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ATBA Round 1 - Screaming Goat

15/04/2013

So another season has dropped with a screaming BAAAAAAAHHH!

After a long drawn out winter, on a sunny Saturday 26 brave riders decended on the trnquil Hampshire hills hoping to tame the Screaming Goat. A freeride style DH track that tests speed control, agility, stanina, decision making and bottle. Despite crossing the finish line white faced and with your heart on overdrive you cant help but go back up for more.

We all found out some times you ride the goat, sometimes the goat rides you!

The competition represents the sort of riding so many of us relish, it was freeriding places like this that made me learn the joy of speed control and drift. Once I had even a basic grasp of these techniques it suddenly opened up so much more terrain and as a rider I grew faster because of it.

Its been a long time coming to have a competition where riders can showcase these skills and show what mountainboards are capable of in this enviroment. I feel we have opened a new chapter in UK DH and I'm so chuffed we had a good turn out, an awesome laugh and minimal injures.

Video to follow soooooon.....

What we do in life echoes in eternity

Words by Harry Jessop

Image by Mark Bronson

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