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The first round of the T-mobile Extreme Playgrounds miniramp contest just took place. We’re semi live here. The vibe is good and the sun is here. Perfect because this round is called the Summer Session. It’s head to head today and this is how it went:

First heat: Mike Spinner vs. Mark Konig. It was close and some were disappointed that Mark Konig didn’t make it to the next round because his first run was killer and he did a lot of technical tricks but Spinner went off too and showed a 720 over the spine, tailwhip tire tabs, 3-whip ove the spine, 360 drop-in, nosebonk-360 turndown over the spine, a sweet 540 manual, invert, tailwhip, 1 handed x-down, 360, plus one-handed 360 x-down over the spine.

We got the results below.

One rider will make it through to the next round by SMS voting.

Round one results:

The next rounds of the contest will be shown online.

We're at the T-mobile extreme playgrounds Summer Session (no we din't make up that name) in Pinneberg, Germany. 6 riders rode the qualifying session and three of them mad it to the finals with the seeded riders. Michael Sieren did hard tricks to make it through, Daniel Traeder rode very smooth, was all over the ramp, did some airs an some lip tricks to finish second. Benny Paulsen wishes he had more ticks but made it regardless. He was riding trails later on in the day and enjoyed that. Achim Kujawski finished fourth and did a street style 360 over the little box to flat. Yeah! 

Over the years we’ve had some “side activities” going on at the FAT-JAM. We used to go lake jumping the day after the FAT-JAM, we had Marco Stalman in a Evel Knievil suit jumping from one side of the trails to the other side before FMX became popular.One year we had the BMX Olympics, one year we had a moped jump show, an old school party, high jump contest, Bavaria factory tour and more. We’ve been doing this jam for 19 years and it’s safe to say that we’ve had some fun.

NokiaFISE was on tour last weekend and built up a park in  La Plagne which is a ski resort in the winter time. We have the results for you and a few videos. We also have the date for the 2008 NokiaFISE in Montpellier: 30 April - 4 May. Mark that one down. If it's as good as this year's event, it cannot be missed.
Back to the La Plagne results:

No photo passes were handed out at the FAT-JAM so if you had a video camera or a digital snapper, you got the chance to get as close to the action as you wanted. Ken "Kemo" van Hamme took a whole lot of photos for his KEMOBMX website. You can see them all by hitting THIS LINK. Clint Millar got into photo action before hitting the jumps himself. You can find his report right here (just scroll down a bit). Our very own webmaster Jos Wissink came over and shot a few pics during the day which are put together in this little photo gallery. Enjoy.

Jason Teet is an animal and almost beat Wade Llajar at this one. He won the kirkstone comp... watch out for this guy. Wade flipped the hip from quarter to flat bank, Jason aired the hip from flat bank to flat bank higher and further than anyone, and dirty Dave just all around shredded. There was a special appearance by the Sarge (Sigaty) in the pro class...he's still got it for sure.

As far as the ams? Taylor Ross killed it, Dillan Winn was airing huge 

Portland, Ore. – Mike Spinner earned his first Dew Tour win in the BMX Park Saturday at the Vans Invitational. Spinner, 19, landed a 1080 (three revolutions) during his second run to secure the victory with a 94.00 score. Dave Mirra and reigning Dew Cup champion Daniel Dhers attempted to knock Spinner out of the lead, but both fell during difficult tricks midway through their second runs. Mirra finished in second with 93.50 and Dhers was third with a 92.33. 

Portland, Ore. – 16-year-old Dennis Enarson topped the BMX Dirt competition, and veteran Jamie Bestwick secured his second BMX Vert victory of the year Friday in the Vans Invitational.  Enarson of La Mesa, Calif. dominated the dirt course from his first run, taking home the win with a score of 93.17. This was the first podium finish for Enarson in BMX Dirt, and also the first time he has advanced to the finals in this discipline. 

“I am just really ecstatic,” Enarson said, who is the youngest in the field. “It feels really cool, I guess. I don’t really feel like I’m the youngest because I hang out with these guys all the time.”

Diogo Canina, 24, of Brazil placed second with 92.92 points. Third place went to Anthony Napolitan of Youngstown, Ohio with a score of 92.00.

Bestwick, 36, of Nottingham, England sealed his victory with a tailwhip flair (180 backflip with a tailwhip in the middle) in his second run, which earned him a 94.67 score.

After going all out in prelims, Morgan Wade couldn't pull it off in the pro dirt finals at the Vans Invitational. He got 12th. Still, this round got a surprising winner with 16 year old super human Dennis Enarson. He can do more than ride street and he proved that in Portland (triple whips, flipwhips, 360-double whips). It's been a long time coming for Diogo Canina (Brasilian arm wrestling king) to finish on the podium (second place!!). Tricks like opposite double tailwhips, 3-doublewhips and 720- over the hip helped him get there.  Anthony Napolitan seems to be on his way back with flip doublewhips, tiregrab to barspin fronties and suicide no-hander frontflips (third). Here are the results of the Dew Tour sop three Dirt finals:

Pro Dirt finals, Portland, Oregon:
1st Enarson, Dennis 93.17
2nd Canina, Diogo 92.92

7 vert veterans qualified for the finals in Pro vert at the Vans Invitational in Portland, Oregon. The three vert "rookies" being Austin Coleman, Zack Warden and Steve McCann.
Vert Qualification Results Dew Tour Portland:
1. Jamie Bestwick
2. Jay Eggleston
3. Steve McCann
4. Simon Tabron