Mountainboarding, also known as Dirtboarding, Offroad Boarding, and All-Terrain Boarding (ATB), is a well establishedWall Street Journal, April 16th 1998 if little-known action sport, derived from

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. This was initially pioneered by James Stanley during a visit in the 1900s to the Matterhorn where snow was not available. A mountainboard is made up of

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including a deck, bindings to secure the rider to the deck, four

wheels A wheel is a circular component that is intended to rotate on an axle bearing. The wheel is one of the key components of the wheel and axle which is one of the six simple machines. Wheels, in conjunction with axles, allow heavy objects to b ...

with pneumatic

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, and two steering mechanisms known as

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. Mountainboarders, also known as riders, ride specifically designed boardercross tracks,

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parks, grass hills, woodlands, gravel tracks, streets, skateparks, ski resorts,

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courses and mountain bike trails. It is this ability to ride such a variety of terrain that makes mountainboarding different from other board sports.

History

Origins

Morton Hellig's 'Supercruiser Inc.' was the first company to

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and

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the 'All Terrain Dirtboard', patented in 1989. Mountainboarding (name coined by Jason Lee) began in the UK, the United States and Australia in 1992. Unknown to each other, riders from other

boardsport Boardsports are active outdoor sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment. These sports take place on a variety of terrain, from paved flat-ground and snow-covered hills to water and air. Most boardsports are considere ...

s started to design and build, and eventually manufacture boards that could be ridden

off-road Off-roading is the activity of driving or riding in a vehicle on unpaved surfaces such as sand, gravel, riverbeds, mud, snow, rocks, and other natural terrain. Types of off-roading range in intensity, from leisure drives with unmodified vehicl ...

. This desire to expand the possible

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that a boarder can ride created the

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of Mountainboarding.

United Kingdom

Dave and Pete Tatham, Joe Inglis and Jim Aveline, whilst looking for an off-season alternative to

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and

, began designing boards that could be ridden down hills. Inglis developed initial

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s, and in 1992 noSno was started. Extensive research and development produced the noSno truck system which enabled the boards to be steered and remain stable at high speeds. NoSno boards utilised snowboard bindings and boots, with large tyres for rough ground, and the option for a hand-operated

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United States

In 1992, after having snowboarded at

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in Northern

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, friends Jason Lee, Patrick McConnell and Joel Lee went looking for an alternative for the summer season. Not finding anything suitable they co-founded MountainBoardSports (MBS) in 1993 to build boards that they could use to carve down hills. The original MBS boards, known as 'Frame Boards' had a small wooden deck metal posts to hold the rider's feet, a tubular metal frame connecting trucks which used springs to enable steering and thus create the carving sensation that the MBS co-founders were looking for. The first recorded mountainboarding act occurred in the summer of 1978, when local skateboarder Mike Motta residing in Medford Massachusetts navigated down a hill known as Seven Bumps in Malden Massachusetts on a bet, using a standard Franklin skateboard.

Australia

John Milne developed a three-wheeled version of a mountainboard in 1992 in his spare time during periods of very poor surf. It used a unique steering system to emulate surfing on land. It had three wheels and a skate-style deck with no bindings.

Mid-to-late nineties

From the early days of invention there has always been a

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element in mountainboarding. Encompassing racing, freestyle and downhill, competitions have been organised in the USA since 1993 and in the UK since 1997. In the same year the ATBA-UK (All Terrain Boarding Association), the national

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for mountainboarding in the UK was born. As a non-profit making organisation it represented and promoted the sport by putting riders interests first, promoting safety, sanctioning events, providing training, and sourcing funding to put on the ATBA-UK National Series, an annual series of competitions. The competitions did much to promote the sport and in 1998 mountainboarding had an estimated participation of over 1 million athletes worldwide. The components evolved, and the sport continued to grow. MBS developed the open heel binding, the channel truck, the "eggshock" and the reverse V Brake system and sold boards in around 30 countries worldwide. In 1998 Maxtrack started distributing MBS mountainboards in the UK and Europe.

