Latest news Team Extreme are proud to be involved in the Freestyle Festival 2009 a new Extreme Sports & Music event happening at Alexandra Palace Oct 31 - Nov 1st that is set to be a big event on the calendar.
The Festival will include B Boy championships, grafitti wars, free running from Sebastien Foucan, live bands plus pro comps for Skate, BMX & Inline with skatepark and vert catagories in each.
The skatepark comps are free, open to everyone and will have prize money down to 5th place. Pre registration is essential for all competitors. To sign up for a place or find out more about the Freestyle Festival visit www.freestyle-festival.co.uk
Coming up this weekend:
• Halfpipe and Spine Ramp shows / coaching at Goodwood Festival of Speed, Chichester
• Skatepark shows, coaching & competition at the London Youth Games, Crystal Palace
• Spine Ramp shows at the Malverns Show and Darlington Cycle Festival
• Skateboard coaching in Newport
We are into our busiest part of the year now with eight shows happening in the last four days! Three mini ramp shows in Glasgow, a spine ramp show in Brighton, coaching at the YMCA Young Carers Day in Eastleigh, a jump ramp show in France at Festival de la Glisse and a pick 'n' mix show in Guernsey including workshops in football feestyle, breakdance, BMX flatland & streetball.
Danny Aldridge and Adam Brown returned from India last week where they performed for Fiat at a launch event in New Delhi.
Recent Team Extreme shows include the Cardiff Outdoor Action Show, Ashfield Show, On Yer Bike in Widnes and Beat Brake Street Skate in Eastleigh, The Kite & Outdoor Sports Festival, Harwich Skatepark, TeesCycle in Stockton on Tees, Durham City Centre, Coxhoe skatepark, Richmond Meet skatepark and even skaters performing in a live art show at the Tate Modern gallery in London
The spine ramp team recently returned from Guernsey where they performed an amazing spine ramp display at the Liberation Day. Read the client review from the day >>
Team Extreme has teamed up with G.Ramps, the supplier of the world's best portable ramps, as their exclusive UK representative.
For the past 15 years G.Ramps have supplied ramps for the most outstanding competitions and action sports athletes in the world including: X Games, LG Action Action Sports Tour, Snickers vertical 'Soul Bowl' and ramps for legends such as Mat Hoffman & Shaun White.
This means we can supply absolutely any piece of skatepark equipment from a basic mini ramp to a world class size halfpipe or competition course.
For more info click Ramp Hire>>>
Our halfpipe inline skaters: Rich Parker and Alex Eastwood competed against the world's best recently at the Asian X Games in Shanghai, China. Rich placed 6th in pro halfpipe and Alex placed 11th. Well done guys from all at Team Extreme. Expect to see more crazy moves from these guys at halfpipe shows this summer.
Team Extreme are proud to announce Lee Stafford Colour Xtreme as our new sponsors:
"Colour Xtreme One Night Strand is a range of temporary hair colours, which are easy to apply and quick to wash out.
Perfect for a night out on the town, supporting your favourite sports team, finishing off your fancy dress or if you just feel like a change."
Watch out for the sampling tent to get your hair sprayed up at Team Extreme events this summer. Find out more information on Lee Stafford and the Colour Xtreme range click here or visit www.leestafford.com
Team Extreme performed in London at the Newham Sunday Funday in April. The shows included amazing mini ramp displays, breakdancing, streetball extreme basketball and football freestyle. All activities were very popular and offered coaching sessions from the professionals in between shows. Check out the gallery for photos from the event >>>
Team Extreme have been busy over the last month with coaching and displays in Coventry, Lancaster, Redruth, Cardiff, Lancashire and Doncaster.
London 2012 VeloPark Team Extreme were involved in a press photoshoot to mark the beginning of construction of the VeloPark for the 2012 Olympics in London.
