ART BMX Webzine #8

cover : kenneth in paris, photo christian vanhanja

4 - edito

by Patrick GUImez - photo George Marshall

C’est déjà l’heure de refaire son sac et de repartir en classe pour certains et nous en profitons pour vous proposer un nouveau numéro de votre magazine !

Un contenu bien rempli une fois de plus avec les moments forts de l’été mais aussi des rencontres indispensables, le tout agrémenté de photos ne donnant qu’une envie, Rider !!

Toute l’équipe de ART BMX se réunit pour vous souhaiter une excellente rentrée qu’elle soit à l’école ou au boulot mais quoi qu’il en soit nous savons que votre BMX ne sera pas bien loin et que vous trouverez le temps nécessaire pour vous éclater et passer de bons moments entre potes autour d’une bonne session.

Life is a road, ride it !

Corey Bohan at the Red Bull Quarter Master in Revolution bike park, Llangynog, UK

6 - programme photo guillaume ducreux

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SHOPPING RENDEZ-VOUS PATOCHERIE REPORT / THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX FACE / KENNETH TENCIO NEW PUSHER / BENJAMIN HUDSON NEW PUSHER / GIANNI LUTTON PHOTO / EGP18 IN THE STREET GIRLS / TANIA TORRES REPORT / PEDALING FOR PENNIES PHOTO / TIM MARSH SPOT / DO IT YOURSELF NEW PUSHER / ALEX HRUBÝ PHOTO / CRAIG DUTTON TRIP / NEGERIA TRIP ART / KEKLI EVENT / WATSA FESTIVAL FLATLAND / ONET JAM

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FLATLAND / SUMMER CAMP photo / FISE WORLD TRIP / OS TRIP IN CALI PHOTO / SMOKE RIDERS EVENT / LA REOLE JAM EVENT / EX HOP TOUR OLDSCHOOL / CAVAILLON PHOTO / BRANDON SQUIRE EVENT / LORDS OF DIRT PHOTO / DOUD TRIP / LA VUELTA ESPAÑA PHOTO / SHOOT MARSEILLE PHOTO / SHOOT PARIS EVENT / Kill the line SPOT / POP UP SKATEPARK EVENT / RED LIGHT JAM REPORT / ORANGE JUICE JAM BEHIND THE SCENE / BACK TO BACO

Thomas Bibiloni Ă Lyon

10 - rendez-vous

waxx bmx contest / gemenos / france / 4 october 20 Years of BMX - One Love / Germany / 4 October Vienna Jam / Austria / 4 October 4th Save the Sunshine / Hungary / 4 October STAR WAX 8th ANNIVERSARY PARTY / Nouveau Casino Paris / 10 octobre Flatopia 43 / USA / 10 October IOXC 2014 / Indonesia / 12 October Overground Flatland Series / Brazil / 12 October NORA CUP / AUSTIN / usa / 19 october

Vibrations Urbaines / Pessac / France / 24-26 October FISE WORLD / Chengdu / China / 24-26 October Flat Ark 2014 / Kobe / Japan / 25-26 October Halloweenjam / Eindhoven / 040 BMX Park / 31 October Trans Jam / Greenville / USA / 8 November BIG SHOCK! energy Flatland Contest / Czech Republic / 8 November Battle in the Rockies / USA / 14-16 November King of Ground #2 / Japan / Yokohama / 27 December

14 - shopping by alain massabova

lacoste missouri

volume bermuda

fbm ANGEL OF DEATH

FIT DUGAN

colony

superstar flagship

Shadow Conspiracy Penumbra

Deco Cheetah

mister bijoo

fujifilm X100T

KHE acme

bone Deth jungle rider Scorpio YBN 101-Ti

Lowepro

autum abc mid

PNJ Cam S71 haro lineage nike airmax

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Snafu Mayweather

MERRITT Subrosa Venom

volume

Shadow Conspiracy Interlock Supreme demolition rig

18 - patocherie

by Patrick GUImez - photo hiishiI

Chacun son style L’été se prolonge et les déplacements avec !

Je crois que je n’ai jamais eu autant d’évènements qui se sont enchaînés comme ça et je vais pas me plaindre. Aujourd’hui, le freestyle porte bien son nom et chacun trouve son bonheur en adaptant le bmx à ses envies. Certains préfèreront rester sur leur spot quand d’autres voyageront et feront le maximum de contest ou jam. Depuis des années, ce qui me fait vibrer et je pense vous le savez, c’est les gros sauts, cette sensation de voler et repousser ses limites. Pour cela je me suis équipé d’un treuil électrique me permettant de réaliser des choses impossibles rien qu’en pédalant et je dois dire que je n’arrive plus à m’en passer !! Certes plus risqué mais tellement incroyable et qui je pense fait parti de mon évolution et ma façon personnelle de voir mon sport.

Tout cela pour revenir au fait que l’important dans le bmx n’est pas la façon dont vous ridez ou que vous voyez le sport mais plutôt la raison pour laquelle vous le faîtes et avec quelle conviction. Pour ma part, c’est avec le cœur et l’envie d’aller encore et toujours plus haut dans les airs !!!

Bon ride à vous tous.

front whip over hamburg crowd

20 - report - USA

By Luis Elías Benavides - Photos courtesy of Tim Knoll & Scott Maki

Thinking Outside the Box You all know Tim Knoll and Pat Fisher have unorthodox ways to ride their bikes. You also know that Tim became an Internet superstar because of his Youtube videos reaching millions of views. Well, these are enough reasons to bring these two skilled riders together in this interview that I decided to call “thinking outside the box.” So instead of focusing on the typical interview format, I wanted these guys to give us an in-depth view of their riding. Hope you enjoy it.

Tim Knoll pole dancing

First off…What are your thoughts on the current BMX scene?

Tim: We’ve been in the midst of social media for years now and it has turned me onto riders who are super creative like Tate R, Erik E, George M, Peter O, Ciaran P, and Erico M. The first time I saw Pat was in 2011 when he spent some of his summer in Milwaukee. In summer of 2012 I moved to the neighborhood he came back to and we sessioned bball courts. Anyways, I wish more people mixed flat with street.

It’s excellent that Matthias does, but I wish there were way more, pushing new tricks and ideas.

Pat: Hmm... I have a lot to say on this and at the same time very little. Could you be a bit more specific?

A lot of people say that there are many clones out there. What are your thoughts on the current BMX scene regarding originality?

Pat: Haha, okay, I guess I have a lot! While it’s way easy to bash on the ‘clones’ of BMX, I suggest we consider how this standard approach to ‘thinking outside the box’ fundamentally fails to follow its own advice.

Looked at historically, one can see that BMX took off with racing in the 70’s, followed by freestyle in the 80’s. By the mid 90’s, freestyle had given way to street, vert, park, flatland and dirt jumping as all coherent, distinct disciplines of BMX. With the exception of Mega Ramp (which, while fantasized by many, is available to only a few), no new, distinct, coherent and nameable category has been added to BMX since. Skateboarding shares a very similar trajectory. To be sure, the level of riding has progressed phenomenally in each of these established disciplines, and there have been many interesting hybridizations between them. The creativity of those who push BMX to new levels within or between these categories should not be overlooked or undervalued, and such approaches are far from exhausted. But we should also recognize that very few seem to aspire BEYOND these pre-established riding style genres. Indeed, the marginalization of this later approach has been so complete that even the idea of

Pat Fisher’s tricks...

advocating for BMX experimentalism beyond hybridization hardly ever even comes to mind. In other words, today’s riding is at 2014 levels but is still being structured around the conceptual categories of 1994.

Of course, the most common response to these realizations has been to call for more originality and, as a consequence, bash on the ‘clones’ for their apparent lack thereof.

This is not a surprising reaction, since BMX culture (and American society more generally) loves to romanticize the idea of ‘progression’ as being the direct product of exceptional individuals and their ability to ‘think outside the box’. Hence the interview you are reading right now (not that I can complain too much about that).

But to assume that today’s riding is being held back simply by the unoriginality of its ‘clones’ implies that BMXers - as a whole - simply decided to take a break from thinking outside of established riding style categories back in the early to mid 90’s.

Skateboarders too. And that their synchronized state of focused imagination has continued without interruption for nearly two decades - aside from a few elite individuals who decided one day that it was time to ‘think outside the box’ and invent mega ramp... Come on now, really? Riding style experimentation started way back in the 19th century on predecessors to the modern bicycle, and has been a part of bicycling ever since. But if biking has always garnered the attention of creative individuals, then what has determined whose experimentations have blossomed into new disciplines, whose experimentations have been adopted into pre-established disciplines, and whose experimentations have since withered away into obscurity without even a name to mourn them by? Clearly, individual originality alone will never be able to explain how the originality of some individuals has influenced BMX so dramatically, while the originality of others has passed without notice. Hating on the ‘clones’ of BMX simply serves to perpetuate this false assumption that the question of riding style development can be reduced to the issue of individual originality (a supremely ironic assumption to make for anyone who is criticizing others for failing to ‘think outside the box’).

