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10th Annual Ricardo Laguna Dirt Challenge

Thursday, April 4th, 2013

Ricardo sent over some photos, results, and some video links from his annual dirt comp in Vegas…

“If you would have told me in 2004 that I was about to begin hosting 10 years of BMX dirt comps, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. From the feedback I received for the 10th annual Ricardo Laguna Dirt Challenge, it was a bigger and better contest than any over the past 10 years. As for Extreme Thing, now on its 18th year, we had a huge turnout, great bands and the best weather we could have asked for. This year we had a solid lineup of riders from all over the world, plus a mix of heavy hitters and great up-and-comers. Some of the runs I saw couldn’t have even been done in video games.

“One new addition to this year’s Ricardo Laguna Dirt Challenge was the High Air Jump that brought me back to the King of Dirt days. When I was working on building this with the Clark County Heavy Equipment team, they couldn’t believe I set up an 18-foot pole on top of an eight-foot lip because they didn’t believe a BMX bike could go that high. The two winners TJ Ellis and Austin Winters ended up maxing out the high bar and splitting the winnings.

“Extreme Thing 2013 was such a huge success, Las Vegas, Clark County Parks & Recreation, the riders and all the attendees can’t wait to see what’s in store for 2014! For more info and photos, visit www.ExtremeThing.com.” — Ricardo

Watch the live web stream from YouTube:
Finals - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpJ1MqAEj00&feature=youtu.be
Qualifier - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN0f9y32sCk&feature=youtu.be

Results
FINALS
1. Colton Satterfield 93.66
2. AJ Anaya AKA the Anayalater 93 (won tie breaker highest lowest score 92.33)
3. Alex Landeros 93 (tie breaker highest lowest score 91.33)
4. TJ Ellis 93 (tie breaker highest lowest score 89.33)
5. Kevin Peraza 92.66
6. Pat “Big Daddy AKA God” Laughlin 92
7. Ryan Guettler 91.33
8. Ben Voyles 91
9. Dustin Grice 90.33
10. Santiago Munoz 90

Daniel Wedemeijer Edit

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Daniel Wedemeijer aka ‘The Flying Dutchman’ teamed up with Tom Lammerse this summer and made a day trip to five different skateparks all over Holland. Daniel has been a supporter of the Amsterdam based Lifestyle blog/brand since day one so he was more than stoked to film for this exclusive video.

 

Ricardo Laguna’s Dirt Challenge 2012

Thursday, October 4th, 2012
 
TSG’s Ricardo Laguna invites to the Ricardo Laguna Dirt Challenge on October 27th at the Tinnell Memorial Sports Park in Lake Havasu, Arizona. New for 2012 is that they now also add an amateur category.
Confirmed pro riders are Pat “Big Daddy” Laughlin, Colton Satterfield, Josh Hult, Ben Snowden, Matthew Olsen, Jake Kinney and TJ Ellis and many more, plus Fat Tony will be announcing!
Starting Oct. 1, sign ups are open online at http://lhcdirtchallenge.com where you can save money by registering in advance. Pro sign ups are $40 online, $50 at the event, and Amateurs are $10 online, $15 at the event.
There is a $5,000 Pro purse, and Amateurs will receive prizes from DK Bicycles, TSG, Sidewall and more!
Check out the course layout to see the Pro and Amateur lines!
Full details can be found at http://lhcdirtchallenge.com.
And don’t forget to wear your Halloween costume – they’ll be giving out awards for the best ones!

Yeah! Trip DVD trailer

Thursday, August 9th, 2012

Yeah Zine Girls Trip with Angie Marino

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

   BMX lady Angie Marino send some photos from the recent Girls BMX Tour that went down from Austin, Texas and up into the states of Colorado and Utah to California.

We helped sponsor the trip. Check out the Yeah Zine Website for the latest in girls and BMX!

 

The first TSG King Of The Air ended with freshly crowned kings, an awesome atmosphere and a world premier

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

  

The premiere of the TSG King Of The Air in the evening of June 23rd, 2012 was a complete success. The crowed was stoked by the unbelievable trick performance on the 12m respectively 15m large Big Air kickers. At sunset the MTB and BMX dirt riders jumped into the night, accompanied by the happy atmosphere of the public.

The biggest highlight was brought by the 16 year old US American Nicholi Rogatkin with his Quadwhip, a world first on a dirt landing. This guarantied him the win in the BMX discipline in front of Patrick Guimez with a sweet Flipwhip. Daniel Tünte whipped himself on the third place with a Triplewhip.

In MTB we saw a tight decision between Bienvenido Albas Frontflip and Xavier Pasamontes Flipwhip, both over the 15m gap. At the end Bienve came out on top with his Frontflip. The Belgian Thomas Genon ended up third with a Double Tailwhip.

Followed by a 30 minutes jam session jury and public additionally crowned Best Trick, Best Style and Fans Favorite. This was when the creativity exploded, as the riders had many tries to land their tricks. The German Simon Moratz (BMX) took home the Best Trick title with a 360 Backflip.

Best Style won Desmond Tessemaker (BMX) with some unbelievable Supermans. This was a really tight decision, as TSG rider Thomas Genon (MTB) scored heavily with a beautiful 360 Flatspin.