The VeloPark, to be based in the north of the Olympic Park, will include a 6,000 seat Velodrome to host the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic indoor track cycling events as well as a BMX circuit for Olympic events.
Kyle Blake was on hand to give a display of BMX skills for the press, TV and MPs present.
Butlins Summer Tour: Dates announced The dates for this summers Butlins tour have just been confirmed. Performances this year have been revamped to include BMX flatland, streetball and freestyle football in a special combo show. Team Extreme will be at each Butlins one day every week during the summer holidays. To see all Butlins dates check out our schedule >>>
Visit www.butlins.com for more info
CISCO Party Bareclona Team Extreme were in Barcelona in January where they performed a halfpipe show for a CISCO Systems party. The show went down very well and included a team of 7 bikers, skaters and inline skaters including the LG Amateur World Champion: Sam Beckett.
Harrods BMX launch with Chris Hoy Team Extreme worked with Harrods just before christmas to launch their limited edition Chris Hoy Triple Gold BMX bike. We ran coaching sessions during the morning and officially launched the new bike to the press with none other than (the now Sir) Chris Hoy himself, the Beijing Olympic triple gold medal cyclist and BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2008!
Prices held for 2009 We have decided to currently hold all of our 2008 prices so that no increases will be passed on to our clients in this time of financial uncertainty. We are now taking bookings for 2009 with many dates already pencilled in.
LG World Championships Team Extreme riders placed well at the 2008 LG World Championships in Seattle, USA. Jenna Downing is now Womens Inline Street LG World Champion 08 beating the famous Fabiola da Silva. Sam Beckett amazed all by winning the Amateur skateboard halfpipe comp and Rich Parker placed 8th in pro inline halfpipe. Well done from all at Team Extreme!
For more info on the championships visit: www.lgactionsports.com
Team Extreme had a busy autumn 08, performing shows and coaching at the Global Peace & Unity event in ExCel Arena, Eco Expo 2008 in Surrey, Experience 08 in Tynemouth, Butlins and many others. We were also involved with a theatre show by the name of Spear in Hereford.
World No.2 Inliner at Legoland Show
Shane Yost the World No.2 Inline halfpipe skater from Australia performed with the team in September for the Legoland Amazing Machines Show. Shane was part of an amazing line up for this show including UK No.1 Rich Parker, Sam Bosworth our amazing young skateboarder plus Zach Shaw & Mike Mullen on BMX. Amazing shows were seen by 6000 each day at Legoland. Watch slomo video footage from the show below.
Legoland Show Video
Evan Davies kindly made this video compliation from the Legoland Show Spetember 08. Take a look at some amazing slow motion tricks:
Shows and coaching workshops ran all over the UK during summer 08 in Hull, Sandwell, Hackney, Humberstone, Northampton, Sunderland, Wolverhampton, Warrington, Whitby, Sheffield, Stoke on Trent, Halton, Sutton, Safron Walden, Hexam, Glasgow, Woolwich and Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Within London during August we performed at the Tower of London Show, Runnymead Youth Festival and St Barnabas Community Fete, plus ran coaching tours in local skateparks in Hackney and Woolwich.
Rich parker lands a double Flip 180 After months of practice, Rich became the 2nd person in the world to ever pull a double backflip 180 at the Glasgow Show 08. Check the video clip below:
The Butlins Team Extreme 08 tours were a massive success and stopped at Bognor Regis, Minehead and Skegness one day every week of the summer, easter and half term holidays during 2008. The team including BMX, inline skating and micro scootering performed on the mini ramp and ran coaching workshops at each Butlins venue.
New Spine Ramp
Our new spine ramp arrived from G Ramps in Germany during summer 08, and has met with massive approval from the guys on the team. The ramp is taller and wider than our original spine, allowing for bigger and better tricks. For more info on Spine Ramp shows click here >>>
Brighton & Hove Festival of Sport
Check the videos from the halfpipe show at the Brighton & Hove Festival of Sport summer 08: