Bart de Jong
Antwerp City Drops took place in the weekend of 23/24 September and once again the weather cooperated to make the Urban sports festival a success in the middle of the city centre of Antwerp. This year, next to dirt, a flatland contest was added to the program. While kids rode the dirt pump track all weekend long, the Dirt jumps were used for an Open Qualification contest, a Primus High Air comp, Best trick contest and the BMX Dirt Invitational. The Flatland contest was held on a 144 square meter podium which attracted a huge crowd.
The 8 meter high roll-in got the riders up to speed in no-time for the two big jumps. The first dirt jump was angled in a hip with the second one sending you to the moon if you wanted to. On Saturday Tom van den Bogaard (NED) cleared 7,80 meters in the Primus Haacht Beer high air contest winning a keg of beer and €500 for his efforts. Qualification on Saturday sent the best riders to Sunday's finals where Konrad Szabo (HUN) delivered his triple whips and front flips to please not only the crowd but the judges as well for first place. Tom van den Bogaard styled to second place with height while German Simon Moratz grobbed third with barspins to tailwhips and flip variations. Joe Baddeley (GBR) double flipped to 4th while home favourite Kenneth Tancré claimed 5th place.
Best Trick on Dirt went to Joe Baddeley with a bad-ass double flip on the first hipped double jump. He's got that trick on lock. Antwerp got to see plenty of them over the weekend and Joe liked throwing them to please the Belgians.
Flatland Qualification results Antwerp City Drops 2017:
1 Dez Maarsen (NL)
2 David Hoffmann (DE)
3 Barre Neiryinck (BE)
4 Markus Schwital (DE)
5 Sietse Van Berkel (NL)
6 Martin Drazil (CZ)
7 Jorrit van Drumpt (NL)
Hungarian Konrad Szabo qualifies in first place at the 2017 Antwerp City Drops BMX Dirt invitational. Finals tomorrow.
Antwerp City Drops Qualification results. Top 12 to finals.
1 Konrad Szabo (HUN) 522
2 Tom van den bogaard (NED) 521
3 Kenneth tancré (BEL) 507
4 Joe baddeley (GBR) 454
5 Tom Selbeck (NED) 450
6 Simon Moratz (GER) 443
7 Greg van tulder (BEL) 428
8 Brent minne 420
9 Charly ash 396
10 Maxime Charveron (FRA) 393
11 Sean Brouns 392
12 Steffen Buyle (BEL) 386
13 Bart v.d broek 378
Back on the bike again and this week the challenge that I made for myself it's to ride my BMX bike around the race track behind my bike shop! I have been racing there since I was eight years old and I am so excited to still be able to get on the bike and give it a try! I knew it wasn't going to be easy but nothing has been in the last year but I am ready to give it my best shot! I love BMX and I'm so excited to bring you all along on my journey getting back to my BMX life!
(See 'CC' button on the bottom right for subtitles) Argentina is always on of my favorite trips of the year. The culture keeps surprising me, so I thought, why not make a video of my trip?! Enjoy!
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