Burnside BOK fueled by Etnies, Deventer, NL by Jos Wissink

Oct 04, 2011

Written by Bart de Jong

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Last saturday the annual BMX BOK took place at the legendary Burnside skatepark in Deventer, The Netherlands. Although there was another contest in Amsterdam, loads of bmx junkies showed up and rode all day long. With October temperatures still around 25°C, everybody was sweating their asses off, but nobody really cared.

The format was loose as always and this year everybody had a change to win a joet. Not by pulling of the biggest tricks, but with originality. Whenever co-organiser Roy van Kempen was not taking care of the organisation, he rode. This guy never gets tired of riding his bike and I don't get tired of looking at his banger bag full of tricks.

The jam / contest format was split in two parts, with a bbq during the break. The first part were the wooden "trails" with boxes, spine, vulcano and mini was jammed.

Highlights were the kids ripping with tuck no-handers, Daniel Wedemeijer boosting as usual, backflip king Syo and Daniel Wijsmuller flowing and jumping the spine higher than anybody else.

The second part was on the "street" side of the park, where Stuart Gibson was highly underrated with his technical lip tricks. Rik Jurjus was boosting as usual but his style is so relaxed. Desmond Tessemaker was ripping the quarter with style. Super rad were his no-hander to invert, tuck-no-hander fakie air and no-foot topside cancan airs. Syo boosted a huge fakie over the hip and Thomas "49cents" gave a free flatland demo.

The day ended with a little bunny-hop contest in the dark where some Etnies goodies were handed out. If I remember correctly the winner cleared 95cm. The last goodies were handed out with some hop and 180-sessions over the fire barrel, where my last shot of the day is also my favorite.

Thanks to Burnside, Etnies and Herm, Roy & Lennard for the organisation. See you next year!