Pat Fisher

The future of BMX experimentation is not supported by pointing fingers. Rather, we must take the initiative ourselves to start thinking outside the box with regards to the role of originality. In other words, we must think outside the box about ‘thinking outside the box’ itself. I suggest we start by addressing those factors which encourage experimentation only within BMX’s pre-established disciplines; factors which may sometimes tolerate hybridizations between categories, but which marginalized anything beyond them. In order to truly support the development of alternative riding styles, we must address the underlying structure of BMX and ask why it rewards only a narrow and predetermined range of riding styles to start with. Thus to ask about the current BMX scene is to ask about BMX’s social and material relations. Such a response is beyond the scope of this interview, but I believe the issue deserves our attention. For this reason, I have already written five articles to provide an introductory analysis of how some of BMX’s more significant social and material relations are influencing the development of our riding styles today. I will begin releasing this “Foundations of Style” series as soon as its photography is complete. I hope that other riders are interested in taking a fresh approach to the development of riding style.

After learning the basics in flatland and other disciplines of BMX, when did you stop to think, “Hey, I want to develop my own concept of riding”?

Tim: I got the idea of freestyle from other people. When I was 16 and still new to flatland, I saw Mark Eaton’s part in Dorkin 10 where he brilliantly applies flatland tricks to street. It opened my mind up to what’s possible and the versatility of a freestyle bike. Regardless of his highly influential section, I was committed to flatland.

I had competitive aspirations as a teen and wanted to work my way up in the competitive flatland ranks. Once I got to college, my desire to compete really diminished.

However, I was also liberated; at that point I was riding purely for recreation, creation, and showing off to onlookers. Throughout 2006-2008, I started making the effort to learn a couple street tricks that would blend well with flatland, like nose wheelies onto curbs, lucky grinds, ledge walk-ups, and g-turns off ledges. It was a fun shift in my riding. I’ve always admired great cross-over riders like Mark Eaton, Paul Osicka, and Chad Degroot.

Pat: In a way this has been a new development, and in other ways it is not. My riding styles have changed a lot over the years - from crosscountry mountainbiking to more technical downhill runs to freeride hucking to trials hopping to urban trials jibbing to streetstyle BMX to riding transitions to flatland to whatever you wanna call the silly stuff I’m exploring now. But through all of these developments, my approach to biking has come from a conceptual foundation that sees physical movement as a way to develop, live, and express one’s philosophy. That being said, my philosophy on life has changed a lot over the years. So riding has been a lot of things for me, as I continue to grow and learn from new experiences.

One could say that my current concept of riding really started to emerge about four years ago, when my personal reflections started to spiral into a larger research project.

The goal of this project (which will consist of more articles, web edits, and a full-length book) is to address the power relations of BMX and skateboarding by situating their development within a greater historical context. Since my physical movements

Tim Knoll

are intertwined with my philosophy, my current riding style has developed as part of how I understand our present context. So you could say that in the past several years I have become more explicit in developing new styles, but this is both a departure and an extension of my earlier concept of riding. It is an old thing because I am still using my riding as a way to explore, develop, live, and express my philosophy. It is a new thing because the focus of that riding-philosophy has changed in such a way that I am now more directly focused on our conceptualizations of riding style itself.

You guys have a very unique way to take advantage of the spots you find.

What role does the environment play in your riding?

Tim: I use what I’m surrounded by. I like flatland because there’s an abundance of level concrete. I always have at least 4 flat spots within easy pedaling distance. I can always bust out in the street too. I remember seeing Intrikat’s Background intro sequence when I was a rookie teen and being completely thrilled. It has Mark Gonzales the BMXer - not the legendary skater - cruising down streets and ally ways, popping quick tricks along the way, just like a skater. I loved that part because he took the idea of flatanding and applied it to traveling rather than spinning on a front wheel in a parking lot, going nowhere. Despite how appealing that style was, I was committed to strictly riding flatland. That said, even as a pure flatlander, I always wanted to do things other people hadn’t thought of. I realized that taking flatland off the 2- dimensional plain and applying it to obstacles was an exciting frontier.

Pat: Oh geez, big question - you’ve basically distilled the main question of my research project down to nine words and asked how it relates to my riding! I could go on about the larger relationship between environment and riding style for ages, but for now I’ll limit my answer to what role the environment played in “Project Teaster #1 - Contextualizing”. My approach in that video was to start with a given environment and suit my riding to fit it, rather than the other way around. (One could say that my riding style is unabashedly impure with commitment issues, lol!) So while my movements drew from a foundation of established riding styles, my goal was to develop a style of riding which most fully engaged the unique opportunities of one particular environment. In this sense, my riding in that video was as much about showcasing my cousin’s neighborhood in Bozeman, MT, as it was about me.

I tried to emphasize this role of environment throughout the filming and editing processes as well. With the exception of the dream sequence (the black-and-white leftover clips), the entire video was filmed along one continuous path of less than one mile.

Every shot was framed to show the viewer either where I was going to next or where I had just come from. Once all the clips were filmed and linked together, I composed some crappy music which drew from the rhythms of my movements. So the audio was based off the riding, whose movements were derived from the specific spots I filmed, which were all arranged along a very short path. In other words, everything in that video was structured around the immediate environment of one neighborhood.

I don’t know how many people noticed all this, but I’ll take your question about the influence of environment on my riding style as a good sign - So thanks! :) The influence of environment on riding style is much larger than me individually, however, so I hope that other BMXers take your question to heart as well. Indeed,

every style of riding - not just my own - has developed as a relationship to a specific type of terrain. Unfortunately, there are two major indications within BMX today that this role of environment has become dangerously overlooked. Select two random locations, and more than likely you will see the same styles of BMX popular at each, despite dramatic differences in local environment. More than likely, you will also hear a rumbling of complaints that there is nothing good to ride. Both of these symptoms - the lack of local variations in riding style and the frequent frustration of not seeing anything good to ride - indicate that the unique opportunities of local variation are being overlooked in favor of popular riding styles developed elsewhere.

By confining my focus to less than a mile-long path through some random neighborhood in Montana, I constructed the riding segment of “Contextualizing” as a micro-scale case study for the relationship between environment and riding style. My hope in this was threefold: First, that viewers would notice the environment I chose to ride was not characteristic of those features most desired in BMX today. Second, that viewers would recognize a relationship between my immediate environment and the style of riding I used to engage it with. And finally, that viewers would combine these first two observations to realize that their own neighborhoods hold the potential for new styles of riding, the likes of which have yet to be imagined. Simply put, I hope my riding has inspired others to take a fresh look at their own local environments.

Of course, the commentary after my riding also talks about this relationship between riding style and terrain, albeit at a much broader and historical scale. That’s the ove-

rarching goal of this edit and the research project it introduces: to take a fresh look at where BMX came from, where it is now, and where we can take it.

And finally, what trick concepts have you been working on? Can we expect something crazy?

Tim: Nothing too new or crazy since I dropped my June 2014 edit. I tore my labrum beforehand, so I’m taking it easy, doing those Gonz-ish, skater style sequential lines.

Pat: Being happy. Staying in the present. Not worrying... Dirt jumping, it turns out, has been a wonderful tool for me to work on these things. Not even thinking about the landing until I’m already looking down on it, just staying relaxed and dealing with things as they come. I was working on that a lot this past spring, up until I went to pick up my camera bag and re-tore the meniscus in my knee. Yeah, ironic. Anyways, I have since been chilling hard and - for the most part - been taking the opportunity to still be happy, stay present, and let go of unproductive worrying. That being said, I’m definitely looking forward to getting back to filming “Project Teaser #2 - Thriving in Decay”, which has entailed a lot of retro moves in period-set clothing, haha!

In addition, I’m super stoked on one new style concept in particular, which I hope will perplex BMX’s current style categories. Not to hype it too much, but I’m excited because it uses a lot of underutilized terrain features in combinations of movements which I’ve never done before... So stay tuned for weirdness!

Pat Fisher

28 - face - costa rica

By Luis Elías Benavides - photos christian vanhanja

Kenneth Tencio I’ve witnessed the evolution and progress of Kenneth since I first met him at the BMX WAR Jam, back in 2010. It actually didn’t take long before he could discover what he wanted to do in life. Things are way too hard in Costa Rica for someone who wants to make a living off of BMX, but this guy showed all the riders in the country that you can fulfill your dreams if you work hard for them.

