As far as I can remember I have always had Roller skates, The first pair I can remember was strap on metal skates with plastic wheels, which I had when I was very little, when I was between 7 and 10 years old I had two pairs of skates, first some yellow skates with blue stripes and yellow rubber wheels, which was a lot better then my first pair of skates. The second pair was not much different, just blue with silver stripes and blue rubber wheels. Mostly I just went down small slopes or played catch with the other kids near my home, but I learned how to skate already back then.

I also jumped trampoline in the local club and became Danish champion for team at the age of 12, but knee problems forced me to stop or I would have ended up in a wheelchair. The doctor said I could only ride bikes or swim if I wanted to do any sport, and the town of Greve had the biggest Swimming bath in Denmark, so I ended up swimming, but only for a short time. Lying there in the water I saw all the platform divers having fun and that’s how I ended up becoming a platform diver, witch didn’t really help my knee problem.

At the age of 16 my mum and dad got divorced and my mother moved to Skovby on the Island of Als in the South of Denmark with my kid brother Henrik Hulgreen who is 4 years younger then me and my big brother Flemming Hulgreen who is 3 years older and me. I didn´t like it there, but went to a school in Kolding to learn to become a off-set printer.
After 1 year in school I moved back to my father in Greve, and that’s when it all started.

The year was 1988 and I was 18 years old and there was a Roller skate boom in Denmark, everyone was skating, and I borrow money from my dad to by a pair of Bauer 33. Some of the guy’s I knew took me to Storke springvandet in the waking area of Copenhagen, where it was packed with roller skaters jumping over people on jump ramps and just skating around. I went there a lot and one day someone asked me if I wanted to go to the skate park in Fælledparken not to far away from the centre of town.
Getting there I saw a vert ramp for the first time in my life, and there were people rollerskating on it, I went up the stairs to the platform to get a better look. After sitting on the platform looking for an hour I went to the edge and sat down, looking down this big ramp witch had 1m. of vert. Someone helped me to get into the ramp and of I went not knowing what to do getting to the other side, but I turned around and got back up on the platform again, not long after I stood up and dropped in, but this time I had to much speed and put my hands on the cope on the other side and turned around, my first trick, a layback.

One day in 1989 I went to skate in Fælledparken and saw this little guy with long red hair skating real good, and he didn´t have any fear.
Thats how I meet Bo Elsbøl who should become the reson why I became so good at skating.
There were so many vert ramps in and around Copenhagen at that time, and we went to skate different ramps almost everyday, sometimes more ramps in one day, and meet many other skaters like Morten Engmark, Sidney and mike, there were so many, I cant remember them all, but it was alot of fun.
The places we skated the most was Fælledparken, Lyngby ramp and the miniramp on the 4th. floor of the youth club Thomas P.H. in the center of Copenhagen, and thats where Bo and I pushed each other to do harder and harder tricks.
Bo skated the same style as Brian Wainwright, side stance and I skated regular style, and when Bo learned a new trick, I had to learn a new trick and the other way around, and one day Bo was trying to do frontside flip, so I tryed to do a backflip, and landed it on the 3th. try, my first big trick, and that was on a miniramp, trying it on a vert ramp was a different more painfull story.

The first international contest I went to was in Hamburg Germany where I went together with Bo Elsbøl.
Getting there I saw that many of the skaters I looked up to were there, I was wery excited, I was going to skate together with Thomas Kalak, Jason Tubb, Martin Broich and the Languth brothers.
Everything went well for me and to my big supprice I won the contest, I couldent belive it.
From some of the German skaters we heard of other contests in Germany and Bo Elsbøl, Morten Engmark and I started to travel to more and more contest, mostly in Germany, but also in England, and in 1991 we went to the World Championship in Münster Germany.
The contest was big and there were many real good skaters there, especially Brian Wainwright from the US.
But again everything went well, Bo Elsbøl became nr. 5 and I nr. 2 after Brian Wainwright who made what I think is still the best run on Rollerskates to this day. "Look Video Clips" coming soon.

In the meantime in Denmark Rollerskating got bigger and bigger, and one year I helt my own contest tour with 6 contest around Denmark, and to one of these contest Taig Khris came, he was on of the best rollerskaters at the time already doing bs 900.
In the last year of my rolleskate days I learned 900 McTwist, the biggest trick I would ever make. "Look Video Clips" coming soon.

One of the more important contest I went to in this time was the Green Ramp Jam in Karlsruhe Germany, where I meet the Woman that is now my Wife Sybille Loeschmann, who was a vert skateboarder, but I also meet Ivano Gagliardo and Raphael Sandoz who brought In-line skates to the contest, this was the start of a new era.

I traveled alot thrugh the US. skating on the NISS tour and did some ASA contests, and got Disqualyfied from the X-Games becours I skated the perfect Skateboard ramp insted of the small realy bad BMX and In-Line ramp, but I didn´t care about the X-Games, it was a bit to commercial for my taste.
It was also the year I von the IISS World tour, for collecting the most points on the NISS and IISS tour thrugh the year.
But the most important thing was going to South Africa, a Country I go to visit 15 times in only 4 Years, I just love that place.
The first time I went there was to Judge and do a skate show for Roces S.A. with Arlo Eisenberg and Jess Dyrenforth at the S.A. Championship in Sun City.
Laiter I went back to judge and skate at other contests there, and visit friends.
Thanks for everything Melody, Brint, Liza, Herman and Wayne.