THE LONDON Ride 2009

This year's event was the 6th London Ride Freeski Competition.  The event took place at the Metro Ski and Snowboard Show 2009 (www.metroskishow.co.uk).  The London Ride is the premiere UK location for the Ride series of Freeskiing  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 24th October and gave London a taste of the International level of freestyle skiing. Skiers such as Flo Wieser (Volkl), Paddy Graham (Volkl), PC Fosse (Faction), 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 09 24 Minute TV Programme.  Look forwards to seeing you at the Verbier Ride in December 09.


Warren Smith
Event Director

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To view Event Summary of the London Ride 2009, click here