THE LONDON Ride 2008

This year's event was the 5th London Ride Freeski Competition.  The event took place at the Metro Ski and Snowboard Show 2008 (www.metroskishow.co.uk). The London Ride is the premiere UK location for the Ride series of Freesking events which include the Verbier Ride (www.verbierride.com), the Saas-Fee Ride (www.saasfeeride.com) and the Urban Ride (www.theurbanride.com).

The Big Air competition took place on Saturday 25th October and gave London a taste of the International level of freestyle skiing. Skiers such as Flo Wieser (Volkl), Henrik Harlaut (9th Ward), Paddy Graham (Volkl), Vivian Gex (Head), James Woods (Salomon) and Murray Buchan (Volkl) hit the Big Air kicker and displayed huge height and awesome style delivering to the crowd different tricks and each riders individual style.

You can check out and watch the awesome action with the highlights from the event by clicking below the TV screen to left on this homepage. The event was once again filmed for international television broadcast to help further exposure the incredible riding skills of today's freestyle skiing athletes. Over 3000 people watched last year’s event live and millions more through the live TV stream on this website.  With Quattro Media distributing the TV programme once again it will be an event shared with everybody across the globe and receive over 400 hours of TV airtime.

Watch this space over the coming weeks for the release of the London Ride 08 24 Minute TV Programme.  Look forwards to seeing you at the Verbier Ride in December 08.

Warren Smith
Event Director

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To view Event Summary of the London Ride 2008, click here