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After an incredible final battle between Matthias Dandois from France and Terry Adams from the USA it was Matthias who deserved the win of the third edition of the Voodoo Jam in New Orleans. This only 18 years old guy from France ripped it up during the whole weekend; he is certainly one of the most inspiring riders from the next generation flatlanders, pushing the sport in the right direction. Further highlights were Raphael Chiquet’s amazing back wheel stuff, all performed in short pink pants, Shintaro Misawa his fresh style and Hiroya Morizaki who was pulling some of the most insane links during practice. Voodoo Jam 2007 was the celebration of the BMX flatland lifestyle as promised, with outstanding riding in amateur and pro plus one of the best vibes ever.

Big shout out to Scott Obrien and Terry Adams for making it happen! 

The Red Bull Elevation contest is the best dirt jump contest of the year. A team of professional dirt jump builders spends weeks in Whistler prepping a course that the riders actually enjoy riding. Things looked terrible weather wise. Some outdoor events had already been cancelled earlier in the year and the forecast said rain all weekend. It did rain but it also stopped. The trails could handle the rain drops and qualifying on Saturday might turn out to be the final score if Sunday would be a grey rainy day. Fortunately the sun showed up on Canada day and it gave all finalists the chance to ride the trails one more day.

It was windy though which made things difficult on the last set. Each rider had five runs with the best three scores counting towards an overall score. Jay Miron was at the bottom of the course and interviewed the riders after each run. Paul Roberts was commentation on top. Both did a great job informing the big crowd what BMX is all about.

The intention was to make a quick upload right after the finals of the 2007 Elevation contest but the party mood took over and it never happened. We will give you a rider by rider rundown in a little bit but until then we've got some photos of the finalists for you and the results. It was an amazing contest (and an amazing party). James Foster won the Best Trick contest with a truckdriver to downside tailwhip. Yup, he also pulled a triple whip in the best trick contest but he also did that trick 2 years ago. Anyway, we'll get back to you at a later stage. For now, enjoy the pics of the finalists and check the results.

It’s Canada day today and the sun is out as we’re typing up this blog about the finalists of the Red Bull Elevation contest in beautiful Whistler, Canada, host of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Corey Bohan and Brian Foster rode so well that they are out there doing rain dances. We’ll see if they manage to pull that off. Let’s hope not because with the best dirt jumpers on the planet present and a set of delicious trails available, it can only result in another day of good riding. 

The 3rd round of Mountain Dews Free Flow tour went down at Ramp Rats park in Petaluma , CA this past weekend. This round consisted only of the park discipline unlike the 2 previous rounds which also held a vert class.

The winner of this round will go on to the finals in Florida to compete against the winners of the other rounds. With the comp being a 3 way tie the winner was decided after a jam format session.

The next round will be held at Mesh skatepark and will return back to California later this month at the last remaining Vans park in Orange County.

Final results:
1.Ronnie Michelini
2.Dakota Mattert
3.Kenny Kekow

The first Local Support Teamchallenge at the Secret Project BMX park in Brunn (near Vienna) is over: 12 teams from all areas of Austria competed for a new obstacle to upgrade their own BMX spot. After 6 hours full of finest BMX action the winners were set: The new Local Support Obstacle goes to Wörgl in Tyrol – The team with Stefan Landscher, Toni Wastl and Perry Petermueller could convince the judges of the Austrian Freestyle Team, including Senad Grosic, and won with an advance of over 50 points!

Second best has been the locals from the Vienna Prater skate park – Dominik Chatsakos, Patrick Schwarzenecker and Benno Hankowetz can now invite their friends to an organized BBQ at their local spot.

The third place went to the team from Aspang – Markus Kremsl, Christoph Diebold and Guenther Haberzettl are now doing their phone calls with three brand new NOKIA 5300 mobile phones. 

The riders in place 20-28 in qualifying had a feeling they were not going to make it to the finals of the 2007 Red Bull Elevation contest. This is a different story for the riders who placed 13th – 19th. With a bit of luck or a few more pulled tricks, they could have made it. Maybe some should have but this is how the experienced judges (Fuzzy, Osato, Montgomery, Beringer and Barrett) saw it. It’s a trails contest, more than a King of Dirt huck fest. Different lines can be taken transfers are possible if you have the skills to do them.

The Elevation qualifying day was pretty insane. The course dried up in time to start at 15:30pm. Some riders that were invited never made it there (Cam White, Ryan Guettler, Dennis Enarson, Steve McCann and TJ Lavin) where some showed up and pulled out for several reasons (Anthony Napolitan, Alejandro Caro, Heath Pinter and brakeless Kym Grosser). The course was nice and the last set was big (40 feet long and the landing must have been 15 feet high). 

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FATBMX has arrived in Whistler and today we bring you some photos of the course. It looks awesome and it's ready for the riders who are arriving tomorrow. Practice is scheduled for Friday but who knows we can bring you some riding photos tomorrow already. Anyway, stay tuned for Red Bull Elevation updates out of Canada, eh.