Sunday 12^th of September, 10AM. Today is the day of the ‘Last Summer Ride’. Skatepark Sweatshop is ready for the event, the banners are hanging on the walls, hundreds of cans of Monster Energy are already standing there for the thirsty riders, and the prizes are on a safe place waiting to be given away to the winners.

Around 11PM the new indoor skatepark starts to get filled with BMX riders and Freestyle Mountainbikers. Most of the riders have never been at the new skatepark yet and are very stoked on it.

More and more riders are registering themselves for the contest, and around noon there are 50 BMX riders and Freestyle Mountainbikers warming themselves up for the contest.

At 1PM it was time to start the skatepark contest. It started off with the AM BMX Class.

It was a Knock Out Battle: Two riders had 60 seconds to show off their skills in the skatepark, and the best rider went to the next round. The winners of each round had to battle eachother until there were three riders left: RJ Hooijmans, Koen de Laat and Nino Weid.

At the final of this class they had a 3 minute run in which they had to show their best tricks to show the judges who’s the best rider. Nino ended up first with some sick tuck no hander gaps, 360s and some technical lines. RJ got second and Koen ended up on the third place.

The next ones to go were the Freestyle Mountainbikers. Martin Knorr got first on his friends bike, because his bike broke down, but as organiser of this event he only joined for bonus (unofficially) the prizes went to 1- Ritchie Steegers, 2-Lennard, 3- Dao de Kerk from Belgium.

After a small break it was time for the PRO BMX Class to battle. Just as at the other classes this was also a Knock Out Battle.

The level was extremely high, there were tricks like 540 to fakies out of banks, many 360 combinations like truckdrivers, 360whips, and 360footjamwhips, and flips.

The riders battled until there were 3 riders left: Jack Nierath, Channon Balorian, and Jonathan Jansen. Channon Balorian won the contest with doing tricks including big flairs. Jack Nierath got second with doing stuff like a big 180 gap over a rail to 2m/6ft drop. Jonathan Jansen got third with a lot of combinations between tuck no handers, barspins and 360s.

After the finals of the PRO BMX class people where free to ride in the skatepark. The weather outside just cleared up and the sun was shining. A lot of riders went outside to ride the objects which were placed specially for this contest (a couple of banks, and a big ghetto-wallride).

At 4PM the long jump contest started. We put a small kicker outside, and the riders had to try to jump as far as possible on it. The records were indicated with tape on the ground. The riders kept on breaking record after record. Kevin Gulik managed to get a 9m/30ft jump, which the other weren’t able to surpass. When the others were still trying Channon Balorian got on his BMX and decided to give it a try. With his second try he broke Kevins record. He kept on pushing it to the max, and after a couple of tries he surpassed Kevins record with 2m/6ft. Channon won the long jump with a 11m/36ft jump!  

At half past 5 were the awards, where we gave the winners prizes from PlusSizeBMX, KRK Protections, Severed Alliance, Atomlab, and Liter-cans of Monster Energy.

The riders were very stoked on the KRK Protection and Severed Alliance stuff, I got many questions where they can buy it because a lot of people wanted them!

The skatepark was open till half past 7 for the riders who wanted to ride more.

It was a great successful day!

Big thanks to all the sponsors who helped us make this possible!

Event Sponsors:

-Monster Energy WWW.MONSTERENERGY.COM

-PlusSizeBMX       WWW.PLUSSIZEBMX.COM

-KRK Protection    WWW.KRKPRO.COM 

-Severed Alliance WWW.SEVEREDALLIANCE.BLOGSPOT.COM

-Atomlab              WWW.ATOMLAB.COM