Seven National Federations are sending their BMX athletes to the World Cycling Centre (WCC) in Aigle, Switzerland, this month to prepare the second leg of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup.

Norwegian BMX rider Sebastian Kartfjord arrived at the WCC yesterday for a week long training camp. Before the end of the month the centre will also host World Cup hopefuls from Italy, the Netherlands, France, Lithuania, Russia and the Czech Republic for training camps lasting between three days and three weeks.

Lithuania’s delegation, Vilma Rimsaite, is no stranger to the WCC facilities: she was a trainee at the centre in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

The round 9 and 10 of the European Championship BMX will be held at Echichens, Switzerland on the 19th and 20th of april.

More information of EC BMX Echichens
Official website of BMX Club Echichens

It looks like vert BMX is going to be dropped in the upcoming X Games. It's replaced by something called “super park”. Vert is joining flatland and dirt in the growing list of BMX disciplines which have been dropped.

More information on Mystic Negro.

Do you know when the X Games takes place? Ever thought it would be really useful to have an extensive calendar of every action sports event so you can see what's on where and when? Well Freecaster did, so they made one!

The Monster Calendar is accessible via the Frecaster.tv web site. It consists of 13 different action sports divided by color, corresponding to the Freecaster.tv channel color code. Calendars with the individual sports can be found on their respective page but the main attraction is the Monster full view with details of all sports, from all over the world, all year round. You can also select a few different sports to create your own view by clicking on the down arrow beside the agenda tab.

Get Flash to see this video. Item URL: GT Bikes at the UCI Race 9 & 10

GT BMX Racing Team: Jill Kintner, Joey Bradford, Mike Day and Randy Stumpfhauser at UCI Continental #9 and #10 in West Palm Beach, Florida gathering points for 2008 Olympics in Bejing, China. Presented by Eric Rupe, GT Team Manager.

We are proud to announce we have a new BMX forum. It is powered by Invision Power Board. One of the best features is that you don't even have to register to post a message, of course if you do sign up you will have a bunch of extra member goodies.

Some nice features:
- You can post embed videos of the major video sites (youtube, google video,...)
- You can add attachments to each post
- You can view the forum in a Lo-Fi Version for super fast surfing

So don't be a stranger and post your stuff at the new BMX forum, Yihaa...

Are you ready? Because here it comes, the first BMX event of 2008! Once again, the well-oiled machine, Calle Marconi is making it happen with the “KEEPOD BMX CONTEST”, the kick-off event for this year. The event will take place on Saturday 22nd of March, at the “Trinity skatepark” of Milan in via Cevedale, 5 (area Bovisa). A long list of experienced riders have confirmed their participation in this special event and will show-off their best performance in order to win the first prize money of 500€ and other cool prizes offered by Keepod, the main sponsor of the event. The competition will be in one category and will be open for all riders. Registration price is 5€ for members of the Trinity indoor park and 10€ (5€ ticket/insurance plus 5€ registration) for non members. During the day you can enjoy good music and have a drink at the park’s bar.

Photographers who wants to get access to the contest area please write: info at callemarconi dot com
Opening indoor park: 10:00, Registration: 10:30, Free session: 10:30 – 13:30, Contest: 14:00 – 17:30 (possible schedule changes based on the number of participants), Prize-giving: 18:00 – 18:30 -> 500€ Pize money.

Alex Vazquez and his crew organized a BMX contest series in Mexico. The name of the series is Revolcon BMX and it seems it has been a big success. The level of the BMX in Mexico is getting better by the year, don't believe me ese? Check it out for yourself!

One of the most anticipated bmx videos of this year is going in premiere. The premiere will go down at the Red Bull HQ’s on March 12th in Santa Monica, Ca. So be there or be square.

Maybe you already noticed we haven't posted much news the past week. That's because we have been working on some new features for the profile pages. If you are a site member you will now be able to add a really cool slideshow for your photos on the main profile, another feature is that you can invite up to 5 friends at once to become friends in the BMX Action Community.

Sending a emoticon in a holler is now a peace of cake with the emoticon toolbar. We're also planning to add a style setting in the profiles which you can use to change the colors of different objects and set a centered or stretched background image in your profile.

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