Style against Big tricks at the Rotterdam Streetmasters.

Aug 30, 2006

Written by Bart de Jong

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For the fourth time this year there were some serious battles going on between the young Riders from the Netherlands. This time it was the BMX-finals of StreetMasters. Streetmasters is an organisation with the ambition to take streetsports as BMX, Skateboarding, Aggressive inline and more to a higher level. The qualifiers went for training on roadtrips with dutch pro-riders. The foampit training worked out well for the local boys from Rotterdam. They learnt some serious big tricks. In the final they pulled a high 720 over the box (Shannon), a backlfip on a hip (Aimy) and a huge wallride Barry Kohne-style (Selso “Kamikaze” Deluce).

Next one up was Pim v/d Bos, who knew he had to come up with something huge to pull the grand-price his way. “Smiley” did what he had to do and jumped, after a run with lots of tailwhips, the first Frontflip in the Netherlands in a contest. Which caused the crowd to go bezerk.

That very same crowd thought BMX was all about big huge tricks, until……. Stylomat-Master Michael “the General” van der Lee gave his version of contest riding. With a really nice flow he pulled one trick after the other and showed everyone that there are more lines at Skateland than a zebra has on its back. With his flow and style he won the contest, Pim ended second and local boy Shannon third.

What the level of riding will be at the streetmasters 2007? Will there be more big tricks, are there more creative lines, who are the new talents?

Jeroen Surfstad