| Date: Friday August 11, 2006 - End: Sunday August 13, 2006. Medias: Props 62, Soul BMX video 29 and 30, Cream 21, Dig 55, ... |
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| MINI RAMP | |
| AMATEURS. Bart de Jong, july 2006, www.fatbmx.com: The Rebel Jam started off with the Amateur Mini contest on Friday afternoon. It was the same mini with spine and sub box as last year so no changes there. The riders field was pretty international and there were a lot more riders than last year which was good to see. It seemed like people had heard about the comp and didn’t want to miss it this year. It is always tough to decide who belongs to ride in the “no-pro” class. It there are three classes (expert - master - pro) it is easier to split up the group of amateurs. It has never been any different that the better riders could have ridden a class higher than they entered. With last year’s prize being a trip to Woodward and this year’s am winner getting a customized Rebel Jam/wethepeople frame-fork-bar set, it makes it even harder to decide who belongs where. As long as there is no 150 page IBMXFF freestyle rule book anybody can do whatever they want. Tailwhips have become a standard trick for everyone to learn and that includes the am-mini class riders. The level of the riding these days is getting ridiculous and is enjoyable to watch. We won’t give you a full trick list of what went on but let’s just say I saw at least 55 tailwhips during the amateur mini contest that was won by Andre Sagodi. PROS. Bart de Jong, july 2006, www.fatbmx.com: With the qualifiers from Satuaday turning out to be the final results, it could have looked all different if all the riders had another go on Sunday. Would Clint Millar have repeated his perfect qualifying run with a hangover on Sunday? we will never know. It rained all day Sunday so the finals were skipped. What I do know is that Ben Hennon drank so much coffee in the morning because he went so high over the spine it was ridiculous. Nice one!! Made me think of Dave Voelker at the first BS contest in Dallas where he showed who was boss by blasting a big no hander over the spine. Sergio Layos’ absence was made up for by Daniel Penafied’s presence. The Fly rider from Madrid (actually Sergio’s riding buddy) did the raddest flat spin 360 over the spine I’ve ever seen. As he’s a young rider he of course has all the downside and regular tailwhip variations down also. He couldn’t quite pull his cross footed tailwhip flyout to cross footed landing but if he had the chance to ride on Sunday he probably could have shown everyone. Brian Kachinsky was seen doing barspin to nose-wheelies on a quarter pipe on the street course but did not have the chance to bring it to the mini ramp contest. He ate shit badly and rang his bell pretty hard. Okay, to show you have bad it was, Brian did not get back on his bike to finish his run. You know it’s bad then because he’s a tough mofo. Achim Kujawski took a break from the orga office and rode the comp. So did 38 year old Christoph Huber. Hannu and Sig Cools have ridden better mini comps. According to Pill, “Hannu didn’t do shit” and Sig had to be taken off the trails to come ride miniramp. He normally flows really well but not this time. Pro mini qualifier on SatuadayAnthony Pill admitted that he sucked which was fair as he didn’t find his name in the top 10. He was disappointed in his riding and down for the rest of the weekend. He did tell a security guard to "Fuuuuuck offfffffff!!" while he was pissing on the fence which scored good points by fellows Craig Stevens and Marlboro Pete. Mike Miller has got so much style which gave him the cover of the new Zwanzig magazine that came out this weekend. With the Pro Rebel Jam finals being judged in three categories: Style, Creativity and Hard tricks, Mike would have scored well in the finals in the style category but it wasn’t meant to be. 18 years old Mike ended up in 9th place in qualifying which had the regular points system. The qualifying, for those who care, was scored like a normal contest. Only the