It seams grome's might be right

All grome's know that no one builds jumps and tracks. Instead the jump/track builder goes to secret garden centre in the woods run by Elves and Pixies and purchases some magic seeds. To sprinkle on the ground where they want their new features, waters and waits to see what grows the spring.

Really the what does happen is a few people spend long days shifting and shaping soil with wheel barrows, shovels and if they are lucky machines.

This winter judging from facebook Raph and other Ironsider's have been busy over at Court Farm MBC reshaping the Junior Boardcross

And if that wasn't enough they got proper creative and built this monster in the freestyle area along with a new hip.

Which by August when the last round of ATBAUK International series gets to Ironside's CourtFarm MBC. Both should be fully ridden in, shaped and tweaked to perfection for some killer tricknidge.

It's not just Ironside which have had their shovels out the guys down at Redhill Extreme have been doing a bit of digging. Have a look at this lot which appeared in rem's facebook news feed.

It's enough to make a dirthead reach for the Kleenex.

With tracks and crazy looking features popping out the ground like flowers and all the centres which aren't open already opening for the summer in the next couple weeks, spring has definitely sprung.

Corniche Mountainboard 'Park'

Q. What do you get if you cross a load of mountainboarders with a bit of land en france and a shedload of pallets & ply (& a bit of astroturf)?

A. The sick ghetto park stylings of Corniche in the French Alps. Looks well fun, Diego & friends jibbing for giggles. Respek!

Black-Hole

The Remolition Mothership, on it's way back from deepest space, appears to have gone into into a black hole. We're not sure if they went in on purpose- (maybe trying to see what a singularity looks like or trying to shred the event horizon), or indeed whether they just got stuck in it's immense gravitational pull and went down the super-massive plughole in space-time, like some bad late 70's star-wars-copy film (complete with Maximillian, Vincent & Old B.O.B)...

Hopefully we'll find out soon what happened (i propose boards travelling faster than the speed of light through wormhole to another dimension), and why they didn't come straight home, the dirty stop-outs... Don't they know there's work to be done on Rem? It's been a bit quiet recently y'know, not enough new features and articles?

Hmmm, if only Rem had more contributors, more riders willing to send stuff in and be part of it. Yeah, if only...

Lundberg, longboards & leathers

Here's a nice new film with pro downhill sk8er Erik Lundberg. The black & white stuff is gorgeous (if you don't brand it too arty-farty doco styli) and the narrative gives it a bit of purpose. Here is a skater with a mission, with memories, with fear, and an urge to lose himself in riding down hills...

"Lundberg Loses It" is a story about a skater with a goal. His goal is to utilize the multiple ways he's lost it and apply those lessons to skating this hill the best that he can. But can he lose himself before the sun sets?"

For the full story, read the blurb on Vimeo... Grab a tea, sitchee down & enjoy.

Check out some more wicked still & moving flicks on his blog and on the Slowdown Visuals site too.

Horse Riding

Are you always after something a little different, something on your wheelieboard that's not gravity or wind powered, but still high speed? and maybe you have equestrian interest/access?

No? Never mind, take a look at the British Horse Surfing Association anyway.

Not only are they doing tow-ins along the shore in the surf, they're now actively encouraging the wheeled version on grass & dirt:

Josef Sepp Koster of Alpstein Events (formerly Koster Boards), Switzerland, has been offering this service for years; when ATBmag/Team Exit visited in 2005 Sepp was doing horse-powered-mountainboarding then

He was also putting on big mountainboard demos (with Marco Daehler & more) with his awesome OptimusPrime-transforming-demoramp/bar-monster-truck. A vid of that is available on youtube here...

That was 6 years ago, (old gold eh? ;) and Sepp's Alpstein Events & funpark (& truck) have got bigger and better:

So if you're ever in Switzerland make sure you pay a visit - in fact, go there specially - it's amazing. You just gotta see the new trucks too ;)

And if you're interested in doing some horse (mountainboard)riding in the UK, check out this thread on the SurfingDirt forum, and head to one of the National Horse Boarding Events this summer :)

Keep on ridin' & keep on truckin'.

ssssssspring

Yes it's that time of year again.. The short dark days of winter are fading and everything comes back to life. Riding today saw the first daisies getting a good shredding as the wet grass meant wicked slides, and then the sun came out too. Change, growth, optimism blah blah.

Also then on telly was the BBC's so-innofensive-it's-offensive Countryfile program which featured a kite/board feature again (last year's was blogged about here & u can see the new one on iplayer again this coming week, at about 56mins in). Always good to see mountainboards (or 'kite land boards') on terrestrial teev...

The Rem Mothership is heading home soon (from deepest space) for some of this springtime goodness; it'll be good to have RemHQ back with us, on the one true "Planet Mountainboard". Earth.

A bike in Scotland

Danny MacAskill, his orange bmx, & ever more beautiful scenery. nuff said.

That's what I call customer sevice

It's that time of year when a fair few of us mountainboarders jump on a plane ang go and spend a week shredding the white stuff. Wilz has just back from dreaming of what Austrian mountains might be like in the summer. And Kez and me are just diggin' what snow gear we haven't already used this winter out the loft. Really this meant finding a bag containing lots exiting stuff like thermals and socks and not forgetting goggles. But it turns out after spending a day searching the house and clearing the loft, that's what we had done. It seams they haven't made it threw the three moves since we last used them. With not long till we went away meant there wasn't much time to go and purchase some new ones :-(

No need to worry though a quick call to ATBShop on monday and by tuesday two pairs of shiny new goggles have landed on our doormat.

Sweet, cheers for sorting them so quickly.

A bike in Spain

No not that one, this one, on a "hill":

This month's cover

March's Rem cover shot was taken almost a week ago (on Thu 24th Feb) while i was cruising a long red on my snowshredstick back down to the Gondala station in Auffach, Austria. There was plenty of snow up on the main slopes but the lower, south-facing mountains were very bare and therefore very inviting for a wheelieboard enthusiast, beautiful with potential, garnering many longing stares.

Obviously i took a shedload of flix and will probably concoct some kind of chin-stroking article to show off a few & muse on it a bit (daydreaming about mountainboarding while snowboarding???), but meantime have a peep...

sehr schon in der Wildschonau, ja. Danke.