Snow Kiting is the latest winter sport. Large highly controllable foil kites are used to blast kite pilots along with just the power of the wind! The ‘Big air’ jumps that boarders and skiers are pulling under the power and security of power kites are simply breath taking.
Snow Kiting is a lot easier to learn than kiteboarding on the water!
-It is easy to stand on snow, which makes the whole process easier!
-It also takes a lot less wind to drive a board across snow than it does across water.
-The whole learning experience is lot less daunting as you need much less power and wind to get you moving.
-Finally, holding an edge in snow is much easier than in water making up wind progress much easier to master.
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Add yet another spectacular “first” to the long list of achievements and innovations belonging to the BIGFOOT monster truck team. Saturday afternoon at the Tennessee Aviation Days Air Show at Smyr.na Airport, BIGFOOT 14 and driver Dan Runte became the first to jump a monster truck over a jetliner. In the process, they set a new world’s record for monster truck long jump. Runte’s spectacular jump of 202 feet shattered his previous record of 144 feet.
The top of the jet, a retired Boeing 727, was about 14 above ground. BIGFOOT creator Bob Chandler estimated the truck was at least 24 feet in the air.
“I would never have believed that a 10,000 pound monster truck could fly that high and that far,” Chandler exclaimed. The air show crowd stood in stunned silence for a few seconds, then broke into wild cheering. “Was that an illusion?” an unidentified fan asked. No, the huge truck really did it, and has the scars to prove it.
Mountain boarding, also known as dirtboarding, or all-terrain-boarding, is a new board sport, derived from snowboarding. It was originally intended to take the place of snowboarding during warm months while there was no snow available. It was only in the last 8 or 9 years that mountain boarding has developed into a sport in its own right.
A mountain board is similar to a snowboard. The size of the deck is shorter than the average snowboard, approximately 110 cm in length with four wheels. The wheels consist of small alloy hubs with tires of between 7″ and 12″ diameter. The wheel size varies depending on which type of riding is done. For example, an 8″ wheel would be for freestyle riding and jumping. The larger wheel is used by the downhill rider. Like a snowboard (and unlike a skateboard) the feet of the rider are attached to the board deck with bindings, however boots are not required. Most mountain boards are equipped with ‘channel trucks’ which are similar in appearance to a skateboard truck but are spring-loaded to stiffen up turning. One revolutionary new board design, by Howla mountain boards, uses polyurethane bushes to give the most efficient steering available at present.
The two main styles of riding are downhill (freeride & racing) and freestyle.
Freeride is done on a variety of terrain, from ski resorts, when the snow has melted away, to downhill mountain bike courses, to woodlands and forests. More and more dedicated centres are being opened around the world specifically for the sport of mountain boarding. Racing tends to be either of slalom, two riders weaving between poles, or boarder cross, a category of racing that is similar to BMX courses, with berms and jumps.
Freestyle riding consists of ramp jumping; performing tricks which can be rotations (180, 360 and more degree turns), inverted tricks (back flips, front flips), board grabs (tail grab and front grab) and one foot variations (or even no foot variations like “supermans and superman fingerflips”.
A variation on mountain boarding is kite landboarding. This involves using a power kite to pull the rider on a mountain board and gives them the ability to use the kite to generate enough power to get some lift, normally several feet up in the air and perform tricks.
In addition to the increased difficulty of the 2006 Red Bull Last Man Standing course, one thing that will no doubt add to the competitors’ nerves on Saturday, December 2 is the growing list of notable riders who have entered. The entry list features a who’s who of world and national Enduro and Trials champions, as well as Dakar and Baja 1000 winners.
A limited number of spots remain for the event, which will pit the best of the best against each other and the elements of the Red River Motorcycle Trails on the Texas/Oklahoma border. The first 300 Pro, AA and A level riders to register at www.redbulllastmanstanding.com will gain entry to the Last Man Standing qualifier on Friday, December 1. There is a $100 registration fee, of which 100 percent will go toward the prize purse.
All 300 registered riders will get two runs on a high-speed qualifying course using the same bike that will be ridden in Saturday’s main event. The fastest 100 riders will advance to the main event.