Kenneth spent a few days in France competing at the FISE (where he won the best trick contest with a huge flair drop) and filming for one of his newest sponsors, Superstar BMX, so I thought it was a cool idea to arrange a photo shoot with the ART crew and then an interview. Let’s see what the man himself has to say...

Since the last time I interviewed you two years ago, your level has gone up incredibly. Tell us a little about the training you’ve had in recent months.

Well, long ago, from my first experience I realized how much I love riding my bike and I really want to succeed on my pedals. From that moment I decided to train longer and to believe more in myself. Trust is the basis of everything in life and when you say you can or you can’t, both will always be correct. I’ve been traveling a bit more; the end of 2013 and early 2014 marked my career as a BMXer. Every day I try to implement more fitness techniques, I try to ride my bike more often by going to places with better infrastructure such as Woodward, DDASC or the streets of my city.

In Costa Rica all the riders feel super proud of your performance in the last contests. How important is for you to place well at contests?

The self-satisfaction is just inexplicable when I accomplish something that I thought

I wasn’t able to do. It makes me believe that everything in life is possible and that the only limits are those imposed to self. I come from a poor family where traveling even within my own country was difficult at the time, but I never stopped believing that there was always a way to accomplish things, and today I travel the world competing, living the dream. It is in these moments you realize how many people are with you and who is supporting you in one way or another, and I’m really thankful with all these riders and those who supported me on my way and I’d like to open the minds of those who still doubt this is possible.

What new projects do you have in mind with your sponsors?

There are several projects underway but still nothing concrete that I can tell you, so if all goes well by the end of the year I will have some surprises.

Speaking about contests ... What’s your plan for the next few months in terms of events and competitions?

I am currently at Woodward West training because in two weeks I’ll start another eventful month. I will participate at the Recon tour stop in New Jersey . After this, I’ll travel to DDASC (Daniel Dhers’ Park) where I’ll keep training while I come up with a plan to attend other events worldwide, like the FISE in China and the Bmx Lagos invitational in Mexico You were back in Costa Rica for a few days. What did you miss the most about this country?

I missed and I still miss, haha. I was there for about 15 days and it was not enough. For the first time I left a little nostalgic because I wanted to be there a few more days, and of course I miss my family, friends, and the “pura vida” people that you find everywhere in Costa Rica. I met a few new riders from whom I learned a lot; you don’t only learn from the ones on top.

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Do you have any last words or thanks?

I’d like to thank all those who are always supporting me; sometimes simple words in my inbox can change my mood after a hard day because not everything is easy. Thank you for the interview, and thanks Red Bull, Fox Costa Rica, Superstar BMX, Ciclo Herediano, and Novik Gloves for making my dream possible

36 - new pusher - Chile

By Luis Elías Benavides - Photos Gerard Ahrens

Benjamin Hudson A few days ago, Benjamin’s “welcome to Far East Cycles” edit dropped and it literally blew my mind. It’s incredible the level this lad has developed at such a young age, and I’m sure he will keep on that path of progression for many years to come. After watching his video, I got in touch with him to ask a few questions. Enjoy!

Introduce yourself for our readers, please.

Hi, my name is Benjamin Hudson from Santiago, Chile. I’m 18 years old and I ride BMX flatland.

How long have you been riding for?

I’ve been riding for about 6 years. At the beginning, it was just a matter of going out with my friends and do some tricks, but nothing serious.

How did you get into the flatland world?

When I started, I didn’t even know it was called “flatland.” I just wanted to do tricks, but my bike was too heavy to pull “street” tricks, so I began practicing maneuvers on the ground. After some time, I watched a few videos on the Internet and almost one year later, I realized I was not the only one riding flatland in Chile.

What’s the flatland scene like in your country?

The flatland scene in Chile is not as big as the street or the park scene, but it’s growing thanks to a group of friends who are helping with the opening of flatland schools, doing shows, and sharing new material in the social networks. Also, we have riders with a very good level.

Your “Welcome to Far East Cycles” edit that dropped a few days ago had a lot of impact on the flatland community. What other projects do you have in mind with your new sponsor?

Yes, I’m very happy with this new sponsorship because they give me a lot of support.

For now I’m just focused on riding and traveling to compete. Maybe I’ll be able to design some flatland bike parts in the future, too.

Tell us about a bit about your shows in China. How did that opportunity come about? How much longer are you staying there?

That opportunity came about thanks to Jean-William Prevost, whom I met in one of his trips to Chile. By that time I was too young and studying in high school, so I waited until I fished high school to be able to travel. It was a good time to do it because my level of riding was good enough to do shows. I’ve been here in China for four months and I’m planning to stay for two months more. I’d like to travel to some neighboring countries as well.

What are your future plans?

My objective is to continue traveling, but for now the plan is to finish with my shows in China, travel to Indonesia to compete, and then maybe go to another country, depending on how things work. I’d also like to participate in the Flatland World Circuit.

In short, traveling, doing shows, and competing are just part of my dream.

Is there anything else you’d like to add? Shout-outs?

I’d like to thank ART magazine for having given me this opportunity. I want to thank my family, the friends that have helped me along the way like Jean-William Prevost and Carlos Espinosa. Thanks Gerard Ahrens for the photos and the videos. And last but not least, thanks Far East Cycles and IGI for believing in me.

38 - new blood - france par patrick guimez - photos christian vanhanja

Gianni Lutton Gianni est le genre de rencontre atypique dont on se souvient généralement.

Rider passionné et authentique, doté d’un franc parlé et de ce que l’on peut appeler une grande gueule dans le sud, Gianni fait parti des personnes qui s’adaptent à tout et sans la moindre crainte !!

Devenu mon pote de ride depuis un bon moment à présent, nous enchaînons les sessions et je reste bluffé par son évolution sans aucune prise de tête qui fait de lui un gars en or.

Cette rubrique est la sienne aujourd’hui et je n’ai qu’une hâte, c’est que vous le voyez rider !!!

A plus branleur hahaha !

41 - photo - france photos Eve Saint-Ramon - Test Tamron 16-300 mm f/3,5-6,3 Di II VC PZD Macro

EGP18 In the street

Street view 93120 avec la Team EGP 18 : Nicolas Pocholle, Foune Cisse, Fred Mairet, Auguste Fozet, Mohamed Dugan Bouhiya, Marwan Dhouimer

46 - girlz - mexico

By Luis ElĂ­as Benavides

Tania Torres

Could you please introduce yourself for our readers?

My name is Tania Torres and I’m 23 years old. I’m a photographer and also have a degree in fashion design. I currently live in Mexico DF.

streets due to the lack of skateparks where I used to live, and the closest thing I had at the time was a half pipe that was poorly designed. As a result, I became a street rider who likes to ride rails and do wallrides (which is my favorite trick).

How long ago did you start riding and why?

I started riding at the age of 3, but I got into BMX since I was 15 until I was 18; then I had to quit for almost 5 years because of the university. I retook BMX in early 2013 and started riding more often, at least two times a week.

Who do you usually ride with and where?

I ride with my friends Verónica Nájera and Abii Nieto and other friends that sometimes practice in the skatepark of San Cosme. Also Abii’s boyfriend, Francisco Javier Domínguez, usually rides in that park and gives us tips about tricks. We usually go to the skatepark in San Cosme and others around, like the ones in Puebla and Juarez.

What’s your favorite riding style, street, park, or dirt?

In my case, I ride street and park mainly, but I also like dirt. I learned to ride in the

Are there many girl riders where you live?

There are many girls who ride in Mexico City. I know about 10 of them, but there are probably more. There will be a contest on July 13th only for women at the San Cosme skatepark. It’s organized by Verónica Nájera and it’s called “Dfctuosas Contest”.

Do you participate in contests or you ride just for fun?

I ride for fun, but last year a friend of mine encouraged me to compete with no fear to lose. My friend’s name is Ángela Díaz, who once entered a contest only for men and asked me to participate, too. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my bike with me, so I couldn’t go for it. However, I have in mind that in order to compete, you have to give your best to pull all your tricks.

Who are your favorite riders?

In my particular case, there are several styles that I like. The rider I currently admire the most is Garret Reynolds, but I also like the riding of Dakota Roche, Chad Kerley, and others. I’m as well fan of aggressive riders like Sean Burns and Kert Petersel. As for the ladies, Camila Harambour, Angie Marino, Nina Butriago, Hannah Roberts, Nikita Ducarroz, Perris Benegas, and Chelsea Fietsgodin are my favorite riders.

Do you have any final words or shout-outs?

I just want to say that BMX has always been for me something you have to do for fun, and in my case, it has allowed me to meet very cool people including my friends Vero and Abii (I love you, girls). It has allowed me to meet riders I admire and take good pictures of them. And it’s nice that now I share this with my boyfriend; although he doesn’t ride, he always supports me a lot in everything that has to do with this sport.

