New BMX Freestyle park in Italy by Hurricane parks. By Tommaso Vian

Mar 15, 2021

Written by Bart de Jong

Read 4803 times

I had the pleasure to spend two days with the Italian freestyle bmx team at their brand new training center in Roncade (TV), housed in the awesome H-Farm campus. The Italian cycling federation, with the figure of the now ex-president Renato di Rocco, worked in synergy with the owner of H-Farm Riccardo Donadon to create, during last year, an unparalleled structure in Italy.

Without chatter, with little or nothing leaked until the opening a week ago, they carried out the construction with the world leaders of Hurricane Parks, builders of the FISE circuit.

The structure is part of a new campus, together with a pumptrack built by Hurricane, already equipped

with spaces for the most diverse sports. It is equipped with step-up, step down, spine ramp, wallride, three removable Resi and everything our guys need to be able to train for the World Cup stages and to host the Italian stage of the World Cup.

The icing on the cake is the agreement signed between the parties to allow the national team to stay in the student dormitory and somehow become part of H-Farm, the most important innovation hub in Europe, where students (from primary to post-graduate education), entrepreneurs, startuppers and professionals meet and contaminate each other.

It can be safely said that for the Italian scene this is an epochal turning point, H-Farm has a vision from which the discipline can only benefit and that will end up attracting many new practitioners, among whom hopefully there will be the champion of the future.

A change of vision, the beginning of a new era in a dark moment, does not seem true.

Yet, it is!

-Tommaso Vian / venicefreestyle.com