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Vert riders, relax, here's you finals report. Yup we posted the street part earlier today but we should not forget about the vert contest either. You see, vert contests are scarce these days. This year only a very few halfpipe contests took place in Europe. The BMX Masters was one of them and if I am informed right, only a few vert riders showed up at the Nass comp. Damn, that's not much. Of course a few vert shows are done left and right and in the USA they've got the Dew Tour and also the X-Games events usually

In case you haven't watched the Berlin comp Live on Freecaster I'll go through the street contest with you real quick. 8 riders made it to the Sunday program and they were cut into 4 duo's that went at it in a head to head system. 2 runs each, best run counts. Bruno Hoffmann and Rob Darden kicked off the Street comp and it was a close call. Bruno is so consistent it isn't even funny. When you think he's going to fall, he pulls it somehow. Bruno has his own style and it's refreshing to see someone ride who does not simply copy a certain style that is popular today. No 3-whips or flairs from Bruno but 540-s to fakie from the deck of the box jump and hangover toothpick grinds. Stuff like that. Rob Darden has been on fire all year and also in Germany he knew what to do to make it happen. Rob's style is fast, he's all over the place, he's got the tricks and he knows when to do them. Bruno was out, Darden transfered to the final 4.

Heat two had Ryan Guettler ride against Mark Webb. Mark was

The first round of the vert comp took place at the Velodrom in Berlin today. The Pete King vert ramp that was brought over is 12 meters wide which works for some (Jay Eggleston) while others have to watch their carving on a ramp like this. There was actually a decent sized crowd today at the Extreme Playgrounds comp and with the bands that are added tomorrow (The Offspring as headliner), the place is most likely going to be packed. Some of the riders are not going to be back on the vert ramp tomorrow though.

Round one of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds is done. A few battles were very close and one ended up in a tie. The ramps received some branding overnight which made the course look a bit different when the day started. Because the ramps are used for skateboarding and BMX there is a bit of a mix between transitioned ramps and flatbanks. It's not a "back and forth" course so there is room to find some lines. Darden, Dhers, Guettler, Barbero, Webb, Bommel, and Hoffmann made it to the next round. 

Thanks for watching Nigel's NIKE 6.0 video part on FATBMX. Hope you're stoked on it. I'm sure you are now ready to watch the other parts or better, the complete video. It's your lucky day as you cannot only watch the movie on the computer screen but it's legal to download too. NIKE has made it available for everyone to burn a DVD, post it on your site, or take it along with you on whatever mobile device you're got that plays video. 

Just in case you didn't see details from the recent MEET THE STREET event we held on Treasure Island SF on October 11-12 event, we have some photos and for video articles for you. The event was a MAJOR success, with all having a blast and some shredding going down. We'd like to give special thanx to R.O.G. TERRAIN PARKS for hooking up the course, and the TREASURE

PARK PRO
1 Harry Main
2 Max Charveron
3 JB Peytavit
4 Kevin Kalkoff
5 Simone Barraco
6 Alex Valentino
7 John Garcia
8 Barry Kohne
9 Tony Hamlin
10 Alex Kennedy
11 Joris Coulomb
12 Justin Fouque
13 Greg Masson
14 Florent Soulas
15 Leon Perkins

It was the 11th edition of the Vibrations Urbaines and we had not even been there before. For some reason I had this impression that the BMX contest was part of a giant festival but on arrival I did not see much else than a giant white tent which had the ramps inside. It was dark and it rained so I did not see everything but the next day all I noticed were the dirt jumps next to the giant white tent. No sight of flatland, breakdancers, music concerts, graffiti artists, skateboarders or a giant festival crowd. What was left were BMX-ers and there were a lot of them. Because of the rain a lot of things did not work out as planned. Flatland was moved inside a sports hall 2 kilometers down the road which I never saw a sign of unfortunately. Dirt was cut short because of the rain. The 60 minutes that it was dry on Saturday were used for the pro class first, followed by the AM class after that. Because of the bad weather forecast the riders were told that this might as well be the straight final. Patrick Guimez was in unique form and has added loads of flip variations to his long list of tricks. It was not a surprise for everyone that he won the

PRO
1. Matthias Dandois (Francia)
2. Antonio Marrache (Perú)
3. Raphael Chiquet (Francia)
4. Jorge Nazario (Perú)
5. Jeronimo Velasquez (Colombia)
6. Alejandro Marquez (Venezuela)

The Baco Jams are about more than just riding. The party is 50% of the deal. Here are the results of the riding, who all scored afterwards we will not tell.

Results Baco-a-go-go jam 2008:
1. Trey Jones
2. Jeff Klugiewicz
3. Drew Bezanson
4. Tony Malouf
5. Mark Mulville
6. Tom Dillareal
7. Dave Freiumth
8. Matt Sparks

Best Trick: Winner: Matt Sparks, Handplant Transfer