50 - report - USA

By Jim Rienstra - Intro Luis ElĂ­as Benavides

Pedaling for pennies

The BMX legend Jim Rienstra has been off the radar for quite some time for most of us. However, bikes are still his biggest means of expression and now he has a different mission: to raise funds for cancer research in honor of his father. I had the chance to meet him personally thanks to Patrick Schoolen at Flatlandfuel.com because Jim needed to get his bike fixed in Liberia, a town located 48 miles away from where I live. Fortunately, I managed to contact my friend Erik MÊndez and he took Jim to the nearest bike shop. I met with them the next day to have a couple of beers and share some good stories. I asked Jim to write what he has been up to, so here it goes‌

I remember the moment as if it was yesterday. The day my father pushed me off and I was riding my bicycle on my own. The world that seemed so large back then grew a little smaller with each pedal. That push sent me in a state of perpetual motion and the wheels have not stopped for 34 years now.

Riding my 20” bike consumed my life for years with the most amazing memories. Traveling the world, meeting some of the greatest people and pushing my limits mentally and physically. I never wanted it to end, but life had another plan for me. Cancer took my father fast and unexpected. It shook me to my core, and I was left empty inside. 20” wheels no longer filled that void of emptiness after his death. Sure, I still had a great time finding lines in skateparks and pedaling around town with friends, but something felt like it was missing. Time went on and I spun out of control with no passion to keep me grounded. One day out of the blue, that little voice in the back of my head started to talk to me again. It told me it was time to keep rolling through life and that’s what I did.

For reasons unknown, I bought my first touring bike and saddlebags. Having never taken an overnight tour before nor having raised a dollar for charity, I packed my saddlebags. I set a goal of $3,000 for cancer research and made my way from Minnesota to Alaska. That three months and 3,000 mile bicycle tour changed my life forever. I felt alive again. When I made my way back to Minnesota, that $3,000 goal turned into $17,000 for cancer research. I had found my niche in life.

After my first tour I wanted more adventure. I wanted to raise more money in honer of my father. On August 19th, 2013, I took off from Minnesota again to take on the Pan-American highway. The trip is a 17 month, 15,000 mile bike ride through 13 countries. It will take me to the southern tip of South America. This time I have a goal of $100,000 dollars with all donations going to cancer research once again. Now as I type this 10 months into this adventure, I am half way through the bike tour and waiting in Panama to catch a boat through the Darien gap to Colombia. I have traveled through countries that most told me I was crazy or stupid to pedal through. Mostly Mexico, but that ended up being one of the most amazing rides of my life. The “scary” people of Mexico ended up being the most hospitable people and offered help around every corner. It opened my eyes up to how incredible this world is. From learning how to surf, sleeping near crocodile infested rivers, pedaling through the land of the Cartel, to riding back country roads where most gringos don’t go, this trip has taught me more about life then any job or school education could possibly teach. Now I ride to live each day to the fullest, to honor my father and to raise money for cancer research. Life has never tasted so sweet to me. The one trick you have to learn while touring is easy, it’s to survive life one day at a time.

You can follow along the Pedaling for Pennies adventure at Pedalingforpennies.info

54 - photo - france

tim marsh

Capoeira - Sebastien Remule - Sceaux

BMX - Ricky Muscat - Le Havre

Présentation rapide Tim Marsh, dans le milieu des sports extrêmes depuis l’âge de 5 ans, graphiste de profession, lightpainter depuis 2009.

Ton expérience Après avoir passé quelques années à vivre du roller, fait des démos, des contests, j’ai repris les études pour avoir un diplôme de graphiste.

Passionné, j’ai toujours cherché à mêler le graphisme, l’art, aux sports extrêmes. j’ai commencé en faisant de l’illustration pour l’industrie du roller, puis un jour, mes parents m’ont offert un appareil photo. Mon père me disait toujours qu’il me verrait bien dans la photo, mais je n’avais pas vraiment l’envie... Je ne sais pas, j’avais vraiment besoin de ce coté créatif, dessiner.

Et un jour, un pote me montre la fonction de pose longue. On commence à faire des photos dans le salon, en écrivant des mots, faisant des petits dessins. Puis là je me suis

Parkour

dit que si on peut capter la lumière comme ça, peut-être que si on fixe des lumières sur des mecs en mouvement, peut-être qu’on peut voir le mouvement entier? Peut-être que on peut voir ce qui se passe avant, et après l’instant figé?

A l’époque, je donnais des cours de capoeira dans ma ville, du coup, après un cours, j’ai demandé à un pote de me faire un mouvement, et le résultat à dépassé toutes mes attentes.

Non seulement, on voit le mouvement, on peut comprendre le geste, d’où le sujet part, où il arrive, mais surtout, la trainée en lumière du mouvement est belle. On met en évidence une fluidité, une beauté du geste, qu’on ne remarque peut-être pas sur de la photo traditionnelle, ou même en vidéo.

Et là, c’était parti. j’ai décidé d’en faire de plus en plus. Et comme j’ai la chance de connaître des mecs doués dans chacun de leurs milieux, ça a été facile pour moi d’organiser des shootings, et ça faisait une belle photo pour mes potes !

Ton style Mon travail est composé de deux axes. Le premier, que j’ai expliqué juste avant, consiste à mettre en évidence la beauté du geste en fixant des lumières sur mes sujets, et voir la trainée que ce mouvement dégage.

Le deuxième, beaucoup plus graphique, m’est venu un peu après. Je voulais trouver le moyen de contrôler la lumière que je mettais en scène, toujours sans retoucher l’image.

Quand tu dessine, et que tu peux pas voir ce que tu fais, ça donne souvent quelque chose de décevant... Du coup, j’ai cherché le moyen d’adapter la technique du pochoir au lightpainting. Et après pas mal de tests, et de bricolage, j’ai trouvé la solution. et là, je pouvais créer des visuels complexes, sans retouches. Bonheur.

Au début, je creusais des pochoirs en carton, qui me prenaient des heures et des heures à réaliser. Après des ampoules aux mains, et quelques coupures, j’ai trouvé un moyen plus simple, qui permettait de réaliser des pochoirs plus complexes.

Ton meilleurs souvenir Je ne pense pas avoir un seul meilleur souvenir. Peut-être le jour du premier shooting, en capoeira, quand j’ai découvert le potentiel de cette fonction de pose longue. Là, c’était vraiment la découverte du moyen de lier toutes mes passions dans un visuel.

Mais il est important de savoir que les photos ne sont pas retouchées, à part du recadrage, et un peu de contraste. Du coup, pour arriver à une bonne trainée, on doit faire vraiment beaucoup d’essais. Du coup, sur chaque shooting, le moment où on arrive à la photo parfaite, quand la pose figée est belle, la trainée fluide, c’est toujours une satisfaction assez particulière. Un gros soulagement, celui où tu te dis que t’as pas fait faire 50, 60 essais à ton pote pour rien ! www.t-marsh.com facebook : tim marsh - lightpainting

Danse - Laetitia Meunier - Paris

Ton matos Après l’appareil que mes parents m’avaient acheté, j’ai tout de suite voulu plus. Pouvoir imprimer les photos que je faisais en plus grand, pour ça, j’ai vendu mon matos, et plein d’autres choses... J’ai trainé sur Le bon coin pour accumuler assez de sous pour me choper un Canon 5D mark II, des flashs, un trépied... Et du coup, coté lampes, c’est assez basique, en général, c’est des petites lampes que je choppe dans des petits bazars, mais aussi des lampes plus complexes.

C’est marrant comment la lumière captée peut avoir une «matière différente» selon la lampe utilisée... Du coup, j’essaye du coté des pochoirs de varier les lampes pour avoir des rendus différents...

Je pense qu’il y a toujours des choses à prendre de chaque discipline, non seulement dans les sports extrêmes, mais aussi partout ailleurs. C’est je pense ce qui peut faire progresser chaque discipline, amener quelque chose de nouveau...

Depuis, mes potes du bmx ont arrêté, du coup la première photo de bmx que j’ai eu l’occasion de faire était au Havre, à un contest du FISE. Les mecs se sont montrés très enthousiastes, et la photo est cool !

Du coup si des bmxers se sentent chauds de faire une photo cool, qu’ils me contactent!

Le bmx Je n’ai jamais pratiqué le BMX. Mais quand j’ai commencé le roller, on était une équipe composée de mecs en skate, en roller, en bmx, tous très potes, et soudé. A l’époque, vers la fin des années 90, il y avait cette petite gueguerre entre les différentes disciplines, à laquelle on n’était pas du tout exposé, on ne la comprenait pas.

Ton but, ton rêve...

