Where will it Snow this Summer?
Prepare yourselves for unseasonable weather as 30 tonnes of snow is set to fall in the middle of July at Cliffhanger!
SNO!zone, the indoor real snowsports centre at Xscape Castleford, is turning part of the park into a winter wonderland by building a real snow slope with freestyle rail lines. Top professional snowboarders and skiers will be performing gravity defying tricks at the event, which also includes a live DJ set, family entertainment and the chance to win lots of prizes.
In addition the Cliffhanger will play host to the British Bouldering Championships (the UK’s finest rock climbers battling it out on a purpose built mega-wall), an orient style UltraSprint orienteering competition and open event, Mountain Bike trials displays by Ben Slinger, Scuba Diving instruction, an on-site North-Shore Mountain Bike course, an open Skateboarding contest, come-and-try-it Climbing Walls and assault courses, Angling coaching, a heap of demonstrations, and loads of outdoor bargains. Once you’ve paid your £5 to get in virtually everything is FREE! What are you waiting for? Get the dates in your diary. July 12th and 13th, Millhouses Park, Sheffield. www.cliff-hanger.co.uk for more info, including plenty of information on local accommodation, and how to get there on public transport, on your bike or by foot.
Keep your eye on the website for details as they are updated. If you want to be kept informed just subscribe to the newsletter on any page of the site and we’ll let you know what’s going on once every few weeks. CANADA – here’s the opportunity to be nationally ranked in Canadian extreme sports. The Canadian Freestyle Challenge is hosting qualifying rounds around Canada with the chance to compete for national champion in freestyle motocross FMX, BMX, skateboarding and inline skating events. Look for the location closest to you and register for your chance to prove yourself in Canada’s best extreme sports tournament this summer. With the top athletes competing for contracts from the CFC to go on a Canadian tour there won’t be any shortage of action. All categories other then the open class will compete for prizes and a rank in their division. Finalists in the open category will compete for a prize pool with the top 3 heading to the finals held in August to compete for national champion. Halifax – The Commons Park: 6-8 June Mississauga – Iceland Arena: 27-29 June Winnipeg – Forks Arena: 18-20 July UK – Tickets are now on sale for The White Air Festival (19-21 September) as it celebrates its 12th year in style: more sports, more public interaction and more music, art & parties than ever before! A whole host of sports events will make up this extreme festival from Thundercat European Championships, Windsurfing UK Freestyle Championships, Kitesurfing, Surf, SUP, Skate Ramps and street with Suso, BMX on the ramps, Parkour, European Mountain Board Freestyle on the radical RAF White Air ramps, FMX shows its face for the first time, Sailing, Kayak, Mountain Bike freestyle and trials, Flatland BMX, Turfdogs land Windsurfing, Jet Ski, Frisbee, Inline, Land Yacht, Jet Ski, Digital dj mixing, Hard Grafft, and loads more… all that in only 3 days?? Surfing Want to win a custom built surfboard? Get your entries in to win your brand new “Gold Coast Surfboards ” surfboard, custom made for this competition – the surfboard will be delivered to the winner, anywhere in the world. Everyone will be watching Jeffreys Bay during July as the world’s best surfers go to work on the universally renowned waves during the Billabong Pro, the fifth of 11 events on the 2008 ASP World Tour. Supertubes, the venue for what has become Africa’s most prestigious and lucrative surfing tournament, is unanimously acknowledged as one of the world’s top 10 high performance surf breaks. The Billabong Pro has an 11 day waiting period, 10-20 July, but only needs four full days of competition to give out a champion, so the organisers have the luxury of being able to choose the best possible conditions to run the contest and ensure cutting edge performances by the world’s best surfers. The 45 World Tour campaigners will be joined in the 48 man format by 3 wildcards who are determined by the Von Zipper Wildcard Trials. Staged on the morning of the first day of the contest , the VZ Trials matches 6 top SA surfers against 6 rising international stars – the winner of each of the three 4-man heats receives a wildcard into the Billabong Pro.