BMX Lake Jumping World Championships

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Shuvlbmx in association with Boicott and Deluxe present the BMX Lake Jumping World Championships. This event is going to be the real deal. Both a woman, and a man will be crowned World Lake Jumping Champions.

Yes, this is on site.

Venue: Mountains, trees, a rocky beach, and a beautiful lake await the riders who dare this dangerous event. This is not going to be your regular dock to quarter pipe type event. The beach allows expert course designers a 100′+ downhill design with banked turns, and a jump or two before you and your bicycle are thrown into the Kooteney Lake. The jump itself will be large, some, may even call it unjumpable, until that World Champion steps forward and throws down the trick of the century.

Scoring Criteria:

  • Good Form and Execution: A cyclist should always look as though he/she is in complete control, even when performing the most difficult of tricks. Good form in a cyclist includes style, straight arms and legs, and a tightness throughout the body. Every movement should look planned.
  • Strength Moves Held Long Enough: In the air, the cyclist must stay in position for 2 seconds on each strength move.
  • Height and Distance: In projection from the launch ramp, the cyclist should look as if he is exploding off the apparatus.
  • A Stuck Landing: Upon projection the cyclist should end with a “stuck landing” — he/she should not let go of the bars, or dive perfectly into the water.
  • Uniqueness of the Routine: A great cyclist will perform a run that looks different from the rest. It will have something special about it — risky tricks, an artistic flare, or a special costume that are simply unique from others cyclists in the competition.

Location: Kaslo, which is a short 20 min drive from the venue boasts beautiful scenery, and a large venue jazz festival on the August long weekend. Tickets can be purchased here . Ainsworth hot  springs are about a 5 min drive where a $10 entry will bring you into the natural caves that these unique hot springs have to offer.

Entry: Riders are required to pay a $10 entry fee, that is fully paid back into the course for the event. Waivers must be signed before entry upon the concourse.

Additional Info: Camping and a bathroom are on site, but there are no showers or other facilities. Lake jumping bikes will be provided for riders.

If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments.

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Shiticane 500…update

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Almost Done

We’ve got a bunch of rain in the past week, so we’ve been focusing on some jumps past this berm with the moisture….but it finally dried up enough that we weren’t digging slop. Anyways, the Shiticane 500 is due for testing as soon as the sun comes out. Can’t wait.

Any other 360 or 540 berms? put links in the comments if so.

Sorry for the BRUTAL photos….better then nothing?

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Weekend Edit.

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Threw something together from the weekend. Show’s the line pretty well….

Richard Gallant is a monster. More to come. Check ShuVLBMX for more awesome sh*t.

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Lucky Trails

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Austin beside the lip and RIchard rolling the landing

Glass, concrete, car parts, bricks, and more garbage then you can believe. We have come across some terrible shit when digging. The absolute worst has to be 1.5m x .75m wide concrete slabs that we come across…the last one took 5 guys.

F U C O N C R E T E

Every single drop of sweat is worth it to me. Riding any jump for the first time is awesome, and the feeling you get when you guinea pig it is even better. Sometimes it takes that push from someone else to put the shovel down and ride the mainline that you’ve been building for 2 months. We started March 1, 2010 and on May 1, 2010 we rode the first 2 jumps of mainline, and we didn’t really know if it was going to work perfect. It’s easy to say that there was some disbelief that anything would “work” at Lucky; it wasn’t jumps in a straight line for them, I don’t think we really have a straight jump yet… it will come, and so will the satellite dish .

Ninja stance shovel fight

Seeds are being planted, wheelbarrows are being fixed, and dirt is piling. 2 months in, and it’s great to have trails after 2 years of nothing. Chucky Bones , is in our distant past, it was torn down by the Province of Alberta 2 years ago, going into it’s 5th summer.

Lucky is working. People are contributing, arguing, building, and learning…the whole process starts again.

Saturday we rode main line, and it worked perfect. Once the landings get rock hard (we have very little, if any clay…yet) everything will work just fine. Everyone’s been diggin together for a while now…some up to 15 years, so HERE’S to 5 more years in the woods. For more posts and other random BMX stuff check out ShuVLBMX.

Lucky Trails

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