What was it like taking roller skates to a vert ramp?
At first I was just skating around the streets in Copenhagen, then one day someone took me to the local skate park, Fælledparken, where I saw a vert ramp for the first time. There were some roller skaters skating on it, and I went straight up on the platform and within an hour I had done a sit-in, a roll-in and a drop-in; I was hooked. What made you switch to inline skates? I was on an Interrail trip through Europe and at a vert contest in Karlsruhe, Germany, Raphael Sandoz and Ivano Gagliardo, at that time also still roller skating, had some inline skates with them. Later on the trip I bought a pair of Roces Moscows. How was that transition? I remember being scared of doing a back flip and going fakie at first, but it only took a week before I did everything I did on roller skates, and a month later I was at the first Lausanne contest, and the rest is history. Growing up in Denmark and having lots of vert ramps available to you, how was it traveling to the United States? It was a bit