final would see the Rebel Jam system. A bunch of Australians showed up in Berlin which was good to see. Next to Euro regular Clint Millar we saw Brandon Jones on the mini ramp who just fires off the second he drops in. KBarry Kohneye Forte wasn’t on the list but decided to give the miniramp spine a go and did very well doing flairs, 360-s, opposite airs and simply had the non stop flow and style. We ended up giving him a score which didn’t come out too bad for him. Serge Geyer, Mark Koenig and Bommel are all pretty tech riders and pulled some stuff, but bailed some tricks too. Mitch Yates = Style. Colin MacKay sure has some bike riding skills. It’s cool if you can go to a contest and can enter everything there. Colin was going to do that in Berlin by riding dirt, street and mini. The trick that got people’s hands together was his superman over the spine. Very nice.Ryan Guettler Juan Ruiz does sweet superman tailwhips and team mate Phil Aller knows how to have fun. His smith stall on the sub to 270-in was bonkers. Arthur Dietrich had a short break from partying and made it count with back to back tricks. T-1’s Danny Hickerson impressed with amazing shit and everybody knows he can whip it. Barry Kohne did us all proud and ripped it up. Instead of coffee, Barry had so much Red Bull in the morning because he went so high too! Nice one!! This gets us to Ryan Guettler. If you’ve ever seen him ride you know he’s back to back with tricks on both walls and in the middle (spine). It wasn’t really that he brought the most revolutionary tricks to Berlin for the qualifying run in pro mini, but he easily did most up to date tricks, boom, boom, all over the ramp. At that moment he didn’t know he had actually won pro mini at the Rebel Jam but as the weather decided, he did. |
Rebel Jam Amateur Mini: 1. Andre Sagodi 20 Germany 2. Widmann Leroy 17 Netherlands 3. Liehn Kevin 18 Germany 4. Skupin Jakub 20 CZ 5. Ivett James 16 UK 6. Kerling Michael 22 Germany 7. Clausen Chrsitoph 15 Germany 8. Wroblewski Marcin 18 Poland 9. Nasse Julien 20 France 10. Louis Peyre 21 France 11. Steem Christoph 26 Germany 12. Altmeyer Max 17 Germany 13. Mattis Hansen 18 Germany 14. Nüesch Florin 22 Switzerland 15. Przedwojewski Filip 25 Poland 16. Kiss Daniel 17 Germany 17. Randa Tomas 17 CZ 18. Görs Phiipp 20 Germany 19. Gorras Simon 25 UK 20. Miesters Robin 14 Netherlands 21. Froio Alex 19 Italy 22. Manczak Lukasz 17 Poland Pro Mini Qualifier (which turned out to be the final scores) 1. Guettler Ryan 23 Australia 2. Hennon Ben 20 UK 3. Fernadez Daniel Penafied 17 4. Forte Kye 24 UK 5. Millar Clint 32 Australia 6. Mackay Colin 27 Australia 7. Mager Björn 21 Germany 8. Peytavit Jean-Boptirte 9. Miller Mike 18 UK 10. Geier Sergey 21 Germany 11. Barbero Alessandro 23 Italy 12. Hickerson Danny 21 USA 13. Yeates Mitch 21 UK 14. Cools Hannu 25 Belgium 15. Jones Brendon 23 Australia 16. König Mark 26 Germany 17. Kirch Felix 17 Germany 18. Pill Anthony 28 UK 19. Stevens Craig 23 UK 20. Da Silva Seca Pedro Miguel 21 Portugal Craig Stevens21. Köhne Barry 22 Netherlands 22. Carpena Juan Ruiz 24 23. Kopp Benny 28 Germany 24. Arthur Dietrich 20 France 25. Garcia Ismael Mendozo 26. Aller Phil 22 UK 27. Banko Damien 27 Australia 28. Holzinger Daniel 28 Germany 29. Serra Daniel 24 Portugal 30. Bensley Clint 23 Australia 31. Marselle Pete 25 UK 32. Kujawski Achim 34 Germany 33. Gregory Andrew 27 Australia 34. Huber Christoph 38 Germany 35. Sandfort Roland 29 Germany 36. Cools Sig 21 Belgium 37. Payne Tom 19 Australia 38. Kachinsky Brian 24 USA |
| DIRT | |
