Seven X Team Extreme Sports Opportunities

If you’ve looked around the site, like our clothing and what we’re about and would like to be considered as a Seven X athlete, why not get in touch? As a small brand we won’t be able to support everyone but it would be great to build a base of athletes that believe in what we’re doing and, who knows what could happen in the future? You can email your profiles or drop a line to sevenx@kaosbrandsinaction.com

We are particularly interested in the Seven X focus sports of Surfing, Skiing, Snowboarding, Wind Surfing, Mountain Biking, Dirt Biking and Zapcat racing.

Seven X supports:

MARK HARRIS (Free Ride Skiier)

Age/DOB: 25 / 17.12.80

Home town: Evesham, Worcs, UK

Years in sport: 7

Season Base: Zermatt, Switzerland

Sponsors: Marker, Nike ACG, Natives, Hestra, Technica, Sweet Protection & Volkl.

Mark started skiing at the age of 16 on a holiday but left school as soon as he could to be able to follow his new found skiing passion. Mark progressed in the sport quickly and became first sponsored when he was 21. Mark started off doing a few competitions but was more at home in the free ride scene. He now concentrates mainly on photo work and free ride comps.

When not skiing Mark is into pretty much every other sport. In the summer he does a lot of mountain biking, mountain climbing and plays a bit of football. In the off seasons he loves to travel with his next plan to go somewhere exotic and learn to surf. He also likes television and movies and has been known to relax with lots of beer and Jager.

For the future he plans to keep skiing and living life to the full. His mantra is “you never know when things can change so I intend to keep enjoying life”. Mark’s wants to keep shooting photos and get published lots in magazines. He also want to ski many different locations and places that have not yet been skied. In all, enjoying life in the mountains.

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LUCY ROBSON (Windsurfer)

Age/DOB: 25 / 20.10.1980

Home town: Shoreham, Brighton UK

Years in sport: 7½

Previous Profession: Qualified Solicitor and Barrister (England & Wales)

Results:

3rd Place 2005 Whiteair
2nd Place 2005 Triple Crown
2005 UK freewave Champion
3rd Place 2005 UK Freestyle Championships, Poole
1st Place 2005 UK National Wave Championships, Bigbury
1st Place 2005 Christchurch Freewave
1st Place 2005 Hove Freewave
1st Place 2005 Gwithian Wave Championships
3rd Place 2005 Rhosnieger National Wave Championships
5th place 2005 Schroders London Boatshow Indoor

Forthcoming Events:

2006 UK Triple Crown (3 events)
2006 UK National Freestyle Champs
2006 UK National Wave Champs
2006 PWA Hawaii Pro

Other Interests: Surfing, Running, Swimming, Cycling and Partying.

Website: www.lucyrobson.com

Sponsors: Neilpryde, Bluecrush, Kaenon Polarized, JP Australia.

Lucy has spent most of her adult life studying and getting qualified as a solicitor and Barrister. She managed to get a good job with a local firm in Brighton. But then decided that her passion lay in windsurfing and made the decision to compete full time in 2005.

Lucy started windsurfing in the summer of 2003 when she took time off after her studies to go traveling around Europe. Ostensibly the plan was for this to be a pure surf trip inspired by the classic movie "Endless Summer". Reaching Portugal in June it happened that there was a bit of a flat spell for waves and coming across a sea inlet at a place called Foz de Arelho, with a bit of windsurfing kit and tuition thrown together, Lucy gave windsurfing a go and was soon hooked.

With 4 months spent in Tarifa, Spain, the basics were mastered and from then on in Lucy progressed quickly, assisted by plenty of enthusiasm, determination and trips abroad. A year after starting windsurfing Lucy competed in her first event, the UKWA Bigbury Wave Classic, scoring 4th place.

Since beginning to windsurf in 2003 Lucy's unrivalled enthusiasm has taken her all over the world from Tiree in the Hebrides to Margarita and South Africa. From gaining recognition on the national UKWA circuit, 2006 sees Lucy entering her first year on the PWA world tour.

Lucy happily admit to being smitten “when Im windsurfing I forget everything, it’s a sense of total mental and physical freedom. Since being on the water it’s changed my personality, outlook and priorities. It’s amazing”

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Photos: David Blyth

MARK CAMERON (Surfer)

Age/DOB: 28 / 05.01.1978

Home town: Fraserburgh

Years in sport: 15

Profession: Manager of Campsite

Favourite Wave Break:
Favourite is a local right, very inconsisten which adds to my pleasure when it does break.

Major influence in the sport:
Like to be different but Kelly Slater is the man!!!

