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So last weekend I took a trip down to Calstock in Cornwal to drink tea, eat home made bread, get feral and ride wheelieboards with the legendary Tom and Mick Kirkman.
This was an excellent opportunity to give my lovely looking new Scrub board a proper bashing at the ATC Mountainboard facilitly and a little kicker and foam pit setup in darkest Cornwall. Im not going to give a board review but I had a fun time, the new boards are sweet basically but more on that later..
We filmed and edited a video of what went down in those hectic 24 hours... That will be going up on the ATC (Big up!) website within the week, the video and full write up will also be on here asap. So keep dem eye's peeled.
In the mean time if you can't wait here's an old video of me I pulled off Tom's hard drive... enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2IhEqSzPCU
GO HUG A TREE.
The weekend of the 27th and 28th of feb was the Bast Fozen Jam, its an annual event held by the local kite surfing school and it meant as a fun event to get the locals together and a bit of stoke going in the coldest part of the year. This year it was to be held at Aberavon and on the Saturday we were greated by a gentle breeze that didn’t lift to much all day so there was a bit of rolling about on the land but nothing to really do anything with apart from the odd ground trick but Sundays forcast was looking decidedly better. A 10 am check in meant my plans of a night out could still go ahead if I set enough alarms to get my out of bed in the morning and I managed to get to the beach for about 10.45 fortunately id called them in advance to let them know I was still going and as it’s a fun event and the wind wasn’t due to kick in until later in the day they let me register. There was lots of giggles and the guys at blast had some new toys to demo but it was all about the land boarding for me, with the wind still on the light side for most of the day I stuck to my 12m Vegas and made the most of what the wind offered. Pulling almost every trick I could out of the bag and loving the new gear for 2010 I was rewarded with best overall on the land for my efforts at the weekend winning a rather nice Animal watch. Infact im wearing it right now though I think I should really set it to the right time so I make it to places when im supposed to in the future ha ha Happy winds everyone and here’s hoping for a great 2010
During the so-called Mountainboarding off-season I’ve been trying to keep riding as much as possible, when the weather has co-operated!
Mainly I’ve been free riding on local hills around where I live (Gloucestershire). I’ve been hitting up some knarly rocky woodland runs and super fast service tracks at my local spot, may hill. You can’t help but love a good day out, getting completely plastered in mud, coming away completely knackered with a few nice trophies in the form of scrapes and bruises if you’re lucky!
As well as free riding, I’ve more reasantly been modifying my own little scrub test track in my garden, giving it a nice little re-vamp ready for the dryer weather. And also hitting my trampoline as much as possible, prepping some new manoeuvres on my Scrub trampoline board ready to hit the dirt come Round 1!
Outside of Mountainboarding, just been rocking out on the old trumpet, piano and guitar! Music is what makes the world go round afterall!!
And if you feel inclined, check out my bands: http://www.myspace.com/savedbyasoul and http://www.myspace.com/unicornwarriors .
Until next time everyone… But remember,
Ride Hard… Ride Dirty! Scrub Mountainboards for 2010!
Everyone here at Scrub HQ would like to wish a very warm welcome back too Laurie Barnes who joins the Scrub family
too be seen at full bore at a track near you soon!
Check out these dudes,
Besti, from funsport-mueller.de has sent in these vid of an alterenate use for the Scrub photon!
check it out.
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/3296478/Freestyle_Windskating
The cold start to the year has made going out to my local grass spot a bit of a challenge not only because the area was frozen but the roads up there have been impossible to get up even with the most rugged 4x4's. Sessions on the beach have been interesting trying to hold an edge on frozen sand is fun and hitting patches of ice and disappearing off downwind always raises a smile. This was all brought to a bit of an abrupt end though on the 25th or January when i received a phone call at about 1am. Time to dive into the car and get down to the hospital and help out (by which i mean hold my partners hand and try no to get in the way to much) with the delivery of my new daughter Molly. Coming in at 7lb 14oz and 55cm she's perfectly healthy and im looking forward to the day she's able to take her first few steps because then its time to start looking for her first mountain board and kite.
Congratulations to you both on the new family member from us all at Scrub - Welcome to Fatherhood :o)
Here is a Short Video of Stu (camo jacket) one of our Scrub team, messing about down the vallys. with the rest oif the chaps from Re-ride Media props to Pieguy. Bellow a pick of my good self, making the most of the snow just outside Scrub HQ on Ski's :o)
We at Scrub will be coming along to this cracking event at heardown mountainboard centre to hook up with some team riders and hand out some prizes!
we hope to see many of you down the there
Ride Hard Ride Scrub
Scrub are pleased to announce the first website competition, To win a hoodie submit a photo or video to scrub@tkcsales.co.uk. If you win your photo will also be published in the scrub gallery and you will receive a fantastic scrub hoodie or scrub zip hoodie. So get snapping and roll that camera. Take 1
First Month Jan 09
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