Apologies for the delay in blog posts. The lure of snow and swell and parties proved too much of a distraction through December.
A series of decent dumps made Cheltenham’s Mountainboard mecca; Cleeve Hill into a veritable Snowboard park. We also worked on a quad powered kicker session only to be shut down by the man.
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When you are planning an event, there’s no substitute for ground level knowledge. Xworks director Andy Potter and activist and ramp builder, Chris McCarthy have just been scoping out Hell’s Peak in the Spanish pyrenees.
Described as 12 hours of Hell, we’ve got a new event format in mind for this. Climb, bike, board, fly? We’re [...]
Andre Israel aka Dre, discovered his passion for snowboarding 20 years ago and has to date spent 18 seasons in the mountains. Dre has been coaching and guiding now for eleven years, ten of which were spent in Verbier, an area renowned for it’s backcountry terrain. During those years Dre has achieved his top Swiss, French [...]
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Together with Mal Seward, Andy was instrumental in the setting up of Adventura Expeditions in 2002. Pioneering trips to the Alps, Pyrenees and highlands of Scotland established the idea of big mountain riding as a viable direction for Mountainboarding. This led to the first Mountainboard World Downhill Championships in 2005 – a pivotal event in [...]
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