Bart de Jong
Boy-o-boy weeks fly by quick. It's Friday already so time to type up all the news from this week, and there was loads. On Saturday we packed the Vito and drove over to the BMX Playground in Veldhoven for the WhoZnext jam. It's got an indoor BMX track with starting gate, a few street obstacles for the kids to play on, a massive foampit and a great spine/quarter/jump box set up. It was pretty packed too. In the far corner some trails are in the works so we will be making a trip back to the BMX Playground in the next few weeks to check that out and give you a full spot check. It was hard to get Philip back into the van, I tell you. -An indoor spot that will see the end of day on 16 March is the Abflughalle in Grevenbroich, Germany. The indoor trails spot has been a great location for everyone to ride when the weather was shite. Also the resi-section and foam pit helped lots of riders work on tricks that would have hurt more when trying on the frozen dirt. One last contest will take place at the Abflughalle on 15 March. Show your respect.
Creative Control: Nike 6.0 gave their athletes free reign of the Nike design lab and let them go off. The result? The first ever team signature shoe. Features include: -Premium leather upper
-Sure-fit tongue straps
Two UK riders with an attitude this week. We met Sam Wise in Estonia and hit it off right away. Maybe it was because he was on the booze like us. As far as FIDS is concerned, he's a legend, and not only in Cologne. Happy B-day to both of them.10 March 1988 Sam Wise
11 March 1970 The Fids
On 1 April you make jokes. You have one day to come up with something. Martin Aparijo (old school freestyle rider) and new school rider Mike Spinner share their B-days: on 1 April! Hmmmm......1 April 1963 - Martin Aparijo
1 April 1988 - Michael Spinner
2 April 1972 - Jay Eggleston
4 April 1974 - Dave Mirra
4 April 1974 - The Beard
4 April 1972 - Sofian Blanluet
4 April 1977 - Matt Beringer
6 April 1974 - Brian Tunney
It´s a wild mix this week. Duncan hasn´t been seen on a BMX bike much, Trevor ruled flatland for a while but has not shown up lately. Sigur shows up at Oldschool meetings only and Dyrenforth has not returned from his fruitboot trip. Mintovt will open a bottle of wine tonight and DeGroot turns 33 but still rips. Happy B-day!17 March 1979 - Chris Duncan
20 March 1972 - Trevor Meyer
22 March 1967 - Rich Sigur
23 March 1969 - Jess Dyrenforth
23 March 1973 - Pascal Mintovt
23 March 1975 - Chad de Groot
If you want to promote a contest a good way to do this is to go to the local schools and put on some sort of demo. David Vazquez to a couple of riders to a school with over 2000 girls and they put on a little show to promote the Revolcon contest that was happening that weekend in Guadelajara. Senad Grosic and Tobias Wicke changed back into their riding gear (the wrestiling match was last week, they missed it) and put on a good show. With 2700 spectators that showed up at the contest you can say that the little demo was 
This was the first of five REVOLCON contest series, it was packed by 2700 cheerfull spectators, 130 riders and a very sunny weekend of 30ºC /88ºF (Winter time in Mexico, ha!). It was a delight to have Senad Grosic and Tobias Wicke in Guadalajara, first time in Mexico for both guys, it seems that they had a good time, they got a little bit affected by the change of weather, Mexico's winter time is always sunny and nice to deal with. The contest took place on a re-new skatepark, we had PARK, DIRT, SPINE MINI RAMP AND FLAT, it was a funny jam format. Riders
The annual King of New York event was founded in the Bronx by Lou Perez in 1995. Lou ran the event every year until he handed over the reigns to me at baby bean Productions in 2006. With first Lou and now baby bean running the show, the event has gotten better and better, year after year. In addition to the amazing athletes and enthusiastic crowds at the heart of the King of New York event, a team of great sponsors helps elevate the King of New York to the kick-ass event that it is. Not long ago, baby bean invited clothing and sneaker giant DC Shoes to join the King of New York event family of sponsors. We thought DC Shoes would be a great fit (no pun intended) but unfortunately, DC Shoes completely ignored our invitation. So it hit us like a ton of bricks when we learned that DC Shoes had stolen the “King of New York” name and concept for its own event. Adding insult to injury, DC Shoes suggested that the “King of New York” event was its own creation!
Videos from Latvia and Estonia. Yeah whatever. No, not whatever. The Ride It contest in Riga and the Simpel Session in Tallinn are proper comps, with proper riders and proper filming. Enjoy the three videos we've got for you today. 
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.