Top 10 Track Days

Aaron    Experience Guides     experiences, extreme sports, Ferrari Driving, Goodwood, Lamborghini Driving, Silverstone, Track Days, Track Experiences

The UK’s Track Driving Venues are reopening soon, so here’s our top 10 ‘Must Drives’ for this season!

To celebrate the reopening of the UK’s circuits for driving experiences, we have given some care and attention to our track driving menu and navigation – making it much easier to find your perfect track day or birthday gift. It’s easy to get lost for choice with the huge range available, so here is our top 10 based on ratings, tickets sold and overall quality! With so many supercars at so many circuits including Silverstone and Goodwood – it’s not easy to find the perfect experience to realise those childhood dreams…so allow us to help!
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Top 10 Best Selling Christmas Gifts

Aaron    Experience Guides     Bungee, Bungee Jumping, experiences, extreme sports, Indoor Skydiving, quad biking, Tandem Skydive, ZapCats, zorbing sphereing

The Christmas Rush well under way and the majority of vouchers flying out of the office here are leaving with merry messages for the festive period…

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Top 10 Under £50 Early Bird Christmas Gift Ideas

Aaron    Experience Guides     4x4 Driving, Bungee, Bungee Jumping, experiences, extreme sports, mountain boarding, quad bi, quad biking, Snow Experiences, zapcat racing

Here is our Early Bird preview at the top recommended Christmas gifts for under £50 this year. A great range of gifts spanning the many terrains of Britain!

As the mad rush of the Christmas shopping gets underway, we realise that finding the perfect gift really isn’t easy. That’s why we’ve whittled down our Christmas Specials page to this great Top Ten list for under £50, hopefully minimising your head scratching time and giving you a fine choice of what to spoil your adrenaline seeker with this Christmas. With great 2for1’s and other tasty discounts, you’ll even be able to join in their fun and go along with them! All of that for under £50… sounds like the perfect gift to us!

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What to do With the Kids? – Keeping Them Entertained this Summer!

Aaron    Experience Guides     4x4 Driving, experiences, extreme sports, helicopter flights, High Ropes, Jet Skiing, kayaking, land-boarding, motocross, mountain boarding, quad biking, skydiving, Snow Experiences, track driving, wake boarding, water sports, zorbing sphereing

Keeping them Entertained is as easy as A, T, B…

This guide displays some of the great activities we have for taking the kids out for the day, be it to join in or get rid; you’ll find a great selection of best sellers, best enjoyed and best priced activities for the young’uns!

The summer holidays provide a challenging conundrum for parents and children alike, with the exhausting strain of six weeks worth of entertainment hitting the stress levels and purse strings hard.

Kids are also encapsulated in the utter joy of being off school for nearly 2 months, combined with a new found boredom for their inactive minds.

Well, how does one keep them entertained and busy for 6 weeks without breaking the bank? Send them to bootcamp? Send them out to earn themselves a few extra pennies?

Well one tried and tested method of keeping them entertained is to ignite a passion or a new hobby. The enthralling nature of spending all day perfecting a trick or learning a new technique – be it on wheels or their backside; is guaranteed to keep them occupied and happy this summer.

However, the allowance of such activities is a precarious situation for any parent; too much encouragement and they won’t do it – too little and they may resort to moping around all summer draining your resources!

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Pro Diaries: Katie Summerhayes – Interview – Freestyle Skiing

Aaron    The Professional's Arena     bristish freeski tour, experiences, extreme sports, freestyle skiing, grom games, junioe skiing, katie summerhayes, skier, skiing, Snow Experiences

We managed to catch up with this year’s Grom Games champion Katie Summerhayes for a quick chat, and to discuss how budding young skiers can get into the Skiing and Freestyle Skiing from a young age.

Hi Katie, thanks for speaking to us today. So, how long have you been Skiing for now?

Hey, no worries! I’ve been skiing for around 8 years now.

What exactly is Freestyle Skiing?

Well, Freestyle is a type of skiing that involves skiing off jumps, rails and on half pipes – performing as many ticks as possible! Skiing on rails and kickers takes good balance and a lot of practice, but is well worth it when you perfect a trick!

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Extreme Sports Guide to Buckinghamshire

Aaron    Destination Guides     4x4 Driving, experiences, extreme sports, gliding, Jet Skiing, motocross, skydiving, Snow Experiences, wake boarding, water skiing, water sports, zorbing sphereing

The county of Buckinghamshire is enriched with many claims to fame inside the UK, stretching across the first ‘real’ snow slope, the first Indoor Skydiving centre and the most successful Olympian to ever walk Blighty’s soil; Sir Steve Redgrave.