On Saturday, December 2, the 100 qualified riders will line up and blast toward the first corner of the ultra-demanding 40-mile loop which will feature car-sized boulders, dirt, loamy sand and high-speed straights, in addition to technical elements that will test even the top riders. The field will be reduced after the first round. The second lap will include only riders who finish within one hour of the first finisher. The second and final lap will take place when the sun goes down, and this time, with the course reversed.
ASSOCIATION OF SURFING PROFESSIONALS (ASP) INTERNATIONAL
Roxy Pro Hawaii
Event No. 7 on the ASP Women’s World Tour
Sunset Beach, Oahu, Hawaii
November 24 – December 6, 2006
Scoring the event’s seven highest single wave scores and top four heat totals, Gilmore and Bartels placed 1st and 2nd respectively in the Roxy Pro Trials to earn their main event berths this morning. Riding that momentum into Round 1 of the Roxy Pro, the duo posted several 8.0 and 9.0 point rides (out of a possible 10 points) to advance straight to Round 3.
Gilmore’s 18.10 out 20.00, the highest heat total of the day, saw her blast past Sunset specialty-surfers Layne Beachley (AUS) and Rochelle Ballard (HAW), both of whom posted 11.17, with ease.
“It’s my first time here so it was pretty nerve-wracking to draw a heat with the two most dominate girls at Sunset in the history of women’s surfing,” Gilmore said. “I went out there trying to have some fun and trying to catch anything that came my way. I was just doing my thing and I guess the judges liked what I was doing.”
Gilmore and Bartels surfed the testing break twice in the trials before paddling out a third time for Round 1 of the Roxy Pro Hawaii. Neither showed signs of fatigue.
“The paddle out is kind of long and you have a lot of time to think about things on the way out, so it can be physically and mentally draining, but once you get out there and see a few sets coming it gets your heart pumping and you’re not tired anymore,” Gilmore said.
Gilmore, who has won two ASP Women’s World Tour events as a wildcard, the most recent of which being the Havaianas Beachley Classic in October, is no stranger to the wildcard routine. Both she and Bartels recently qualified for the 2007 elite tour via the World Qualifying Series (WQS).
“I think the wildcard position is probably the best,” Gilmore said. “There’s no weight on your shoulders so you can relax. This event is coming down to the wire for a lot of girls who are trying to qualify to stay on tour and Mel [Bartels] and I have already qualified so we’re safe. I think that’s why we’re performing better.”
Bartels surfed on the ASP Women’s World Tour in 2004 and 2005 before narrowly missing requalification last year. Bartels garnered a Roxy Pro trials invitation for her performance last week’s Op Pro Hawaii, the first jewel in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, after Pauline Ado (FRA) failed to show up in Hawaii.
“You know what I’m stoked on?” Bartels said. “I’m stoked I got a place in the trials. I wasn’t originally in the trials but I think it happened for a reason and that I was supposed to be in the main event. I’m on a good roll right now and I just hope I’m still surfing well when we run the contest next.”
A local Hawaiian, Bartels credited having her loved ones on the beach for her exceptional surfing today.
“I’m really stoked that my family came, all of my family, for the first time,” Bartels said. “Today was a day they could all make it down and I’m so stoked just to see them and to show them how I surf in this type of event. Far out, it’s such a good feeling and it’s giving me the momentum to want to do well here in Hawaii.”
The Roxy Pro Hawaii is the second of three events that compose the Van’s Triple Crown of Surfing – a Hawaiian big wave surfing series. The first event, the Op Pro Haleiwa, was won by Sofia Mulanovich (PER). Mulanovich’s Round 1 win today will see her maintain her current Triple Crown lead – though she maintains that she’s not dwelling on the details.
“I’m trying not to think about the Triple Crown too much,” Mulanovich said. “It’s better for me that way. If I win it that would be great, if not, it’s still great just to be surfing in Hawaii.”
Losing her Round 1 heat but redeeming herself in Round 2 was current world No. 1 Layne Beachley. Beachley could clinch her seventh world title at Sunset Beach should she win the event with world No. 2 Melanie Redman-Carr (AUS) bowing out before the finals.
“In my Round 1 heat I had the opportunity to catch some really good waves and I didn’t go so I was kind of lacking confidence in my positioning and I wasn’t committed enough,” Beachley said. “And then in Round 2 I was committed but my timing was out so it’s just been one of those really off days. Luckily I scraped through and an inch is as good as a mile so I’ll take it and I hopefully I can improve on it in the next day or so when we compete again.”
