I have been speaking with some guys in Portugal about the scene in this excellent part of Europe.  The original article was written by Joao Correia , and he has asked me to patch up his English, but I think his original article reads better than any attempt I can make to edit it,  his English is 100% better than my Portugeuse so I think his effort should be respected.  They also featured on our video section a couple of weeks ago- Neil.

The Mountainboard in Portugal, has a very small number of riders, but at this moment they are to be taken the handle a series of initiatives in the direction to promote the appearance of new riders and to give to know the sport to the people.

We have organized one serie of events to which we call Mountainboard Try-out Day, where they are available Mountainboards (gentily yielded by the Trampa boards) for all the people that want’s to try.

. The major number of riders is located in Sintra, where a structure made for the same ones exists. This structure is composed for a track for bordercross for 2 riders with a series of jumps, grinds and quarter pipe. It exists also a Mountainboard Camp, that is to the incubency of the Alex Broumbas and that he is active during the summer months, where it’s possible to acquire lessons since initiate to a more advanced level, always with one component of very strong Freeride, and for where pods to be to know spots of a rare beauty and that are inserted in the nature, without intervention human being.

In the year of 2007, a little for all the parents had been carried through a series of spread shows, in which they had participated riders national and international. For this year they are to be prepared more shows with intention to promote the sport.

For these and other reasons always we are opened the visits of who want to come and wants to spend some days well past.

Waiting your visit…

These are some of the Spots to visit

• Cascais
• Peniche
• Sintra

Here they are some contacts:

02Elementos – Mountainboard & Kitelandboard
www.02elementos.net
j.a.correia@sapo.pt
58 SurfCamp
www.malaka-optik.de/camp58