BARCELONA XTREME SPORTS FESTIVAL BY MOVISTAR.
The best international extreme sport returns to Barcelona. The main riders of skateboard, BMX, inline, FMX, urban jibbing and wakeboard are waiting for you in Parc del Fòrum…
Competitions // Professional Competitions
INTERNATIONAL SKATEBOARD PRO-SERIES
-Street: Riders will compete in Skatepark.
NIKE 6.0 INTERNATIONAL BMX PRO-SERIES
-Flatland: The specialists in Flatland will deleight the crowd.
WRS INLINE PRO SERIES
-Street: All the spectacle of the riders in the Streetpark.
-Slalom: Scoring tournament for the World Slalom Series and the Spanish Slalom Series.
INTERNATIONAL WAKE PRO-SERIES
FMX X-BATTLE
SALOMON URBAN JIBBING PRO-SERIES
-Snowboard: The riders will give their best
EVENT:
Movistar Barcelona Extreme
DATES:
June, 6th and 7th 2009
VENUE:
Parc del Fòrum – Barcelona
SPORTS:
Skateboard / BMX / Inline / FMX / Wakeboard / Ski / Snowboard / Longboard
EXHIBITIONS:
Information available soon
PARTICIPATION:
200 pros + 500 amateurs
COMPETITION FORMATS:
Professional (invitational) + amateur open competition
PARALLEL ACTIVITIES:
DJ’s / Graffitis / Comercial Area / Fingerboard
HOW TO GET THERE:
Rambla Prim, 2-4
L 4 (El Maresme-Fòrum)
Trambesós L T4 (Fòrum Station)
Linies 7, 26, 36, 41, 43, 141
X-GAMES.
The X Games is an annual event with a focus on extreme action sports. The Winter X Games are held in January or February(usually in January) and the Summer X Games are usually held in August, both in the United States. Participants compete to win bronze, silver and gold medals, and prize money. The competition often features new tricks such as Tony Hawk’s 900 in skateboarding and Travis Pastrana double backflip in Motocross. Concurrent with competition is the “X Fest” sports and music festival, which offers live music, athlete autograph sessions and interactive elements. The location of the Winter X Games is in Aspen, Colorado through 2012, while the location for the Summer X Games is in Los Angeles through 2009. The X Games also has international competitions and demos around the world that are held at varying times throughout the year. The games are shown live on ESPN and ABC television.
There will be a x-games in barcelona this weekend.
I wish I can go, take some photos and after that explain it here.
-RYAN VILLOPOTO-
Ryan Villopoto is one of the best bikers of the SX supercross in USA.
He’s only 21 years old, and in my opinion he’s better than a lot of bikers that there are in the competition who have more experience than him.
He rides for the team Kawasaki monster. Now this team is leadering the clasification.
2006 Villopoto began his professional career in the AMA West Supercross Lites Series at Angel Stadium for Anaheim I, where he finished second-place overall.
In 2007 Villopoto started the season with a dominating performance in the AMA West Supercross Lites Series, where he won seven of the eight races. He carried his momentum into motocross, winning his second-straight AMA Motocross Lites Championship. To cap off a perfect season, Villopoto became the first rider in history to win the overalls in both motos on KX250F against larger 450cc motorcycles at the Motocross of Nations.
Major wins:
- 2006 AMA National Motocross Lites 250 Champion
- 2006 Member of winning Team USA at the Motocross of Nations in England
- 2006 AMA Supercross/Motocross Rookie of the Year
- 2007 AMA National Motocross Lites 250 Champion
- 2007 AMA West Supercross Litess Champion
- 2008 AMA National Motocross Lites 250 Champion
Currently he resides in Murrieta, California
SURF
The surf is a sport that consists of sliding on the waves of the sea on a table, directing her thanks to one or several keels placed in the back part of the table.
The surf is a sport that is been in the habit of practising in summer, in beaches where the waves allow a few good conditions to realize this sport.
In the century XXI the surf has increased very much his pace of progression, and nowadays quite in the surf it is removing to the end: air, big waves, you operate in general, variants of the surf (stand up paddle), waves mutants, competitions…
Even the styles are improving, surfers since Jordy Smith they are combining styles more polished than none that has met before with impossible maneuvers, another very progressive surfer is Clay Marzo, who tailslides and pipes belong to the best that have met. So, the trend is to lead everything to the end, which does of the surf a sport increasingly spectacularly, and that attracts to more and more people, as spectators and student teachers.
In my opinion the two best surfers in the world are Kelly Slater and Mick fanning that have won the lasts world championships of surf.
SNOWBOARD.
The snowboard is an extreme sport of snow that was born out of “boredom” of which they were skiing and looking more for emotion. For it the snowboarders invent the table of snowboard that provides more stability and allows to do better and more maneuvers than with the skis. From here new modalities started discovering as the halp park the pipe etc …
Nowadays the snowboard is a very popular sport it seems that little by little winning this area to the sport king of last years in the snow; the ski.
Personally I believe that the snowboard is funnier and entertaining than the ski.The snowboard allows to realize more tricks and to enjoy stronger sensations.
Street biking: BMX
The BMX originated in California at the beginning of the 70’s, when the young men were trying to imitate the champions of motocross with their bikes. In the year 1980 the variant was generalized known like race, or careers in circuits of land, very similar to the realized ones with motorcycles. Later, in the middle of the decade of the 80, with the first exclusive bicycles of freestyle tricks would be begun to do in skateparks and even in the street, consolidating what now we know as BMX. More concretly, in 1977, the American Bicycle Association (ABUSES) one organized as a national entity for the growth of the sport that got in Europe in 1978. In April, 1981, the BMX’s international Federation was founded, and the first championship of the world was celebrated in 1982. From January, 1993 the BMX it has been integrated inside the Union Cycliste Internationale, which now is known as UCI.
Though it is known in other countries, in Spain BMX’s racers/ bikers there is called “Riders” or also “Bikers” . We prune to find that these modify the original one of any mark up to making it practically unrecognizable, him changing plates, pine kernels, brakes, systems of rotation, handlebar, pedals and the picture .
These they are some of the tricks that are realized in the BMX.
-Wall tap: Jumping in diagonal against a wall we will push with the feet the back part of the bicycle towards the wall in order that the back wheel hits with th and rapidly we return to put the legs in their place to move away from the wall.
-Wall ride: We will jump against a wall in diagonal and will lean both wheels in this in order that they roll a small section on the wall with the horizontal bicycle.
-Curved Wall ride: To realize a Wallride for the interior of a curled wall. On having jumped on the wall, if it is done with enough speed, smoothness and precision, the bicycle will roll about her due to the centrifugal force of the draft that the bicycle will prevent from falling down.
ENDURO.
Last weekend took place the Enduro Indoor of Vigo in which Iván Cervantes proved again that he is the world champion. In spite of some disadvantages that different originally he could mend and elite to be done with the first place of the podium in the category.
Iván Cervantes, the Champion of the World of enduro indoor, proved that he is the best on his category. He won in all three finals of the Enduro Indoor ” Tourism of Vigo “, celebrated before more than 3.500 spectators. Cervantes already got to the public into the pocket when, in the first final, after getting hooked up in the first curve and remaining last he began the mended one that culminated advancing in the own goal Xavi Galindo. That of KTM demonstrated, besides, to be the strongest in a technical and demanding circuit that did the delights of a public understood and delivered with the pilots.
