BKSA Kitival Round 2 6th-8th August - Barrow

With a not so promising wind forcast for the weekend I was worried the second round of BKSA Kitival 2010 would follow the trend of the first - another no winder.

Despite this 9:00am on Friday morning we made the long 4 and a half hour journey north to Barrow. On arrival we were welcomed to a smooth gentle 12-14mph light sea breeze, the perfect opportunity to warm up on land with the other competitors for saturdays comp.

Saturday morning showed an improved wind forcast of a smooth 18-23mph. My first event suprisingly was the Youth Kitesurfing. Although I love landboarding, i do always enjoy the odd kitesurfing session. After having just made it to the water comp zone in time I was ready to push my typical 'oldschool' moves which I love to push on the water. After a confident start I eventually finished in 5th place which was a massive suprise for me! I do hope to focus a little more on the water in the future and aim to try and enter the Youth kitesurfing at future events.

After a quick change into my landboarding gear and after a quick warm up I was ready for the landboarding comp riding my Scrub GLD kiteboard and flying the 15m Flysurfer Speed 3 Deluxe. There were three 7 minute heats between the junior riders in which to impress the judges. New rider to the event - Tom Ford and Robbie Maidment provided some stiff competition making the comp very close and competative. After over 20 minutes of riding between the three heats the judges had their results. It wasnt untill the Sunday at presentation that the results were announced.

After a close competition I was announced as 1st place which i was stoked with, closely followed by Tom Ford in 2nd and Robbie in 3rd.

I am looking forward to attending the next BKSA land and mabe water events at Ayr and Blackpool.

Good wind -

Greg Chilton

Props to all Particualy Ben Tweedie for his epic trip and results!

here's how it went down form the mail we got

The crowds were out in force at the MET 2010 Freestyle event in Moscow to witness some of the best mountainboard freestyle seen this year; 720 corked spins, backflips, rodeos and a double backflip attempt (so nearly stomped) by Arno.
Pasha Peshin took the win with smooth consistency but full props to all riders for pushing the limits.
The intention of the Mountainboard European Tour was to showcase the best of European's mountainboard talent. With some of the best, most progressive freestyle tricks thrown down this weekend - this event shows Russia's place as one of the world's best venue's for international mountainboard events.
Full credit to Alexey Potapov for organising this stop on the MET2010.

The Results
Final Jam (40 minutes - judges to the best 3 jumps)
1. Pasha Peshin (fs cork5 melon, Bs 5 indy, Fs5 melon)

2. Ben Tweedy (Fs720 melon, Fs5 indy, Backflip)
- Scrub Mountainboards
3. Arno VDV (Bs cork 5 double tail, Fs cork 5 indy, backflip indy)

4. Oleg Melnikov (Fs rodeo 540tail, Fs 540 melon, Backflip method)
5. Alexey Repkin (Bs 540indy, bs 360 indy, Backflip "Repflip"

6. Anton Shalamentsev (Bs 720 mute, bs 360 mute, backflip 180 melon)
7. Pavel Dunaev (backflip 180 melon, Fs 360 indy tweak, backflip peter pan)

8. Marco Dauhler DNS

9. Alexey Potapov (Cab 3, Cab 5, Bs3 stale)

Ive said it a few times so far and once again its true. Its been a busy year for me with lots of change. Ive moved a bit closer to the sea (yeah closer, how will i cope living 10 minutes from a beach now?) got a few new flying spots and teamed up with some great people in Scrub and ATB Shop and now I'm flying with HQ and the fantastic guys they have, a big thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.

The kites I'm flying are the Montana's, so stable and a world away from what I have tried previously, enough of a change to make me want to fly foils and take me off the pump up kites. Ill let the kites speak for themselves and in the upcoming months you will see new videos coming from myself courtesy of Pieter Hynam and ReRide media so keep your eyes open, I need to work on getting a decent camera i think as mine is on its last legs but its still able to capture a moment like the one below. a nice chilled session on a local bit of grass by the sea loving the new kites and big smiles all round.

Catch you all later

Stu

Scrub will be heading to a weekend of racing, freestyle, beer tent, live music, mountain boarding taster sessions, unique and local trade stands, and loads loads more-the third round of the ATBA-UK Championships are at Haredown and it's going to be awesome!

Why not come on over and have a blast on our new boards and meat the crew - See you there! :O)

The Italian leg of the Mountainboard European Tour, Downhill Series saw a massive day of racing in the Italian Alps.

The course was a mix of tight tree lines and open face track meaning the fastest times required a mix of flat out speed and technical commitment from the riders. Major props to the course designers and riders.

The event was run as a one man timed downhill race. Each competitor allowed 4 runs, the best 2 added together to give the final time.

Congrats to Jonathan Charles (UK) who fully owned the race that day - taking 1st place with a full 10 seconds to spare.
Marcin Hreziak from Poland just took the 2nd place with only 0.4 seconds separating him and Tom Kirkman (UK) in 3rd.
Upmost thanks to youRide camp for hosting the event and the IMA for overseeing it.

Props to all the UK riders who went and Rocked

Here's a short film Shot up my local spot (the white horse) Light wind fun with a Montana V 12.5m and scrub GLD  

Video shot & edited By Jon Powell

ATBA UK Round 2 at Ironside's CourtFarm

The weather did what was needed of it in that it rained alittle the stayed clear for the racing... we aslo got the new Scrub hoodies and T's which was nice.

Saturday was a god day for scrub in the racing with Ben tweedie taking 2nd place on his shiny new GLD downhill Scrub. I didnt do quit so well getting knocked out early on by the stiff competition of Pete Tathan (no sno) and Stu Lugger and getting 10th (I think). Tom Kirkman and the ATC boys where pikeying about but not competing.

A Big highlight of the event was being part of the start of something totally awesome... The new and exciting sport of FrisBoarding! see pic.

Sunday was another good day for Scrub with Ben taking 3rd in the freestyle with a very tasty selction of relaxed 360's, 540's and laid out flips and shiz.

I managed to tear myself away from my cooked breakfast and make it for the freestyle and peform a selection of aerial horizontal full rotations with various arm gestures.

I've put up some pictures in my profile section from Courtfarm round2 taken by Theo Acworth at PD and remolition.

I've put up some pictures taken at Knockhill by the lovely Gem Belle Tyler in my profile section. There should also be some of her pictures up from courfarm very soon.. so watch that space.

knockhill is looking pretty sweet from the pics for the forthcoming BFC cream tea's event with a new silly rail and improvements about the place. sadly i will not be able to make that ct+j as I'm going off to build a skatepark at Glastonbury festival...

went upto otg the other night and luckily it was team night there so got to have a ride with the likes of Tom Read and horny old Jed just back from snowboarding. There's a few new bits there with a nice addition of two big wooden kickers with dirt landings.

Popped in and had a couple of runs at bugs boarding the other day and caught the rare and pleasant sight of Dr frontside Renny Myles riding a mountainboard, he even had a story about crashing a rubbish stag do the night before, Textbook. Joe Dckson was also about and has picked up some skateboard skills from his trip to australia. The place was riding nice with some work being done on the big jumps, in prep for there cream teas event no doubt which hopefully I should be going too...

Middle Wallop Kite festival

Scrub Mountain Boards will be at attending and will have the full 2010 range of mountainboards there for you to come and have a good look and bounce on all the new boards, as well as taking them out for a ride and letting us know what you think of all the new ATB boards we have this year.

We'll be all together with HQ kites so this will be a great opportunity for you to come and have a test on the brand new line up from HQ also

See you on the feild