Future

As of recent there have been some powered mountain boards gaining traction in the board enthusiast world. Small gas or electric motors attached to allow for mountainboarding to be done on flat ground or to climb hills rather than just going downhill. Many DIY electric mountainboard builders are constantly developing new drivetrains for their boards with electric motors, rivaling the power of small motorcycles, becoming the norm.

Equipment

Board components

Deck

Mountainboard decks are the part that most of the components are attached to, and provide the base for the rider to stand on. They are generally from 90–110 cm in length, and can be made from a range of construction methods and materials. For example, high specification boards may be made from

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and

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s, possibly with a

wood Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin ...

en core, similarly made to a snowboard deck. Basic decks are generally made using laminated wood pressed into shape, comparable to a longboard deck with larger dimensions and a different shape. There are variable characteristics such as flex, weight, shape, length and tip angle that can be catered for in custom or stock boards from a variety of manufacturers.

Trucks

Trucks are the components made up of a hanger, damping and/or spring system, and

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s which attach the

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s to the deck. They also have the mechanisms required to allow the board to turn.

= Skate trucks

Skate trucks have a rigid axle and a top hanger, with a single bolt and bushings, also called rubbers or

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s, that provide the cushion mechanism for turning the mountainboard. The bushings cushion the truck when it turns. The stiffer the bushings, the more resistant the mountainboard is to turning. The softer the bushings, the easier it is to turn. A bolt called a kingpin holds these parts together and fits inside the bushings. Thus by tightening or loosening the kingpin nut, the trucks can be adjusted loosely for better turning and tighter for more control. Skate-style mountainboard trucks are similar to skateboard trucks but more robust and with a longer axle.

= Channel trucks

Channel trucks are common on mountainboards, and are made up of an axles mounted to the truck bottom piece, which is suspended from a top hanger by a kingpin. They are mounted to the deck using nuts and bolts through the hanger part, on an angle, (usually 35 °). When the board is tilted laterally the axles turn together to angle the wheels in the direction of the turn. Two

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s sometimes known as "egg shocks" are mounted between the hanger and the axle housing on each truck to provide resistance to the lean of the rider during turning. Springs are mounted in the same place with the dampers inside them. Mountainboardshockandspring

The 'shocks' present in channel trucks are there to dampen the turning system, and help reduce the

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of the trucks on the board commonly described as

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. The springs are there to return the deck to centre after a turn has been performed, neither are there to provide

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between the deck and axles. They have a kingpin that can't move vertically which prevents this. Also, the effectiveness of springs as employed in current (2009) channel truck designs is open to debate. In a "Coil over Oil" shock, the extension of the spring is dampened as well as contraction. In a channel truck design, this is not the case as the damper sits freely inside the spring—therefore only contraction is dampened, not extension. This means that when a spring ceases to be under load and extends, it can extend past the equilibrium point.

= NoSno trucks

= NoSno trucks use two 'kingpin'-type bolts to create a floating

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, an axle with a plate into which the bolts go, an angled base plate that attaches to the deck, and

bushings to dampen the turn. The amount of turn available in the trucks can be adjusted by tightening the bolts or by using bushings of different

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. A similar design was adopted by Howla Mountainboards for the limited time that they manufactured boards.

Bindings

Bindings involve adjustable straps that hold the rider on to the board while allowing room to move their feet. *Snowboard bindings *Ratchet-strap bindings *Velcro Bindings *Bar-Bindings *Heelstraps

Wheels

Wheels are made up of plastic or metal hubs and pneumatic tires ranging in size of 8–13 inches. The 8" wheel has evolved into the best choice for

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riding, and also an all purpose wheel for general riding. Larger wheels (generally 9" and 10") are more useful to the downhill rider; granting the rider access to high-speed runs and more stability when travelling at speed.

Tyres

Various tyres have been made available by different mountainboard manufacturers, giving riders a choice of tire specifications. For example, the thickness of the tyre is variable between tyres, usually either 2 or 4 ply. 2 ply tyres are lighter, but more susceptible to punctures than 4 ply tyres. There is a variety of tread patterns available, ranging from street slicks to deep tread designed for maximum grip with split center beads to channel water away.

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and

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is also variable.

