Who are we?
The quality of our service depends on the professionalism and dedication of the Xworks team and our extended network of riders, photographers, sponsors etc. Our team’s reputation as riders and crew is reflected by our competition results and company achievements; from the designing and building of courses to event organising/management and ground level implementation over the last 10 years. Xworks team riders competitive results include National series, European Cup and World Championship titles.
Andy Potter
Event Director
Andy has a 15 year reputation for expertise in construction; planning and management of building projects, schedules and budgets. Alongside this, an extenisive list of freesports achievements: climbing, trekking, snowboarding and mountainboard guiding, backed up by an impressive list of competitive success, sponsorship, travel, product R&D and television appearances.
In 2001 Andy set up Makin’ Trax, offering design and construction of Mountainboard facilities and event management. Leading the development of this fledgling industry created the opportunity to work with the finest in the Mountainboard industry and many of the best across the diverse spectrum of Freesports.
Examples of contracts over the years include:
• White Air Extreme sports festival since 2002
• NASS (National Adventure Sports Show)
• British Ski and Snowboard show
• Mountainboard World Downhill Championships since 2004. Italy, Cyprus and
France.
• ATBA UK (All Terrain Boarding Association) British National Championship
series
Phil Bridges
Creative Director
Phil Bridges has been designer and art director at Tiki, the UK’s largest surf company,
for 6 years, overseeing all UK and International brand and product identity, advertising, marketing and sales support.
High profile projects include; the PRODIGY wetsuit – the world’s first heated wetsuit to be released to the market, and the INTERNATIONAL SHAPER TOUR 2009 which saw three of the world’s best surfboard designers visit the UK for a week long promotional tour.
Phil has also produced artwork and managed campaigns for a number of International clients:
- Museum of British Surfing
- Resin8 surfboards
- The Mountainboard World Downhill Championships
- White Air; Europe’s Largest Extreme Sports and Music Festival
- O’neill wetsuits, Sydney, Australia
- Wake magazine, Melbourne, Australia
Phil was British Mountainboard Freestyle Champion in 2001 and has surfed and snowboarded in over 15 countries worldwide.
Projects
Video
BESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS VIDEO
Phew, the dust has finally settled after a pretty spectacular Bestival event. Thanks to EZO’s resident video man; Nico Turner, we have a super slick edit from the weekend. Click through and enjoy…
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EZO Team – see them LIVE
“Is there anyone in the world that can boast a demo team of this standard? I think not.” King of Dirt describing EZO team after 2010 Camp Bestival.
Our good friends at EZO – makers of the the world’s finest mountain bike apparel and sponsorers of the worlds finest mountain bike freestyle team – have confirmed they will be back on the Freesports Park…
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Train Hard ELITE PARKOUR TEAM
The Freesports Park show at Bestival 2011 is shaping up to be better than any we have produced to date.
Our resident parkour team, have announced they will be inviting some good friends along top level Traceurs- George G-Force Mayfield and
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Xworks Design Portfolio Highlights 2010-11
As well as Event creation and management, we are also very skilled in print and web advertising and marketing.
Please click through to the gallery for a few highlights from the last 6 months, mainly print ads for Tiki, Hot Buttered and Resin8 surfboards.
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Andrei Burton at Bestival 2011
Andrei is one of the World’s best trial mountianbikers. He has ridden on every continent, competed at the highest level, finished on the world podium and even achieved a Guinness World Record.
Xworks are stoked to announce that Andrei will be joining us at …
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Xworks @ Bestival 2011
Following 2 years of awesome shows at Camp Bestival, we’ve been invited to represent at Bestival 2011
Voted BEST MAJOR MUSIC FESTIVAL in 2010 this years Bestival will be bigger and better than ever and now features the FREESPORTS PARK.
read more »Massive thanks to all Parkour crew…
The Parkour set-up was definitely the most accessible of the Hav-a-go areas with all Kids getting a chance to try out the Parkour elements, under excellent pro-instruction.
This kind of interactive promotion of our sports is an integral part of the Freesports Park.
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Camp Bestival – Shout outs
Credit where it’s due – the Freesports Park show at Camp Bestival would be nothing without the awesome people who turn up to ride, help out, organise and promote their sports. First in our list of thanks is the Mountainboarding crew.
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