http://www.hittingkickers.com Snowboarding, MTB, Extreme Sports & The Great Outdoors Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:17:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm planning on competing in a few duathlons this autumn, starting in just over 3 months time at the Xtreme Terrain Festival where I ran my first duathlon last year. Following that I have my eye on an adventure race in October (10k, 25k MTB, 1.5 kayak), and hoping to do ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/duathlon-training-stepping-up/ Heard this today and thought it was worth a post. Iron Maiden classic "Remember Tomorrow" covered by Metallica in 2008 I think. A cracking cover, slightly reworked from the original. Early days Maiden signer Paul Dianno wrote the lyrics about "a friend" who loved a bit of LSD. Unchain the ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/metallica-iron-maidens-remember-tomorrow/ It's been all over the news today that actress Natasha Richardson has passed away a few days after hitting her head in a skiing accident. I'm not familiar with her work - as to be honest, I know very little about the acting world and don't watch many movies - but ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/natasha-richardson/ Don't usually cover pro snowboarders here, but thought this Jeremy Jones video was pretty cool. Jeremy is a big advocate of watching your carbon footprint, and is founder/CEO of POW: Protect Our Winters, a "non-profit organization dedicated to reversing the global warming crisis by uniting the winter sports community". Over ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/jeremy-jones/ A couple of weeks ago I had 2 days snowboarding in the Monterosa ski area, based in the central of the 3 valleys - Gressoney, with neighbouring Champuloc and Alagne either side. Monterosa has a reputation as a "freeride heaven" attracting a serious croud of dedicated powder hounds. At the ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/gressoney-monterosa-snowboarding-off-piste/ I'm planning on moving house in the summer and have been lining up a few new pictures to hang on the walls. Firstly, I've had a photo blown up that I took a couple of years ago whilst hiking the south coast walk between Falmouth and Looe (Cornwall, UK). I've ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/snowboarding-memorabilia/ I was pinged with a link to this video widget from Nike ACG. To be honest, I had a 2 second look and binned it as it looked too big brand, slick & salesy. I only took a second look when I saw it posted on pistehors.com and ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/nike-sweetspots/ What a start to the 2008-2009 snowboarding season! I had the pleasure of 4 days riding deep powder in Cervinia at the start of December. For the last 4 years, I've always started the season in Cervinia, either late November or early December, 2 months before most people (in the ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/cervinia-powder-weekend/ I'm heading out to Cervinia this afternoon. The conditions are looking awesome. It's been dumping on and off there since late October, the base is solid down to resort and keeps getting a nice powdery top-up. Looks like first snowboarding turns of the season should be good. Snowjet ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/off-to-cervinia/ Just spotted via Twitter (follow me here), ski.co.uk and snowboard.co.uk have just sold at auction for quite hefty sums. snowboard.co.uk fetched £20,000 and ski.co.uk reached a mighty £80,000. Compared with some other major .co.uk domain purchases in the last 18 months these might be a couple of bargains. cruises.co.uk sold for £560k ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/ski-co-uk-and-snowboard-co-uk/ I took part in the Xtreme Terrain Festival Full Duathlon at the end of September. Here's a quick write up... drafted a few weeks ago, but hadn't got round to publishing until now. The XTF was hosted at Hawley Lake, Camberley on an army training ground. A series of ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/xtreme-terrain-duathlon/ A few things to catch up on here, so here goes: Snowboarding trips booked Had a good week last week - I booked my first two trips of the season. Firstly the annual early season pilgrimage to Cervinia for 4 days in early December. Secondly a 9 day stay in ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/catching-up/ Check out this dramatic footage of Johno Verity and Eric Themel, who got caught in an avalanche whilst filming in Mount Cook, New Zealand. Dramatic stuff, and a timely reminder as the Northern Hemisphere season approaches that its not all just fun and games out on the white stuff. http://www.hittingkickers.com/mount-cook-avalanche/ Owing to a balls up - I left the tickets at home - I can't send them out today, so have to scrap this. Drop me a line via the contact form if you're able to pick up 2 tickets from South London tomorrow and you can have them free. The ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/win-tickets-metro-ski-show/ Fresh from youtube, uploaded today. A slice of snowboarding in England - a country with no real snow and few hills. Enjoy. Part 1: Part 1 with Jamie Nicholls and Wayne Taylor (AKA Snowskate) Part 2: Featuring Boo and Matt Macwhirter Part 3: Featuring Friends of AKA (Ben Wall, ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/snowskate-sweet-dreams/ So, part 2 of the Scotland walking and camping trip as planned. From Lochranza, Arran we took the ferry over to Claonaig, bus to Kennacraig, and a second ferry to Port Ellen, Islay, home of Smokey single malt whisky! The night before on our beach-side camp, I had done serious damage to ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/islay/ The season is on its way alright. The Metro Ski & Snowboard show kicks off in about 3 weeks time. The show runs from 22nd to 26th October at Olympia, London (not Earls Court as I previously stated). Always a good way to build the stoke... check ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/metro-ski-snowboard-show-2008/ About this time last year I posted up a link to a piece of research into the costs charged by each of the major airlines flying from the UK to ski airports in Europe for checking in your skis or snowboard. Well, APH have updated their research and things have changed! ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/snowboard-luggage-airline-costs/ I took a trip a week or two ago up to Scotland, hiking and camping with 4 friends. The concept was simple: walk round the coast of Arran from Brodick to Lochranza via the Goat Fell peak, cross the Kintyre peninsula to Islay, wild camping each night. I'll split this ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/isle-of-arran/ 6 days to go before the Xtreme Terrain Festival and the 10k/24k/5k run/mountain bike/run event I'm taking part in. Spent this morning doing a little bike maintenance, switched my road tyres for off-roads in preparation, and did what probably will be my last training run. I did roughly the equivalent ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/duathlon-training/