The Hoffman Sports Association announced the first round of invites for the BMX Freestyle competitions for ESPN’s X Games 15, to be held July 30-August 2 in Los Angeles. Invitees include: Big Air: -Prequalified: Chad Kagy, Dave Mirra, Kevin Robinson. 1 Steven McCann 2 Morgan Wade
Street: -Prequalified: Garrett Reynolds, Van Homan, Sean Sexton. 1 Dakota Roche 2 Brian Kachinsky 3 Aaron Ross 4 Corey Martinez 5 Nathan Williams 6 Ty Morrow
SuperPark: -Prequalified: Daniel Dhers, Diogo Canina, Rob Darden. 1 Dennis Enarson 2 Gary Young 3 Ryan Nyquist 4 Morgan Wade 5 Chase Hawk 6 Cory Bohan 7 Scotty Cranmer 8 Brian Foster 9 Allistair Whitton 10 Chris Doyle
Vert: -Prequalified: Jamie Bestwick, Chad Kagy, Steven McCann. 1 Simon Tabron 2 Dennis McCoy 3 Jimmy Walker 4 Kevin Robinson
A second and final round of invites will be announced on June 15 and will include one (1) invite for Big Air, three (3) invites for Vert,
17 June - Donny Robinson (age 26)17 June - Todd Anderson (age 41)
19 June - Nielswheels Thanild
19 June - Todd Toth (age 40)
20 June - Krt Schmidt
20 June - Barry Kohne
21 June - Timm Wiegmann
21 June - Nico van Dartel (age 35)
If you wanted to go to Laarbeek for the Tour Dur Laarbeek, don't. It is raining here this time too. The tour has been cancelled and everyone is already at OJA in Aarle-Rixtel playing FUSSball. They're working on getting a big screen there so maybe you can watch 
In Hitman team news Dave Mahoney (Fl.) was in so-cal, tearing up Vans of Orange and shooting with the mags. Look for his pics soon and watch for him on the Dew Tour rooming with Ben Snowden also. Speaking of Snowden he took 3rd place at the Asian X-Games street class and 8th in vert, GO BEN! Hitman has also picked up legendary vert rider Koji Kraft, Hitman has also stepped up to do a Koji frame, The Killer Kraft. Think a Ruby street frame, post weld heat treated with a 75ht and even more headtube bracing to keep 
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.