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Navigation Search Content Other Mpora SitesAs many of you will already know, the UCI BMX World Championships are coming to Birmingham next year for what organisers promise will be the biggest and best BMX show in 2012, and tickets are now on sale at bmxworldchamps.co.uk. The event, which takes place at Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena (NIA) from May 24th-27th, will [...]
Whitelines and Mpora have teamed up with EA Sports’ new snowboard game SSX Tricky and Sno!Zone to try and break the world record for the longest rail slide ever on a snowboard! It’s a record that’s currently held by a Spanish rider in the Madrid snowdome so we’re intending to bring the trophy and accolade [...]
This may need some explaining just so you guys don’t have the image of a weird inflatable gimp suit that’s been designed to help Kelly Slater and his mates from drowning, but wouldn’t look out of place in a fetish bar. The phrase ‘inflatable wetsuit’ is a bit of a stretch as it’s a wetsuit [...]
With the advent of DSLRs and smart phones capable of high-definition 1080p footage, we’ve come a long way since William Lincoln first patented his “moving wheel” of images back in 1867. Day in day out the MPORA team are being blown away by the work of young action sports filmmakers, whether it’s a highly polished [...]
For the first time ever, we’ll be presenting a livestream of the Telekom Extreme Playgrounds. It’s the fifth anniversary of the event and it’ll be streamed live from Berlin so if you aren’t able to make it, Mpora is going to be your home! When November 20th, 11am hits, you’ll be able to watch pretty [...]
Collabs are the rage these days and in snowboarding it’s as ripe as a summer apple. You’ll see collabs everywhere between riders, companies, film crews, pretty much anyone. And this story is the epitome of all collabs, but it also goes to show how much reach snowboarding has these days. 686 and SCION Racing have [...]
Every shiny new toy that we get our hands on is always welcomed in this office and this week’s shiny new toy comes in the form of ‘The Drive‘. Haven’t heard about it? Well, you’re about to read something special then… The idea behind the drive is simple. Put together 5 of Europe’s top skate [...]
With snowboarding and general nerds in the same office, this news was always going to cause a little bit of noise. I’m pretty much in the middle of this as I like snowboarding and I like Star Wars. You’d be pretty hard pushed to find someone who doesn’t like Star Wars these days so this [...]
“Kelly Slater is the greatest surfer of all time.” It’s a strong statement I know and I’ve only put it in speech marks as it makes it more like I heard someone say it, but they didn’t. I wrote it. But as a quote goes, what do you think? Do you agree? Think of it [...]
The world of Facebook is sometimes an ingenious thing and sometimes it’s not. This time, it IS one of those ingenious things. O’Neill have created a new competition that involves you, your mobile number and the possibility of winning a holiday, aptly called O’Neill Destination. It’s all a bit vague right now but keep reading [...]