It's not easy to put on events of a bigger size but it was Martijn Vroemen's goal to make this one happen. And not somewhere in an empty field, no, in the middle of Den Haag, one of the bigger cities in The Netherlands. With sports such as snowboarding, ski, wakeboarding, skateboarding, MTB and BMX on the program, it almost felt like a smaller version of the FISE, but then in our home country. It felt nice to just walk to the train station and get to an event that way. Two hours later I walked the five minutes from central station to the event site and checked into the hotel which was right next to the Spui Plein where the BMX, skateboard, Ski, MTB and Snowboard events took place. I even had a room with a window that overlooked the course which was handy because you could keep an eye out for the activities that were happening at a certain moment.
The weather leading up to the weekend hadn't been great. it actually sucked. Getting the park/street course and dirt jumps done in time was a challenge. The landings of the dirt jumps were
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.