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Clinton Tudor just launched his BMX racing specific website featuring over 2 years of his personal and professional journey into the sport from New Zealand. Clinton has been a contributor to FATBMX for over a year and makes excellent stuff. He's been racing BMX himself for over 15 years to he knows the ins and outs about the sport.

At times, our worries and anxieties can overwhelm us. In addition, our worries can distort our perception of what is reality and what is not. As a result, this may interfere with your performance. Here is a brief list of techniques that a BMX athlete can use to help gain a better perspective on things during their anxious moments. Sometimes we get stressed out when everything happens all at once. When this happens, a person should take a deep breath and try to find something to do for a few minutes to get their mind off of the problem. A person could read the newspaper, listen to some music or do an activity that will give them a fresh perspective on things. This is a great technique to use right before your next event.

Remember that our fearful thoughts are exaggerated and can make the problem worse. A good way to manage your worry is to challenge your negative thinking with positive statements and realistic thinking. When encountering thoughts that make you fearful or anxious, challenge those 

Haaksbergen is from 7 July – 10 July the proud host of the #11 & #12 Final Rounds of this season’ UEC European Championship BMX. The Dutch offer you the opportunity to visit an event which is going to be talked about for many years. Our focus is on sport experience and to make sure everyone gets a good view two massive stands will arise around the track with a capacity for 4250 BMX fans.

Two large LED screens will make sure that every jump will catch

Laura Smulders, rider for the Team MeyBo/Bensink BMX Gates, has won Rond 9 and 10 from the European Championships in the junior woman category. In Birmingham, England, she showed being the best in her age-group at the moment. In the elite men category we saw a strong Rihards Veide. The MeyBo/Bensink BMX Gates Team went tot the EC Rounds in England with nine riders. All elite riders – Arurs Matissons, Toon Jacobs, Rihards Veide and Kristers Taims – reached the quarter final on Saturday, but were than 

After last months hectic racing schedule it has been so nice to have some relax time in America. I love coming to the ABA BMX races in America. It is good to mix up the schedule a bit, get some different races in, catch up with friends and the atmosphere is always great. There was about 230 heats of racing and roughly 1000 riders entered. My 1st few laps on the track I was hating the uphill 1st straight sprint to the 1st jump. Although over the weekend I managed to block it out and my legs got used to it.