Category: News
Season and Overall Results 2013
How it works Season Results To get a Season result in a discipline, you must enter at least one competition with a maximum of two competitions in a single discipline counting towards your score. If you compete in more than two competitions, we’ll use your best two. If two or more riders get the…
2014 UK Mountainboard Series – Dates and Locations
Round 1 When: 17th-18th May. Where: Hales Board and Bike Park. What: BoarderX, Downhill, Freestyle. Round 2 When: 7th June. Where: Perth, Scotland. What: Downhill. Round 3 When: 21st-22nd June. Where: Another World. What: BoarderX, Freestyle. Round 4 When: 19th-20th July. Where: BugsBoarding. What: BoarderX, Freestyle. Round 5 When: 26th July. Where: Badbury Clumps. What:…
Overall and Season Prize Giving, and AGM
On Saturday at midday on Saturday 5th October we’re holding the Annual General Meeting. This is where we report on what the ATBA-UK has done over the past year and announce the dates and locations for the 2014 UK Mountainboard Series. All members are invited to attend, or to appoint a proxy in their place.…
More discounts for Members
ATBA-UK Members can now get a discount at ChillFactore in Manchester and Gloucester Ski and Snowboard Centre. ATBA-UK Members already get a wide range of discounts at all kinds of shops and mountainboard centres across the country, and now we’ve added two ski and snowboard slopes too. ATBA-UK Membership costs just £10 a year for…
Red Flags and Reruns – How to make sure you get a fair race
The ATBA-UK does everything it can to make the BoarderX races safe, fun and fair, and most people enjoy them without too many issues. But, it can be frustrating if your race doesn’t happen how you thought it would and you think that whatever happened wasn’t fair. You could be left feeling dissatisfied/angry/homicidal, and we…
Season Rankings so far…
Let’s take a look at the Season Rankings as they currently stand. Groms Whoever places higher between Connor Clarke and Fynley Davies will win the Season BoarderX. In Freestyle, only Tom Smith can beat Fynley now, and he needs to win at Bugs to do it Juniors For Freestyle, it’s between Will McAuley (current leader),…
World Mountainboard Day – Cleeve Hill
It’s 20 years of mountainboarding this year and where else would the be better to spend it than in the birth place of mountainboarding in the UK: Cleeve Hill. Whether you’re a regular rider, new to the sport, and an old guy who hasn’t ridden in a while, this is a great chance to meet…
Making BoarderX Qualification more interesting
A few years ago we started using races to qualify riders in BoarderX comps. We wanted riders to get more races, because its more fun for the riders, and because it helps riders get better which means fewer injuries and better quality racing. This year we’re going to build on this and make things a…
This time next week we’ll be kicking off Round 2 of the UK Series 13
Check out what happened last year For more info check out the Round 2 page
How do Season and Overall Rankings work?
How do I get a Season Ranking? Your Season Rankings is worked out by adding your best two results from each discipline over the entire season. If you only compete in Freestyle comps you will only get a Freestyle Season Ranking, but if you compete in Freestyle, BoarderX and Downhill, then you will get a…