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Damn, quarter pipe high air contests are getting popular these days. When you have riders cranking towards a 10 foot quarter pipe at full speed you can expect some serious air time. Riders who gave it a go at the Simpel Session was the Chester posse of Jon Taylor, Owain Clegg and Alistair Whitton who did a couple of trains which did not help the camera scoring system much but their airs were more in the 2-3 meter range where Josh Harrington and Bas Keep were reaching the 4 meter mark. Dave Mirra threw in a flair that was huge and pleased the crowd.

In the end it was Josh Harrington who won it with this air of 4,21 meters. You figure out yourself who many feet that is but it was insane. It's party time now so don't expect a report in the next few hours.

BdJ

We got the Simpel Session qualifying results here for you. Finals start at 4pm today and again you can watch it live on the internet if you are one of the unfortunate ones who could not make it over this year. Before the finals the Red Bull High air will take place. With Josh Harrington, Bas Keep, Ronnie Surridge, Jon Taylor, Alistair Whitton and Joe Rich in the house it should be a good one but Dave Mirra wants to win it with a flair. Don't miss it.

A good contest involves some good parties but there is some awesome riding going on here in Tallinn too. What would you expect if you get 72 pre-qualified riders on a Nate Wessell designed course? The atmosphere is great. Riders are being treated well, we've got Catfish on the microphone and for the finals the place is sold out. We'll run some photos of Friday's practice here and will get into the qualifying day in a little while. Enjoy the show.

Thank God! ..., an awesome event with "STYLE", the Itanhaem Dirt JUMP contest once more enters pra history of the universe, tatooed in the mind and in the heart of each one there, get into by the eyes and ears he fulled the body of the best Emotion that so exists our loved "BMX". Felt by many forms for all the pores generating the most beautiful and pure energy of friendship to the environment if raised on this day to maximo 07 of January of the 2007 in the Parambuco Hills just few feet of the sea in Itanhaem City SP, from the gap gate could have the vision of the sea beating the rocks only inotable spray from the Atlantico ocean. 

Where is vert headed? Are the ramps too big and intimidating for new riders to take it on? Should there be obstacles on a competition vert ramp? These were a few of the issues at hand when Chad Kagy began organizing a gathering of vert riders at Woodward Camp. There was no contest, and no money up for grabs, just a good ramp (in Woodward’s Cloud 9) and a good place to get everyone together outside of a contest.

But the gathering was as much for up and coming riders with a serious interest in vert, as it was for seasoned veterans like Dennis McCoy, Steve Swope, Jay Eggleston, Dave Brumlow, Kevin Robinson, Mike Mancuso, Morgan Wade (and his girlfriend Natalie Wagner) and of course Chad Kagy. Young faces on the ramp included Zack Warden, Tony Campos, Zack Newman, and Jean Marie Bartsch, who traveled all the way from Switzerland. There were even some old-school legends (in addition to Dennis of course) present, in the way of Gary Pollack, Mark Eaton, and Large Ray. 

December 9th, on my calender every year, the intrikat jam in Long beach, California. At the infamous Wilson basketball courts that have featured on many a intrikat video section… The third year for the jam, and it keeps growing, awesome turnout of pro/am riders every year, some people get to brush off the winter cobwebs and others get to ride as they normally do (cali guys).  The jam is always much more than just a days riding to me, it’s a ten day experience of the Californian lifestyle, for the second year running I rode at the Olympic pool spot almost everyday with Cory Fester, Canadian shredder from Edmonton, and Chad Johnston/Kip Williamson when they weren’t busy editing and all that good stuff. If you haven’t made the trip out to the jam I would recommend it, it’s the highlight of my year, laidback jam, someone brings a ghetto blaster, this year it was Kip who hooked it all up, and people ride and hang out, the choice is yours. 

To finish up another flatland year, Michiel and his friends from Soulcycle organized another edition of the famous Flatground International Flatland Contests in Amsterdam, Holland. They chose a new location in the docks of Amsterdam, away from the city centre. Same wooden Flatground floor though, the one all the riders love.

Rider turnout was a bit disappointing though, about 20 expert riders and only 12 master class riders is not much. Good turnout in pro, with mostly Euro riders and some Japanese and Americans but not even in the same ballpark as last year's edition. The venue was smaller than last year too, but good enough for the amount of riders and spectators.

Once again, 2 time Flatground winner Martti Kuoppa (28) was on top of his game during the sixth edition of the international flatland BMX event Flatground in the NDSM shipyard in Amsterdam. In a nerve wrecking final, the Finnish rider managed to outclass Frenchman Alex Jumelin. This weekend, more than 1000 spectators visitors witnessed Kuoppa take home the victory. The qualifying rounds on Saturday decided which twelve flatland BMX riders placed for the finals on Sunday.

PRO
1. Justin Miller
2. Alex Jumelin
3. Matthias Dandois
4. Michael Sommer
5. Hiroya Morizaki
6. Matti Röse
7. York Uno
8. Sven Steinbach
9. Frank Lukas
10. Sebastian Pospischil
11. Wolfgang Sauter
12. Benjamin Großjohann
13. Markus Reich