Road Trippin
Road Trippin

How many times have you imagined going on a road trip, which has not materialised? We've all dreamed of how much fun it would be to jump into a car with a few of our best friends and go wherever the road takes us.

Africa Travelling
Swimming
Max Knox
Knox surprises with back to back wins at MTN Gravel Travel

"Cometh the hour cometh the man." These words are the perfect way to describe Max Knox (Specialized/EAI Solutions) winning the MTN Gravel Travel National MTB driven by Nissan Ultra Marathon outside Wellington on Saturday (11 May).

Mountain Biking
People are Awesome
People are Awesome

Back when Sony handycams were all the rage for aerial sports photography, I remember a skydiver looking at the rudimentary first generation GoPro gimmicks and speculating that they would never really take off. This was because he believed that these tiny things could never achieve the video...

Skydiving
Climbing in it's Different Forms
Climbing in it's Different Forms

Like most kids, I loved spending time on my mountain bike messing about and pulling stunts. In my late teens, I started enjoying the sport even more and by the age of 19, I was competing in every race I could get to. It went well for the next four years and I was getting better by the day. This...

Rock Climbing
Basics Executing the Sculling Brace & Space godzilla
Basics Executing the Sculling Brace & Space

By now, you should have the hang of braces and draw strokes, and made them something you can rely on to keep your hair dry. The next recovery tactic I’m going to look at is the sculling brace. This combination of strokes is essential when you end up in places you did not plan to be.

Paddling
Surfing Down Under
Surfing Down Under

It’s four o’clock in the morning and the beachfront is illuminated from the pop-up shops and security spotlights. The contest village at the Quiksilver Pro at Snapper Rocks, Gold Coast, Australia, will be waking up soon as the crowd flock down to watch their heroes surf in the first World...

Surfing
Taking on the Namib Desert Challenge
Taking on the Namib Desert Challenge

When it comes to multi-day extreme endurance foot races, the Namib Desert Challenge is right up there with the very best of them. But this should come as no surprise when you consider that it is hosted in one of the most remote, diverse, pristine and untouched wilderness areas to be found...

Adventure Racing
New Downhill Mountain Bike Track for Gauteng
New Downhill Mountain Bike Track for Gauteng

The sport of downhill mountain biking (DH) is probably the most extreme of all the mountain biking disciplines, as you need a purpose-built DH bike and track. In saying that, the idea of finding a big hill or mountain and building a challenging track down it is easy enough. But more often than...

Mountain Biking
Expedition Africa 2013 - The Ultimate AR Event
Expedition Africa 2013 - The Ultimate AR Event

In the days after Expedition Africa, Cape Town adventure racer Steve Burnett, who was following the race from home, wrote: "For a while I’ve really thought that adventure racing would be the next big thing. That all the roadies who bought mountain bikes, the runners who now do trail events, and...

Adventure Racing
Liberation Peak
Liberation Peak

The taxi sashayed exuberantly around the bends to the radio music, trucks flashed past in the opposite direction and memorials lined both sides of the road. We were unmistakably in Venezuela, where every taxi ride might be your last trip. Mandy Ramsden and I had come to climb Pico Bolivar, the...

Hiking
Mountaineering
Warrior contender
6000 Warriors tough it out in testing conditions

Warrior athletes don’t know the meaning of the word “sissie.” That became abundantly clear over the past weekend (11-12 May) when 6 000 athletes competed in the third event of the popular Warrior Race Obstacle Series.

Adventure Racing
Francois Hougaard
Ster Kinekor Members Opportunity to Meet Francois Hougaard at Fast and Furious 6

One of the world’s first public screenings of Fast & Furious 6 – and the first South African screening – is taking place this week at Ster-Kinekor Sandton City, on Thursday, 16 May from 19:00. Ster-Kinekor has declared May as ‘Man-Size Month’ – a month action-packed with adventure-filled and...

