We are back from the European Skateboard Championships in Basel. Thanks to all for passing by.
The 10th edition ended with an unbelievable final in street with 10 amazing skateboarders. One of them was youngster Gard Jenssen Hvaara from Norway, who went all the way from the Junior Champs into the finals and ended on the 9th place. Axel Cruysbergh from Belgium, who was last year’s winner in street and miniramp, earned street’s 2nd place. In 3rd came Kilian Heuberger from Germany doing nose bluntslides down the rail and pole jams on the birthday cake-obstacle. This year’s winner is Nassim Guammaz from the Netherlands doing big back 360’s down the double set.
Aside from the street finals, the 8000 spectators who came to Basel over the weekend to celebrate ESC’s anniversary with us could witness Phil Zwijsen ruling the mini ramp with nice flow and endless lines, taking a well deserved victory. Also, Freddy Austbo came out to show his face, coming back from a long stint of being sidelined by injuries, taking second place right away, and a surprising Symon Stachon from Poland taking third.
Girl’s Jam was won by Ianire Elorriaga from Spain, who had already succeeded getting this title six times in it is ten years of existence. Second place went to Aura Brédat, third to Candy Jacobs from the Netherlands.
Nick Beer, Markus Pekoll and Floriane Pugin ended up on the podium in Hafjell, Norway.
The riders were having lots of fun on a track with good flow after the super technical tracks of the last two weeks.
The qualifier on friday was held in pouring rain, but the finals luckily in the sun.
Floriane Pugin won the silver medal only just 0.36 seconds behind her french compatriot Miriam Nicole. Emilie Siegenthaler came in fourth.
Nick Beer also won the silver medal, behind the surprisingly fast Robin Wallner from Sweden. Nick is happy getting a smooth run down after a few difficult races.
Following up his success in Val di Sole, Markus Pekoll came in third with a great run!
Celebrating the 10th year of this auspicious skateboarding event, tune in on Sunday August 8th for LIVE coverage of the finals of the etnies European Skateboard Championships from Basel, Switzerland.
Timetable (CET):
Girsl street final: 14:00 – 14:30
Miniramp final : 14:30 – 15:30
Street final : 16:00 – 17:00
Best trick street : 17:00 – 17:30
Award Ceremony : 18:00 – 18:30
Get an impression of the numerous high class mountain bike tricks like Bienvenido Alba’s front flip from the starting tower step down, as well as Sam Pilgrim’s 360 x-ups and backflip nohanders. The best runs of the Top 3 BIG IN BAVARIA riders are also featured in the highlights clip. Some additional statements of the winners make it the perfect short edit for everybody, who wasn’t able to see the live stream
TSG riders Markus Hampl, Ricardo Laguna and Patrick Guimez gave their best competing at the BIG IN BAVARIA Vol.II BMX dirt jump comp at Munich’s BIKE EXPO trade show. Get an impression of the numerous high class tricks like Markus Hampl’s opposite 360 combos, flipwhips and 360 super seaters.
The best final runs of the Top 3 BIG IN BAVARIA Vol.II riders are completely featured, too. Some additional statements of the winners make it a great short edit for everybody, who wasn’t able to see the live stream. Some sequences of the side program including a hard rocking limo drive and after parties round up the clip.
Check out Cam McCauls and Aarn Chase`s runs at Claymore Challenge wich happened mid July.
Cam ended up 2nd and Aaron 6th.
Congratulation!
Read some quotes:
Cam McCaul:
“It was great to be back at the Claymore challenge after winning in ’08 and being out last year due to an injury. My Trek Team-mate Brandon Semenuk won last year, and I knew I’d have to up my game if I wanted to try to win again. I qualified first and was sitting in 1st after the first final runs, but I knew Brandon had some stuff up his sleeve for his second run. He pulled out a banger run and bested me by .25 points. I let it all hang out in my 2nd run, but crashed on the last jump. At the end of the day, Trek snagged 1st and 2nd so we’re stoked!”
Aaron Chase:
“I can’t say it enough…those guys are doing ALL the right things. I got up there to train about a week early and helped the team there finish filling their brand new foam pit! They opened the HTC (Highland Training Center) and it is dope! It was sweet to be able to ride a little fresh foam and get ready for the event. The event was broadcast LIVE on 6 different websites and nearly 50k people watched it LIVE! Amazing stuff. I did a bunch of Go Pro POV footage for the Pre Game show as well as made a deal with PinkBike to blog from the event. Check out all the links…PinkBike is re-playing the entire webcast for the next week. So sick! oh- and by the way I finished 6th. I was stoked! If you missed the LIVE feed check it here: http://www.pinkbike.com/news/claymore-challenge-replay-2010.html#top
2 podiums and more at the Big in Bavaria dirt contest in Munich last weekend. In mountain bike dirt Sam Pilgrim got 2nd, Amir Kabbani 5th and our ambassador Simon Kirchmann, who qualified through Go Big Or Go Home for the pro event, ended up on the 14th place. BMX saw Markus Hampl on the 3rd place followed by Ricardo Laguna (4) and Patrick Guimez (5).
The weather conditions at the BIKE EXPO trade show in Munich didn’t make it easy for the riders: The first training day on Thursday was sunny, but Friday and Saturday were rained out. So the whole comp had to be rescheduled to Sunday.
The mountain bike riders were the first ones to go big on the 150 meters long dirt line in the early afternoon.
Swedish young gun Martin Soderstrom landed his tricks super clean. In his best run he showed a tailwhip at the start tower step down, a huge 360 table top, a double tailwhip, another 360 and a 360-double tailwhip. But guess who was his strongest competitor. Of course, it was TSG`s Sam Pilgrim. Sam and Martin had a lot of trick battles this season and Sam had only a 1,25 points gap to winner Martin Soderstrom. Pilgrim showed 360’s at the step-down, 360 x-ups, backflip no handers and as well as a 360 double tailwhip.
Another big highlight was new TSG ambassador Bienvenido Alba’s front flip from the start step down, which was landed well but a tiny bit overshot, so he had no speed left for the upcoming jump. So the Spanish rookie that is famous for his frontflip combos ended only 21st place.
The prize ceremony was very traditional in a Bavarian way: The winner got a 30 liters beer keg, the second a spigot and the third a hammer. A few minutes of teamwork later, the men on the podium were able to celebrate their success with a zip of fresh and cold beer.
After the 26” class, everybody was anxious for the upcoming BMX finals and the hottest tricks on 20” bikes: Australian Dane Searls, who is well known as an airtime lover, went crazy on the super-sized doubles of the BIG IN BAVARIA dirt line and showed tricks like 360 superman seatgrap indian airs or a super nice downside whip to tailwhip. Second place went to Ben Hennon from the United Kingdom. The German BMX legend and TSG rider Markus Hampl rocked the line with opposite 360 combos, flipwhips and 360 super seaters, so he finished with a great third place in front of TSG`s Ricardo Laguna and Patrick Guimez.
We are back from the European Skateboard Championships in Basel. Thanks to all for passing by.
