The boys from ATC are coming to Bugs in the school holidays, the week on the run up to The Battle of Bugs freestyle comp they are offering all you budding freestyle enthusiasts a change to ride and improve with the best riders in the UK.

Tom Kirkman the current world freestyle champion will be leading the way teaching you all the safest and easiest ways to improve your skills.

There is a maximum of 40 places over the 2 days so get in touch if you want to book your spot.

  Yes we have snow and the jib park is fun! With more snow forcast for the weekend we may well be seeing the park open up for the the first time ever in the snow – while it lasts that is!

For more details call or email – i am sure we can muster up some kind of party!

 

 Yes we have come to that time of the season again and Bugsboarding will be closing for the winter. Bugsboarding will still be open for group bookings and are working with Hartpury College over the next couple months.                  We are also planning a few build days and also to have a couple of open days depending on the good old British weather.So come along this Saturday and see what we have planned and have a ride with your friends.

 

See you there – Ride on

  Yes this is a bit late but still thought i would let everyone know we are open this week for the school holidays – Open from 12 noon till dark – please give us a call for bookings and to let us know which days you will be coming as we are already getting booked up.

Hope to see you there.

The Mountainboarding Film Festival went down really well. There was a great turn out and some really good entries to the film festival. Some of the UK’s best mountainboarders turned up as well as a lot of locals. We had some really good videos from the Bugsboarding local riders.

Thanks a lot to ATB Junkies for organising the event, and the ATBA for helping out.

Tom Kirkman has put together a little video of some of the riding from the weekend.

Hope you are all getting ready for the end of season bash in association with ATB Junkies and the ATBA – UK.

We will be starting things off on Friday evening with some movies, Saturday see’s some day time fun riding and competitions with the International Film Festival starting at 9pm.This will be on a BIG screen, and it is big!
There will be free pop cron and curry and also porridge for breakfast for everyone that comes to ride for the weekend.

To find out more go to www.atbjunkies.com
Hope to see you all there , dont forget to wrap up warm for the evening entertainment.
Bugs Crew.

Tom Kirkman and co from ATC Productions have whipped together this video showing all the action from the weekend’s riding. Big thanks to all the riders for turning up and the BFC for organising everything!

Cream Teas and Jam video by ATC Productions

Yep that’s right, we have the third and final round of the popular Cream Tea’s and Jam run by the BFC. On saturday there will be many riders from across the country and Europe attending the freindy and fun riders judged fresstyle jam. With the weather looking like it will hold out this is an event not to be missed – come along and join the fun or if your a local rider join in and ride with the pro’s.

Big Thanks

Thank you to everyone who came and supported us this weekend. We put loads of work in, and got a lot of help from a lot of people. The event went better than we could have ever hoped for and was a great weekend for everyone involved.

Congratulations to the 2009 World Freestyle Champion – Tom Kirkman

We have updated the Battle of Bugs page to show who all our sponsors who helped us out with everything from money, to prizes, to medical cover, to organisation and all the rest of it.

All the results have also been posted up on the Battle of Bugs page.

As they come in we will be adding more and more media links to write ups, photos and videos of the event.

We are already looking towards next year and starting work on finding sponsors. Please let us know if you have any ideas or would like to support the event!

Again a massive thank you to everyone!

News Flash…… Only 10 days to go and counting down……

The story so far……….

‘The Battle of Bugs’ World Mountainboard Championships has been receiving a great amount of interest from people all over the world from with the mountainboard scene itself as well as outside of it.

We’ve had numerous movements over the last few weeks and with much delight we can now say that with MBS Europe sponsoring the cash prize fund and helping with the organisation, in addition to all the other sponsors who have now joined us, we are now set for one of the biggest ever prize bags we’ve seen!

Sponsors

Sponsors so far

• MBS Europe – www.mbseurope.com (Cash Prize fund)
• Etnies – www.etnies.com (Prizes , Superior quality skate shoes up for grabs)
• Oakley – www.oakley.co.uk (Prizes , The original and best sunglasses you can get your hands on)
• Buff – www.buffwear.co.uk (Prizes , Original head gear and lots more)
• SueMe – www.sueme.com (Prizes , Environmentally friendly sourced sports wear, head gear, tee’s , hoodies , bags and more)
• Pot on Pottery – (Trophies – Hand made for the top 3 riders in each category)
• ATB Sports -  will be there with an excellent shop displaying all the latest in Mountainboard and Kite equipment, so grab yourself a bargin.

Latest sponsors

• Suso – www.suso.co.uk  Suso will be there to support the riders with their fantastic natural fruit drinks… check out their website and see what they have to offer
• Independent Truck Company – www.independenttrucks.com (Prizes , loads of the latest independent clothing up for grabs)
• Six Six One – www.sixsixone.com (Prizes , with some of the best protection around Sixsixone protection is also in the prize bag)

Massive thanks to Martin from ‘So Soild’ for all his help and support.

Registered riders so far

Last years World Freestyle Champ Renny Myles has been out on a snowboard season going big and has already registered for the Battle. He’ll be looking to hold on to his 2009 title but theres bound to be some stiff competition from some familiar faces…

Rumours abound that the 2004 World Freestyle and Mountainboard legend Leon Robbins from Edison, USA will be joining us for yet another competition out here on the other side of the pond and is planning on laying down the gauntlet for the younger riders.

2005 World Champ Tom Kirkman will also be making an appearance after a year off due to injury. Tom is now back on form with amazing determination, new tricks and bags of style and is set to throw down after recent performances in Belgium and Germany.

2008 British Champion and Bugs local rider, Joe Dickson will be there too. There’s no one more hungry than Joe to get his hands on the title and with a winning run of back to back 720s at the first round of the UK Nationals, it’s looking like Joe won’t be leaving without a fight.

There are also entries from Marcin Skubisz – Poland , Diego Anderson – France and Ryan Slater from Australia.

All of the MBS Pro Freestyle team have entered as well, so expect to see them gunning it out for the top spot, with massive tricks from the likes of Oli Morrison, Tuai Lovejoy and Tom Read.

Many more top riders have already registered and no doubt more will in the next few weeks on the run up to the event.

A revamped and fully groomed freestyle is awaiting with 4 major hits to score the points including a 20ft box , step down jump or 14ft drop off to start , then into a fast 28ft table into a choice of three lips – one hip , one 35ft straight, one 40ft straight over the last table with a big quarter pipe to finish in style.

Judges

Joining head judge Alex Downie will be French Rider and 2007 judge Alexis Rouge and 2007 U18 World champ Steve Cownie.

Filming

The event will be filmed by Jack Johnston and team from the BFC for coverage on Extreme TV. Jack has filmed and put together some great footage for the BFC and other projects so look out for his coverage out soon after the event.

ATB Junkies will also be there with many more of mountainboardings great filmmakers also attending to capture the action.

Photography

Legendary mountainboard photographer Paul Taylor will be there for the best shots in history, accompanied by many other talented photographers including the likes of Crillpix and Remolition.

Riders evening entertainment

On Saturday evening there will be some chilled vibes and good music with a small line up through to late in the evening.

Party Tent and sound system supplied by ‘So Soild’ , thanks again to Martin!

Big thanks to all our sponsors and everyone that is helping out, bring on The Battle!

If you have not already please register for the event online now!

Latest event poster

3D Site Layout

Check out the layout of The Battle of Bugs! – put into 3D cad for your enjoyment by Michael Perkins – Nice one Mike.
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