One of the biggest South African dirt jump comps took place last weekend in Hout Bay at the Potato trails. A few European riders were thrown in for good measure. Here are the results.
BMX Results Night Harvest:
1^st – Ben Hennon
2^nd – Malcolm Peters
3^rd – Matt Priest
4^th – Stuart Loudon

During the indoor BMX race in Caen also a pro flatland contest took place. Some Brits went over there and two of them ended up on the podium. First place went to Madd Gear's Keelan Phillips (UK), second was for Joris Bretagnolles (France) and third was for S&M's James White (UK).

BMX Winterjam 23 February 2013, Eksel, Belgium.
Results Finals Saturday Pro:
1. Bram De Laat
2. Gwen Geyskens
3. Sven Grieten
4. Kenneth Tancre
5. Fausto Cesario
6. Greg van Tulder
7. Ferre Beckers

The Ultimate X event in South Africa brought the scene together once again. Under sunny conditions the BMX riders battled it out for the top places and bragging rights in years to come.

1: Greg Illingworth Mongoose (by a landslide victory)
2: Malcolm Peters Salvo
3: Paul Ryan Mongoose
4: Stuart Louden
5: Colin Louden

The Ticos jam took place this last weekend and flatland riders from all over gathered for the 10th edition of the event. We've got the results for you right here:

Expert:
1st Jorge Vasquez (Panama)
2nd Gilberto Perez (Panama)
3rd Jaime Perez (Panama)

Best Trick: Jorge Vasquez (Panama)

If you ride BMX you already have friends where you ride and people you hang with. Is it time to make it into a team? In general I am more for the riding for the love of it, but if you are always riding with the same core group of people what is wrong with calling it a team? If you start trying to present yourself as a team if you’re biking on an amateur rather than a more professional level, you may well be setting yourself up to be a bit of a joke. You can however have some fun as a collective, as long as you keep it light hearted and good natured.

A team identity of any sort makes things like posting your latest rides on YouTube a little more fun, and gives people a way to search for you and your team a little easier if they are awed or laughing either way. If you show up at the ramps looking twins that went shopping together, you might not find it easy to aesthetically awe your fans, but on some outings a similar set of colours and styles goes just fine together. Amongst other factors, it may well depend on the

With more than 40 pro riders signing up the contest at 040BMXpark looked promising from the start. It was the first big pro contest in Eindhoven after the 2011 rebeljam and riders from Venezuela, South Africa, Germany, England, Belgium, and the Netherlands showed up and Catfish was flown in to host the event. As usual the contest started a bit later than scheduled but that gave the riders some extra practice time. It's always good to have some extra riding time at a park that you have never visited before.

Out of the 40+ riders, only 16 made it to the finals. It wasn't an easy task by any means because the riders field was close and many of them were stepping it up in the 4-man jam sessions to make it to the final sixteen. Basically every rider had two runs and time for one last trick. Getting to ride the park all by yourself was basically only possible during the contest. Trying out the transfer lines during practice is almost impossible if you don't want to run into an other rider.

DownUnderGround – round 1 series 5 Sydney 19th January 2013 official results. Contest supporters Freestyle Now, Colony bmx and 2020 bmx magazine.

Pro class
1st – Simon O’Brien
2nd – Paul Chamberlain
3rd – Yasushi Kajiwala
4th – Michaël Husser
5th – Rhys Mason

Wednesday evening might not be the best day to host a jam, but if you don't try, you'll never know. The 040BMX PARK in Eindhoven hosted the Tosti jam last night, a special tribute to local shredder Teun Swaanen who broke his jaw at the park in three places a few weeks ago. He wasn't able to eat any solid food until yesterday when it was time to eat some tosti's again, his favourite food at the park.

Those who came over had a good night. Not only because the menu showed many tasty tosti's, but after two weeks of holidays in The Netherlands and people being back at work or in school, the place wasn't packed. Whatever the reason was, those who put the effort in to make it to Gebouw 52, had no reason to complain.

Making a full report wasn't on my mind. I wasn't even sure if I wanted to open up the camera bag as the riding was too fun.

The day before New Years Eve, TCU BMX threw down an awesome jam at Rye Airfield Skatepark to help out Brett Banasiewicz in his recovery. Only several days before Brett had rode his bike for the first time in 4 months, making tremendous progress. It was amazing to see all of the great riders that came out to support, and it was especially cool to ride in such an awesome session in my home park. Rye is one of the only parks that fits in all disciplines, Vert, Street, and Park, and riders were shredding everywhere. Riders included Stevie Churchill, Tom Dungan, Mike Hucker Clark, Chris Doyle, Zack Warden, and many others. Catfish made it even more of a party on the mic. The skatepark was more packed than I have ever seen before, and both the locals and the spectators got a treat.

