Details have been officially announced for the southern hemisphere’s first mud and music festival. Mudtopia will be held at Rotorua’s Arawa Park Racecourse from December 1-3. In an interesting concept, the three-day festival will boast a Mud Arena with mud sports, mud pools, mud obstacle
Crawling through the mud under barbwire, scaling three metre high walls, and carrying 35-kilogram sand bags, sounds like something out of an army training camp right? Well, this extreme form of exercise is no longer just for soldiers. “Obstacle racing” is a new sport growing
OCR is New Zealand just stepped up a notch as the Wairua Warrior, New Zealand’s first OCR World Championship qualifier race, took place on March 25th in Nelson. The results from the Wairua Warrior are in! Wairua Warrior Top 10 Elite Males Brakken Kraker Ethan Helliwell
This article was originally published on the Obstacle Method in April 2016. Being bound in a wheel chair did not stop David Trotter from conquering the Wairua Warrior race in Nelson on April 9th. Last year he sat on the side lines, this year he
Is OCR the next Olympic sport? Sports Illustrated investigates, In the past seven years, OCR has gone from relative obscurity to the No. 1 mass participation sport in the world, according to the USAOCR, “larger than marathons, half marathons and triathlons combined.” Modern Pentathlon, a
The Sport Tasman Muddy Buddy successfully took place over the weekend with around 900 participating, Stuff reports, About 900 keen mud wallowers enjoyed Sunday’s fine weather in Motueka to participate in one, two or three laps of the 2km muddy course while hundreds of spectators
Run Tough Mudder with Obstacle Racers NZ, join the ORNZ community! Tough Mudder is coming to New Zealand, November 4-5th at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Auckland, and Obstacle Racers NZ is entering an open team. What Can I Expect Joining the Obstacle Racers NZ team,
$10 Off Tough Mudder New Zealand Tough Mudder New Zealand revealed its new website with further details on its Auckland 2017 event at Hampton Downs in November. Featured on the website is a discount code which will save you $10 off entry to Tough Mudder in
This article has been adapted from the original published in Kiwi Trail Runner magazine Oct/Nov 2015 under the title ‘Scaling The Wall’. Wairua Warriors Something special is happening in Nelson. Walking into the Wairua Body Coaching System studio is like walking into a fitness lover’s playground.