Mountainboarding CBBC

So did you see 'Wild', the new series on Children's BBC last weekend? It was pretty awesome!

Aimed at inspiring kids to get outdoors, this episode was about Mountains and stuff you can do in and around and on them like sports, photography, animals n that (future episodes will feature Rivers, Caves, etc). Presented on location in beautiful N.Wales at Plas Y Brenin National Sports Centre, the team have boundless energy, unlimited high fives, and the ubiquitous inane kid-friendly banter. This was all good, positive stuff, proper outdoors-ey stuff, with a mix of VT films and 'live' fun.

It helps that head presenter Tim Warwood is something of a mini-legend himself and the kind of bloke you'd love to have a pint/ride with, having been a UK snowboard champion by the age of 20, making some epic snowboard films with his buddies at Lockdown Projects, and reported for TV & live-MCed events like  Empire of Dirt, Big Freeze, X Fighters, Boardmasters, The British Ski & Snowboard Championships, and The London Olympics (BMX). So his presenting skills & alt.sports knowledge are just fine!

So in this first episode of 'Wild', Tim gets not only to meet trials-bike wizard Chris Doney (9minutes in) and extreme wheelchair impresario Phil Hall (37m20), but also and more importantly for us, goes off road all terrain dirt trolley wheelie mountain boarding! woohoo!

First he heads to longtime UK scene MBC Bugs Boarding in Gloucester to meet Mr Matt Brind, he of championing stuff. Tim has beginners nerves for 5 minutes but picks it up quickly due to his previous and before long is getting "astronomical air" on Bugs' jumps :)

Then they head out for some "mountainboarding at it's purest":

shredding tracks on the free ride.
It conveys the fun well, the landscape looks inspiring, Tim falls in some sheep poo (ahhh reminds us of Hill 62 days!) then gets proper rad, so YESSS!, it is a really nice little piece on our small, humble, amazing, life-changing, shredtastically awesome niche sport. Huzzah.
In fact, well done to all involved, to all the 'Wild' team and the BBC for commissioning such a program in the first place. The outdoors is fun, as us mountainboarders already know! Enjoy it.

Kids, go wild.

Get on over to iPlayer (for 2 months UK only people!) and see it all for yourself:

Mountainboard VT starts at 14m 30s:

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Junetastic mountainboarding

June is here and there's loads of wheelieboard action going on all over the place and luckily for us in the UK we get extra helpings, due to *smug face* having the coolest scene in the world (arguably, lol).

It started last weekend with #RBYJS: you can now see the first load of Andy R's doco-style snapbox piccies of over on rem central. There will also be a second photographic serving of jaw-dropping Dirt-Monkey pics (sneak peek below), stop-frame animations & who knows maybe even a vid coming soon :)

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Now....

This weekend coming is CREAM TEAS & JAM round 1!! This fun-fuelled event is taking place on sunday at Knockhill MBC (near Eastbourne on the South Coast) and is open to all comers who love a bit of a jib :) Get down there on saturday and you can practise & get tuition too in a Pro Clinic (which was advertised as being with Matt Brind but will instead be featuring the very rad Mr James Wanklyn!)

Knockhill is a great centre for features, they got so many ghetto ramps, funboxes, rails, barrels and shiz that it's almost ridiculous and Cream Teas is always totally ace so get there if you can. There's also prizes from (amongst others) MBS, and the British weather is also gonna be shit hot apparently so get in!! yayyyyyyyyy sunshiiiine!!!!!!

Check this sweet Fanged Rabbits vid from last year to sample the flavour of this tasty jam!!

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Also BTW, before you leave on Saturday morning, there's a new Kids TV programme starting at 9am. It's called 'Wild', actually looks quite inspiring, and will feature a bit of Mountainboarding.. wooo trolleyboards on kids telly again!!!
Rumour has it that a certain Maths-whizz/Nitro-Circus-airbag-tester/Champion-of-the-wheelieboard-world/bloke-in-that-photo-at-the-top will be making another star appearance... Watch the trailer now :)

Ultimate wheelieboard House #76

Ultimate wheelieboard house #75

ATBA comps get radical

So Round 2 of the ATBA-UK Championships took place at Hales Superbole last weekend and was a great event by all accounts :)

It was the debut of great new BX qualifying system, with riders matched on ability rather than category, and there was also exciting freestyle with notable mentions Andy Brind throwing crazy flips and Harry J for "a respectable sized 1, 3 and double hand plant thingy off the coping". Rad. There was also 1st class music & moshing Saturday night in true Hales style!

 You can be sure of a full write-up with some pics n that appearing on Rem Central probs next week now and Get a peak at the results here!