Brakes

Brakes are generally reserved for big mountain riding where riders need an increased ability to control their speed over long runs. The brakes are most usually attached to both front wheels of the mountainboard rather than the rear to give greater braking efficiency and reduce the chances of the rear wheels locking up and skidding. They are operated via a hand-held lever which when pulled causes both brake mechanisms to work simultaneously. There are four types of brakes used on mountainboards: ;Mechanical drum brakes :Those brakes use brake drums attached to the wheel with the 5 wheel-screws (Scrub). They are cheap and brake rigidly but get extremely hot and tend to melt the plastic hub. Good emergency brakes only, not any good for long steep hills. There is currently no heat resistant hub where they would attach to, which could however be easily made of e.g. alloy. ;Hydraulic Disc Brakes :Hydraulic disc brakes use rotors attached to the hubs with hydraulically operated brake mechanisms that force ceramic pads against the rotors to effect braking. Advantages include high braking power and reliability. Disadvantages include cost, vulnerability of the discs, heat build up, and weight. ;Hydraulic Rim Brakes :Hydraulic Rim Brakes use the hub, or preferably, a bolt on metal disc as the braking surface for hydraulically operated brake mechanisms that push polyurethane blocks against the braking surface. Advantages include good braking power, and good modulation. Disadvantages include possible damage to bearings. ;Cable-pull 'V' Brakes :Cable-pull 'V' Brakes also use the hub or metal discs as a braking surface. The hand operated lever pulls a metal cable to push polyurethane blocks against the braking surface. Advantages include low cost, low weight, and easy installation and maintenance. Disadvantages include low braking power, and the need to be regularly adjusted.

Protections

Mountainboarders wear a range of protective equipment while riding. *

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- are designed to protect the wearer's head from falls and damage to the brain. There are two types; full-face, which provides more protection to the wearer, and open face, which provides greater

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for the wearer. *Wristguards - are designed to protect the wearer's wrists from impacts. They come in two types, gloves and wrap-arounds, but both include plastic splints which prevent the wearers wrists from bending backwards during a fall and protect the palms against cuts and grazes. *

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- are designed to protect the wearer's elbows from impact during falls. Sometimes forearm guards are incorporated into the elbow pads. *

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- are designed to protect the wearer's knees from impact during falls. *Padded Shorts - are designed to protect the wearer's hips,

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, and buttocks from impact during falls. *Body Armour - is designed to protect the wearer's upper body,

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s, shoulders and back from impact during falls.

Disciplines

Mountainboarding consists of four main disciplines:

Downhill (DH)

Timed one-man descents. Usually relatively long courses (1 km+) in the

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. Sometimes referred to as big mountain.

Boardercross (BoarderX, BX)

Two to four-man

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on a specifically designed track.

Freestyle (FS)

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: Performing tricks on a slopestyle course consisting of multiple jumps, rails and innovative features. *Big Air: Performing tricks including grabs, spins and inverts over jumps. *Jibbing: Similar to

except with the focus on smaller more technical features such as rails, quarterpipes, drops and smaller kickers.

Freeriding (FR)

Non-competitive riding over a range of natural terrain including

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Similar Sports

Similar all terrain boardsports include

Dirtsurfing Dirtsurfing is the sport of riding a Dirtsurfer brand inline board. This new Australian boardsport is correctly known as inline boarding because Dirtsurfer is a trademark protected brand name. A Dirtsurfer is composed of an aircraft aluminium ...

and

Kiteboarding Kiteboarding or kitesurfing is a sport that involves using wind power with a large power kite to pull a rider across a water, land, or snow surface. It combines aspects of paragliding, surfing, windsurfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and wak ...

Crossover Sports

Skateboarding Skateboarding is an action sport originating in the United States that involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, an entertainment industry job, and a method of transportation ...

Streetboarding A Snakeboard, also known as streetboard, or pivotboard is a board that was invented in South Africa in 1989 by James Fisher, Simon King and Oliver Macleod Smith. The concept was to fuse the original skateboard with elements of snowboarding and s ...

Surfing Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitable ...

Snowboarding Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic ...

Wakeboarding Wakeboarding is a water sport in which the rider, standing on a wakeboard (a board with foot bindings), is towed behind a motorboat across its wake and especially up off the crest in order to perform aerial maneuvers. A hallmark of wakeboardin ...

