Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Friday 2nd April aka Good Friday will see the official beginning of the official re opening of Court Farm Mountainboard Centre under new management. The centre will now be known as Ironsides’ Court Farm and will be managed by ATBA Chairman Raphael La Roche along with Lorna and Rachel. We wish them all the best and hopefully it will be a great weekend.
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
The MBS Pro Ramp will be out for the first time in 2010 at the British Leisure Show. This is a new show and will be at Windsor Racecourse. The show will feature all kinds of different aspects of the British leisure and outdoor pursuits industry. The MBS team will be there putting on a mountainboard display and also providing mountainboarding taster sessions for anyone interested in having a go.
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
The ATBA need to know interest levels for the UK Downhill Championships and also the European Downhill Tour competition to be held at Cheddar. Please contact them asap to let them know if you are interested. Contact the ATBA by emailing info@atbauk.org.
The ATBA-UK Downhill Championship and British leg of The European Downhill Tour is being held in Cheddar, Somerset on the 12th and 13th June.
The competition will include a practice day and then one-man timed descents with the fastest rider in each category winning. The campsite has a swimming pool, adventure playground…, skatepark, BMX track, restaurant and bar.
We need to get an idea of how many people are interested in coming to this event to ensure we have adequate facilities available. Please reply to this message to let us know if you’re planning to come.
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
The ATBA in the UK have announced what dates the competitions will be held on in 2010. There is no mention on locations just yet but I am sure they will follow early next year. The website has had a bit of a revamp too and now includes a mailing list. I suggest you join it if you want to be kept up to date and it is especially useful for last minute changes to schedules etc.
Here are the dates:
- International Series – Round 1 will be on the 1st and 2nd of May.
- International Series – Round 2 will be on the 29th and 30th May.
- Downhill Championship will be on the 12th and 13th June.
- International Series – Round 3 will be on the 17th and 18th July.
- International Series – Round 4 will be on the 28th and 29th August.
Now we just need to pray for good weather!
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
On the 16th and 17th of October Bugsboarding Mountainboard Centre will be hosting the first mountainboard film festival which has been organised by ATB Junkies. ATB Junkies will be providing a 16ft screen for the movie night and film festival. Mamma Frost will be making hot dogs on Saturday night and porridge on Sunday morning.
Friday
Saturday
- Fun Boardercross knockouts in the morning
- Freestyle Jam in the afternoon
- Prize giving for days events
- Festival Saturday night with Hot Dogs and Pop Corn supplied by Momma Frost of the ATBA-UK
Sunday
- Porridge for breakfast
- Ride and have fun with friends
- ATBA Championship Finals Prize Giving
- ATBA AGM
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
After the first round of the ATBA championships at South West Mountainboard Centre got rained off the provisional date for the 4th round got allocated to Haredown. That event is fast approaching with the titles still up for grabs. Matt Brind is looking like a very strong candidate to take the overall title. Joe Dickson, the defending champion is still in with a shot of keeping his title.
Find out more of the details from the Haredown Website.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
The MBS Pro Team will be heading up to Tyneside on 24th – 25th October for Xperience 09 – an extreme sports festival. Alongside the demo ramp where the Pro Team will be performing their backflips, spins, frontflips etc we will be operating a mountainboard “have a go” session. This will give people the opportunity to try out mountainboarding and receive instruction from ATBA qualified instructors.
Some members of the MBS Pro Kite Team will also be present demoing kiteboarding on the beach!
Find out more about Xperience 09
Find out more about the MBS Big Air Mountainboard Show and the Mountainboarding Have a Go.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
News Flash…… Only 10 days to go and counting down……
The story so far……….
‘The Battle of Bugs’ World Mountainboard Championships has been receiving a great amount of interest from people all over the world from with the mountainboard scene itself as well as outside of it.
We’ve had numerous movements over the last few weeks and with much delight we can now say that with MBS Europe sponsoring the cash prize fund and helping with the organisation, in addition to all the other sponsors who have now joined us, we are now set for one of the biggest ever prize bags we’ve seen!