| Bart de Jong, july 2006, www.fatbmx.com: You Don't want to know how often I made an attempt to writing the Pro Dirt report from the Rebel Jam. Again and again something else crossed my mind or something else came up where I got distracted. I apologize to those who have been waiting but I believe we're still faster than a lot of them out there. It's been a week since things were looking great at the Mellowpark. The weather was beautiful and everyone was having a good time. The vibe was chill and the riding with everyone there was awesome. Let's throw in a few names who entered the dirt contest and you'll be able to imagine what went off. Guettler, Young, Forte (all three of them), Cools (both of them), MacKay, BB, Guimez, Paulsen, Caro and Miller, just to name a few. Going into a straight final the riders were being judges on Style, Creativity and Hard Tricks. There were three awards in each category and place 4 - 10 got 50 Euros each. Actually, first place for Style, Creative and Hard Tricks was 1000 Euros, 800 for second and 500 for third. Quite good for a mellow contest like the Rebel Jam. Normally on a contest report you go down everyone's line and then add everything up. With three winners for dirt, three second places and three third places, we'll have to go in from a different angle. Let's start with style. With Sergio Layos not present this year, the Forte family was in luck. Earlier in the day we were joking how cool it would be for the three brothers to finish 1 - 2 - 3 in the Style contest and it turned out that way. Toby might be leading the FATBMX poll for the most stylish lookback but current Dirt World Champ Kye Forte grabbed the biggest check. Little brother Leo got 2nd and middle bro Toby got 500 Euros. Congrats. You either have style, or you don't. Finishing last in the style category hurts. Unlucky number 31 was Damien Banko from Australia. Sorry dude. The trails had different lines. Most used the straight 8-pack but some mixed it up with a run on the right or even transfers between lines. Creative points were also given for mixed variations. Doing 360-s over each set would score less than a fronty, a whip of some sort, a 360 and a backflip. It's just tough to give three scores for every rider for every run with at least 4 jumps in it. Oh well, Gary Young was creative as he transferred with 360-s on the lines on the right. Guettler used both lines and went fronty-backy-double whippy-to-three-whippy or something for 2nd. Toby Forte "stole Hans Friedrich's lines" for third. It got rough when Benny Paulsen had 4 guys following him on each run doing a train. I thought that was very creative but non of his crew made the top 10. Hard tricks: Phew, with the talent around it was hard to keep track of what was being done. JB from France has got double whips down but there were more riders who had that trick. Colin MacKay stepped it up by doing a 720 with a turn down in the middle. That was hella sweet. Alejandro Caro rode amazing and was stoked on his own runs at times. The Barrel roll he attempted almost killed 6 photographers and their flashes. He landed next to the landing on the right side. He learnt the trick earlier in the week in France and showed the video tape that he has them down. But not in Berlin. Caro did 720-s as well and was the only rider to do a decade jump to x-up. Bommel had fronties and backies down but also flip whipped the last set. Okay, the landing wasn't any good to score style points but he rolled out of that sucker. No-handed 360-s were pulled by Patrick Guimez, BB and Colin MacKay did sweet ones too. Guettler got the tailwhip to indian seat grab jump out of the system and pulled it clean. He also did X-up to turndown 360-s and a 360 double whip. Gary Young did a 3-whip which I'd never seen him do. The 360-tabletop looked more like it for a Dirtbro. Kye Forte did opposite 360-s with variations and pulled a 3-whip clean. He not only has style, he's got the tricks too. |
Pro Dirt Style Award 1. Forte Kye 2. Forte Leo 3. Forte Toby 4. Cools Sig 5. Yates Mitch 6. Young Gary 7. Mackay Colin 8. Cools Hannu 9. Cernotta Michael 10. Miller Mike 11. Volker Germany 12. Guettler Ryan 13. Friedrich Hans 14. Paulsen Benny 15. Bibi France Pro Dirt Creative Award 1. Young Gary 2. Guettler Ryan 3. Forte Toby 4. Caro Alejandro 5. Mackay Colin 6. Cools Hannu 7. Köhler Christian 8. Forte Kye 9. Bibi France 10. Mager Björn 11. Cools Sig 12. Paulsen Benny 13. Friedrich Hans 14. Schuler Jan 15. Heyer Björn 16. Adam Rafael 17. Herbolzheimer Max 18. Yates Mitch 19. Guimez Patrick 20. Beadley Tyrone Pro Dirt Hard Trick Award 1. Caro Alejandro 2. Forte Kye 3. Mackay Colin 4. Guettler Ryan 5. Young Gary 6. Bibi France 7. Mager Björn 8. Shenker Ben 9. Forte Leo 10. Guimez Patrick 11. Beadley Tyrone 12. Köhler Christian 13. Cernotta Michael 14. Forte Toby 15. Hearne Dean |