REVIEW OF THE MINI-FATJAM IN APRIL 2012. ALE BLIE!
It was time for the 22nd edition of the Mini-FATJAM, the little brother of the annual FATJAM which has been around for a few more years. The Mini FATJAM is here to kick off the season and it's hard to brag about it, but it's usually sunny when it takes place. The 2012 was no different. Mark Vos wasn't there but he would have rode half naked, everyone else was in a T-shirt, so good.

A radio reporter showed up and asked a couple of questions. Obvously he was amazed by how many people had shown up for yet another edition. What's the secret? For one Aarle-Rixtel has always been a BMX town. There has always been a scene that got transfered to the next generation. The spot at the Valkendijk has been a good help because to create a scene, you need to have a spot to ride. Next to the dirt spot and the Mini Ramp at the Bosscheweg the presence of an up to date BMX shop in town doesn't hurt either. If you want to come over, you can combine a trip to Paul's Boutique, and ride at the same time.

FATBMX REVIEW OF THE 040BMXOPEN. JUNE 2012.
Last Saturday the 040 BMX Open took place in 040 BMX Park in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. This was the first contest on the ramps that were part of the Rebeljam course in December 2011. Vans, Paul’s Boutique and Pro-tec joined in to make sure the riders could win some good prizes. Riders could compete either in Amateur class or Pro class and go for the goodies from Vans/Pro-tec and the cheques from Paul’s Boutique. This way the Amateur top 5 could exchange the cheque for the parts they want. Cheques were given out worth € 20,- up to € 100,-. Top 5 in pro received cash money with € 500,- for first place, € 250,- for second, € 125,- for third, € 75,- for fourth and € 50,- for fifth place. At the end of the day all riders could compete in the 20 minute jam session for Best Trick.

In amateur class we had 19 riders competing who came over from The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. It really showed that a lot of riders made a lot of progression lately and some

FATBMX 2012 REVIEW: RED BULL EMPIRE OF DIRT. The finals of Red Bull Empire Of Dirt at 'Ally Pally' were nothing short of epic. 10.000 visitors got together to see the world's best riders bomb down the hill and hit up all obstacles. Things heated up quickly with the 16 riders aiming for the 4 spots that were available for another extra run in the super final. With a bit more time on the course, the riders started to feel more comfortable and that showed in their riding. Paul Langlands from New Zealand pulled an opposite 720 on the last set and Kye Forte (UK) did a 360 over the road which had not been done all weekend. Alistair Whitton’s handplant over the spine was not to be repeated and also Brandon Dosch (USA) pulled a clean opposite 720 on the way down.

The expected rain never showed up and the crowd saw Ryan Nyquist (USA), Ben Wallace (UK), Drew Bezanson (CAN) and Mike “Hucker” Clark (USA) make the super final which gave each one of them an extra run to improve their score.

FATBMX 2012 REVIEW: DIRT NIGHT SESSION HEUSDEN. It gets dark early in the fall/winter over in the Netherlands. At 5pm it's too dark to see a thing. If you work till 17:00hrs that means you're stuck or you must have an indoor place near you where you can ride after work. Trail riders usually aren't that lucky because let's be honest, there aren't many dirt spots that have enough lights to ride at night. It was time for an experiment. How many lights would you need to make a dirt spot bright enough so you can ride?

Dimitris Araouzos took on the challenge and rented an generator for his trails in Heusden. He bought some lights and called all his friends to bring the big beamers. We showed up a little early to get at least some attempts in to make it through the pack at daylight. When it got nearly dark the lights were tested. It was obvious that more lights were needed. The run up was still pitch dark and if you weren't a local, you had a serious problem. But the trails in Heusden looked like they had received a Christmas decoration.

FATBMX 2012 REVIEW: ROCK 'N ROLL JAM BLOEMENDAAL. The Dutch BMX scene is a good one. It seems like there are jams happening a few times each month. Nothing too major, but all kind of indoor park and dirt events take place on the regular. This time however, the BMX crew gathered at the Beach! The Rock 'n Roll jam was set for Bloemendaal and that's where we went. It takes some balls to organise something at the beach in The Netherlands. This is no SoCal, so picking a sunny day in June is like playing roulette. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. I always say that you get what you deserve so the sun came out and Mark Vos took his shirt off, and he wasn't the only one this time.

The location was perfect. The ramps were practically set up on the beach in the front yard of a beach house. The beers started flowing early and the scene was just too good to be true. If all comps would have a set-up like this, a lot of riders would become beach bums. The ramps and riding surface weren't all too great, but the girls in bikinis made up for it.