Bien sûr, mon but serait de développer mes photos, avoir le moyen d’en faire plus, avec des gens de plein de disciplines, avec plus de moyens, bouger un peu plus dans le monde pour le faire dans des cadres atypiques, et pouvoir vivre de cette passion !

Avis aux marques...

Ski - Huk Roussow - La Plagne

Loofy code barre

tribal Wolf

Roller - lamine - paris

61 - spot - slovak republic

By Tomas Frastia - photos Marek Svancara

Do it yourself

This spot I found when I was on a train. In bushes I saw some demolished building who looked like big bank. That just made me think about interesting photoshoot in that place because it was bit dark, dirty and messy surrounding. So I called the photographer Marek Svancara (I like to work with him) and told him that we could to do something there. Grass and all bushes there were bit overgrown. At first we clean all spot and prepare the track. After a day of preparing, we was all ready to go!

I’m pretty happy for the photos from that spot. I hope that you will like them.

67 - new pusher - Slovak Republic

By Marek Svancara

Alex HrubĂ˝

Hi man! Can you introduce yourself?

Hello my name is Alex Hrubý, I’m 16 years old, rider from Slovak Republic from small town called Sered.

So how long you been riding flatland?

I’m riding for about 4 years and I’m on bike almost everyday for 3 hours.

What was your beginings in this sport?

I saw my friend riding BMX and simply I love it love that spins and all stuff.. I bought bike and start trying. At all, it was my luck.

Tell us something about photos where was that...?

I was stoked from that old building, it’s old sugara factory in Trnava (SK). That building is great for photoshoots. I like view from bottom where you can see all construction. And photographer did grat job!

Do you have any plans for the future?

For sure! Some photoshoots and I have new video which will be online in few days (thank to 303 media gropu).

Thank you for all my friends who are supporting me. Thank to you ART bmx.

73 - photo - south africa

Craig Dutton

Riders wait for their start during the Red Bull R.Evolution at the Mellowpark in Berlin, Germany on August 17th 2013

Connor Fields is one of the riders that is incredibly fast and looks good all of the time on a bike… He’s a hell of a nice kid too.

The track at Mellow Park in Berlin was initially built for the Red Bull R Revolution.

Photographically it is a brilliant track to shoot on as it offered so many angles and delivered so many good images. This image of South African Gavin Lubbe coming off the hip jump with the start hill in the background was one of my favorites from that event.

Craig Dutton is an internationally traveled professional photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and event photography. His photography style focuses on unique angles and creative lighting to produce images that have been used all over the world.

To compliment his photography style, Craig has developed a workflow that enables him to deliver quality images to his clients at lightening speeds.

Craig is a self taught photographer and has been working as a professional since 2001. He has shot for a long list of clients which include high profile clients such as the UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale), Red Bull Germany, Runners World, Bicycling, Dutch Cycling Federation, British Cycling, Land Rover Gear and various other

corporate companies. He has worked on some of the worlds largest events such as the Comrades Marathon, London Marathon, the Argus Cycle Tour and the Cape Epic Multi day stage race. Craig has been the Head Photographer for the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup for 3 years and worked as a Photo Manager for the London Olympic Games in 2012, he headed up the photographic team for the Comrades Marathon for 4 years and has shot more events than you could shake a stick at.

Craig lives in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He is Married to the amazing photographer, wife and mother, Cheries Dutton, and has 3 children (Travis, Tori and Colby)...

Joris Daudet is such a classy rider which makes it easy to shoot great images

I was walked past one of the graffiti walls at Mellow Park in Berlin Germany and Caroline Buchanan was closely so I quickly grabbed her a for photo.

Azuero gonzalez domenica michelle - ecu at the uci bmx supercross world cup manchester; uk

Caroline Buchanan is one of my most favourite Women BMXers to shoot, She always gives me something to work with when she’s on the track and she’s the consummate professional when off the track. I shot this image of her Time Trial run at the World Champs in Rotterdam where she placed 2nd.

I spent some time at the bottom of the ramp at the Manchester race shooting images of different riders and what they do before going up to the ram for their heat.

This image of Connor Fields explains it all...

78 - trip - nigeria

By Viki Gomez & Camilo Gutierrez

Bike N’ Mic tour

Viki & camilo

Redbull “Bike N’ Mic” Tour in Nigeria.

Africa is emerging! I was invited by Red Bull to do a tour in Nigeria for 8 days. They wanted to bring my old BMX Flatland concept back of “Bike N’ Mic”, that mixes BMX Flatland and Hip Hop in a 15 minutes show, performing live shows with good vibes of sport, art and music, free for the crowd to watch and get inspired from. This time, the “Bike N’ Mic” was together with a local MC called “Kraftmatiks”, who does music in human form and live hip hop singing. Mr. Kraft is a recognized “opinion leader” by Red Bull Music Academy, and was a great member of the crew! I love his voice and the vibes he brings out from the local crowd! Another rider was needed for the shows to be longer and with different styles of riding, as well as a camera man and photographer was needed, so I had to find one from one day to the other, as the dates were getting closer and time was needed to apply for the VISA to go to Nigeria. So I thought of Camilo Gutierrez from Berlin. He’s an awesome rider with one of my

favorite styles and attitude. Plus he is an amazing video maker and photographer. So this was a perfect match! The trip and tour could get started ! Nigeria is a beautiful country! I had already been in Lagos, Nigeria in 2010 so I kind of knew what to expect, but this time was beyond expectations and previous experiences. Nigeria has developed a lot since then. There is music playing everywhere. People are so open and friendly! It’s funny but the less the people have, the more they have to give, and this you notice right away! Good lessons to learn in life. Everybody says hello to each other, even to us when we are driving in the car people say hi to us! Really funny and positive to receive hundreds of smiles everyday. Priceless times for sure! You come back to Europe with a smile, and with epic memories from all the greatness that we saw and experienced, and the fun times with the homies, the policemen with machine guns, haha…

Cops and guns on a BMX, was for sure a hit on instagram on the picture I posted, this was definitely a hit as well. We hit mostly night clubs and places where Red Bull is sold. Always very good floors and reaction from the crowd!

True appreciation to someone’s passion. Hip hop and music comes from the african culture. And I particularly get very inspired to ride with live hip hop from Mr Kraft, so the shows were all so cool and spontaneous, and each show was different from the other. People really love BMX in Nigeria and supported from the beginning to the end. This pushed us to try better and better performing really hard tricks.

The “Bike N’ Mic” BMX Tour is an exchange of energy and a fun way to communicate your passion and transmit positive vibes, and this is how it works! I definitely look forward to be back next year, or in the future, perhaps with some street shows to help to inspire kids and the poor areas, to give them something new and different to be excited about, at least for a day!

This adventure has begun, when a couple of weeks ago, I suddenly received a call of good friend Viki Gomez. Everything went fast, he said: “ Hey Camilo, do you wanna join me to do some bmx shows and produce a video in Africa next week”...It was a total surprise. I just have finished second in the last European contest in Berlin, a couple of days ago and I still had the smile in my face, so why not to jump on this new adventure...Don’t think twice, when the opportunity knock your door!

As soon as I have accepted, I moved really fast to get the visa to Nigeria, and only 3 more days to organize the stuff and take the plane to Africa.

Once I told to my friends about it, they said, “ bro, there is a civil war and people is killing to each others over there, please be careful ”... Not afraid at all but really skeptic about, what is coming!

First Impression was insane: flight from Germany in business class and arrive in Lagos, one of the biggest cities and with the most population in Africa. First thing, Army boys with AK 47 guns all around the airport, even in the door of the toilets!

As soon as I put a foot on the Gate, a man came to me and asked about my name, then he has requested for my passport, No queues or immigration problems, just follow me, he said!

After 5 min. and we were outside on the street, without to even sign any paper.

Then I jumped in the car and the driver took me to the City.

Of course, it was a big impression, but I come from Peru, where our reality 15 years ago, was pretty close to what I was seeing throughout the window!

Ring the drivers phone and the Redbull manager spoke to me, “ Hi Camilo, how are you?, are you in shock?”, answer: “ I’m fine, thanks. Not in shock, cause it looks like a little bit like the depressed parts of my Country”. He answered me: “ Ok, no problem, let’s meet at the hotel and organize the trip, unfortunately Viki will arrive tomorrow, please don’t be afraid”...“Ok, let do this”.

Just a few hours later this adventure has begun with a not stop schedule for 8 days.

Early in the morning go for filming in the city or the spots around the hotel and during the afternoon and night the bmx shows, most of them in night clubs and malls.

2nd Impression, every time, that we went out of the Hotel, two Army boys with AK 47 followed us. They explained us, that it is much better to have these two guys like our shadows, before we get some troubles on the streets. So Why not, personal security for each of us!

