The Day started when we arived at the place around 2 o'clock. The floor was already laying there so I took my bike out for a spin and it was really perfect so the day started good. After a half hour a lot of riders from Holland were already representing and more kept showing up. Also Spain, France, Germany and Belgium were there to represent. In total there where like 30 riders.

At 16:30 we started off with Expert qualification and which were followed by the finals. 8 expert riders including Pascal Nanko from Germany Alexandro (don't rember his last name) from Spain were battling for 1st place. The heat was really on and riders were droping some hard tricks. 

In the first half final we had two Dutch riders going head 2 head and the level was really high. Erik Hogers was droping his rolade/decades and whoppers with tailwhip landing Morisake style against Sietse van Berkel with his smooth steamroller/whiplash combo's with some crazy original pedal steamroller with his other feet on the top tube 1 handed. I was a judge and it was hard to decide but Sietse went to the finals. Then it was Germany vs Spain. Alexandro was having a hard time pulling his clean side squeaker bw steamroller spin combos which he pulled all clean in the qualification round. Pascal pulled some smooth backwheel turbins landed with decade and a nice halfpacker link so it was Germany vs Holland in the final. Both of the riders were on a high and it was a good battle but in the end the victory went to Sietse.

So after a lot of b-boy battles around 20:00 we started off with the pro's. We had the "a bad thing" crew from France. Miquel "Guelo" Sangareau from spain (known from the Flatland XXX clips). Gilles van de Sompel from Belgium and me plus the 2 expert finalst formed 8 pro's to get the battles started.

First battle was Geulo vs Matthias. Geulo was havind a hard time with pulling his tricks which he had really dialed in practise. Which is the opposite from Matthias who was pulling all his contest combo's and did his no-handed pumping pedal timemachine. Matthias was on to the next heat.

Up next was Gilles vs Sietse. Sietse was pulling some of his tricks but Gilles was really dialed with his halfpackerjugglers and blenders so Gilles went to the next heat.

Then Pascal was of against Alex who was riding without brakes but still was pulling some nice links. Pascal tried hard but it was Alex who went to the next heat.

Then it was finaly my turn after putting a lot of effort in organising, the moment was finaly there. I had to battle against Raphael the backwheel pivot master from France. The heat was really on and I started out safe with my pedal hang 5 to halfpacker combination a landed it safe. Rapheal started out safe too, with his scuffles stupple ducks. So I decided to throw out a backwheel link since it was a battle and I wanted to show I can do some backwheel stuff too. After both pulling some links and continuing battling after time 2 judges decided for Raph, which was a big disapointment for me since I really felt like I won. But the show must go one.

First half final was Matthias agianst Gilles. Gilles had a clear run but Matthias was also unstubable. Then it was Raph vs Alex. They both had a little bit of trouble pulling their tricks but in the end Alex won. So the final was young against old, both French. Matthias was pulling a lot of tricks but didn't land everything the same was for Alex's boomerang combos. But Matthias came back really hard by pulling his crazy barflip wheelchair boomerang trick. So in the end it's obvious that Matthias won his last victory of the year!

I was really happy how the event went. And want to thank everyone that helped out and made it happen. Hope to see you all next year!

 Dez

 Re: The last battle of the year report. By Dez. Pics by BdJ

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