Air Gratification

Bmx-Tastic-Brilliant!

I used to love BMX riding more than that moment when you realize that the piece of paper on the floor right next to you is, yes, a five pound note and nobody else has seen it! And I’ll tell you why: BMX riding involves – and this is something that few people outside of BMX know about – all the parts of your brain and body working in unison together to make sure that you don’t get killed or More

Snowboarding Subculture

As the development of any activity progresses, it influences the fanbase it has and brings certain traditional manners to be followed within the community that practices the activity. This is what happened with the snowboarding aswell as it started developing more rapidly and gathering more and more fans across the globe.

This history of snowboard is a determinative element in the formation of the subculture in question. The 20th century was the time when snowboarders started to appear on the More

For The Attention Of: Extreme Fun Junkies

Snowboarding is fun; skiing has its moments (mostly moments where you are thinking, ’man chalet val thorens is up itself’); rock climbing is worthwhile; skateboarding and BMX-ing are somewhat engaging; and then there is sandboarding…

Sandboarding has been around for many years but is a slowly emerging phenomenon. It contains many similar principles to snowboarding, however, sandboarding is fortunate enough not to include layers of polar precipitation: though it does bring with it the chaos of sand at high speed, More

Snowboarding Tips For Everyone

In any type sport, having the right equipment is necessary for good performance. Snowboarding is no different and below will point out some of the necessary pieces of equipment you need for your next snowboard holiday.

Finding the right size board is essential. Snowboards come in all different size for both adults and children. There are different boards for different tricks as well such as alpine boards, race boards, free ride boards and freestyle boards.

Alpine and race boards More

Bitten

“Is that bad?” I said to Large Harry, the local BMX hard-nut legend as I sat on the back of our cheap car rental usa on my first tour. Large Harry took a screwdriver and shoved it in the gash in my skin, and he prodded it about. Blood and sweat dribbled out and dripped on to the dirt. The gash had opened up, so two flaps of skin flapped about in the breeze that came through the trees.

“No, More

BMXers Playground

To the passerby they look like perfectly sculpted natural lays in the land; nothing about them seems man-made or engineered or touched by human intervention. The dirt is shaped in to huge glass smooth daggers that seem to literally grow out of the ground as if they were always there. None of it seems connected, until a rider appears, pedaling towards the first jump at the bottom of the hill, when everything – the plan behind the jumps, the carefully More

Skinless

Way before I got a decent BMX and began, on a regular basis, slamming myself in to the ground for fun, I had an almost-BMX; one from the mountain-bike shop which looked like everything a small boy could ever need. Out of all the crashes (or what us BMXers like to call ‘slams’) I have had over the years, and there have been literally hundreds, one of the worst I ever had was on that purple and green and black More

Blisters and Bunnyhopping

“I’m doing it!”I said to my brother.

“You’re insane!”

I said, “I know, but I’m still doing it!”

Today marked an important benchmark in not only BMX, but my ability to see a bad idea and commit to doing it 100%. Something that would set me up for the rest of my stupid testosterone-fuelled life.

I stole two bricks from the storage space at the side of our house. My brother ripped a branch off the next-door-neighbour’s tree. Then we More

The Day!

I can still vividly remember the day I got my first BMX. It was a Friday. I got back from school and dad had a big smile on his face. A menacingly unreadable adult one. My first thought was Oh no, he’s found my naughty magazine–but how?! It was too well hidden!

Except dad hadn’t found my naughty magazine, I was sure of it from the way he said “I may just have something for you–call it an early birthday More

Progress

When I started riding BMX back in the early 90s, BMX wasn’t exactly something that many people were bothered about. In fact, just riding down the street you’d get shouted at. Riding a BMX and being an adult was enough to get you in trouble anywhere and everywhere you went. Because of the misconceptions surrounding what BMX was—that it was glorified ‘showing-off’, or that those who did it were also involved in crime and / or sketchy activity—it didn’t pay More