First days really non stop, until we travelled to Ibadan, one of the oldest cities in Africa. Shows in the Mall and at the discotheque, crazy people and good vibes!

On the way back to Lagos, we decided to stop in the middle of the road, in a neighborhood, where as soon as we put the bike on the ground, the complete town came to see us!

Nice riding and filming session over there, and for sure very good vibes from the people, very poor, but with a big smile on their faces after see some bmx flatland action in front of their houses!

Once back in lagos, we continue with the schedule and drove all around the city to do the shows.

This City has one of the most horrible car traffic all day long, so to move to each place we needed at least 2 hours!

Last days and we got the chance to film inside the nice hotel, perfect floor and really clean, good sessions!

Our adventure has finished after we hit the last big mall in downtown Lagos, many people and all of them really stocked to see bmx flatland live for first time.

Pictures, smiles and autographs all around.

We let nigeria with a big smile and the hope to come back soon!

Thanks to Viki and redbull nigeria to believe in this project! We really had a good time over there! #elpoderdelabike For more please check our websites: www.vikigomez.com & www.camilo-gutierrez.com

83 - ART - france

kekli

Kekli “Gribouilleur & Street Maroufleur & Papertoyer & Designer“ et son Boyo (personnage jaune à la tête ovoïde, au sourire cynique et figé, créé à la fin du XXe siècle).

Présentation rapide Je m’appelle Kekli, je suis le papa du Boyo, un perso jaune qui ne peux pas s’empêcher de sourire.

Ton experience Classique, je dessine depuis tout petit, puis le hip hop, les sports extrême, le graffiti, la peinture, le collage...

Et en parallèle, bac S, école de graphisme, D.A. Graphiste, motion designer...

Ton style Plutôt jaune et souriant...

Ton meilleurs souvenir Un jouet que j’avais quand j’étais gamin, un robot bioman godaikin Dx, impossible de savoir ce qu’il est devenu...

Mais depuis j’en ai retrouvé un vintage (et pleins d’autres d’ailleurs !).

Le bmx J’avais un bicross quand j’étais petit, il était bleu avec des mousses de protections et des jantes en plastique jaune, une tuerie!

Ton but, ton rêve...

Continuer à poser des Boyos aux quatre coins des rues.

J’ai toujours était fan de dessin et de hip hop, je suis donc logiquement tombé dans le graffiti et le tag, c’était il y a une vingtaine d’année, je faisait du vandal mais aussi quelques fresques autorisés. Plus le temps avançait plus je me suis intéressé et ouvert à d’autres techniques, pochoir, collage, etc... En parallèle j’ai fait une école d’art graphique qui m’a énormément apporté (dans une vie parallèle je suis D.A. graphiste).

Avec mon boyo je rends hommage au icônes pop, aux sports extrêmes et à toutes les choses que j’aime.

Le sourire figé a des tonnes de signification différentes, il peux être cynique, d’autres fois il contre balance avec le cadre et/ou le train train des passants et invite à sourire en retour, puis je crois que c’est aussi parce qu’on me disais tout le temps que j’étais trop sérieux.

Le Boyo est en fait l’évolution d’un pochoir fait il y a 15 ans, un autoportrait, concrètement ça n’y ressemble plus beaucoup, hormis le côté asiatique, les yeux bridé, etc...

Je continue toujours à faire un peu de pochoir et de tag, mais aujourd’hui je fais quasi essentiellement que du collage et du stickage dans la rue.

La plupart du temps je fait un dessin au trait, je le scan pour pouvoir ensuite le dupliquer en impression, puis je le passe en couleurs à la main, je le découpe et c’est prêt à être collé. Ca me permet d’avoir des multiples mais quand même tous légèrement différent. Et ensuite je pose mes visuels dans la rue en choisissant le spot soit vis à vis de la visibilité de l’emplacement, soit de l’esthétique des supports et de leurs rapport avec mes collages. Sur support toiles j’aime bien passer du temps à abimer mes support, à les éroder, pour pouvoir retrouver une matière se rapprochant d’un mur extérieur qui aurait vécu.

86 - event - france par jc pieri

watsa festival

justin fouque

daniel penafiel, flip facki no hand

johan vidarte / Josh Crosswell / Logan Martin / Brock Horneman / Kyle Baldock / Jack watts / jack Clark

Le Watsa festival 2014 a eu lieu du 23 au 25 mai dernier sur les plages du Prado à Marseille. Cet événement est à la fois un festival de musique electro house et une compétition internationale de Bmx. Pour cette première édition nous avons réussi à avoir un beau plateau international de riders comme Kyle Baldock, Logan Martin, Brock Horneman, Josh Gall, Daniel Penafiel, Jason Phelan, Jack Watts, Jack Clark, Josh Cox, Josh Croswell, Andres Lainevool, et notre marseillais Justin Fouque.

Entre 1000 à 1500 personnes assistés chaque jour à la compétition dans une ambiance que nos acolytes Steve macro et Thomas débatisse se sont occupés de chauffer tout au long de l’événement. La compétition avait donc lieu la journée avec des training puis qualification et finale du vendredi au dimanche. À partir de 19h, on laissait place au festival de musique dans le village Watsa. Plus de 2500 personnes participaient au soirées au bord de la plage devant un beau couché de soleil marseillais.

kyle baldock

justin fouque

Nous avons voulu créer un événement ou chaque personne pourrait s’amuser comme il l’entend. Le spectacle était au rendez vous dans le célèbre bowl du prado avec une course à la victoire entre kyle baldock et Logan Martin.

daniel penafiel

Kyle Baldock s’est imposé face à son ami Logan avec des tricks comme un flip 180 bus en passant le spine ou un 180 whip to bus encore au-dessus du spine. Et tout proche derrière eux en troisième place, notre Justin Fouque qui a tout simplement retourné le bowl avec des lignes dont lui seul à le secret.

Les riders ont eu le temps d’apprécier les alentours et de profiter au maximum du festival de musique. Tout était prévu pour qu’ils se sentent comme chez eux : hôtel à 500 m du festival et after club à 30m de leur hôtel. De quoi bien s’amuser en rentrant le soir...

Nous vous donnons alors rendez vous l’année prochaine pour le Watsa festival 2015 qui aura lieu sur les plages de David cette fois ci début juin avec du park mais aussi du street (la nouveauté de l’édition 2015). Il y en aura alors pour tout le monde. Car le but est que tout le monde s’amuse. Cependant nous n’allons pas tout vous dévoiler d’un coup, nous vous réservons quelques surprises... À l’année prochaine.

didier debouze

92 - event - france par maxime cassagne

onet flat jam Je n’avais pas eu l’occasion d’aller à Onet le château lors de la célèbre Ninja spin en 2011, et ce n’est pas l’envie qui manquait. Trois ans plus tard l’occasion se présente quand Matthieu Bonnecuelle décide d’organiser un petit contest à la cool avec le soutien de BMX Force.

Tout se déroule le samedi, avec trois catégories : Expert, Master et Pro. Le dimanche étant réservé à une démo pour la fête du sport.

Je ne vous parlerai que du contest car un planning serré m’a empêché de rester davantage.

Côté pro on note la progression fulgurante de Quentin Pelorson, aussi sympa que doué sur son bike, Il envoie des barwhip to halfpacker X foot, pedalling time machine à la vitesse de l’éclair et autres folies sur les deux roues. Fraichement entré chez Ares Bikes, il remporte son premier gros contest le sourire aux lèvres. Il ira loin c’est sûr !

En seconde position on retrouve le plus grand amateur de Booba (après Alex Jumelin) : Jean Bulhon de Clermont qui déchire tout sur la roue avant avec de gros jump sans frein.

En troisième position, la bonne surprise du week end, Alexis Desolneux, qui rentre ses pivots les plus durs sur son joli bike Heresy.

Mais au delà du contest, c’est surtout un bon moment passé entre riders, une grande aire de practice et en plus l’hébergement ainsi que les repas offerts avec l’inscription au contest.

Une belle initiative de Matthieu et son papa qui je l’espère deviendra un incontournable.

A l’année prochaine !

Quentin Pelorson

romain Sanchez

Thomas deschenaux

94 - event - france par maxime cassagne

summer camp Bmx Flatland Summer Jam La promotion du contest avait été super bien gérée au travers des réseaux sociaux par Thomas Noyer et Paul Dezeix qui ont organisé le contest avec le soutien d’ Ultimate Burning. C’est donc le 2 août au petit matin (enfin presque 10h) que nous nous rendons au contest à Carresse Cassaber ! Une bonne vingtaine de riders usent déjà l’asphalte du grand parking mis à disposition ! 3 riders espagnols nous on fait le plaisir de faire le déplacement et pas pour rien puisqu’Iningo prend la première place en Expert, Santi première place en Master en enfin Varo une 3ème place en pro bien méritée. Des tueurs je vous dis et chacun dans un style bien différent.