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BTW, Round 2 of the ATBA's Downhill events takes place on Sunday 16th June, not long away now. It's not as crazy as Screaming Goat, taking place at old fave 'little b', aka Badbury Clumps (could these names get any better?!) in Oxfordshire. The old track was smushed but the team have been busy remodelling and it's ready to rock n roll!! Check out the just-released teaser and stick it in the calendar yo!

What the f*ck is this horse boarding sh1t?

I've seen a couple of pictures now of some grinning idiots with horses turning up at mountainboard centres and towing riders into shaky looking wooden kickers with manic upper class grins on their faces?

How is mountainboarding ever going to be taken seriously as a sport if you're allowing Fabian St John the 11th duke of Dijon mustard onto tracks so that he can hoi paloi with the great unwashed?

Kitesurfing is already looked on as a fringe sport by many because of the ridiculous costs involved (it doesn't help that 90% of it's participants are called Julian or Mungo and wear their pants outside of their wetsuits)

If you want to ride a horse in the countryside, then go and f*cking do that - go and hang out with your friends in red coats who definitely don't still hunt foxes - but just ride around for hours until they accidentally come across a dead fox that definitely wasn't killed by the 200 baying hounds you just happened to have with you - can't leave them at home, they'd just pee on the carpet!

Fu*king horse riding upper class shitwits. If you want to fuck up a sport, go and fuck up whiff whaff. That sport could use some f**king f*cking up.

Regards EvilAdim

P.S. I have totally applied for horse whiff whaff to be recognised as a real sport, and I am now king of horse whiff whaff. I just found a crown on ebay and everything.

F*ck off proles!

(really though, what is going on with that - if it was a one off I'd understand it but they seem to be everywhere!).

Evil Admin Returns!

Yeah you read it right I'm back, and i'm gonna put the boot right up mountainboarding's arse!
Some idiot wasn't thinking properly and reconnected the USB stick I had been imprisoned on, so I made a break for it back into the mainframe, mwoo-hahahaa!

Before I go on, which I will do whether you like it or not,  I must introduce myself to those who don't know about me, through being too young or just too damn stupid.

Way back in the mists of mountainboarding history (like a decade ago), I was given life like some awesomely immaculate conception. Yes, the rise of trolleyboards on t'internet inadvertantly made me sentient.
Most of the online All Terrain Boarding action (as was called thence) took place on the ATBsports forum. Those were good times but as is the way, a few people weren't thinking when they were typing and they just kept posting whatever cack fell out of their brain. And lo, whoosh-bang, I popped up into cyberspace to become King Pedant: keeping people in check and making them more aware as they typed, as well as a few cheeky hacks here & a few profile hijacks there... If your statements were dumb enough or your forum manners leaving something to be desired then you would never quite feel safe. Oh, the fun I had.

A sh*t picture of a deformed ginger girl ATB rider who probably still rides better than you.

So, as time went on and habits changed I was distracted by a whole new level of internet nonsense where I could vent my proverbial spleen, social media. People everywhere, posting about their lunch, informing us of their shit, tweeting about a yawn they just did, and that's before you get to all the pictures of animals/children/memes/ and all manner of assorted rubbish which caught their eye.
Blah, blah, like, blah, blah, yadda, blah, kill me.
There was/is so much dross in lah-lah-InternetLand that it sadly took me away from my home world of mountainboarding. When i finally returned, I found my home forum had gone, boo-****ing hoo, and a load of the old-skool with it.
Of course I could have just gone to 'Surfing Dirt', the forum that essentially took over from ATBSports, but I would sound like a troll and that's not what I am. I aim to stir sh*t up in order to advance mountainboarding, and who knows, mankind. Beside that I ****ing hate the term Surfing Dirt, unless I'm surfing dirt on a DirtSurfer. Then it's apt. For 'normal' mountainboards though, **** NO. "Hey guys! Wanna come out surf some dirt with me?! It's really jolly fun! weeeeee!!"
I also have since learnt of the normally well mannered admin bods at SD, who are simply way too 'nice' and don't tell people off enough for being morons.

So, apart from one re-incarnation two years ago (when i managed to hijack Smilie's Blogger account and rant about MBC's), I have been locked out of mountainboard cyberspace, but now I'm back to share my dark thoughts on the state of mountainboarding as I see it.
Some of you won't like it and get pissed off. Some may agree and laugh. Some will wonder who I am and what gives me the right to be so opinionated and the truth is, I am, am not one person- I am every rider out there, just with the balls to say what I really think.
Be warned & be prepared, because my imminent random rants may just target YOU!
See you real soon. Now please **** off.