BMX and MTB rope swing
A BMX and a mountain bike launch off a cliff ramp, tied to a harness and rope-swing system, for big air time and a record-scale swing arc across the gorge.
Jake Atkinson · BMX / MTBMission 01 · Laos · In development
Impossible Arenas takes world-class athletes into extraordinary places and turns the place into the arena. At a fixed time, the countdown reaches zero and everything goes live as one choreographed extreme-sports show.
The format
The athletes help design, build and test the systems they will perform on, without knowing the final location. Then we reveal where they are going.
Athletes meet at Base Camp and work with the technical team.
The location is revealed. The systems are adapted to it.
Rigging goes in. Athletes train on the arena and the show is choreographed.
At a fixed time the countdown hits zero and the arena goes live.
Mission 01 · Tad Fane, Laos · “White Void”
Twin waterfalls drop into a jungle gorge. The whole gorge becomes the arena. We start with three stand-alone stunts, each built to travel on its own, then choreograph them into one gorge-wide show.
A BMX and a mountain bike launch off a cliff ramp, tied to a harness and rope-swing system, for big air time and a record-scale swing arc across the gorge.
Jake Atkinson · BMX / MTBA kayak goes straight over the waterfall lip into freefall. A recovery system then swings it across the canyon.
Eric · Mick · KayakA rail projects out over the waterfall mist, built for a skate or inline grind that aims to beat the existing record.
Dan Catch · Skate / inlineThese are the opening acts. The same rigging supports a wider programme, choreographed with music, lighting, smoke and pyro:
Project 02 · Xe Bang Fai Cave, Laos · “No Sky”
A cave system with real scale, lit in a way no studio could build. Four underground stunts with world-first and record-breaking ambitions.
A Superman-style rope sequence through the cave, swinging rope to rope with the ropes on fire. The scale of the chamber and the lighting do the rest.
Xe Bang Fai and Tad Fane are both in Laos, so crew, equipment and production infrastructure can be shared. Each project keeps its own sponsors and its own content campaign, which brings the production cost of the second project down.
Beyond the stunts
One-off stunts open the door. The long-term idea is a multi-episode adventure format for a mass audience, built from the places and teams already in place.
A historic underground crossing of the Laos–Vietnam border, led by explorer Mick over ten days, with room for partner-branded moments along the way.
Athlete expeditions to hard-to-reach places along the river: unclimbed rock faces and kayaking routes few people have seen.
Taking athletes along the trail to meet local children who have never watched extreme sports, and filming what happens.
The circuit team can drop into live exhibitions and brand activations in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
For brands
We want a small number of partners from the beginning, whose products, technology or services genuinely help create the arena. They are part of the build, part of the content and part of the final execution.
An eight-minute film of the build and the stunt, ready for platforms and networks.
Short-form cuts of the build, the athletes and the testing for social.
Thirty-second clips of the moments that travel by themselves.
Bring your own brief and we execute it as a white-label service: creative from you, access, athletes, engineering and production from us. Mission 01 is also being developed as a three-part documentary series, and the right partners come with us into those conversations already part of the story.
Team and access
Production by Film Fixes, with 25 years of trading and more than 175 network productions across Southeast Asia. Local partners hold the operating licence for Tad Fane and the permissions for the programme.
Former world freestyle kayak champion and part of the leadership team. His rope company handles the rigging.
Owner of Film Fixes. Completed a source-to-sea Mekong journey and verified the rope lines at Tad Fane.
Professional skateboarder taking on the waterfall grind rail.
Rider for the rope-swing launch and the counterweighted canyon crossing.
Mission 01 · Open for partners
Tell us which part of the arena you want to build. Enquiries are handled through Wavelength Network.
Contact Wavelength Network