Mountain biking Mountain biking is a sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, usually using specially designed mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and pe ...

* Sandboarding *

* Grassboarding *

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Media

The following are some of the numerous publications Mountain Boarding has had in various news media outlets and other media, including for the annual Mountain Board US Open in Snowmass and the Twighlight Showdown Mountainboard Championships.

Historical Magazines

*Off-Road Boarding Magazine founded in '99 with its editor Brian Bishop and other dedicated riders. It ran numerous pictorials, US riding spots, rider profiles and carried virtually no ads. It started small, and was given away at comps and shops. The last issue of the mag was printed in full color and a new name "Mountainboard Magazine". The new title was later adopted by a UK publisher. *All Terrain Boarding Magazine aka ATBMag: The longest running, 4 years, and only Mountainboard magazine to make it onto mainstream newsagent shelves. Distributed worldwide it ran to 39 copies and one photo album featuring the work of Paul Taylor. ATBMag was also responsible for the creation of the World Freestyle Championships, running it for the first 2 years. It also created the World Series, taking place in 12 countries. ATBmag sponsored a team of riders, who were later sponsored by EXIT. The team featured Tom Kirkman, Laurie Kaye, Alex Downie, Oli Morrison, Arno Van Den Vejver, Ig Wilkinson, Jack Chew and Tuai Lovejoy. 2005 saw the team take to Europe and ride in 7 countries following the World Series Tour. In 2006 the magazine made its final issue. * Scuz Mountainboarding Zine was first published in July 2004 as a paid-for magazine, however subsequent issues were published and distributed for free both as a printed hardcopy version and on the internet as a downloadable PDF. It was announced in October 2006 that issue twelve would be the final issue. *Mountainboard Magazine was produced by the same people who created scuz, and it was re-branded to suit changing trends in mountainboarding, and a cover charge was introduced to help pay for the costs involved in producing the magazine as the advertising featured was sufficient. Only one issue was ever printed. *Mountainboarding Video Magazine (MVM) The only video mag to showcase mountain boarding from around the world. This publication only made nine issues, co-produced and edited by Justin Rhodes, Van DeWitt, and Brett Dooley. *UKATB ran for 6 years between 2000 and 2006 and was the first website to feature in-depth advice and tips from board maintenance to ramp building and trick tips. At its peak the site attracted over 10 000 unique visitors a month.

Movies

* Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board is the 70th Disney Channel Original Movie and is the sequel to the 1999 film ''Johnny Tsunami''. Its popularity encouraged people to take interest in the extreme sport.

TV

*Mountainboard Aux Saisies TV coverage of the 2009 noSno World Downhill Championships, from the French TV channel Savoie ACTU. *History Channel. The history of extreme sport on the History Channel. Featuring Mountainboarding and many other board sports. *They Think It's All Over. Pete and Dave Tatham from noSno taking part in "Guess the sportsman" on BBC's sports comedy program "They think it's all over" *Park City TV: What is Mountainboarding? The Utah DirtStar Army team on Park City TV in late 2005. *Good Morning Utah. The DirtStar Army live on Good Morning Utah 2005. *US Open Mountainboard Championships 2006, held in Snowmass, Colorado. JSP TV talks with the youth division winner and the director of the Dirt Dogs. *Toasted TV. Interview with Munroboards team rider Ryan Slater on the Channel 10 show toasted TV. *Domino's Pizza. "That was Puff" commercial featuring mountainboarders: Ryan Slater, Clint Farqhuar, Markus Lubitz, Adam Zemunic. *Horizon TV. Willingen D-MAX World Series Mountainboard 2007. *Rockon. TV report on WDR on the mountain board park opening in Winterberg. *At Your Leisure: The DirtStar Army. TV report on Utah's DSA mountain board team ripping up the Park City dirt jumps. *Top Gear. TV item showing a staged race between Tom Kirkman and a

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Evo rally car and

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. *Friday Download. Kids TV report on mountain boarding (2012).

