“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Little did this Jack know his game of curiosity in knowing how a camera works would actually bring out the filmmaker in him. Shivam Aher, a 26-year-old Nashik boy, has recently taken up an interest in creating films on individuals pushing themselves to achieve something extraordinary. ‘,From Policeman to Ironman’ is one of his recent works featured IPS Officer (City Police Commissioner) Dr. Ravinder Kumar Singal preparing and completing the Ironman Triathlon circuit in France in 2018. Shivam takes Inspire Crew through the journey of making this fi ..read more

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is launching a new four-sport Olympic qualifier series for Paris 2024. This is an Olympic Agenda 2020+5 project, which was presented today to the IOC Executive Board. The new IOC-led Olympic qualifier series will include four sports – BMX freestyle, breaking, skateboarding, and sport climbing. The series of three festival-style events will bring together the best athletes from each of the four sports in one urban park, as they compete to qualify for the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Hosted in compact city center venues over four days, between March and Jun ..read more

“As the days passed, many skaters from Tripura and Assam started joining the trip. Thanks to social media! On the day of our journey, surprisingly, there were around seven more skaters. It was crazy!.” Yuvraj and I randomly started planning to visit Arunachal Pradesh as he was visiting my hometown, Dibrugarh, for a few days. It was actually his plan to make a skate trip to the neighboring state. And when it comes to me, I am always up for trips, especially skate trips. Arunachal trip was always on my mind for more than a year but due to many reasons, I just couldn’t say no to this trip. And wh ..read more

The Sports Ministry is set to build India's first-ever SAI National Centre of Excellence for Mountain Terrain Biking and Bicycle Motocross here in partnership with the Himachal Pradesh state government. The center to be build in collaboration with the Youth Services and Sports department of Himachal Pradesh is being set up to provide world-class training facilities to Indian cyclists so that they can compete for 18 Olympic medals on offer in the disciplines of MTB and BMX. "The time has come to expand our orbit and train athletes for Olympic in other discipline where Indian athletes are showin ..read more

Priyanka has decided to share her knowledge of kayaking by giving Kayak lessons and this will not just make her independent but also grow the kayaking community at the same time. She has recently bagged gold and became an overall champion at the 10th edition of Ganga Kayaking Festival, 2022. 19 years old, she was born and grew up by the side of mother river Ganga and the place called Sirasu which is also known as “Village of River Guides and Kayakers”. Priyanka's father works at rafting campsite and her mother was a housewife. She recently lost her mother during COVID 19, not to it but she lac ..read more

It was a super quick event, to be honest, but really impactful. I saw how a few effective people can get together and can make a better impact. There were skaters from Shillong, Tripura, Guwahati and Dibrugarh. Since the skaters were less in number there was more time to interact with each other. This whole event was about pushing the Guwahati skate scene and we got to see lots of skaters from Guwahati who usually don’t come out but that day they came for the event. The event took place in the Khanapara walking zone in Guwahati. It’s a big open road, very friendly to do all sorts of activities ..read more

Written by Kopal Goyal The first of the Romps happened in April 2016. The core idea was beyond promoting climbing in Bangalore as a hotspot other than nearby areas like Hampi and Badami. The first Romp had 24 folks and 2021 ROMP saw 90 participants over the 3 days in Yedumadu. Climbers ranging between the age of 8-65 joined the initiative. The traditional date settled in around the second weekend of December. ROMP wasn't started by one person but the Bangalore community of climbers. The community has been present since the 1970s and earlier had tried something of a similar nature at Turahalli ..read more

Written by Kopal Goyal The 2nd edition of Alpine Premium League took place straight after the big gap of 10 years under which different types of races were organised such as Skiing, Cross country skiing, Snowboarding for different age groups and open for all. There were more than 200 participants in which more than 50 participants were female of all age groups. The highlight of the competition was that they kept a separate category for veteran skiers (50+) in which 10 participants showed up. The event was hosted between 31st Jan to 1st Feb 2022. Rinku Thakur participated in the snowboarding cr ..read more

Written by Rhea Antony If anyone is familiar with the highlining scene in India, they know very well how scarce women are in the sport in comparison with the number of men who Highline. A crew of women spending time outdoors to rig and session on highlines was something that was unheard of in India. This was up until some of us got together organized the Women’s Highline Gathering at Duke’s Nose Lonavala happen in November 2021. The sole purpose of this gathering was to bring slackliners together and create a space where we could motivate each other, learn to rig and just generally spend time ..read more

Written by Amit Subba It's good to see how Skateboarding community is growing steadily in India and people across the country are doing their best to promote the culture and one such event is Jugaad Skateboarding competition brought to life by Gautham Kamath, a Bangalore based skateboarder who has been skateboarding since a decade. First Jugaad was held in Delhi, 2015 and skaters from Nepal and India participated in it. As the year passed, this competition started attracting more and more skaters from all the corners of India like Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kovalam, Mahabalip ..read more