Bienve Aguado Alba and the Swiss Ramon Hunziker split the price money of Fans Favorite.

More trick highlights were shown by Desmond Tessemaker (BMX) with a Pendulum to Tailwhip and a Cannonball Superman, Markus Hampl (BMX) wowed with a 360 Superman Seatgrab und Pasamonte (MTB) with a Backflip Superman.

TSG rider Daniel Wedemeijer landed during practice way to far a slightly over rotated 360 and crashed heavily. He had to go to hospital. Luckily nothing was broken and he got off with a swollen blue face. Recover fast Daniel!

Within the jury was nobody less than BMX and MTB legend Timo Pritzel, who didn’t wanted to miss our first own event. He enjoyed the mountains of Laax during some downhill sessions.

We are looking forward to next year’s event!

Results BMX:

1. Nicholi Rogatkin, USA

2. Patrick Guimez, FRA

3. Daniel Tünte. GER

4. Desmond Tessemaker, NED

5. Hampl Markus. GER

6. Simon Moratz, GER

DNS Daniel Wedemeijer, NED

DNF Lluis Lacondeguy, ESP

 

Results MTB:

1. Bienvenido Aguado Alba, ESP

2. Xavier Pasamonte, ESP

3. Thomas Genon, BEL

4. Amir Kabbani, GER

5. Kelly McGarry, NZL

6. Jonas Janssen, GER

7. Ramon Hunziker, SUI

 

TSG King of the Air Best Trick: Simon Moratz, BMX, with a 360Backlip

Best Style: Desmond Tessemaker, BMX, with a super extended Superman

Fans Favorite: Split between Bienvenido Aguado Alba, MTB & Ramon Hunziker, MTB

 

TSG King Of The Air

Friday, June 8th, 2012

 We crown the King of the Air and invite the world’s best mtb and BMX dirt riders to Flims for the TSG King Of The Air at the Dakine Trailfox. On June 23rd, 2012 the riders battle on two kickers with gap length of 12m and 15m, bringing new dimensions on swiss ground.

Besides crowning the MTB and BMX King of the Air, titles like Best Trick, Best Style and Fan’s Favorite wait for the riders. A total of 14.000 CHF pricemoney will be distributed amongst the winners.

Confirmed riders are the 26TRIX winner Thomas Genon (BEL), the german machine Amir Kabbani (GER), Bienvenindo Aguado Alba (ESP), Jonas Jannsen (GER), Tobi Wrobel (AUT), Ramon Hunziker (SUI) and Kelly McGarry (NZL).

For BMX battle the Lords of Dirt organizers Patrick Guimez (FRA) and Markus Hampl (GER), the italian stylemaster Alessandro Barbero, TSG ambassador Daniel Wedemeijer (NED) and Daniel Tünte (GER) as well as Lluis Lacondeguy (ESP) and Desmond Tessemaker (NED). More riders in negotiation.

Don’t miss it and come to Flims!!!

For more information please visit: http://www.trailfox.ch/tsg-king-of-the-air

 

 

Welcome to the team Angie Marino!

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

US BMX girl Angie Marino now rides with TSG protection.

Angie Marino is one of the best female BMXers in the world and one of the most influential voices of female BMX riding. Founder of Yeah Zine (http://yeahzine.com), an online site and printed mag for girl BMXers, Angie publishes girl BMX content and motivates girls to go riding. She is a true role model and spreads the good words of BMX from a girls point of view.

Angie was hooked on riding the minute she could ride without trianing wheels and started racing at a young age. After a break of some couple years she picked it up again and started riding skateparks and trails. Today Angie travels the world for contests and promotes girl BMX riding. She just ended up 3rd at the FISE in Montpellier.

Angie is a great role model in the girl BMX scene as she is a passionate and talented bike rider. 
This makes her the perfect fit to join and enrich our pro team. 
She will definately play an important role for our women’s protection program. 
We are stoked that our male dominated BMX team now gets some female flavor.

Angie rides with the Nipper Maxi helmet and the Shinguard BMX Tailwhip protector.

Welcome to the team Angie!

Check out her rider profile and interview here: http://ridetsg.com/angie_marino

Daniel Wedemeijer bmx edit @ WUB Innsbruck

Thursday, March 15th, 2012


In February 2012 TSG’s Daniel Wedemeijer made his way down south from Amsterdam to Innsbruck (Austria) riding and filming at the new indoor skatepark “WUB”.  It’s definitely the most unconventional BMX video ever.

The Ricardo Laguna Project

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
The Ricardo Laguna Project on MTV Tr3s airs today at 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT.Official MTV Tr3s.
Imagine moving to a whole new country where you don’t know the language; and the only thing you can relate to are bikes. This is the story of Ricardo Laguna. Emigrating from Mexico to the US at age 13, Ricardo overcame all odds and has become one of today’s premiere BMX world champions (not to mention one of Las Vegas’s hottest bachelors). But with success comes sacrifice, risks and temptation; and juggling it all can be quite the balancing act. Luckily, Ricardo has a close knit support system made up of family and friends that continually keep him grounded. Join him as he stays true to his roots while continuing to make his dream a reality. Welcome to The Ricardo Laguna Project.