Round 2 Roxy Pro Hawaii Results: (1st and 2nd advance to Round Three; 3rd is eliminated)
Heat 1: Layne Beachley (AUS) 7.17, Jacqueline Silva (BRA) 6.17, Julia Christian (USA) 2.67
Heat 2: Heather Clark (ZAF) 9.07, Jessi Miley-Dyer (AUS) 7.43, Trudy Todd (AUS) 7.10
In the Italian Alps, Argentine freerider Oscar Sosa showed the direction in which freeride skiing is to develop: his style earned him victory at the 11th edition of Red Bull Snowthrill.
In order to win the world’s most important freeride contest this year, you needed more than exceptional risk-affinity and skiing perfection. Argentinia’s Oscar Sosa, only seventh place at the end of the first day, came from behind over the next two days to take victory among 15 of the world’s best freeriders and five selected rookies. His success was due first and foremost to the unique style he celebrated on days two and three. “My colleagues valued clean style over the risky tricks performed by some of the other riders,” was the Argentinean’s post-victory analysis.
The event is traditionally judged by the riders themselves, following long evening sessions studying and evaluating the extensive video footage taken of each ride. Sosa is the first South American winner of Red Bull Snowthrill. More important to him than the 4,000 euros’ prize money is the symbolism of his biggest success to date: “I think it also shows the direction in which freeride skiing is going to go in the future.”
This contest between the world’s best freeriders, almost an institution by now, included jumps covering more than ten meters, garnished with backflips and grabs, as well as perfect lines—and not just the skiing conditions were outstanding, but also the level itself. Even so, Sosa, with his 1,415 points, put quite some distance between himself and the competition: Andrew “Noddy” Gowans of New Zealand, in the lead after the first day, lagged behind by a whopping 134 points (1,281), ahead of Austrian Martin “McFly” Winkler (1,230). The Italian Jacopo Bufacchi—one of those favored to win and, due to several drop-outs, the only local rider—took fifth place and wasn’t satisfied: “I have to admit that I’d rather be standing on the podium.” For 2007, in any case, he’ll be out to make a comeback.
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Speed skiing is the sport of skiing downhill in a straight line as fast as possible. It is the second fastest non-motorized sport on earth. The current world record is 156 mph (251.4 km/h). Speed skiers regularly exceed 125 mph (200 km/h), which is even faster than terminal velocity, the equilibrium speed of a body free-falling through the atmosphere. The terminal velocity of a skydiver in a normal free-fall position with a closed parachute is about 120 mph (193 km/h). (The fastest non-motorized sport is speed skydiving, in which divers reach speeds of over 300 mph.)
Speed skiers wear dense foam fairings on their lower legs and aerodynamic helmets to increase streamlining. Their ski suits are made from air-tight latex or have a polyurethane coating to cut wind resistance, with only a mandatory back protector to give some protection in the case of a crash.
The special skis used must be between 2.2 and 2.4 metres (94.5 inches) long and maximum 10cm wide and 15 kg for the pair. ski boots are attached to the skis by bindings. The ski poles are bent to shape around the body, and must be a minimum of 1 m long.
Speed skiing is practiced on steep, specially designed courses one kilometer long, and there are only about thirty of them world-wide, many of them at high altitude to minimize resistance from the air. The first 300 or 400 meters of the course (the launching area) are used to gain speed, the top speed is measured in the next 100 meters and the last 500 m (the run-out area) are used for slowing down and coming to a stop, with the speed being recorded over the 100 m between (the timing zone). The start point in FIS races is chosen so that, in theory, skiers should not exceed 200 km/h, hence competition is aimed at winning a particular event, not breaking world speed records.
On the 14th of June, François Bon and Antoine Mountant did the world’s first ski gliding descent down Mount Eiger in Switzerland. It gets crazy about half way down.
Bungee jumping is an activity in which a person jumps off from a high place (generally of several hundred feet/meters) with one end of an elastic cord attached to his/her body or ankles and the other end tied to the jumping-off point. When the person jumps, the cord will stretch to take up the energy of the fall, then the jumper will fly upwards as the cord snaps back. The jumper oscillates up and down until the initial energy of the jump is dissipated.
Parkour is a physical discipline inspired by human movement. It focuses on uninterrupted, efficient forward motion over, under, around and through obstacles (both man-made and natural) in one’s environment. Such movement may come in the form of running, jumping, climbing and more complex techniques. The goal of parkour is to adapt one’s movement to any given obstacle.
