SHRALPDOWN! OFFICIAL PREMIERE AT WAHOOS

Want to help support the International Mountainboard Freestyle Invitational that’s coming up in October? Well you can, this Friday One 5 Media is presenting an official premiere of their most recent mountainboard video, “Shralpdown!”

Hang with friends, win prizes, watch a mountainboard video, eat tacos, music, happy hour… Sounds like a great way to support the IMFI.

The whole thing goes down at Wahoos Fish Tacos, 1521 Blake, Denver, CO, USA, on Friday the 15th, that’s this coming Friday! The ruckus begins at 7pm and continues strong until 11pm with beats by DJ Matty K.

Email evan@one5media.com for more information.

GERMAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP 2008

Also this weekend is the boardercross and freestyle events taking place in Willingen, Germany. This three day event is scheduled to begin on the 15th and end on the 17th. For more details, check out www.atbagermany.de.

THE SEARCH FOR “THAT GUY”

In Last week’s “Dirt of the Week” we kicked off an official search for the identity of the rider whose you tube video we had been watching. Well we found him! Turns out it was the amazing Nicky “Stirrups” Geerse, who rides with BFC. Stirrups has done a lot more with the sport of mountainboarding than tweak a couple 720 attempts so we contacted him and conducted a mini interview which will be posted later on this week.

Each week MountainBoard.net posts the news and events for the world of mountainboarding. We do our best to stay on top of all that is going on but we can always use help. If you know of an event or other news related issue, or if you have your own local event you’re hosting, email us at Editor@MountainBoard.net.

This weekend, the 9th and 10th, Belgium is throwing down another event at Wanyi Park. Along with the music festival, Wanyi Park will be filling the air with the sounds of true dirt slashing with boarder cross, big air, and a rail jam competition.

You can find more information at www.mountainboard.be.

I know we posted this video the last time there was an event at Wanyi Park but we just can’t seem to tire of watching this guy fall.

Although we love to see this guy slam into the ground over and over again, we should all give him credit for his dedication. He definitely kept at it until he finally nailed it. So we want to thank him not only for the quality entertainment but also for his classic example of the “get back up and ride” attitude that is essential to a true mountainboarder.

If you are “That Guy,” or if you know him, please email us so that we can get in contact with you. We think it would be even more entertaining to get a little background information on him. The search for “That Guy” begins!

Also, MBS just released the results from the 2008 US Open!

Each week MountainBoard.net posts the news and events for the world of mountainboarding. We do our best to stay on top of all that is going on but we can always use help. If you know of an event or other news related issue, or if you have your own local event you’re hosting, email us at Editor@MountainBoard.net.

This week is a quiet one as far as mountainboarding news and events goes. But France has kept the week from total silence.

Loge des Gardes, France is hosting a “Film n’ Ride” contest that will take place starting on August 1st and finishing on August 3rd. The event has attracted pro riders world wide and is sure to lure in a good number of spectator as well. There will be multiple film crews scattered throughout the course collecting footage for 2009 mountainboard DVDs.

You can find more information at www.logedesgardes.com (click here if you don’t speak French)

Every Wednesday, MountainBoard.net pulls together the latest mountainboarding news along with any events or competitions that are scheduled for the week. Please submit any news/event related information to Editor@MountainBoard.net, and we will do our best to post them on the appropriate week.

2008 U.S. Open Mountainboarding Championships - July 24-26

MBS Mountainboards presents the sixth consecutive year of the largest and longest running mountainboard competition in the U.S.

Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA is where the whole thing is going down. For more information you can go to www.usopenmountainboarding.com.

Here’s a video from the 2007 US Open just to keep you stoked!

ATBA-UK 2008 National Series (Round 4) - July 25-27

Round 4 of 5 will take place at Court Farm, located in Tillington, Herefordshire, UK.

You can find more information on this event along with all others in the series by going to www.atbauk.org.

Contest Clean Slide - July 26-27

Contest Clean Slide takes place somewhere in France (feel free to email the us if you can add some accuracy to this location, this is as close as we could get).

Follow this link for more information on this mountainboarding event (you’ll need google translator unless you speak French).

Brazilian Mountainboarding Championship 2008 - July 26-27

They’re calling it the “Desafio da República de Mountainboard” (Challenge of the Republic of Mountainboard). The event will take place at TOR-Território Off-Road, located in Brasília, Brazil.

If you plan on attending you can get more information from the website for TOR, their mountainboard center.

Every Wednesday, MountainBoard.net pulls together the latest mountainboarding news along with any events or competitions that are scheduled for the week. Please submit any news/event related information to Editor@MountainBoard.net, and we will do our best to post them on the appropriate week.

First up is the 2008 AIMA Irish Open Mountain Boarding Championship. This 3 day event is scheduled to begin on Friday, July 18th and roll through to Sunday, July 20th.

The events are open to Irish locals and traveling mountainboarders alike. For more information, check out www.SurfinDirt.co.uk.

Also this week is the grand opening of the new mountainboard park in Winterburg, Germany.

You can find more details on the park on yesterday’s post, “New Park Opening in Winterburg.”You can also check out the main site, www.rockon.de/park/sommer (it’s in German so unless you speak German, you can use a free translator like “google translator” to view more info).

Although there does exist a certain fascination with riding the raw untouched mountain slopes, mountainboard parks and mountainboard centers have definitely become a welcome gift to riders. New parks keep popping out all over the world as the sport of mountainboarding continues to explode.

Winterburg Park in Germany is having it’s grand opening this weekend, the 19th and 20th of July. This is a beautiful mounainboard park that was approved by MBS Europe. The park includes a freestyle park and a boardercross that stretches over 1000 meters and the two lifts keep riders riding and not hiking.

Our “Where to Ride” map has been updated with the location of Winterburg Park.

For more details on the park check out www.rockon.de, unless you can read German, you’ll need to translate it using one of the many free online translators, like Google Translator.

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As a new addition to MountainBoard.net, we will be posting information regarding any “mountainboarding news” that takes place within the week. This will post each Wednesday as long as there is news to be posted. So this weeks post covers all mountainboard related news from Wednesday, July 9th to Wednesday July 16th. If you have news you wish to submit for your local area, please submit it to editor@mountainboard.net at least a week in advance so that we can be sure to post it.

This week is pretty quiet as it appears but the next couple of weeks are packed with events and other news so stay tuned for those. For this week the only thing we could find was a Big Air competition in Belgium. The event takes place at Wanyi Park on July 12th and 13th. You can find more information at www.mountainboard.be.

If you are able to attend the event, please share your experience with us via email or in the comments box below. Also, for entertainment purposes only, I have provided a youtube video of a rider attempting a 720 melon at Wanyi Park.

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We have teamed up with the excellent people at Remolition Mountainboard Media to create a series of downloadable wallpapers for your computers.

We will be doing a write up on their work very near future about their work, but to whet your appetite here is our first wallpaper.

Enjoy, and let everyone else know where to download it from.

(a subtle hint, click on the image for the full size picture, right click on the image and save it)