Bart de Jong
Without much pre-planning a whole bunch of BMX-ers from The Netherlands and their families ended up at Eurocamp at the same time. Some came by plane, some took a 20 hour bus ride, some drove their camper or other vehicles there. If there's a will, there's a way, and who doesn't want to go to paradise? Axel Jurgens and his wife Rosario run the Eurocamp park up in Tossa de Mar in Spain on a former tennis court of Camping Pola. The place got transformed into biker's paradise with the help of the donated Nike 6.0 ramps from a freestyle comp in Barcelona a few years ago. The place now has a quarter resi, resi jump box, foam pit, street area, spine mini, pump track, some decent sized trails and three new tables and a turn which are less spectacular than the big line but a bit more demanding than the pump track. Eurocamp is constantly changing and getting better every time we pay a visit.
Tom van den Bogaard, Thomas, Pim Scheers, Arjan Ellens and Jesper Vervoort took a bus there. The cheapest way to get to the Costa Brava if you can handle 20 hours on the bus.
Headwinds didn’t stop pros and campers from ripping on Woodward West’s Dirt Jumps during the 2015 Mongoose Jam Dirt Competition. The week’s first Jam event featured nineteen riders, including 15 of the world’s top pros and four amateur Woodward campers selected from Tuesday’s Lucky Camper Competition. Each rider was given three runs to throw down. Riders were scored by a panel of three judges who were focused on the athletes’ best run. The top two scores per team counted toward the day’s final scoring.
With the official start to the fourth annual Mongoose Jam (the second in Tehachapi, CA) tomorrow, fifteen Woodward West campers competed in an amateur park contest today for a coveted spot on one of five Mongoose Jam pro teams. Once again, each team will be captained by Mongoose athletes Steve McCann, Greg Illingworth, Paul Ryan, Ben Wallace, and Kevin Peraza. Woodward West’s Hangar was filled with campers supporting riders as they squared off. The competition was a jam format. The fifteen campers were broken out into three heats. Each heat had a chance to showcase their skills to the camp judges while the pros watched on. Riders were allowed one best trick to wrap up their sessions.
Campers threw down like the pros with backflips, double truck drivers, flairs, and more. In the end, Bryce Tryon, Chase Pauza, Jamal Nelson, Adrian Evans, and Felipe Trujillo will be riding with their team captains tomorrow starting with the Dirt contest.
Prior to camp, Adrian Evans won Mongoose’s Am Jam Edit contest,
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.