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On Thursday evening, the 25th anniversary of Simple Session commenced with the highly anticipated Best Trick competition, where athletes displayed their most daring and skillful tricks. A standout feature of the event was a specially designed rideable structure, which will later be relocated to Freedom Square to further enhance Tallinn's extreme sports scene.

Returning to a large-scale venue, this year's Simple Session milestone event unfolded in the historic Krulli repair hall, evoking memories of past competitions held at Põhjala Factory and Tartu Kammivabrik.

In the BMX division, the Best Trick Award went to Sasha Cambon (France) for his abubaca jam tailwhip out, a complex and visually stunning maneuver requiring extreme precision, balance, and swift footwork.

Elite skateboarders and BMX riders also had the opportunity to test their skills on "Kelluke," a new rideable sculpture developed through a collaboration between Simple Session and the City of Tallinn.

“Simple Session is more than just an annual gathering that attracts thousands of fans—it has inspired an entire generation,” stated Tallinn's Mayor Jevgeni Ossinovski, who officially inaugurated the Best Trick competition. He highlighted that the sculpture serves not only as a tribute to Simple Session but also as a valuable addition to the local community.

Cluut jam. You pretty much know what to expect at a Cluut jam. Good times, madness, craziness, and BMX at its finest. Sounds good to us. Paul picked me up and we drove over to Belgium on a Saturday afternoon. Antwerp traffic wasn't too bad and once past Antwerpen we were in Mechelen in no-time. Construction was happening all around the indoor park and we found out that on Monday after the event, the indoor park had to make room for 111 apartments. So this was the very last BMX happening taking place the Rode Kruisplein 14. The Inzini House was packed with BMX-ers. A mix of street, park and dirt riders found their way around the park where the "cash for tricks" concept go the riders hyped to go mad.

Different sections of the park were used for the jam. We arrived when riders were dropping in from the highest part of the park to flat doing barspins, 360s, turndowns and tailwhips. Not everything survived but cash was handed out. Beer was flowing early. This was Belgium after all. King Koen and Denz were handling the records and MC Egon and Rachid were on the mic. The entire Belgian BMX freestyle scene was present and it was good to see the veterans make a showing. Hannu Cools managed to tire tap/icepick/fufanu a wall when his 15 years old cranks broke and he had to switch to the pils. Tom Russell, Sem Kok, Gerrit Vanopdenbosch, rocked the quarter and Twan van Wijk got some cash for doing a rock to barspin 180 out on the rainbow rail.

Results C1 Costa Rica Freestyle Series 1, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Sunday 23 February 2025

Men Park:

1 Kenneth TENCIO  32 CRC 92       200.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Jose TORRES GIL 30 ARG 90.33 160.00
3 Jose CEDANO  28 CHI 89.67.      130.00
4 Kevin FABREGUE 30 FRA 88.        110.00
5 Manuel TURONE 18 ARG 83.          90.00

Women Park:

1 Nikita DUCARROZ 29 SUI                  200.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Macarena PEREZ GRASSET 29 CHI  160.00
3 Sofia BAEZ SCHARF 18 MEX             130.00

Results CN Paraguayan BMX Park National Championships - Luque Asuncion, Paraguay 15 - 16 February 2025

Men Park:
1 Michael WARKENTIN RAHN PAR 53.63
2 Elias MEDINA ESCOBAR PAR 52.45
3 Pedro MOREL GIMENEZ PAR 51.90

The 2025 BMX Triple Challenge is officially a wrap! Monster Energy congratulates team rider Brady Baker on winning the BMX Dirt competition at the 2025 Monster Energy BMX Triple Challenge in Arlington, Texas. In the final stop of the 2025 season, the 22-year-old from Toms River, New Jersey, claimed the victory and third place in the overall rankings. Monster Energy swept the entire podium for the third time this season, with 30-year-old Daniel Sandoval from Corona, California, in second place and 30-year-old Ryan Williams from Sunshine Coast, Australia, in third place. Williams also won the Best Trick event with a massive technical trick.

In the overall standings for the BMX Triple Challenge, Monster Energy also claimed the top three spots:

Results 2025 Australian National Championships - Park. Gold Coast, Australia. 15 - 16 February 2025.

