Bestival 2011 with EZO on pinkbike.com

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 at Bestival 2011.

These guys GO BIG. Just check the video below from Camp Bestival this year.

Our resident parkour team, have announced they will be inviting some good friends along top level Traceurs- George G-Force Mayfield and Scott Jackson – as well as Jackson Turner, Daniel Pierce and Greg Nagy.

George and Scott are well known on the world parkour stage and together with the Train Hard team, will be demonstrating PK at the highest level throughout the weekend.

Anyone interested in trying PK will be able to use the feature under the expert guidance of all these guys – a pretty unique opportunity, not to be missed.

For more info click the links below, or just for a bit of bonus PK action, watch the vid:

http://train-hard.org/train-hard/
http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/

Please click on the gallery below for a few highlights from the last 6 months, mainly print ads for Tiki, Hot Buttered and Resin8 surfboards.

The Tiki Feather Foil cross section diagram is entirely generated in photoshop based on AKU wireframes and exported pdfs.

Tiki is the UK’s biggest and best surf co, based in North Devon and still run by the same surfers that began the company in the mid-60’s.

The Hot Buttered piece began a new phase in their HB originals brand ID and was featured as a DPS in Surfing World magazine.

HB is an Australian surf co that was born out of Terry Fitzgerald’s shaping experiments and competitive success in the 70’s. The brand is now continued by his sons, Kye (featured in the image) and Joel, who are both incredible surfers.

The cross section of Resin8’s Scoop model is actually not the final version – the production model used PVC stringers, an adaptation after testing. This was an early stage diagram but I like the wood texture in the double stringer configuration.

Resin8 is owned and run by Ruarri Spurgeon who lives down the road. He is a man with a maniacal dedication to producing the best performance surfboard.

Xworks are stoked to announce that Andrei will be joining us at Bestival 2011. Andrei’s show never fails to captivate the crowd with seemingly impossible feats.

Check the video below to see Andrei in action and check out his events website HERE

Voted BEST MAJOR MUSIC FESTIVAL in 2010 this years Bestival will be bigger and better than ever and now features the FREESPORTS PARK.

With Headline artists such as Pendulum, the Cure and Bjork and a host of back-up acts like Magnetic Man, Beardyman, Groove Armada and Nero, this year promises to be a non-stop weekend from day 1.

The Freesports Park will be on hand to provide mind bending extreme sports demonstrations for the Festival crowd.

We have a killer location for the park. Although the official Map is yet to be released, we can tell you we will be somewhere between the camping and main area, so even the hardest partying fans will not miss us.

At every event we do, our pro Athletes always step up – making it bigger and better for the bigger, louder, shoutier crowd. We’re guessing the Bestival crowd will be the biggest, loudest and shoutiest yet and we know our Athletes wont disappoint. Come and lend your support and appreciation for what the guys are doing and you’ll be rewarded with some of the best Extreme Sport action available to watch LIVE in the UK.

Plus we’ll be opening up the park as normal for anyone wanting to hav-a-go themselves. Bring you bike, skate or just yourself and try the park, wall and parkour set-ups.

Big shout out to Rob Da Bank and his team at Sunday Best for inviting us.

Below is an updated highlight gallery from 2010 and 2011 Camp Bestival.

Voted BEST MAJOR MUSIC FESTIVAL in 2010 this years Bestival will be bigger and better than ever and now features the FREESPORTS PARK.

With Headline artists such as Pendulum, the Cure and Bjork and a host of back-up acts like Magnetic Man, Beardyman, Groove Armada and Nero, this year promises to be a non-stop weekend from day 1.

The Freesports Park will be on hand to provide mind bending extreme sports demonstrations for the Festival crowd.

We have a killer location for the park. Although the official Map is yet to be released, we can tell you we will be somewhere between the camping and main area, so even the hardest partying fans will not miss us.

At every event we do, our pro Athletes always step up – making it bigger and better for the bigger, louder, shoutier crowd. We’re guessing the Bestival crowd will be the biggest, loudest and shoutiest yet and we know our Athletes wont disappoint. Come and lend your support and appreciation for what the guys are doing and you’ll be rewarded with some of the best Extreme Sport action available to watch LIVE in the UK.

Plus we’ll be opening up the park as normal for anyone wanting to hav-a-go themselves. Bring you bike, skate or just yourself and try the park, wall and parkour set-ups.

Big shout out to Rob Da Bank and his team at Sunday Best for inviting us.

Below is an updated highlight gallery from 2010 and 2011 Camp Bestival.

This kind of interactive promotion of our sports is an integral part of the Freesports Park. We rely on the expertise of Athletes and organisation of the crews who make it work:

Our greatest thanks to:

Jackson and the crew at Train Hard for your Parkour demos and instruction.

Jason, Davey and the guys at Freemove for providing excellent Parkour facility.

Special shout to Chris for risking life and limb so we could all have a giggle (Check out the photo with Mountainbike, mountainboard and Parkour all flipping at the same time, below)

The weekend saw record numbers in the Hav-a-go areas. The Mountain board area was pretty well chocka all weekend with Kids (and Adults) getting stuck in.

Huge thanks to Ted from Trampa for bringing a fleet of boards along to ride and organising the sessions.
Check out Trampa’s awesome range of products here: TrampaBoards.com

Not to be outdone – the pro riders put on an epic show on the big ramps with Matt Brind stomping his first 900. Thanks to all the riders, the yumyumbfc crew (CLICK) and Rhys Crilley @ board-mag.com (CLICK)

Check out the action in the video below and read the quality write-up on board-mag.com

Finally, thanks to Simon – www.delayedpleasure.com – for top quality images from the whole weekend.

Camp Bestival Freesports Park 2011 from Rhys Crilley on Vimeo.

It’s hard to capture how much was going over the whole weekend in a short clip, with all the pro-demos and hav-a-go workshops but you get a taste for it in the clip.