UK BMX Vert and Park Series Finals, Mount Hawke, Cornwall. August 2015
The final rounds of the 2015 Vert and Park series took place over the August Bank Holiday weekend at the awesome Mount Hawke skatepark in the depths of Cornwall. A lot of the riders and organisers took the opportunity to make a holiday of it, combining two of the world’s best activities, BMX and camping. The vert and park series are in their third and second years respectively, and are there to provide a solid platform for riders in the UK to meet up, visit different parks and have a free to enter open contest series.
Building for the future, turnouts of 20 riders in under 13s park, and 15 in under 13s vert show there’s plenty of fresh blood on the horizon. Moving up the groups, the standard of riding in Amateur and Pro, in particular from lesser known up-and-coming riders, is going to keep some established riders on their toes. The series aims to grow year on year so find it on facebook, come along to a contest and enter for fun. In the meantime check out the photos and the overall placings to spot some names for the future!
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It's been a busy few weeks over here and honestly no BMX event was on the schedule for this weekend. Until Paul left a message if I wanted a ride to Burnside for the 2015 BOK edition. It had been a few years I'd seen Herm and the boys at Burnside so I took the offer. On arrival the second Pro qualifying group was busy on the indoor park/street course. The Ams already had their qualifying done. Between group two and three a quick bunny hop contest was held outside with the winner clearing 95cm in the light rain. It was back inside for group 3
We had a blast! The last EX&HOP Tour Stop of the year at the Streetlife Festival in Munich had everything one could have wished for: sun, blue sky, tons of action and the entire local BMX scene as well as riders from the UK, Hungary and Austria. For the first time ever all local BMX institutions had been involved: the setup was made up of the massive Countrybikes Jumpbox, parts of the Showtime BMX course, the FURTHER Quarter and tons of goodies from the 360Grad BMX Shop.
The first place went to Michael Meisel from Kulmbach with Barspins to double tailwhip, flip nohander and bar to tailwhip variations, followed by Simon Moratz from Munich with a heel klicker flip and superman flip. Bobo Ujvari from Hungary came third by showing off 360 triple barspins and a flip to nofoot cancan. Local legend Andi Wohning decided to just change the direction of the course and secured the 4th place with a 180 barspin to tuck no hand and 540 in the bank..The pictures speak for themselves.
Of course there was also the obligatory riders BBQ, this time with
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