Men Park:
1 Brandon LOUPOS 32 AUS 200.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Chris JAMES 35 AUS 160.00
3 Keegan PRYOR 17 AUS 130.00
4 William SPEDDING 18 AUS 110.00
5 Xavier GILBEE 19 AUS 90.00
6 Jaie TOOHEY 34 AUS 70.00
7 Liam QUINLIVAN 28 AUS 50.00
8 Alec DANELUTTI 25 AUS 30.00

Women Park:
1 Natalya DIEHM 28 AUS 200.00 UCI Ranking points

Always sad to say goodbye to California. Monday morning and we packed up, left Solarena and drove to Denny's on Beach and Ellis. Don't ask me why but it has become "a thing" to have a bigger breakfast on the day we leave. It was the Grand Slam or whatever slam it was that got us ready for the trip back home. $55 later and we drove up North on Beach to the 405 North and actually had plenty of time to spare as we did not seem to hit any traffic. You see, instead of the 13:40hr departure time it was moved to 15:15hr. KLM had informed us so we had extra time before dropping the vehicle off. But with several businesses closed on Monday (morning) we decided to just drive to Hertz to drop off the Rogue. When you're not in a rush, things seem to go smoothly. The shuttle bus to the airport was right there, dropped us off at the international terminal, we dropped off the bags through the Priority lane (22.4 kilograms with a 23kg limit) and could check in the two smaller Albek/Twin Air roller bags as well, which left us with the essentials in the backpack to take on board.

With a bit of gambling we scored a window seat each with a free seat next to us. I had a bit of extra leg room and Philip was only 6 seats behind. Getting to pick your seat is nice. The hopes of having an entire row to ourselves was destroyed real soon, but no complaints.

But before we got on board, we got to hang out with the bar man at the Air France/KLM lounge.

Sunday, last full day in Cali, and it was cloudy. So weird, haha. But we did come prepared and brought warm clothes, even a rain jacket. We've got plenty and need them all the time in The Netherlands but normally in So Cal not so much. Anyway, preparation is key. We had planned to meet up with McGoo that day but it didn't work out in the end. We still headed that direction and stopped at the Kawasaki test track and then searched for the other test tracks at the next exit. We drove up the hill and did not see anything. But we felt we were close. We parked the Rogue, hiked up a bit to discover 6 Supercross test tracks! Exploring is fun, especially when you find something you were looking for.

Results Queensland BMX Freestyle State Championships Beenleigh, Australia 08 - 09 February 2025

Men Park:
1 Brandon LOUPOS 32 AUS 200.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Anar ALIEV 22 *** 160.00
3 Keegan Prior AUS 130.00
4 Nikita FOMINOV 26 *** 110.00
5 Chris JAMES 35 AUS 90.00
6 Xavier GILBEE 19 AUS 70.00
7 Yeonho KIM 23 KOR 50.00
8 William SPEDDING 18 AUS 30.00

Women Park:
1 Sarah SKOTNICKI 18 AUS 200.00 UCI Ranking points

Saturday was much the same as Friday over in Anaheim. We got there early to take it all in. Finished the rounds in the pits, said hi to the folks, checked Supercross practice, time qualification, and cruised over to the BMX triples to catch some of the semi-finals, finals and best trick comp. Then everyone made it back into the Anaheim Angel stadium for the Supercross qualification races, LCQ's and finals.

There's no need to explain who did what and who finished where. That's what social media does for everyone these days. But with no live feed of BMX Triples you would still have to be there in person to catch everything. Seeing everything live is just so much better. Smelling the gas, looking where you want to look, hearing the sound, catching the action, the antics, nothing beats the live action. Luckily we were up high in the media room because it did start to rain during the evening program. Rain in California! it was almost a year ago since they'd seen it. Luckily the BMX Triple Challenge was finished already and the trophies and cheques had been handed out to the riders but the Supercross riders now had to deal with difficult vision and a slippery track. It did not turn into a mud fest luckily and the big jumps were also no problem for the boys. Damn they are good at what they do.

The evening passed quickly. Two heats of 250 qualification, LCQ and finals. And the same for the 450 class. The KTM Juniors did a couple of laps on the E-bikes and had the day of their lives.