HIBERNATE2 by Cavin Brinkman

“HIBERNATE2” the second edition of the free rollerblading / inline skate movie produced by Cavin B in collaboration with p a t s p a n g, 400 & Grindhoven.

Foreword by Travis Stewart
Text by Cavin Brinkman
Photos by Christian, Adam, Jonathan, Sem, and Cavin

Through the creep of winter, the various crews and skaters of Amsterdam have been silently cooking up some goodness for us. Cavin Brinkman has been putting together his follow up video “HIBERNATE2” over the last several months. Featuring a star-studded cast of some of the greatest skating talent in Amsterdam, a few dabs of international flavor, and Pascal Tan to top it off. With Cavin behind the lens, you know this will be a piece we’ll keep coming back to.


Cavin and Sam - Photo by Christian Delfino

Derek Hall, Sweatstance

Pascal Tan, True Top Soul - Photo by Adam Szymanski

Just like last year we went out on the streets to avoid the skateparks and our warm living rooms. We expanded our horizon and included Rotterdam and Eindhoven to our playgrounds.

Adapt rider Sem Croft and his room mate Sebastiaan van Wijk showed us around on the streets of 010: ROFFA.They joined a handful of sessions in Amsterdam when some international skaters were in town to sesh and visit Winterclash.

Sem Croft, AO Top Acid - Photo by Adam Szymanski

Yuto Guto, Front Torque - Photo by Sem Croft

My friend Christian Delfino happened to be in town after the clash. You might know him from his beautiful photos of skaters and non blading work, so with camera in hand we went skating one evening before it rained down on us. Leaving us the second day with no skating but a good dinner.

Yuto Goto was at my house for four days for an upcoming project but rain stopped us from getting day clips so we where banned to some parking garages. Because I’ve got a few clips with Chad Hornish in a IKEA parking garage, it gave me the opportunity to make a full garage section for this episode of HIBERNATE.

Cavin Brinkman, Soul - Photo by Adam Szymanski

Chad Hornish, Zero Spin - Photo by Jonathan Labez

Due to the wet days we had for some weeks my planned sessions in Eindhoven got washed away. For the last week of the winter i had 2/3 sessions planned in Eindhoven but than our country got all crazy around COVID-19. The south of The Netherlands was where the most cases where known so it kinda stopped me to go there. Luckily Jeroen Wullems came to the rescue and he and the Grindhoven boys went out with their facemasks and gloves for a few nights to get enough footage for a sweet part. Big shout out to GH!!!

Joep Beuken - Photo by Adam Szymanski

Sebastiaan van Wijk - Photo by Cavin Brinkman

Sebastiaan van Wijk and Cavin Brinkman - Photo by Sem Croft

COVID-19 cleared Amsterdam like never before. Scary, but it also gave us the opportunity to skate things we could never skate. So we decided to give it 1 more week of skating to see what it will bring us. That resulted with the last clip filmed by me on Wednesday, March 18th.

The whole crew went in and were super motivated. It was a blast to go out and lay on the cold floors to get this off the ground but I am happy spring is here now. Now we wait for this all to fly over and to get back to normal, until then enjoy our second installment of the HIBERNATE series. - Cavin Brinkman

Cavin and Sem - Photo by Adam Szymanski

Sebastiaan van Wijk, 360 - Photo by Sem Croft

PATSPANG - Photo by Adam Szymanski

Pascal Tan, 180 - Photo by Adam Szymanski

Cavin Brinkman - Photo by Adam Szymanski

Sem Croft, Fishbrain - Photo by Christian Delfino

Randy Abels, Mute - Photo by Christian Delfino

Pascal Tan, BS Savannah - Photo by Adam Szymanski