Best Achievements:
1st Men's Scottish Open - Banff/Thurso, Scotland 1999
2nd Men's Scottish Open - Banff/Thurso, Scotland 2005
1st Men's Scottish Open - Banff/Thurso, Scotland 2006

Mark starting surfing when he was 13 years old and got hooked immediately off the buzz of it. He started off on small waves with the usual blue sponge hire boards and battling with the Scottish cold water, he improved quickly and soon started winning junior titles in his local area.

Since then he has been living the life surfing whenever he can. Mark has travelled widely seeing many different places and experiencing as many waves as possible! Before the age of 18 Mark had visited Cornwall, France, Portugal and Ireland with numerous Thurso trips thrown in. At 18 Australia appealed to him and since then he has returned 6 times, one of these visits was for a whole year. Another favourite destination of Mark’s has been New Zealand where he has been on several occasions, last year he was there for the winter. Not only has mark been abroad a lot but he has made the most of Scotland surfing various locations throughout.

Mark’s plans for the future are to get as much surfing in as possible but work obviously gets in the way a little as his ultimate aim is to get his own pad near the coast, but he said that ‘ which coast remains to be seen and time will tell the choices life throws at me’. Mark’s Mantra is ‘To have as much fun as I can’.

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ANDY MILLS (Snow Boarder)

Age/DOB: 28, although my head still thinks I'm 11, my body feels like its 60!

Home town: Southampton, Close to Mount Calshot.

Years in sport: 5yrs, started in true british fashion, on the dryslope.

Season Base: Mount Snow, Vermont, USA - Sick

Sponsors: Mum and Dad, SevenX of course, and the student loan company

Major influence in the sport: in terms of riders, J P Walker, Lauri Heskari, Eddie Wall, David Benedek Travis Parker, Sam Cullum, Scott McMorris, Tyler
Chorlton and the Hungerpain Crew. Also, it might sound a bit crap but my friends. Good friends who taught me to ride, got me involved in the sport more, keep me shredding every week and inspire me to ride. Friends I've made since working in the snow business, my parents, brothers and sister and all my Cally Crew.

Favourite Resort: hmm, tricky one. I like Les Arc cause I've got fond memories of my first ever trip riding, but overall it would have to be the L'Espace Killy region of Val d'Isere and Tignes. Huge area to ride, masses of powder fields and a couple of good parks. Shredtastic.

I started snowboarding when I joined uni, I used to ride a lot of BMX and Mountain Bikes when growing up, there weren't any clubs for bike riders at uni, so I joined the Snowboard Society, the now defunt FatNads that has become YellowsnowSnowboarding. And it's kinda spiralled from there, friends I made at the club are now working with me in the industry or have gone off and shredded the world.
I've been involved with the AIM series now for two years as a snowboard judge and was lucky enough to be asked to judge the Brits in Laax, Switzerland this year which was sick. I got to work along side some awesome guys, one of which had just finished judging the Halfpipe Olympic Finals!
I've also been running independant comps for a couple of years now and as soon as I get back from the winter season I'll be continuing with a new uk comp series as well as competiting and judging the AIM Series.

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Age/DOB: 25 03/09/80

Home Town: Reading

Birth Place: Droitwich, Worcestershire

Profession: Outside Broadcast Engineer

Years in Sport: 6

Best Achievements:
British Open Overall Champion 2005
British Open Freestyle Champion 2005
3rd Place British Open Downhill 2005
World Amateur Freestyle champion 2004

Sponsors: ATBshop, Dangerous Brothers,

Forthcoming Events:
ATBA UK Championship Series
White Air Festival, Isle of Wight

Other Interests: snowboarding; video production; long boarding; cruising in my VW Beetle

Tim got into mountain boarding after a snowboard holiday to Meribel.
Hooked on the rush he got from the mountains, he was desperate to find something that would match it but without the price tag.
After spotting a mountain board in a small extreme sports shop in Southampton, he dipped into his student loan and made an impulsive purchase.
After riding for a year on his own - in local parks and on the Malvern Hills, he discovered a mountain board centre close to his dad’s house.
A month after riding there, he entered the finals of the British mountain board championships 2001, scooping fifth place.
Since then he hasn’t looked back, slowly climbing to the top of this growing sport, attending every event in the last five years, and taking part in demos to raise the scene’s profile.
After completing his degree in Media Technology he had a three month break before joining the BBC as a trainee engineer, and spent his last ‘free’ summer managing Out to Grass mountain board centre and its team of riders.
Freeriding has become his main focus as he believes it’s the “best way to improve your skills.”
He said: “We egg each other on and really make a point of pushing our bodies and our riding to the limit – tackling cliff drops and narrow woodland gullies.”
He claims there is no better cure for a hangover than dodging a tree at 30mph.
He is planning a trip to the Alps next summer to really test his ability and take on a ‘real’ mountain.
This season his riding has taken a minor setback after he suffered his first major injury – breaking his collar bone while practicing for a photo call for Marie Curie Cancer Care.

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