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This morning from 9am-1pm was practice. Some got up early and rode when it was not that hot but the sun came out quick and up went the temperature.  Hot and humid but the show must go on.  After a quick riders meeting the contest started with a group of 5 Asian riders. They were given a bit longer than the 10 minutes that the other 10 groups (of 4 riders) are getting because this extra person got squeezed in. Out with injuries are Wade Lajlar, Bas Keep, Corey Martinez and Dhers and Mirra took some pretty hard slams this morning.  Whether they'll ride remains to be seen.

At the moment we're in a competition break. After almost finishing 3 groups it started to rain. Hard! It's the way it goes over here sometimes and you have to deal with it. The course is being dried off at the moment and the hot temperatures will help with this. We saw flips, whips and 360-s from a lot of the Asian competitors but highlights so far were Matt Beyers, BiBi and  Low Chi Siang (also known as LCS). Yes, Grotbags is having problems with some of the names of the Asian riders but he makes it all funny.

More rides showed up today and more are about to arrive to get some practice in on the Metro BMX course. The field looks deep and with only the top 16 riders making it to the finals, the riders will have to throw down if they want to make it. The Asian riders are actually doing real good too out there so it will be an interesting contest which will kick off tomorrow. The imported ramp set up looks good. There are a couple of rails, a fence, a giant tranny to tranny box in the middle, a spine, a slanted curved wall, some ledges, a hip ramp and more.

After 5 days of riding at camp everyone was ready for a change. So we called Ryan to make his invite valid. Nate Wessel had to drive to Greenville anyway so he escorted us for the 8 hour trip. Being on the road is pretty boring... arriving in Greenville at midnight we were stoked to have at least 20 degrees warmer weather, well, at least for a day. we checked into the hotel and Ryan picked us up the next morning to bring us to the unit.

Yes it was a bit of a flight but we made it. Checked in the hotel across the street from the Singapore Metro jam and took a photo from the room. They're still finishing up and when it's done we'll take a few pics and show it to you. Riders are dropping in. Just shook hands with Osato, Freimuth, Whitton, Grotbags, Bibi, Wicke, Martinez, Dhers, Napolitan, Dillewaard, Wise, Wade L., Nyquist, MacKay, Keep and that's just a small part of the riders that are going to be here. It's 32 degrees Celsius and humid but they've got airco everywhere and wireless in the lobby. Stay tight, more to come.

As the weather was mostly cold and rainy we rode indoors, Lot8 and Cloud9. Hannu's bike arrived after 2 days, by this time he was getting used to TM Andy's ride. He was brakeless this time. Good sessions went down with the locals, including Tom Stober, Jamie Bestwick, Andy Alvarez and a few visiting pros. One of them being Mike Spinner who does 7's to get warmed up and has the most dialled footjam-tailwhips. Hennon rode for short periods of time, but they were all like a comp.

So this weekend was crazy! We all got together and threw a bmx jam/party at our Lost Souls tavern haha. It ended up being pretty awesome. A lot of really good riding went down. A lot of people showed up. There was spray painting going on, some swimming, some bbq, and a little bit of trampoline biking was being done.

Here are some pictures enjoy! Thanks to everyone that made this happen.

Some happenings from the Albe's crew straight from the Props Visual MegaTour
-BMX riders are banned from one of the bars in downtown Greenville after most of the megatour riders spent some time there.
-We met lots of people. Some of them have been SHADY but all were cool.
-Thanks to Justin and Erin Holt for putting us up for a night
-Vinnie is Grimey x 2

Extremething is held in Las Vegas each year: bands , wrestling, AM comp, loads of unhappy looking kids wearing black and Ricardo Laguna's dirt comp. This is the fourth year the dirt comp has been held and the airline making me miss my flight wasn't going to stop me from being there.

Event winner Corey Bohan was more dialled than any sex chat hotline in Vegas. Throwing down moves like a bar spin to tailwhip looks like you are watching a video game. Bohan walked away with $10 000 doing what he does best.

As the finals kicked off Josh Holt's first run looked great with him throwing something in on each jump. Many of the new generation of dirt riders were there and killing it: TJ Ellis, Mike "Hucker" Clark, Thomas Hancock, James Foster, Radio, Mike Saavedra and Dennis Enerson. 

With $1000 for first place up for grabs Atascadero bike and skate park kicked off their first ever competition. After being open for bikes since December 22nd , Atascadero bike and skate park held their first ever compeition on the 24th of March. Local riders Ted and Danny took the area behind the already established indoor skate park and built a bmx street course. These are a dedicated bunch of guys and were still finishing off the park till 10pm the night before the comp.