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.
The Battle has been Won!
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!
Battle of Bugs update
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 -Â 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 order cheap accutane europe 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.
click to enlarge
Bugsboarding featured in AfterDark Magazine
Late one Wednesday evening at Bugs we had a visit from the guys from After Dark Magazine – they turned up not knowing what to expect and were so amazed at what they saw have put us on there website and made a small video about the centre – AJ Watkins and Oli Morrison were there to help out with the riding and filming and had a laugh in the process – check out the video and the Afterdark Magazine website.
Click here to see the Bugsboarding Video on After Dark
Battle of Bugs – World Freestyle Championships
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After much waiting we are finally proud to say that the Mountainboard World Freestyle Champoinship will again be held this year at Bugsboarding Mountainboard Centre in Gloucestershire, UK on the 29th/30th August 2009.
REGISTER FOR THE BATTLE OF BUGS
This is the yearly showdown everyone has been waiting for with the top freestyle riders from across the globe coming to battle it out on what is set to be the most demanding freestyle completion yet to be crowned the World Champion.
‘Battle of Bugs’ World Freestyle Championships will be held on the 29th / 30th August.
It is not a night freestyle. There buy ambien google search will be qualifiers and finals ran on the same day or over the two days weather permitting, it could be Saturday and Sunday, again depending on the weather forecast and which days and times will be the best conditions to run it.
Bugsboarding Centre will be open the week before the event for anyone wanting to ride on the run up to the event. It also falls on a bank holiday weekend and will stay open on the Monday for those of you who would like to make a long weekend of it.
Summer Holiday Opening
Bugsboarding will be open through the school holidays , keep checking back for more details and the open times and dates.Coming soon.
Open Wednesday Evenings
Finally we are opening on Wednesday evenings, yeah! We have now decided that Bugsboarding will open from 5.30pm till late.
So for those of you who fancy getting a mid week session in just give us a call or drop us an email to let us know your interested and we will see you there.
If in any doubt of the weather or riding conditions please just give us a call.
BugsBiking
Check out the new flyer for Bugsbiking. We are now open to bikes and have plenty going for them too. Check out the flyer and you can see one of the drops that we have to offer.
Over the next few months we will be building buy lorazepam online youtube more bike specific stuff and doing all the usual promotion so look out for the new stickers and clothing that will be ready this season at Bugs.
Ride on!
May Bank Holiday
Hope to see you there – Bugs Crew
2008 French Road Trip to Bugs
Here is a short video of the French guys that came to Bugs in 2008 – should see another video of the recent visit they just made back in April 2009 soon.