Saturday the 17th of May, Adrenaline Alley Skate Park in Corby played host to this year’s first round of the 24seven Filthy 48 Tour. The day started of good as I had only ever ridden this skate park once before. It was the day after a tiring photo shoot, so I was pretty knackered.

This time I had a few days rest before so got there nice and early to work out what I was going to do for the competition later on in the day. Over the winter I had been riding an indoor skate park, as the weather had been bad I couldn’t ride my usual dirt jumps.

This really helped in the event as a lot of the obstacles were similar to my local indoor park. I’ve also grown up riding skate parks and learnt a lot of my tricks this way so that helped me to.

Riders of all abilities turned up to ride the event. It attracted a lot of riders around the area as it is one of few events that allow mountain bike riders and BMX riders to compete in the same event for the same prize.

The competition was split into four rounds of five riders. They rode in a ten minute jam session throwing all there tricks, trying to show the judges why they should be picked for the final. Loads of big tricks were thrown down including 360 double tailwhip, 720 and a barrel roll x-up over the jump box. The final round again showed some great riding including backflip tailwhips and 360 whips.

Make sure to be at the next stop of the 24seven Filthy 48 tour: Chicksands June 28th