Oh my! What a competition we have for you! The unbelievably generous folk at Relentless NASS 2010 are letting us give away a pair of weekend tickets to the action sports / music festival. You and your bezzy mate can head down to Relentless NASS 2010 on the 9th – 11th July by answering the following easy question…
We’re pleased to announced we’ll be covering the awesomeness over at this years Relentless NASS Festival 2010. With world class BMX, World Cup Skateboarding, FMX and inlining there isn’t a more jaw-dropping extreme sports festival in the UK. Pack that out with some excellent live music from Bowling for Soup, Chase & Status Live, Plan B, Tinie Tempah, Crazy Arm, Failsafe and Ghost of a Thousand and you’re onto a winning weekend all round.
You’ll be able to read reviews of our favourite bands and sickest tricks from our favourite riders and skaters.
Were you at Relentless NASS 2009? Tell us about your own personal highlight! Did you rock out to N.E.R.D and did you catch the Horse Boarding and Roller Derby?
Last Month, Motion Skatepark in Bristol hosted a one of a kind event entitled “HogJam”. The one day event included A BMX jam including pro and amateur competitions, live graffiti, B-boys and DJ sets all day and night, not to mention a mouth watering Hog Roast!!
Our lovely Fran caught up with Mitch Yeates, who was the main instigator and chief organiser of HogJam.
How long have you been organizing Hogjam for?
I started organizing HogJam at the start of the month, a pretty tight deadline but we had the date set as it was Tom’s birthday. Which was also the inspiration for the name Hogjam.
How did you think the day went?
It went well, I was pleased with the turn out especially as it was my first event. I think the lack of time was a big issue in putting the event together not only for planning the event but also in letting people know it was happening. It was a great great learning experience and there a lot of things I feel I can do better next time.
What’s your background bike wise?
I’ve been riding BMX for about 10 years now. In 2005 I joined Simple BMX and I also ride for Duffs.
What are your plans for the future and hogfest?
We are holding the NASS Pre party at Motion so i will run a bmx contest on that day but it will probably have a new name.
To keep track of future events or to get in touch with Mitch, head on over to Motion Skatepark site
I’m not the biggest skater or bmx’er, but like everyone I jumped on the bandwagon and got addicted to Tony Hawk on the PS1 (mainly due to the cracking soundrack), so have always a glancing interest in both extreme sports.
So I was watching the Best of Nass on channel 4, about a week ago which featured some fantastic tricks and displayed some of the best riders and skaters of the last few years. In 2006, to top off the weekend, Nass put on 2 of the big guns of Skateboarding and Bmxing – Matt Hoffman and Tony Hawk, and they performed a magical stunt together, which sent the crowd crazy! So just thought I’d post a clip of it…
ALSO For those who don’t know Nass 2009 happened this weekend, and it featured some of the best in skateboarding, BMX, freestyle moto-x and inline skating as well as a world class music bill over the three days. Bands including NERD, CKY, Zane Lowe, SHY FX and the King Blues.