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About Wacky Nation - the Event Management Team:

 

Wacky Nation are a specialist off the wall event management company that creates exciting, unique and very fun event ideas for charities, businesses, brands, towns and festivals.  All the events created are designed to be ground breaking and media hugging which helps thrust you into the limelight. 

 

We deliver high quality events with careful planning and co-ordination. Whatever event you have in mind, our team of Specialists will help plan, build and deliver with the highest levels of professional care. We cover the whole of the UK for events of all sizes.

 

Examples of events already created for clients by Wacky Nation are: 

  • Backward Running Series - London, Manchester & Liverpool
  • UK Rock Paper Scissors Championships - over 300 competitors
  • World Wellington Boot Throwing Championships - size doubles every year
  • UK Wheelchair Challenge - over 100 participants

 

Wacky Nation are the leading authority on the most unusual events in the UK and wrote the book 'Wacky Nation - 50 Unbelievable Days Out at Britain's Craziest Contests' - the first guidebook ever to describe crazy sports and contests around Britain and beyond, so they really know first hand what makes a wacky event really work for the client and the customer. 

 

Contact us NOW to see how they can help your business or charity on 01884 255896 or infoATwackynation.com

About Reverse Running

 

From James Bamber, the founder of Reverse Running on how it all started: 

 

''Poor biomechanics and years of heel striking for too many miles on hard surfaces in adequate footwear has taken its toll and plagued me with niggles. I have suffered from repeated bouts of shin splints, ankle injuries and ITBS, with the only advice to give up. I have run through three pairs of orthotics, seen literally dozens of sports therapists of various disciplines and even resorted to surgery (twice!). Even I was wondering whether to give up until I came across the benefits of backward running. Just running a few laps around the track left me in awe of its power whilst the smooth running style suited my biomechanics. With a steady and sensible progression, I now feel physically stronger, more balanced and gain a real sense of achievement and without the niggles of old.  It's only a matter of time before I undo all the ill effects of too much bad running and begin to see my race times drop.  The best thing I can still run forwards in races and not suffer from the niggles of old'' 

Aims of Reverse Running

1. To create a series of popular 

    backward runs around the UK

-  We started off in 2010 in Manchester

   with the inaugural UK Championships. 

 - In 2011 we  extending the concept to 

   London alongside the 2nd UK

   Championships in Manchester. 

 - In 2012 we are introducing a new race

   in Liverpool and looking for a new

   Southern location.

2. Promote backward running as an

    alternative exercise

In collaboration with Backward running organisations around the world we will promote backward running as an alternative exercise and even kick start a new fitness craze.

3. Promote backward running as the perfect first step for attracting children into sport and as a novel alternative in the fight against obesity in adults.

4. To raise the profile of the UK backward running abroad.

 5. Make Sport and exercise, FUN!!

Encourage people to have fun taking up backward running so sport is not a chore.

6. Petition backward running as an Olympic sport for 2020 or if that fails at least as a demonstration sport.