K.R.C. "ROLLING" ARTISTIC ROLLER SKATING CLUB - NIEUWEGEIN - HOLLAND

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Welcome to the english pages of K.R.C. "Rolling". For general information about K.R.C. "Rolling" and other artistic roller skating clubs in Holland read this page; we transferred the NEWS information to another page; for this actual information click to NEWSLETTER

First of all, we would appreciate very much, if you would fill in your town and country in our GUESTBOOK after your visit. In that way w'll know a little bit about where our visitors come from. Your host is Leendert Smit (see photo), former president and member of honour and now webmaster of this site of the Artistic Rollerskating Club "K.R.C. Rolling" from Nieuwegein - Holland.

One of the 15 artistic rollerskating clubs of Holland - called K.R.C. "Rolling" - is situated at the town of Nieuwegein.

Nieuwegein is one of the suburbs of the town of Utrecht - just in the centre of the Netherlands. Just look at the map on the left. If you want to know some MORE DETAILS OF THE NETHERLANDS (with about 10 nice pictures of Holland) JUST CLICK HERE or do it later

The other 14 artistic rollerskating clubs in Holland are located (look at the map on the left) at towns and villages in the west, south, etc. of the Netherlands:

Beek en Donk (near Helmond) - 'De Oude Molen' (The Old Mill)
Bergen op Zoom (near Roosendaal) - 'Het Markiezaat' (The Marquisate)
Kerkdriel (near 's-Hertogenbosch) - 'De Ker-Rolls
Moerkapelle (near Rotterdam) 'Rolling '90'
Oosterhout - 'Rolling Stars'
Papendrecht (near Dordrecht) - Pa'rol
Schijndel (near 's-Hertogenbosch) - 'Alico'
Valkenswaard (near Eindhoven) - 'V.R.C' (Valkenswaardse Roller Club)
Winschoten (2) (near Groningen) - 'WKC '(1) and 'Molenstad' (2)
Zaandam (2) - 'Z.R.C.' (1) (Zaanse Roller Club) and 'Pauwin' (2)
Zoetermeer -'R.V.Z.' (Rolschaatsvereniging Zoetermeer)
Ede (near Arnhem) - La Luna Rodars (This rollerclub is not a member of the Dutch Rollerskating Union -NRB)

K.R.C. "Rolling" itself was founded in 1978. Since February 1996 it has a magnifique rollerrink

in a sporthall at Nieuwegein: "Sporthal Galecop", located at the "Aert de Gelderhage 7". This sporthall is also used by other kind of sportclubs. (Nieuwegein has about 60.000 inhabitants and is a very sportminded town with a lot of sportclubs)

The Secretary of State of Sports (and former Olympic swimmer) Erica Terpstra and the worldchampion Ice skating Rintje Ritsma opened sporthall Galecop on May 7th 1996 by pushing a big rollerskate through a paperwall.Members of K.R.C. "Rolling" and of the handballclub "H.V.N." performed together a showact for the present officials.

K.R.C. "Rolling" is a member of the Dutch National Rollerskating Federation (N.R.B.), in which two roller skating tranches are united: artistic rollerskating and rollerhockey. (Skeelers have their own union).

"Rolling" does free-style rollerskating (single), figure skating and showact skating.

Famous big groupperformances on showskating - with which "Rolling" participated the National Show Championships - of the last years counted more then 40 kids in the show. With these showacts. K.R.C. "Rolling" belongs to the top 5 in showskating in Holland. They were:

(1991 - 4th place with) Twilight Zone (click for greater picture)

(1992 - 4th place with) Adventure in the Desert (click for greater pictures)

(1993 - no participation because lack of money)

(1994 - 4th place with) "Romance in Venice"

(1995 - 5th place with) Conquest of Eternity (click for greater pictures)

(1996 - 4th place with) Schaakspel (Chessplay) (click for greater pictures)

(1998 - 4th place with) Mother India (click for greater pictures)

(1999 - 4th place with) Chinese Butterfly (click for greater pictures)

E-mail can be send to K.R.C. "Rolling"

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