Wakeboarding in Buckinghamshire

The South East County is similar to its bordering county of Berkshire and its neighbour Surrey in that it falls easy on the eye with a dense population of woodland and countryside, and is also situated around 45 minutes away from Central London. The picturesque county has a wide range of activities and unique experiences to make a weekend visit out of, including those taken on water – as the county encompasses two of the three largest rivers in the UK.

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Pro Diaries: Dave Compton – Interview – UK Freestyle Mountain Boarding

Aaron    The Professional's Arena     ATB, experiences, extreme sports, mountain boarding, Mountain Boarding Championships, Surrey

Theo Acworth's Photography of Dave Compton

Dave Compton is part of the RTH team performing at this year’s Exclusive Mountain Boarding Day.

Hi Dave, thanks for talking to us today. So what exactly is Freestyle Mountain Boarding and what do the competitions consist of?

Hey there, no probs. Freestyle Mountain Boarding is probably most similar to Freestyle Snowboarding, as your feet are strapped to the board. Freestyle used to be run on one big-air jump, with the best single trick winning; but now Slopestyle courses are used a lot more, with a line of jumps, rails and quarter pipes.

Winning runs nowadays will have huge flips and spins, technical rail tricks, and most importantly good style throughout the whole thing. A lot of the recent competitions have been run in a Jam format, where everyone can drop in for their run when they want, instead of on a timer by the organisers. Jams are brilliant fun because they end up being a lot more creative and progressive, and usually less stressful for the riders as well.

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Exclusive Central London Bungee – 2010

Aaron    Experience Guides     Bungee, Bungee Jumping London, experiences, extreme sports, London Bungee

September 26^th & 27^th 2009 was a record breaking weekend for Bungee Jumping. Having successfully jumped 297 brave bungee’rs; we proudly took the record for the most ever in one weekend!

Tower Bridge Jump 2009

However, ‘Resting on Laurels’ isn’t in the Extreme Element dictionary unfortunately, so this year we’ll be going flat out to make it bigger, better and bungee brilliant as we aim to leave last year’s memory behind with an even more marvellous weekend!

Now that the summer is slowly creeping up on us and the sun is shining, it’s time to fire up the London crane again and prepare for another fantastic weekend of sun, scenery and shots of adrenaline as we announce the dates for London’s only bungee jump of 2010.

September 25^th& 26^th 2010 – Don’t miss it!

Check the photos from last year here

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Pro Diaries: Lewis Wilby – Interview – Flexifoil – Landboarding

Aaron    The Professional's Arena     Devon, experiences, extreme sports, mountain boarding

Hi Lewis, thanks for taking the time to talk to us today. What exactly is Landboarding and what do the competitions consist of?

Lewis Wilby, Landboarding

Hi there, no problem at all. Well, ‘Kite-Landboarding’ is as it sounds; using the wind to power a large kite (between 3 – 20metres) which then allows you to be pulled around on an oversized skateboard. There are three main categories in competition; racing, speed and the most common form – freestyle. The freestyle competitions can be compared to a Snowboard or Skateboard competition; the rider who lands the most impressive/ innovative range of tricks (usually as high and smooth as possible) within a set time limit will come out on top and win.

So, how did you get involved in board sports?

I started Power Kiting in 2002 when I was 13 as my younger brother had just recently started, and it was through him I had my first go on a Flexifoil Proteam 8. I knew instantly it was the sport for me and quickly became addicted. I bought my first board later that year and within hours I was practicing jumps! I quickly progressed and was in magazines the next year before competing in the X-Zone Autumn Games in 2004 and have just continued practicing and competing since!

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Pro Diaries: James Boulding – Liquid Force International Team – Kitesurfing

Aaron    The Professional's Arena     cornwall, Devon, experiences, extreme sports, kitesurfing

An interview with Liquid Force International Team’s James Boulding. Recommendations of the UK’s best places, how to get started and a bit about his Kitesurfing adventure so far.

Hi James, thanks for taking the time to talk to us today. So what exactly is Freestyle Kitesurfing?

James Boulding of Liquid Force

Hi there, no problem! Well, Kitesurfing is an awesome sport that uses a big kite to harness the power of the wind and a board to resist this power, providing a pull that drags you across the water. The sport is now branching out in many directions, including wave riding, powered Wakeboard style (on ramps & sliders) and Freestyle, which is as it states; free to do tricks and ride in any style, on flat water.

What made you start and how old were you?

I got into the sport when I was 18 years old, during my last year at school. I pursued it as a hobby throughout my time at Newcastle University, and I’d say it became an addiction read more