According to founder David Belle, the spirit of parkour is guided in part by the notions of “escape” and “reach”, that is, the idea of using physical agility and quick thinking to get out of difficult situations, and to be able to go anywhere that one desires. Free running, a closely related art emphasizing aesthetics, is most concerned with fluidity and beauty. For example, Sébastien Foucan, a free runner who trained with David Belle during the infancy of the art, speaks of being “fluid like water,” a frequently used simile for the smooth passage of barriers through the use of parkour.
To some people (particularly non-practitioners), parkour is an extreme sport, to others a discipline more comparable to martial arts. Some consider it a combination of the two, recognizing similarities between parkour and the stunts and techniques of Hong Kong martial arts star Jackie Chan (who gained his skills from being trained for Beijing Opera), whose fight and chase scenes take place in industrial or urban environments. Still others see it as an art form akin to dance: a way to encapsulate human movement in its most beautiful form. Parkour is often connected with the idea of freedom, in the form of the ability to overcome aspects of one’s surroundings that tend to confine; for example, railings, staircases, or walls, it also encompasses freedom on a non-physical level. The practice of parkour requires considerable physical and mental dedication, and many adherents describe it as a “way of life.”
Let’s tel few words about ql outdoor sport called canyoning. Canyoning (known in the U.S. as canyoneering) is a sport popular in several countries. It involves travelling down creeks or streams within a canyon by a variety of means including walking, scrambling, climbing, abseiling, swimming and “li-loing” (using an inflatable air mattress). It requires skills in navigation, ropework, climbing, avoiding hypothermia etc.
Typically what separates a canyon from any ordinary stream is the narrow passage created by erosion into bedrock, creating beautiful sculptured walls and spectacular waterfalls.
Canyoning can be treacherous. There are risks associated with scrambling down uneven, slippery surfaces and abseiling in wet, cold conditions. Several fatalities have occurred in this sport as a result of flash flooding. the most infamous of which happened when a group of tourists on a commercial canyoning adventure trip were drowned in Switzerland in 1999.
The Red Bull Air Race is an exciting competition in which the world’s most talented pilots are up against each other in a race based on speed, precision and skill.
The competition features a dynamic new discipline of flying, called ‘air racing’ where the objective is to navigate a challenging obstacle course in the sky in the fastest possible time. Pilots fly individually against the clock and have to complete tight turns through a slalom course consisting of specially designed 20m high pylons, known as ‘air gates’.
The Air Race is not just about speed but also precision. The slightest mistake can result in penalty points. Flying low to the ground at speeds that can reach over 400kph, while negotiating the air gates, requires immense skill that only a certain number of pilots in the world possess. That is why the pilots are hand selected based upon their expertise and experience. These pilots are at the top of their game. They have to be – the Air Race exerts huge demands on their flying abilities and they have to withstand forces of up to 10G. There is no room for error.
What makes the ‘Air Race’ so exciting and interesting for spectators is the proximity of the contest to the crowds. Low level flying on a relatively compact course means that people can really experience all the action close-up.
The idea of the Air Race was conceived by Red Bull who then approached renowned Hungarian pilot Peter Beseynei to help them refine the concept. The very first Red Bull Air Race took place at AirPower in Zeltweg, Austria in 2003 and was hailed a great success. It was clear that there was a huge potential for the competition. Subsequent Air Races were then held in Hungary, England and the USA and since then it has evolved into its current format, the Red Bull Air Race World Series. The first World Series kicked off in 2005, taking place in 7 venues across the world with 10 internationally acclaimed pilots competing.
11 pilots will take part in the 2006 Red Bull Air Race World Series in 9 spectacular international locations.
‘Air races’ have their roots in the US but unlike those contests where the objective was purely about speed, the Red Bull Air Race brings another dimension into the challenge – skill. They are using some of the lightest, agile and responsive planes that exist, but ultimately it’s the pilot’s stamina and skill that determines who will be crowned the next Red Bull Air Race World Series champion.
Snow Kiting is the latest winter sport. Large highly controllable foil kites are used to blast kite pilots along with just the power of the wind! The ‘Big air’ jumps that boarders and skiers are pulling under the power and security of power kites are simply breath taking.
