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Beaver Fleming, Pro Skateboarder, Nitro Circus Rider, Author and Motivational Speaker Beaver Fleming grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. His brother had the Tony Hawk Pro Skater Game and that was his introduction to skateboarding. His parents were really supportive of his new found love of skating and got an 8…
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Episode 21: Podcast with Risto Kalmre, Founder of Simple Session one of the world's leading action sports festivals In the next episode Oli Russell-Cowan chats to Risto Kalmre, designer, event producer, founder and organiser of Simple Session, one of the world's premier action sports events for skateboarding and BMX. Simple…
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By now almost 2 decades into their tenure as Europe’s only winter skate and BMX event, Tallinn, Estonia’s Simple Session have their organisation humming like a finely-tuned engine. If you are unfamiliar with the Simple Session jamboree, it is a weekend based around a sports arena on the outskirts of…
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Action sports contest circuits are a funny thing. They are a little bit like Vice Media, insofar as the self-appointed tastemakers of any particular scene claim not to follow either, and yet the happenings within both everyone seems strangely aware of. Hmmm. The power of social media to leave them…
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The One and Only Simple Session You have, in the first instance, to commend brothers Risto and Mario Kalmre for their tenacity. Putting on a non-specialist event, in a modern arena, in a small Baltic state in the dead of winter has several horses pulling against it, and yet -…
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