Laurent Perrier

Maxime Luchetti

Fred Page

En pro sur la seconde marche du podium on retrouve Jean Bulhon le cascadeur de la roue avant tout en jump et barwhip qui nous fait un très beau run. Enfin, la première place revient à mon ami Thomas Noyer, qui devient de plus en plus technique et original ! Ça fait vraiment plaisir de voir sa progression ces dernières années !

Un super contest avec le samedi soir une projection de la voodoo jam et dodo sous la tente, un vrai summer camp ! A manger et à boire pour tous les riders, et du price money non seulement pour les pros mais aussi pour les masters ! On reviendra l’année prochaine c’est sûr !

Seonghoon Lie

98 - photo - france par christian vanhanja

fise world le meilleur du fise de montpellier en image

tom justice en superwhip

ryan gutler

tom justice

daniel dhers

Daniel Wedemeijer

Leo landeros

Michael Beran

thomas benedetti

bruno faucon

110 - trip - usa par Xavier FORTENBACH

os trip in cali

Été 2014. Enfin l’avion se pose à San Francisco, le trip dans l’Ouest Américain peut débuter, après une année de préparation…

Santa Cruz

San Francisco

Monument Valley Maveric Jeff Clark Shop

San Francisco

* San Francisco Ses collines, ses maisons victoriennes colorées, son célèbre pont suspendu.

La ville peut se visiter sans fin à coup de tramway des années 30 et 60.

Mais aussi à vélo, même si SF ressemble à des montagnes russes… Et traverser le Golden Gate Bridge dans la brume est grisant… La balade à vélo est sympa pour arriver jusqu’à Sausalito ou nous embarquons dans le ferry pour un retour au port de SF. Petit passage devant Alcatraz et un peu plus loin vers le pier 39 une colonie de phoques se repose !

Nous arpentons les quartiers de Downtown, Chinatown, Castro, Telegraph Hill et Haight Ashbury avec un retour dans les années 60 ses années hippies, ses odeurs de marijuana, ses boutiques psychédéliques. (et de la Beat Génération.) Bref the way of life ! * Santa Cruz Cap vers le sud pour découvrir la côte sauvage et le Big Sur. L’Highway 1 qui longe la côte, nous permet de découvrir des plages de sable et panoramas sauvages.

Sur la route arrêt obligé au Surf Shop de Jeff Clark, celui qui a découvert et ridé la mythique et monstrueuse vague de Mavericks tout seul pendant près de 15 années.

Respect!

Puis Santa Cruz, ville paisible sur le bord du Pacifique. Lieu de Surf et de Skate, mais également de résidence de Ron Wilkerson.

Nous le rencontrons le lendemain de notre arrivée dans un restaurant dirigé par sa femme Vanessa. En pleine forme, attablé autour d’un petit déjeuner super vitaminé à base d’açai.

Connaissez-vous l’Açai ? Non, alors direction le restaurant «Samba Rock» pour découvrir cette baie en provenance du Brésil, le pays d’origine de Vanessa.

Mélangé avec du yaourt des fruits frais, un délicieux et copieux petit déjeuner. Idéal pour rider !

Puis direction plus au Sud sur le Big Sur et ses côtes sauvages, l’inspiration ne peut que vous venir dans cette débauche de nature.

Retour à Santa Cruz pour diner avec les Wikerson, Vanessa, Xander (leurs fils) et Ron. De longues conversations sur le BMX, les World 2012, sur notre vision des USA, le vin, la world food, les voyages... Un bon moment qui se termine avec un rendez-vous

L.A. Las Vegas

Grand Canyon

Route 66

pour le lendemain au local de TwoHipBikes.

Le GPS à fait son travail, nous retrouvons Ron a son bureau, ou plutôt mini Musée.

Entre un Sting Ray en parfait état, des trophées de Old School, des magazines d’époque ; N°1 de Transwolrd et de Ride Magazine, des badges de compétitions et évènements ou Ron a participé.

Une réplique era correcte de son Haro Freestyler de l’époque, avec la sa vraie plaque d’époque. Une paire de Mushroom collector Ron Wilkerson Signature, une Perigrine 48s issue d’un crash, ... tout un tas de pièces de BMX et de trucs qui font que Ron est Ron. Stay the same Ron ! Merci pour tout ! * Yosemite Park 300 km de route et voici le Parc Yosemite. La nature made in USA au format XXL, les animaux sont chez eux, vous pouvez facilement croiser sur votre route des chevreuils, d’écureuils et des Prairies Dogs, mais pas d’ours à l’horizon.

Le parc est dément, des Séquoias géants aux prairies verdoyantes en passant par les

parois d’escalade (Half Dôme et El Capitan). Là encore, je décide de louer un vélo «un cruiser» pour me promener dans ce site incroyable.

C’est avec regret que nous quittons le parc en passant par la Tioga Pass à 3120 mètres d’altitude. * Vallée de la Mort : Death Valley La vallée de la mort nous réserve quelques surprises ! A notre arrivée : pas de canicule, mais de la pluie et un petit 30°C. La bonne nouvelle est que nous pouvons visiter sans risque d’insolation !

Contrairement à ce que l’on peut penser le désert n’est pas monotone… des paysages contrastés et de très beaux points de vues.

Le lendemain sur la route de Las Vegas, nous avons le droit à des sortes d’oueds (soit des rivières éphémères formées par les pluies) traversant la route suite à un énorme orage.

Impressionnant, 5 à 6 cm d’eau et des pierres recouvrent la route, déstabilisant mais finalement nous arrivons à passer en douceur dans notre petit véhicule citadin.

Venice Beach

Venice Beach

* Las Vegas (Too much city) De la Death Valley à Las Vegas...,quel contraste, un changement radical, on découvre une ville démente plantée au milieu du désert avec un bon 38°c.

Le strip (soit le boulevard ou sont érigés de chaque côté les Casinos) est incroyable, la course au toujours plus... Tu aimes ou tu détestes, mais tu ne restes pas indifférent. * Bryce Canyon - Monument Valley - Grand Canyon Sur le périple, trois autres parcs de l’Utah à l’Arizona, dans chacun tu éprouves des sentiments différents, entre les espaces, les couleurs, les atmosphères et les odeurs.

Bryce Canyon et ses incroyables couleurs, ses immenses amphithéâtres, sa balade dans le canyon.

Monument Valley, et son panorama mythique qui nous rappelle les westerns de notre enfance sur fond de musique d’Ennio Morricone. Le site te transporte. Tu as l’impression que John Wayne va débouler sur son cheval ! Clin d’oeil, à l’hôtel de Monument Valley, la carte/clef, de la chambre, possède une photo montrant un kid en BMX. Grand Canyon, la démesure, ou mon plus fabuleux souvenir de pique-nique, au-dessus de 500 m de précipice à écouter le silence.

* Joshua Tree - Palm Spring Depuis Grand Canyon, arrêt à Kingman sur la mythique route 66, et passage par le désert du Mojave (109°F = 43°C) avant de visiter le parc Joshua Tree caractérisés par ses fameux arbres de Josué qui ont tant inspiré le groupe U2. 90km de route parmi des paysages désertiques encore une fois incroyables. La visite la plus épouvante avec 43°C, impossible de se lancer dans une balade à pieds. Vive la voiture climatisée !

Enfin arrivé à Palm Spring, ville étape, sous (45°C), la palmeraie au milieu du Désert.

Trop chaud !! * Cardiff By The Sea - IKONIX / Haro Design Group Direction la côte, enfin la mer après tous ces déserts. Cardiff, la ville respire et vie surf et Californian spirit.

On rencontre Bob à son bureau, toujours très Busy, il travaille à développer IKONIX. Plein de projets sont à venir ; sacs BMX, fringues, ....).

Bob me montre le plan en version 1:1 du FS1, tout est pensé dans les moindres détails.

J’aurai bien aimé en voir un en vrai.

Il maîtrise toute la conception et le design du vélo, il en est de même pour les tous les

Yosemite Park

le park de Venice interdit au bmx...

produits IKONIX. Bob a cela dans le sang.

Autour du déjeuner, échange sur sa vision du BMX actuel, de l’orientation qu’il souhaite donner à IKONIX, du vin de Cavaillon et des World 2012 (de très bons moments); says hello to Seb and Franck and all OS Guys (ok fait!).

Bob retourne au travail et nous nous avons de la route. * L.A - venice Beach 2 heures de route vers le Nord, les autoroutes de L.A une expérience à faire, 2x6 voies, des voitures partout, les bouchons...enfin nous arrivons à Venice Beach.