Events
Movies/Games/Music Reviews
Rugby
Take a Hike
Take a Hike

A mere 120 km from Pretoria lies one of nature's best kept secrets - the Olifants Gorge. The hiking trails here traverse an area of 15,000 hectares at the confluence of the Olifants and Wilge Rivers, near Loskop Dam.

 

Hiking
sani2c - Day 2 Wrap
Knox, Bell master conditions to lead sani2c

Max Knox and Nico Bell mastered slippery conditions to win the decisive second stage and take the overall lead of the Nedbank sani2c mountain bike race in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday.

Mountain Biking
Schoeman recognised by Parliament for record Cycle Tour achievement
Schoeman recognised by Parliament for record Cycle Tour achievement

South African road cyclist Anriette Schoeman (Mecer / Africa Silks) received a Motion of Congratulations from the National Assembly for her cycling achievement when she bettered her own personal record of six Cape Argus Cycle Tour victories to win a record seventh title this year.

Road Cycling
World Champs exposes SA to Trials
World Champs exposes SA to Trials

When the UCI MTB & Trials World Championships gets under way in Pietermaritzburg in August, eager cycling fans as well as South Africa’s general public will get a glimpse of Trials, a discipline largely ignored previously on the African continent but which demands some of the highest level...

Mountain Biking
Keey and Lill claim first stage at sani2c
Keey and Lill claim first stage at sani2c

After a run of bad luck this season, Charles Keey and Darren Lill finally got the break they needed to claim the opening stage of the three-day Nedbank sani2c mountain bike race near Ixopo in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday.

Mountain Biking
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Road Trippin Road Trippin

How many times have you imagined going on a road trip, which has not materialised? We've all dreamed of how much fun it would be to jump into a car with a few of our best friends and go wherever the road takes us.

Africa Travelling
Swimming
Liberation Peak Liberation Peak

The taxi sashayed exuberantly around the bends to the radio music, trucks flashed past in the opposite direction and memorials lined both sides of the road. We were unmistakably in Venezuela, where every taxi ride might be your last trip. Mandy Ramsden and I had come to climb Pico Bolivar, the...
Hiking
Mountaineering
Surfing Down Under Surfing Down Under

It’s four o’clock in the morning and the beachfront is illuminated from the pop-up shops and security spotlights. The contest village at the Quiksilver Pro at Snapper Rocks, Gold Coast, Australia, will be waking up soon as the crowd flock down to watch their heroes surf in the first World...
Surfing
New Downhill Mountain Bike Track for Gauteng New Downhill Mountain Bike Track for Gauteng

The sport of downhill mountain biking (DH) is probably the most extreme of all the mountain biking disciplines, as you need a purpose-built DH bike and track. In saying that, the idea of finding a big hill or mountain and building a challenging track down it is easy enough. But more often than...
Mountain Biking
People are Awesome People are Awesome

Back when Sony handycams were all the rage for aerial sports photography, I remember a skydiver looking at the rudimentary first generation GoPro gimmicks and speculating that they would never really take off. This was because he believed that these tiny things could never achieve the video...
Skydiving
Expedition Africa 2013 - The Ultimate AR Event Expedition Africa 2013 - The Ultimate AR Event

In the days after Expedition Africa, Cape Town adventure racer Steve Burnett, who was following the race from home, wrote: "For a while I’ve really thought that adventure racing would be the next big thing. That all the roadies who bought mountain bikes, the runners who now do trail events, and...
Adventure Racing
Basics Executing the Sculling Brace & Space godzilla Basics Executing the Sculling Brace & Space

By now, you should have the hang of braces and draw strokes, and made them something you can rely on to keep your hair dry. The next recovery tactic I’m going to look at is the sculling brace. This combination of strokes is essential when you end up in places you did not plan to be.
Paddling
Taking on the Namib Desert Challenge Taking on the Namib Desert Challenge

When it comes to multi-day extreme endurance foot races, the Namib Desert Challenge is right up there with the very best of them. But this should come as no surprise when you consider that it is hosted in one of the most remote, diverse, pristine and untouched wilderness areas to be found...
Adventure Racing