Newspapers & Magazines

*The Guardian. What do snowboarders do when faced with the perennially powderless slopes of the UK? They find the nearest verdant hill and hurtle down it. Tim Moore and son go gung-ho in Surrey. *The Telegraph. Jonny Beardsall loses balance and bottle as he faces a 40 mph slalom on a mountain board. *Men's Health. Fancy traveling at speeds of 60 mph on a board down a mountain? Read on… Chad Harding features in Stroud news and journal about his win in the under 14s UK championship freestyle.

Public service/Community (online)

*Atboarders. UK based mountainboarding badasses who reignite the hype. Always Fresh. Always A Ting *The Dirt. US based mountainboard blog & news site. *Surfing Dirt. International mountainboarders community forum. *Remolition. Free mountainboard webzine with regular features. *MountainboardingUK. Beginner mountainboard-riders website (free advice)

Competitions

World Freestyle Championships From 2005 to 2008 was named ''Fat Face Night Air WFC'' From 2009 to 2010 was named ''Battle of Bugs'' * 2004 (Weston Super X Arena,

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, UK) - Leon Robbins, USA * 2005 (SWMBC,

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, UK) - Tom Kirkman, UK * 2006 (SWMBC,

, UK) - Alex Downie, UK * 2007 (SWMBC,

, UK) - Arno VDV, Belgium * 2008 (Bugs Boarding,

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, UK) - Renny Myles, UK * 2009 (Bugs Boarding,

, UK) - Tom Kirkman, UK * 2012 ( Luzhniki,

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) - Matt Brind, UK * 2017 (

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) - Matt Brind, UK; Natasha Chernikova, RUS * 2018 (

Kranj Kranj (, german: Krainburg) is the third-largest city in Slovenia, with a population of 37,941 (2020). It is located approximately northwest of Ljubljana. The centre of the City Municipality of Kranj and of the traditional region of Upper Carniol ...

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

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Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

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Les Saisies Les Saisies is a ski resort located in the Savoie '' départment'' of France. It is from Albertville, host of the 1992 Winter Olympics. For those games, the resort hosted the biathlon and cross-country skiing events. The resort also has alpine sk ...

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Bardonecchia Bardonecchia (; french: Bardonèche or ; pms, Bardonecia ; oc, Bardonescha ) is an Italian town and ''comune'' located in the Metropolitan City of Turin, in the Piedmont region, in the western part of Susa Valley. It grew out of a small village ...

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

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) - Pete Tatham, UK * 2012 (

) - Jonathan Charles, UK World Boardercross Championships * 2013 ( Bukovac,

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

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) - Matt Brind, UK; Martina Lippolis, ITA * 2015 (

Großerlach Großerlach is a municipality in the district of Rems-Murr in Baden-Württemberg in Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe aft ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

) - Matt Brind, UK; Simona Petro, ITA * 2016 ( Bukovac,

) - Matt Brind, UK; Sonya Nicolau, ROM * 2017 (

) - Matt Brind, UK; Senka Bajić, SRB * 2018 (

) - Kody Stewart USA; Senka Bajić, SRB * 2019 ( Bukovac,

) - Matt Brind, UK; Vanja Rakovic, SRB Overall World Champions * 2017 (

) - Matt Brind, UK; Ola Tomalczyk, POL * 2018 (

) - Matt Brind, UK; Simona Petrò, ITA * 2019 ( Moszczenica,

; Bukovac,

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) - Pete Tatham, UK * 2010 (

) - Jonathan Charles, UK * 2014 (

Monte Penice Monte Penice is a mountain of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna in Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea ...

) - Matt Brind, UK European Mountainboard Tour * 2010 - Arno VDV, Belgium * 2014 - Matt Brind, UK European Mountainboard Challenge * 2010 ( Bukovac,

) - Marcin Staszczyk, POL; Senka Bajić, SRB * 2011 ( Bukovac,

) - Marcin Staszczyk, POL; Senka Bajić, SRB * 2012 ( Bukovac,

) - James Wanklyn, UK; Sonya Nicolau, ROM * 2015 (

) - Dawid Rzaca, POL; Senka Bajić, SRB * 2016 (

) - Matteo Andreassi, ITA; Senka Bajić, SRB * 2017 (

) - Nicolas Geerse, NED; Senka Bajić, SRB

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