Community In Bowls

Hello everyone. We have an important update to share with you. Over the past decade, the growth & evolution of the skating community has been incredible to witness. We’ve seen so many incredible skaters emerge onto the scene, watched as their talents grew & cheered along as our community flourished. When CIB was first founded, our mission was to help grow park skating globally and share our passion with as many skaters as we could - and from our privileged position as a community advocate, we’re so stoked to have helped that to happen. CIB has always been a labor of love and a huge passion project of the dedicated team behind it. But with personal circumstances changing & the global skating community thriving, the CIB team feels now is a good time to take a step back & close this chapter of our lives. From this week, CIB will be closing down. Our decision however, does not mean the end of our community. We are thrilled to be handing over autonomy to all of our global CIB Chapters, to manage and support their communities in the ways that best work for each of them. There is still a need for community & connection in skating, and we cannot wait to see what comes as each chapter reinvents themselves into crews that are as unique as each and every one of the individuals linked to it. Your Chapter Admins have been informed and we hope to see them collaborate with their crews to bring in this new era of skating. Our hardware will be available from your local skateshops till it runs out. @bloodandthunder will be doing a closure sale for any remaining CIB merchandise. Our website will close later this week and, our social accounts will become inactive. It has been a pleasure and privilege to see so many skaters ride our gear & it brought us great joy being a part of your skating journeys. There is so much more that could be said and a never ending list of people we are grateful for, but life is too short and so is the word cap. THANK YOU to EVERYONE who was a part of our journey and helped us to spread the stoke, none of this would have been possible without you and we can’t wait to see what comes next for skating. With immense amounts of gratitude, CIB Crew

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* CIB CREW UPDATE * CIB Crew is in the process of reworking some of our functions and structures to better serve you, our CIB community. Starting September 1, we’ll be taking a social media break, and we’ll be back October. During the past year, we’ve made some exciting changes, including the introduction of our CIB Competition format, our Rollpocalypse event, and the reworking of our Tricktionary. On the cusp of these changes, we’re working on shifting our capacity, and we need some time and space to do that effectively. We’re grateful for your support and engagement, and we’d like to thank our superstar social media manager Hal Slaunwhite @oliver.fist902 for their incredible work on our channels, and throughout our community. We’ll be back in October with some exciting changes and we can’t wait to see you then! Artwork by: @jade.o.lantern . . ID: a circular piece of artwork showing three sets of legs of skaters sitting atop a quarter pipe with their legs dangling over. The ramp is black and has some CIB Crew stickers on it. In the background is a rainbow and a field of flowers with a bunny in it. The artwork is in reds and pinks, with some black and white. . . #YouCanSkateWithUs #CIBCrew #QuadSkaters #SeeYouSoon

Consider our minds blown (and our thigh burning). Who is taking just one rollerskate to park this week? Skater: @addiroller . . VD: Addi navigates a skatepark with one rollerskate and one leg held in the air for a run featuring a one foot grind on a transition and on a box! . . . #CIBCrew #rollerlatino #cibsliders #rolleeskating #somoscuitláhuac #agresivoenquads #rollertricks #cibcrew #grind #rollerquadskatepark #rollerskatemexico #rollerskate #quadsrollerskating #rolleeskating #agresivoenquads #quadsrollers #roller

Little Rollpocalypse clip. . . VD: a video showing skaters and attendees watching the bowl comp, the camera pans over to catch a skater dropping into the deep end of a bowl, and coming back and doing a handstand. You can see the crowd on the other side of the bowl as well, and the judges . . . #CIBCrew #rollpocalypse

Faces of Rollpocalypse IV. Who else is missing the vibes at Rollpocalypse cause WE ARE! Photos: @oliver.fist902 . . ID: 1. a photo of Angel sitting on the concrete, smiling up at the camera giving a peace sign. He is wearing a black helmet, silver chain, and jeans. 2. Chandra is sitting on the concrete putting on rollerskates and looking the her right smilling. They are wearing red sun glasses, a hat, a jean ands leapard print vest, and black shorts. 3. Hana is captured mid laughter in the evening of the event wearing a bright pink sweater and jeans. 4. A young roller Skater is smiling and looking at the camera wearing full skate gear. 5. A person with pink long hair and a skeleton shirt is smiling a the camera. You can see Hal in the reflection of the sunglasses. 6. AJ is smiling with a medal around his neck. 7. Max is smiling with a medal around his neck. . . #rollpocalypse #rollpocalypse2022 #CIBCrew #QuadComp #QuadSkating #RollerSkate #CommunityInBowls

In case you haven’t heard: the #CIBTrickOfTheMonth is Airing Over (whatever the heck you want)!! Get flying like @juanapatin_rsk8 . . VD: a roller skater skates up a transition, flies off the side and airs over a ledge and over the ground on the other side with gnarly style. . . #CIBCrew

Who else has been trying the #CIBTrickOfTheMonth - Airing over - or in this case, FLIPPING. @moxi_mia_sk8 . . VD: Mia is going for the record of most people flipped over with a barani out of the bowl.

Faces of Rollpocalypse IV. A photo series of folks skating in or attending or working at Rollpocalypse. . . ID: 9 photos of people from the waist up at a Rollerskate event. Mostly smiling, sometimes sassy. . . #rollpocalypse #CIBCrew #Rollpocalypse2022 #ParkSkating

CIB TRICK OF THE MONTH (and a half - now until August 31st) IS AIRING OVER! You can air over an object, a person, or anything you can think of. Time to get creative and have some fun! Video from: @m.viviana skater airing: mayaguayaba . . VD: one skater is sitting on the ground in a ball, the other flies out of the bowl and does a straddle jump over the seated skater. It is dark out and the bowl has a lot of graffiti on it. . . #CIBCrew #CIBTrickOfTheMonth #Airs #RollerSkate #Gnar

Faces Of Rollpocalypse 3. Photos:m @oliver.fist902 . . . ID: 6 photos of various people at Rollpocalypse. 1. Bowzer is sitting in a chair wearing a black helmet and reflective sunglasses that have pink on them. His is wearing a binder and smiling. 2. Miguel, one of our fabulous MC's for the day is smiling wearing a white and red baseball t-shirt, and a grey hat. Miguel has dark curly hair past his shoulders and a mustache and beard. 3. Nica and Leonetti, two of our INCREDIBLE numbers people who were making sure all the information was flowing from the judges to you all in live time. 4. Kori is making a squichy face at the camera with luscious brown locks and ginger facial hair. 5. A sad clown looking sad captured from above from the waist up. They have dark hair and a white and black tule neck piece. 6. Pigeon standing in front of her shop's sign holding T-Shirts and smiling with pink heart sunglasses on.