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Description: World Skate is the current IOC recognised organisational body for roller sports, including Skateboarding, Rink Hockey, Inline Hockey, Speed Skating, Inline Alpine, Downhill, Roller Derby, Roller Freestyle, Inline Freestyle, Scooter.

 

Founded: 1924

 

Category: skateboarding

 

Type: International

 

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Association info: Formally known as Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS), which was founded on April 21st 1924.

 

Location:

  • Maison du Sport International Av. De Rhodanie, 54
  • Lausanne
  • Switzerland
 
 

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Catching Up With | Filipe Mota It takes a rare breed of skateboarder to turn heads across skateboarding’s societies (of which there are several today), but Filipe Mota is not just coming up- he’s blowing up. It is sometimes said in the world of sponsored skateboarding that the Amateurs are in awe of the Pro’s and the Pro’s dread the ever-more-prodigiously-talented new Am’s knocking on the van door. With Filipe Mota knocking on professional skateboarding’s door in a big way, there is probably good reason to feel the winds of change blowing. Having already pretty much already immortalised himself within skateboarding’s pantheon through a single earth-shaking trick, the 18-year-old from Minais Gerais is tipped by many as the Next Big Thing to happen to street skating worldwide. His kickflip frontside bluntslide on the notorious Hollywood High proving-ground handrail that ended his Daydream part ( which he'd previously frontside hurricane’d for his 2022 Welcome To- part for the same team) put down a generational gear-shift of ability, much like Tom Penny did around 1996. That’s the thing about fixed-star spots in the skateboarding universe: anybody is free to step to them in order to measure their gift against the rest. Currently lying 37th in the World Skateboarding Ranking and contending within a Brazil team which is unsurprisingly bursting at the seams with talent (six in the WSR top fifty men), Filipe knows that now is the time to put the hammer down in every facet of the professional skateboarding world as it lies before him in 2025. We sat down with one of the hottest names in our world right at this moment to talk balance, difference- and holding the door open for the next new wave. Video by Alan Hannon. Still Photography by Bailey Schreiner. #Skateboarding #WorldSkateSB

3/29/2025   |   video icon

World Skate Games 2024: A Legacy Written on Wheels! For 21 electrifying days, the world’s greatest athletes came together in Italy to push the limits of speed, style, and skill. From the streets of Rome to the heart of Lazio, Piemonte, Emilia-Romagna, and Abruzzo, every arena, every race, and every performance was a testament to passion, dedication, and the unstoppable force of action sports. 🏆 The WSG2024 Numbers: 🚀 12 sports / speed, downhill, slalom, artistic, roller and inline freestyle, skate cross, skateboarding, inline hockey, rink hockey, roller derby, scootering 📍 10 iconic cities across 4 Italian regions 👥 more than 10,000 participants from across the globe 🌎 90 nations united by the love for wheels 📲 35 million views & impressions on socials But this is just the beginning. The fire, the energy, the unbreakable spirit of the World Skate Games will keep rolling forward—stronger, faster, and bolder than ever. The future of skating is now. Are you ready to ride with us? 🔥🛹🏆 See you in 2026

3/1/2025   |   video icon

STOMPING GROUNDS - KEET OLDENBEUVING & BYST ACADEMY If the World Skateboarding Tour brings together skateboarders of the world in a kind of circular flowering, then those roots stretch out like spokes from the WST hub to a whole lot of very different backgrounds from which each of our skateboarders came. In this new series, we will follow individual skaters from the World Skateboarding Tour back to their home stomping grounds to see not just where they come from but the scenes from which they come to join the Tour. Our first episode focuses on the charismatic twenty-year-old Dutchwoman Keet Oldenbeuving from Utrecht in the Netherlands. From dragging a grind rail out the front of her house to featuring in video parts for Nike and Santa Cruz Skateboards, Keet has already managed to strike a sponsorship balance few achieve in this day and age. Currently lying 21st in the WSR, she is one of two Dutch skateboarders among the top 5 Europeans in Women’s Street- and there is a very good reason for that. Dutch skateboarding, like neighbouring Belgium, relies on indoor skateparks to keep continuity running through their scenes purely because they get a lot of rain. The Netherlands have loads of great indoor skateparks- Park Amsterdam, Area 51 in Eindhoven, Venlo, Ladybird in Tilburg, World Skate Center in Den Bosch among them. Each of them supports not only their own local scene, but visitors from around the country too- because here is the great thing about the Dutch skateboarding scene. They actually support and promote indoor skateparks as good things, while other nations pull faces about what constitutes legitimacy in skateboarding. Big ups to Flatspot Magazine in that regard. So in the Netherlands, the local and national skate scenes get a good mixing through those indoor parks which allow their scene to flourish and grow in terms of participation. Individual parks become scene hubs themselves, and nowhere is this more true than the World Skate Center in Den Bosch just an hour’s journey from Keet’s Utrecht hometown. This state of the art indoor skatepark and events space not only allows Keet to keep pace with competitors from the lands of near year-round sunshine, but also allows her to inspire the new generation as a coach of the Bright Youth Skateboard Talents (BYST) Academy who host European Skatecamps there. We followed Keet for a day of coaching at the park she helped design to learn not only how her WST experience feeds back into youth coaching, but what also makes the Dutch skate scene one of Europe’s raddest. Enjoy! Filmed and Edited by Nick Hanson. https://www.skateboarding.worldskate.org/news.html

2/26/2025   |   video icon
 
 

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