Hey crew

Get out your pretty colouring pencils and mark the calendar! The weekend of March 13th and 14th is set to be one of the biggest for lifestyle sports to ever go down in NZ. If your any where near Mystery Creek in Hamilton I’ll be personally offended if I dont see you at this event!

Liston Borrie has the skills to pay the bills

Boys Day Out is fast approaching and will prove to be a weekend not to miss with 48 hours of every single alternative sport you can imagine from rally car racing to strong man competitions. Check out http://www.boysdayout.co.nz for more details but in the mean time heres a sample of what your in for:

RUN FMX has jumped on board to bring you the first ever Boys Day Out FMX Invitational! We have assembled 6 of NZ’s greatest Freestyle Motox riders to compete for the gold and of course the cash in the first of what will be an epic annual bout to find a true FMX Champion.

OZ ripper Adam Bayard is crossing the ditch to compete

NZ Riders incude all of your favourite North Island talents: Josh Thomson, Liston Borrie, Ryan Laskey and Adam Camplin. Callum Shaw is also making the huge trek from Invercargill to compete, and my boy Adam Bayard is making the trip all the way from sunny Australia to throw down against NZ’s best!

2 days of intense competition will determine the Boys Day Out FMX Champ with 6 rounds total for each rider to survive. We are also throwing in a whip comp and best trick comp each day for your viewing pleasure. Heres the best part: the entire FMX comp will be judged by YOU via a txt voting system – so make sure you get there!

Josh Thomson is guaranteed to impress

On top of all that there will be spot prizes, freebies, autograph sessions with the riders and too much more to list.

Come and say hi at the first ever Boys Day Out FMX Invitational bought to you by RUN FMX.

Adam Camplin has something to prove in his first comp

Callum Shaw is driving 1000kms to join us!

Skydiving has recently begun to consume my daily thoughts. I used to get home from school and spend hours watching FMX dvd’s, now I get home from work and spend hours on You Tube watching skydiving and BASE jumping vids…it owns me.

That being said, its no surprise how excited I am for NZ’s biggest skydiving festival being held in Motueka from 15th til the 23rd of August. My girl Lisa and the rest of the crew at Skydive Abel Tasman have been working round the clock to make this happen, and the line up of aircraft, skydivers and activities that the event is boasting is seriously impressive.

If your anywhere near the area make sure you drop in. I’ll be there with more than a fridge full of Demon having some fun, come say hi and if your keen maybe even jack up a tandem skydive…it will change your life!

See below:

An international line-up of sports skydivers from Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, the UK, and Australia, will join a large contingent of local talent in a diverse range of events.

Skydiving records
The Good Vibes 2009 programme will include all levels of skydiving skills and disciplines from flat to vertical flying, small and large formations, to canopy competitions.

The organisers also hope to set some New Zealand skydiving records.

Skydiving activities will include ‘big ways’ with up to 24 participants, RW, POPs, VRW, atmo, tracking, hybrids, wingsuit, swoop & chug, beach jumps, scrambles, speedstar, accuracy & swoop.

A novelty jump, celebrating a local woman’s 1000th jump, is scheduled to include a bevy of lingerie-clad female skydivers. Spare seats in the plane will be raffled off – in aid of charity – to keen males willing to the pay the price.

Skill development
Coaching opportunities and skill sharing opportunities are a major draw card for the event.

Skydiving coaches and organisers from New Zealand and Australia will offer skill development for all levels and disciplines.

Skydive Abel Tasman
Good Vibes was launched in 2003 as a two-day event designed to bring New Zealand’s relatively small skydiving community together.

Good Vibes is hosted by Skydive Abel Tasman, in Motueka.

Background: Skydiving in New Zealand

Most New Zealand towns have an airstrip or helipad so flight-based activities with breath-taking views are easily accessed.

Many drop zones have a choice of experienced operators offering flight-seeing, skydiving, and hang-gliding.

Some skydive operators and clubs offer static-line jumps, but most novice jumpers opt for a tandem skydive. In a tandem jump, the learner is linked in a double harness to the instructor who has control of the parachute.

After instruction, tandem skydivers are taken to 2500 – 4000m before leaping out together and experiencing up to 45 seconds of freefall.

The Southern Alps and Fiordland (both in the South Island) are popular jumping grounds, and Taupo in the central North Island is another reliable venue.

Steve Gregor

RUN FMX