Meet the Athertons - MTB Royal Family shred a Quarry

Meet the Athertons, Rachel, Dan and Gee. These guys have made quite the name for themselves on the Downhill World Tour, but when they are on downtime, they like to retire to their sleepy Welsh village, where they happen to have some crazy training areas. Check out the mental lines in this quarry...

Captain Kai's World Podcast - Wavescape Film Festival & Hot Heels Africa 2012

Busy show this week with December upon us and the storm of events hitting. First up were the Downhill Skaters with Justin and Gabi from SAGRA, to talk about this weekend's, Hot Heels Africa, event. Celebrating 10 years, this is our only World Cup event and will see 4 of the World's best battling for the World Title at the final event of the year. It was great to have international stars, Tamara Prader and Patrick Switzer in studio.

Next up was our man of the surf forecast, Spike, from Wavescape. This week the iconic Wavescape Film Festival begins, with films showing at the Brass Bell, The Labia and of course the viewing on Clifton beach this Saturday evening. Wednesday is the Surfboard Art auction and this is well worth attending.

Next week will be very surf orientated with an ASP Judge, Andy Davis from Mahala and hopefully some skype calls from Cali and Hawaii.

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World's Highest Urban MTB Downhill Race - Red Bull Descenso del Condor 2012

The World's highest and possibly most mental Downhill MTB race is back, the Red Bull Descenso del Condor. What an appropriately grand sounding name for such an event, haha. Riders charge down the side of a mountain, that just happens to have a town on it. Climatize yourself with the first video and then open your adrenal floodgates by riding along in Video 2.

Filip Polc wins the Red Bull Descenso del Cóndor, the highest urban downhill race in the world in the Bolivian city of La Paz. An itinerary that started at a height of 4,050 meters above sea level and ended 1.6 kilometers below at 3,600 meters.

Crazy Hand Stand Downhill Run - Guiness World record Attempt

This guy deserves a medal! Hand standing on flat ground is tricky enough, but on a longboard cruising down an open road, that's balls. He absolutely cleans his knees on the dismount, ouch!

Freeride Madness - Red Bull Rampage Top 5 Moments

The World's favorite downhill event returns in October for, Red Bull Rampage 2012. To celebrate they have released a bunch of highlight videos of the biggest open mountain riding event on the planet. Today we look at the Top 5 moments from the previous events...

Freeride Carnage - Red Bull Rampage Top 5 Crashes

The World's most extreme Freeride event, Red Bull Rampage, returns in October 2012. To celebrate Red Bull have started compiling good old fashioned "Top 5'" videos to get the amp on. We start with the Top 5 crashes over the years and believe me, they are pretty dam big crashes...

Dirt Bike Porn - Where the Trail Ends

Watching the trailer I start thinking that I may need to purchase a downhill rig again soon. These guys are seriously pushing the limits of what is possible in Freeriding. These are not many ridden trails on their local hill, but serious mountains in some remote areas of the planet. I cannot wait to watch the full movie.

The Friday Mix - MOD UK, Alana Blanchard Bikini, Shaun White & Downhill MTB

Alana Blanchard makes surfing gorgeous!

For this week's Friday Mix, we have a real mix of sports. We start with FMX and the Masters of Dirt tour of the UK. This really is the world's best FMX show and makes me sad that the Cape Town show was cancelled. This is followed by the a quick teaser of Alana Blanchard, probably the world's hottest surfer. Then take a ride through the Winter XGames Europe, Superpipe, with Gold Medalist, Shaun White. We finish off with a ride down the recent World Cup Downhill course in Pietermaritburg with Red Bull rider, Gee Atherton. Enjoy and hope you ride this weekend!

 

 

Captain Kai's World on www.2ov.fm - Podcast 28

I have to say, the &Union Beers definitely added to the humor on last night's show. Thanks to big wave charger and very funny guy, Frank Solomon, for bringing a case to the show. Myself and Tyrone Rawlins were getting pretty lubricated and having a great laugh at Frank's stories from California, being Gerard Butler's stunt double and all the antics from the North Shore winter. We also brought you the latest from the European Winter XGames, Downhill Mountain Biking World Cup and all the news from the ASP World Tour.

The Bomb Surf Mag did an interview with me yesterday, check it out here - The Bomb Surf Interview

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Check out "Mad" Frank fighting sharks!

Trike Drifting - The new Fad?

We are bombarded with new crazes on a monthly basis and some stick around, while others disappear as fast as they arrived. The latest, fresh from the States is Trike drifting. Travis Pastrana and the Nitro Circus crew made these small kids bikes popular, launching them off big kickers and mega ramps for laughs. Now, some bright spark has had the idea of covering the big back wheels with PVC so that you can slide them, "Drift" around corners. The video makes them look pretty simple to use, but I am not sure about doing this barefoot?

 

Thanks PJ!

Captain Kai's World on www.2OV.fm - Podcasts for Show 12 - The Movember Show

Show 12 and for the first time we broadcasted from outside of the 2 Oceans Vibe studio. In honor of Movember, we were live from Barnet Fair in Bree St, the new, old school Barbers. I was joined by Chris Cab (Who lost his Mo to grow a new one), Paul Snodgrass (Who due to having a role in a TV show could not shave his face, so he got a Tit MO instead.), Stuart Bradburn (World Champion Downhill Skateboarder), Ivo (Uber Tech from Digital Agency, Hello Computer), Louis from Taxi Violence and of course the awesome Movember team! It has to be said that I really enjoyed having a Cut Throat shave for the first time, though it was very traumatic losing my beard after all this time together! The show was dam funny with plenty of laughter and Richard Hardiman running the music and mix. Enjoy!

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Downhill Skating - Made to look easy

Came across this little gem of a video. Kinda made me miss riding hills on my longboard, but then I just remember how painful it is when I come off. Still, great to watch!

Mountain Bike Mayhem!

Crazyness!

Seriously, this guy must have balls of iron! My head took 4 views to try and make sense of this gnarly course. WTF I mean check when he is flying along and nearly kills a dog running in front of him, never mind the psycho drop off later in the run. Cape Town could well do one of these!

Motorbike vs Mountain Bike

This is one of the funnest videos I have seen in quite some time. Well done to the crew at Amped. Gives me such ideas...