THE WORLDWIDE ACTION SPORTS PHENOMENON, NITRO CIRCUS LIVE, WILL TREAT COFFS HARBOUR TO A SHOW LIKE IT’S NEVER SEEN
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resh from a string of sell-out shows across the USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and starring in the new Nitro Circus 3D film, the Nitro Circus Live crew will be bringing its incredible mix of death defying stunts, mind-blowing tricks and crazy antics to BCU International Stadium on Saturday, 11 May, in a show like nothing Coffs Harbour has ever experienced before. Joining the tour, having just sold out London’s 20,000 seat O2 Arena, the massive cast of 40 athletes includes X Games medallist Blake ‘Bilko’ Williams (AUS). The FMX athletes will be joined by some of the best BMX riders in the world, including X-Games medallist and double front-flipping Aussie Andy Buckworth (AUS)
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touring show. Not only will the Nitro Circus Live crew be performing the biggest tricks in FMX and BMX, they will also be pushing their limits and skill on a range of crazy contraptions on the amazing mutli-million dollar set, including an Esky, Barbie car, toy trike, boogie board and many more. Among the individual performance highlights, fans can look forward to the most incredible choreographed riding routines ever seen, including the ‘Nitro Bomb’, featuring 18 riders in the air, upside down at the same time and the world record breaking rider train, with 35 riders wheel to wheel, one behind the other. In addition to the excitement of hosting some of the
nitro circus live and James Foster (USA), the only man in the world who is regularly throwing down the triple backflip. Also hurling himself off the 50 foot high Nitro GigantA-Ramp will be the inspirational Aaron ‘Wheelz’ Fotheringham (USA), the world’s only extreme wheelchair athlete.
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world’s best action sports athletes, Coffs Harbour businesses can also expect a financial boon of up to half a million dollars from the show’s arrival, with up to 10,000 people expected to attend from all over northern New South Wales.
Wheelz has lived with the debilitating effects of Spina Bifida his whole life, yet he’s completing tricks that most able-bodied people would be too timid to even contemplate. Having honed his skills in skate parks at home in the US, he now regularly pulls backflips and even front flips off the Nitro Gigant-A-Ramp – a feat no one else in the world has even tried.
Managing Director of Nitro Circus Live, Michael Porra, states, “Hotels, motels, hostels, restaurants, pubs and practically every other business in Coffs Harbour will benefit from having Nitro Circus Live in town. This is the biggest action sports show on the planet, and we’re thrilled to bring a show that has sold out huge venues in Las Vegas, London, Berlin and Sydney, to the area.”
Add to this, world number one inline skater, Chris Haffey and freestyle scooter maestro, Ryan Williams, and you have all the elements of the full international
Coffs Harbour will be the tenth stop in a 14-stop Regional Australian Tour that will take in regional towns across the Eastern Coast of Australia.