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.
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December 3rd, 2006
Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk hasn’t just turned the extreme sports world into a cash cow over the last two decades, he’s also helped us mere groundlings feel like we’re still young and hip — or at least young with bad hips — in his steady line of skater games. Tony Hawk’s Project 8 delivers exactly what we expect from the franchise: high flying vert ramps, cluttered street courses, an eclectic and ear-drum splitting soundtrack, and enough product placement to make Ricky Bobby blush. But Project 8 also shows off some new tricks, the most noteworthy of which will keep you on your couch and off that dusty board in the garage until the next Hawk game hits shelves. Familiar controls mean you can pop the game in, jump on your board, and roll straight into career mode. The underlying theme of the game is to climb the amateur rankings through a series of tests and challenges to become one of the top eight amateur skaters in the world, thus entitling you to a spot on Tony’s Project 8 team. As you roll through the layouts, the tests are administered by anyone from innocent bystanders to well-known skating pros to random guests stars.
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December 3rd, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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.
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December 3rd, 2006
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.
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December 3rd, 2006
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.)
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November 29th, 2006
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.
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November 29th, 2006
click more to se some ql video of steven hamilton
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November 28th, 2006
I found a good video on ground tricks looks like they are not to difficult to learn.
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November 28th, 2006
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.
November 27th, 2006
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.
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November 25th, 2006
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.
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November 25th, 2006
FRWD is a sports computer that can measure, show and record everything essential to your workout. It can be used for running, skiing, mountain biking, inline skating, sailing, skydiving, orienteering, climbing, and many others.
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November 24th, 2006
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.
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November 23rd, 2006
Stockholm, Sweden - Slovenian Matevz Petek was the winner of today’s first Big Air event of the Nokia Snowboard FIS World Cup 2006/2007 season. At the debut of Stockholm as a World Cup host in the Olympic arena Stockholm stadium, the boarder from Celje earned 26.4 points in the big final of the new knock-out-format and thus relegated Peetu Piiroinen (24.9) to the second spot.
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November 23rd, 2006
Mexico City recently rescheduled its rush hour to midnight: in the world’s first Dual Downhill Race in a subway station, 32 mountain bikers demonstrated how to make line jumpers at ticket counters and escalator rowdies look really old and sedate in the morning crush…
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November 22nd, 2006
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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.