| STREET | |
| AMATEURS. Bart de Jong, july 2006, www.fatbmx.com: The Mellowpark had some new obstacles but is still roomy enough to pedal around them to get speed for other ramps. The amateur riders were up on Saturday and had beautiful weather. Pro street was completely re-scheduled for Sunday because some of the riders were having problems with London airports canceling flights (damn terrorists). With 54 entries in Amateur Street it was a long qualifying session. The 16 guys who made it to the final session came from Germany, the UK, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Italy, Hungary and France. Making it in the top three wasn’t easy. Leroy Widmann just missed out and ended on 4th. He did pull a double tailwhip over the box which is an indication of how high the level was in the Am Street class. Local Sprosse wasn’t sure if he was going to ride the contest. He foot wasn’t completely healed yet and he did not have the okay from his doctor. With everyone riding his park, he couldn’t resist and grabbed his bike and showed how to shred the place. He did huge transfers on the jump box and high airs on the quarterpipe. Pim van den Bos whipped, flipped and 3-whipped all over the park. His last trick was the fronty which he pulled over the jump box. The flair attempts after his great run didn’t work out but with the speed Pim learns new tricks we will not be surprised to see him pull those too next time we see him enter a contest. Bruno Hoffman however is way too good for a 13 year old. The tricks he did would have put people’s hands together in pro class. Huge abubacas, 270-s, 360-s and 540-s on all ramps, a fakie wall tap on a huge obstacle, a fufanu on the biggest obstacle and a wallride to three-sixty were pulled with a smile on his face. He’s a very solid rider who doesn’t dab on rollbacks and for me was the right winner of Amateur street at the rebel jam. |
Amateur Street 1. Hoffman Bruno 13 Germany 2. Von den Bos Pim 17 Netherlands 3. Sprosse 18 Germany 4. Widmann Leroy 17 Netherlands 5. Kurth Thorsten 18 Germany 6. Nasse Julien 20 France 7. Fabio D'Alessandro 21 Italy 8. Kerling Michael 22 Germany 9. Liehn Kevin 18 Germany 10. Josa Daniel 20 Hungary 11. Skupin Jakub 20 CZ 12. Bongiarno Julien 18 13. Ivett James 16 UK 14. Freybott Philipp 16 Germany 15. Nickchen Carl 18 Germany 16. Andre Sagodi 20 Germany |
| JUMP THE COW | |
| Bart de Jong, july 2006, www.fatbmx.com: The after party was taken care of by the people who organized the Rebel Jam but right after the contest on Saturday and right before the party that night, wethepeople brought out the cow. That’s right, the “Jump the Cow” contest was on. Steve Crandall and the Props crew were all over it and Steve gave orders to some of his riders to win some beer money for that night. Wethepeople had put up 100 Euros to the rider that was going to clear the highest and they’d brought some cranks and pedals for those participants that would bend theirs. The take off ramp was about a foot high and “Brenda the cow” itself was about 4 ft. After some warm up rounds over the cow straight to the concrete it was on! A big crowd had gathered to see Danny Hickerson (T-1), Aaron Ross (FBM), Tony Hamlin (FBM) and a couple of German riders clear the cow and the height pole. Before the bar was raised to a ridiculous height, some money (50 Euros) was gathered for the first 360 over the cow. FBM’s Ross took that. Next trick that would make some money was a tailwhip over the cow. Hickerson grabbed that. After all the tricks things got serious. The bar was raised to 2,10 meters and Tony Hamlin and the German rider in the green hoodie were still in. 2,20 and Tony was the only guy to clear it. The 100 Euros were his, or was it for team FBM? Moooooo!!!!!! |
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