the races.
Powerslide Racing News: Alexis helps to improve your skating by JvS (May 03, 2007)
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