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The UK BMX Vert series has been going strong for a few years now. By riders, for riders. The English vert ramps are visited once again in 2015 so if you're up for a halfpipe session with some of the living legends, check out these venues and start practicing now. This is how the schedule looks so far.

The 2015 UK BMX Vert Series Locations
-RD 1 Ramp City, Blackpool Saturday March 21st

GoPro unlocked a host of new features for the HERO4 Black and HERO4 Silver that will amp the performance, capabilities and convenience of the cameras even higher. Run a quick update on your HERO4 software to enable even more dynamic content capture! The new features include:

HERO4 Black and HERO4 Silver
-Time lapse video mode  - Capture Time Lapse videos automatically

360fly, Inc., the category creator in 360 degree digital products, today announced a strategic partnership with professional flatland BMX rider Terry Adams. The partnership allows 360fly to tap into Adams’ creativity and expertise in developing action video content, while providing the brand an extremely relevant and compelling case study to explore and develop the ongoing use of its 360 video in action sports applications.

Prominently considered the “global ambassador of flatland,” Adams

Next to these pro and amateur riders we've heard of some big names coming over to this year's edition of the BRAAAB contest in Eindhoven on 7-8 March. If you want to sign up, you can. Registration is now open to a limited number of riders. € 4000,= Euro pro purse if you wanted to know about that. Check the riders who have signed up already:

Confirmed Pro Riders
-Cam Peake (UK)
-Tobias Freigang (DE)
-Tom van den Bogaard (NB)
-Mike Hendrick (BE)
-Gwen Geyskens (BE)
-Dominik Freigang (DE)
-Ashley Finlay (UK)
-Willem van Gansen (BE)
-Sem Kok (NL)
-Arjan Ellens (NL)
-Kenneth Tancre (BE)

This Sunday the first edition of the Soulcycle F.T.O. will take place at 040BMX park in Eindhoven. BMXers from all of the country (and even some German and Belgium guys) will compete in the first park edition of the  F.T.O. serie. During this first edition you can impress the judges by hitting those giant boxes and vertwalls in the 040BMX park. The second edition will take place at Skateland Rotterdam and for the final edition we are moving to Burnside skatepark, where the crew promised to build

Nick Ziegler is a man who likes to help other people out, especially when they have a BMX background or it involves bikes in one way or the other. Nick likes projects and spends a lot of his free time on making things happen. The BMX family has been helping out which makes the impossible, possible and puts BMX in a good spotlight again. Here's Nick's latest undertaking:

I met a friend online named Robbie Chapman. He used to race

RDV for the first event of the year: VENDEE FREESTYLE SESSION (West of France) from the 6 to 8 February 2015 in the Vendéespace in the town of Mouilleron le Captif for an awesome show. One park will stay in indoor and a  BMX contest will be open in 3 categories: Junior / Vendeen Talent and Open category.

Pro confirmed Riders list:
-Tom Justice (Grande Bretagne)
-Istvan Caillet (France)

Congrats to all the lucky winners in the FOX Gloves x FATBMX campaign. May you enjoy your grippy FOX gloves on your upcoming BMX sessions. Thanks to FOX for setting it up as we like to keep our FATBMX visitors stoked on not only the site, but the products of our sponsors as well. If you go to the FOX website, you can see that the jackets are on sale now. Sometimes up to 50% off the regular price. You can order straight from the website with delivery to your door. Got that

The 2015 Mandurah action sports games are now underway and are set to take place on the 13th - 15th march 2015. There is $20000 prize purse for the skatepark competition with the bmx share listed below. If you're in need for some cash and you think you've got it to make some money riding your bike, the Mandurah action sports games will be the place to be for you that weekend in March. It will be good to see 10 vert riders on the deck as well as the first ten riders get paid the same as the first ten riders in park. Or enter both!