Sponsors
Sponsors so far
- MBS Europe – www.mbseurope.com (Cash Prize fund)
- Etnies – www.etnies.com (Prizes , Superior quality skate shoes up for grabs)
- Oakley – www.oakley.co.uk (Prizes , The original and best sunglasses you can get your hands on)
- Buff – www.buffwear.co.uk (Prizes , Original head gear and lots more)
- SueMe – www.sueme.com (Prizes , Environmentally friendly sourced sports wear, head gear, tee’s , hoodies , bags and more)
- Pot on Pottery – (Trophies – Hand made for the top 3 riders in each category)
Latest sponsors
- Suso – www.suso.co.uk (Suso will be there to support the riders with their fantastic natural fruit drinks… check out their website and see what they have to offer)
- Independent Truck Company – www.independenttrucks.com (Prizes , loads of the latest independent clothing up for grabs)
- Six Six One – www.sixsixone.com (Prizes , with some of the best protection around Sixsixone protection is also in the prize bag)
Massive thanks to Martin from ‘So Soild’ for all his help and support.
Registered riders so far
Last years World Freestyle Champ Renny Myles has been out on a snowboard season going big and has already registered for the Battle. He’ll be looking to hold on to his 2009 title but theres bound to be some stiff competition from some familiar faces…
Rumours abound that the 2004 World Freestyle and Mountainboard legend Leon Robbins from Edison, USA will be joining us for yet another competition out here on the other side of the pond and is planning on laying down the gauntlet for the younger riders.
2005 World Champ Tom Kirkman will also be making an appearance after a year off due to injury. Tom is now back on form with amazing determination, new tricks and bags of style and is set to throw down after recent performances in Belgium and Germany.
2008 British Champion and Bugs local rider, Joe Dickson will be there too. There’s no one more hungry than Joe to get his hands on the title and with a winning run of back to back 720s at the first round of the UK Nationals, it’s looking like Joe won’t be leaving without a fight.
There are also entries from Marcin Skubisz – Poland , Diego Anderson – France and Ryan Slater from Australia.
All of the MBS Pro Freestyle team have entered as well, so expect to see them gunning it out for the top spot, with massive tricks from the likes of Oli Morrison, Tuai Lovejoy and Tom Read.
Many more top riders have already registered and no doubt more will in the next few weeks on the run up to the event.
A revamped and fully groomed freestyle is awaiting with 4 major hits to score the points including a 20ft box , step down jump or 14ft drop off to start , then into a fast 28ft table into a choice of three lips – one hip , one 35ft straight, one 40ft straight over the last table with a big quarter pipe to finish in style.
Judges
Joining head judge Alex Downie will be French Rider and 2007 judge Alexis Rouge and 2007 U18 World champ Steve Cownie.
Filming
The event will be filmed by Jack Johnston and team from the BFC for coverage on Extreme TV. Jack has filmed and put together some great footage for the BFC and other projects so look out for his coverage out soon after the event.
ATB Junkies will also be there with many more of mountainboardings great filmmakers also attending to capture the action.
Photography
Legendary mountainboard photographer Paul Taylor will be there for the best shots in history, accompanied by many other talented photographers including the likes of Crillpix and Remolition.
Riders evening entertainment
On Saturday evening there will be some chilled vibes and good music with a small line up through to late in the evening.
Party Tent and sound system supplied by ‘So Soild’ , thanks again to Martin!
Coming soon
Check out the layout of The Battle of Bugs! – put into 3D cad for your enjoyment by Michael Perkins – Nice one Mike.
Thanks
Big thanks to all our sponsors and everyone that is helping out, bring on The Battle!
If you have not already please register for the event online now!
Friday, August 7th, 2009
The event is getting close now and we can see a lot of you have not yet registered. It is really important that you do! Please take the 30 seconds it takes to complete the form and register for the event. It will be a great event with loads lined up for the weekend. It is a bank holiday weekend too so there will be monday riding too!
REGISTER HERE
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
The German ATBA would like to announce their Championships will be happening this year from the 14th to the 16th of August at Willingen. This is the 6th German ATB Championships.
International Riders Are Welcome!
Friday is going to be an open training day. On Saturday the downhill and boarder X will run. On Sunday the freestyle competition will be held. There will be camping and showering facilities on site. A crazy party is also on the cards.
Here the link for the location:
http://www.mountainboarding-willingen.de/
Here is the link for the ATBA Germany:
http://www.atbagermany.de/
