Star skate pro sets up world-class team

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Manawatu and New Zealand star skater Kalon Dobbin is setting up a world-class professional team with two other Manawatu skaters to race around the world.

Based in Switzerland, he plans to have Manawatu's new world stars, Peter Michael and DJ Nation, and two Colombians on the roster.

Dobbin, 29, is getting it together with help of his Swiss-based German team, Powerslide Phuzion, a wheel company soon to go global.

He is working back from an inflamed hip-socket and groin injury suffered at the world championships in Cali, Colombia. But Michael and Nation took the skating world by storm in their first season on the World Inline Cup circuit this year.

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