BlueZeal News

April the 7th sees the 2nd annual Kayaks on Snow BoaterCross.

This consists of people dragging their kayaks to the top of Monarch Mountain in Colorado and then climbing in their kayaks, using their paddles and racing downhill whilst head to head with another competitor. The winner of each downhill race progresses to the next round until a winner is crowned. The winner will receive a cash prize. However, 90$ of competitors normally end up crashing or ending up the wrong way – the winner is sometimes decided by who can crawl over the finish line first.

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Neil Godbold who was behind the record breaking South Pole expedition is set to open and Extreme Sports Academy at Portland Harbour in Dorset.

He currently co-owns a kitesurfing school in Portland Harbour and is looking at extending it into the Extreme Sports Academy and launching it over the May Bank Holiday weekend. The new academy will provide coaching at all levels in power-kite flying, kite land boarding, kite buggying as well as the kitesurfing and powerboat training that it currently offers. There are also plans to build a small skate park, shop and café.

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Charm City in Baltimore will be hosting the first round of the ASPT Dew Tour this year. The ASPT Dew Tour consists of skateboarding events, motocross competitions, BMX biking and freestyle motocross. There will also be live music performances at the events and the competition normally brings in crowds of 50,000 people.

There are five locations where the ASPT Dew Tour visits for the 2007 competition:
- Charm City on the 21st-24th June
- Cleveland on the 19th-22nd July
- Portland on the 16th-19th August
- Salt Lake City on the 20th-23rd September
- Orlando on the 18th-21st October

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The 2007 British Kite Surfing Championship is about to get under way. There are seven rounds all in the freestyle kite surfing category. Obviously, the competition is weather depending and wind depending. Spectators are welcome at all the rounds and many of the venues will be having beach parties and evening entertainment in between the competition. If you have a venue near you, go along and support the competitors and see the stunts and tricks that the competitors can perform.

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The Vodacom Easter Adrenaline Beach Festival takes place from the 6th-9th April at North Beach, Durban in South Africa. It will be the fifth year that the extreme sports competition will take place and last year over 240,000 people attended the festival.

There are a variety of extreme sports that can be seen over the course of the weekend including motorbike stunts, jetski action and skateboarding.

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This weekend sees that Montana State Snowboard Championships in America. It is the third year that this competition will be taking place at the Great Divide Ski Area.

On Saturday, competitors have to snowboard through an obstacle course and the fastest time down the course wins. Four competitors at a time race to the finish line so the races are always interesting. The end of the obstacle course involves flying across a pond with floating toys. Not all competitors make it to the end of the course due to the pond – it adds that element of surprise to the competition. The obstacle course races are taking place from 11am-2pm.

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Rock crawling is a relatively new extreme sport and the 7th World Rock Crawling Competition takes place on the 31st march and 1st April in Arizona, America.

Rock crawling is the ultimate test for driving skills: mentally tough for the driver and difficult for the spotter, as well as having to consider the ability of the vehicle. They have to drive round an obstacle course which has eight obstacles. The team with the lowest score wins, however, you get points if you have to reverse the vehicle, if you hit the marker cones and if you take too long to complete the course (you only have 10 minutes in which to complete the course)

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The International Ski Federation is considering removing the Super G events from the World Cup Skiing Competition. They feel that the skiing competition is currently too long and would like to remove the Super G to shorten the competition.

The Super G was introduced in 1982 and involves competitors racing downhill whilst going through the gates and it has been popular ever since. The Super G is also in the Olympics and competitors fear that if the Super G is dropped from the World Cup Skiing Competition, that it will also be dropped from the Olympics.

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