Le lendemain, une nouvelle balade à vélo (Cruiser Californien) sur le boardwalk qui longe la plage. Découverte d’un mélange de tout; entre les freaks, les babes, on y croise toute la culture californienne, entre skater, jogger, rollers skaters (en quad dansant sur de la musique des années 70), surfer, basketeurs, body buildés adeptes de Muscle Beach.

Un très beau skate-park sur la plage, mais skate only car interdit à tous autres engins.. sic for Bmx. Les skaters du coin ont collé à un palmier un mini totem à la mémoire de Jay Adams,

disparu le 14 août. Jay était né à dans le quartier de Dogtown à Venice et membre éminent des Z-Boys et du team Zephyr. R.I.P. Los Angeles c’est aussi Hollywood Boulevard (tourists zone), j’ai pas trouvé l’étoile de Steven Spielberg, on se console avec celle de M.J.Fox..

Et enfin le Getty Center sur les hauteurs de L.A, on voit une grande partie de la ville.

Plusieurs collections de peintures et de sculptures dans un ensemble architectural signé Richard Meier. Le site est vraiment impressionnant et vaut la visite.

J’y ai découvert et apprécié l’exposition sur James Ensor (peintre Belge 1860-1949), sont parcours est vraiment atypique.

Le Getty Center apporte respiration et calme dans une ville prenante comme LA. * Paris Fin du séjour, 11h d’avion pour revenir dans la pluie et la grisaille de la fin août.

Le trip a tenu ses promesses, j’ai la tête pleine de d’images et de sentiments. Le plus : et d’avoir revu les copains US de BMX. Un des plus beaux voyages que j’ai eu la chance de faire. Keep riding & Travelling !

116 - photo - Argentina photos Gabriel “miyagi� Higa.

smoke riders

federico rodriguez

julian futty

julian futty

gonzalo bellanti

120 - event - france par patrick guimez - photos mathieu lecoffre & franck phung

la reole jam

Jam de la Réole Pour la première fois, je me rend à la jam de la Réole organisée par l’équipe d’Olivier Morineau. Cela faisait bien longtemps que je ne m’étais pas rendu sur une jam et je dois dire que j’ai passé un moment super. Bonne ambiance et super niveau de riding, le tout dans un endroit paisible, agrémenté de bonne musique et pour couronner le tout, cette journée fut dédiée à la mémoire de notre ami Sebastien « Benito » Luis, qui de là haut n’a pu être que fier de voir autant de personnes réunies pour lui au nom

jeremy chausson

mat alvarez

max degardin

de la famille du bmx.

Je tiens à remercier les organisateurs et bénévoles qui ont réalisé un super évent mais aussi les riders qui ont tout simplement cassé le park et le trail toute la journée, sans oublier la famille de Sébastien à qui nous apportons tout notre soutien ainsi que notre amour. Rendez vous l’année prochaine sans hésiter et avec la même ambiance!

Merci la Réole.

giani

124 - event - germany by caroline roos - Florian Klamert & Fabio Craco

EX&HOP Tour Last weekend saw the last stop of the EX&HOP Contest Tour 2014 at Munich’s Odeonsplatz in the heart of the Bavarian capital.

After the Street Contest at Königsplatz and the Wheel Of Fortune Contest at the MUNICH MASH, Germany’s biggest contest tour ended with an absolute banger in front of a beautiful backdrop: the M-net EX&HOP Spine Contest presented by Relentless & Jever Fun. 1. The EX&HOP Street Contest took place in the beginning of July at two different locations: the qualifying in an old warehouse while the finals were held under a deep blue, Bavarian sky at one of the city’s most picturesque locations: the Königsplatz, on a specially designed, portable course which just easily changed location over night.

The Bavarian street elite with Andi Wohnig, Perry Petermüller, Stephan Götz and Wolfi Wildner as well as riders from Austria, UK, France and Spain took part

in EX&HOP’s first street contest and battled it out for prize money as well as a wildcard for the best local to take part in the MUNICH MASH national qualifiers.

Stephan Götz came third by showing off the craziest drop of the day: a suicide no hand from the 3m high quarter. What else to expect of him?! Sergio Layos impressed with massive flairs, super high wallrides and fastplants on the wall as well as 360 lookdowns over the rather special jumpbox. The well-deserved first place went to Lucas Kneubuehler from Switzerland who threw down massive clicked lookdown airs, more than manly 360s over the box and double peg to barspin on the ledge By finishing third - and therefore placing as highest national rider at the EX&HOP Street Contest - Stephan Götz secured the wildcard for the national qualification of the BMX STREET RINK of the MUNICH MASH at the Olympic Parc in Munich.

Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/101392738

2. This was also the second stop of the tour: the EX&HOP Wheel Of Fortune Contest at the MUNICH MASH. Even though it felt like 40 degrees in the shade the Wheel Of Fortune kept turning all day Saturday. Things really heated up on Sunday during the Cash4Tricks Session, where the park pretty much got overrun. Brad Simms and Courage Adams joined in and even Ed Zunda, Simone Baracco and AK came over for a cold beer.

Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/103047722 3. Last weekend then saw the last tour stop at the EX&HOP Spine Contest. No more 40 degrees but a rather grey sky. Nonetheless Daniel Juchatz ,Stefan Pauli, Benni Petsch, Stefan Gรถtz and many more, as well as riders from Hungary, Austria and France battled it out during the dry spells in front of thousands of spectators.

The third place went to Bobo Ujvari from Hungary with Double Whips, Nose Bonk and Toboggans, JB Peytavit from France came second by throwing down opposite 360s, Opposite Flairs and Truck Drivers while Stefan Pauli secured the first place with super high Truck Driver to Nohand, 360 No Hand and Double Trucks Drivers.

The M-net Best Trick went to Daniel Juchatz with an insane Transfer to Footjam 360 from the FURTHER Quarter of the Street Park into the Miniramp!

Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/106534486 The plans for 2015 are already in the making and there should be quite a few surprises so stay tuned on www.facebook.com/exundhopcontest !

128 - event - france par christophe vico - photos Fabrice Passarelli & David Sihol

oldschool cavaillon

22 et 23 Ao没t 2014, OLDSCHOOL CAVAILLON, 30eme anniversaire du 1er Bicross international de Paris Bercy.

Dominique Bollinger et Aaricia Louve dans la vie comme sur leur side !

En 1984 la France découvrait le BICROSS en direct TV au Palais omnisports de Paris Bercy. 15000 spectateurs assis bruyamment sur des gradins rouge dans une ambiance de folie avec au centre une piste humide ou les pros Américains offraient un spectacle encore jamais vu. Ce jour là Eddie Fiola et RL Osborn furent à l’origine d’une génération spontanée de futurs freestylers dans toute la France pendant qu’un certain The Duke hurlait dans son micro le désormais culte “Jé neu vuuu enteun paaaas !!!”

Forcement il fallait marquer le coup 30 ans après. Le club et moi même décédions alors de remettre les couverts associés à la course du trophée des melons qui fêtait également sa 20ème année d’existence.

Après le succès de l’édition 2013 ou l’on croisait tout les 10 mètres Eddie Fiola, Bob Haro, Dave Nourrie, Toby Henderson et les plus célèbres pilotes français de l’histoire, c’etait un pari osé. Il fallait proposer autre chose. Une réunion plus cool, des courses le samedi matin seulement laissant aux participants plus de temps pour batifoler. Fin juillet une centaine de participants avaient répondu présent.

Début des hostilités le Vendredi 22 Août au soir avec la projection de Bercy 1 sur grand écran agrémentée d’une paella géante offerte par Olivier Malaplate. La tribu Corse était venu nombreuse et l’on pouvait déjà admirer les superbes bikes de la famille Marchetti sous le grand barnum. La piste était décorée d’une banderole Yop FINALE 20” avec Yannick Thivoles Mickael Clerté et Fabrice Véttorétti

Chris Vico et Nelson Neves Aaricia Louve, Dom Bollinger, Chris Vico, Magalie Pottier et Ludovic Duclos

Le Corsica Muséum et sa belle expo de pièces rares !

chris & THE MUKE

le team starlight

et de moquette verte ainsi que de la fameuse piscine façons Bercy. Gros moment de rigolade avec l’arrivée en fanfare d’un side drapé de l’étendard Américain avec à son bord «the Muke» et ses mukettes habilement pastiché par Mike Marchetti ! Un petit clin d’œil au Duke et à tous nos amis américains. Notre inimitable speaker Amadeus aura eu du mal à garder son sérieux devant ce Duke improbable à l’accent corse très prononcé. Une soirée inoubliable surtout pour ceux qui profitèrent tardivement d’un bain de minuit dans la piscine !

La particularité de l’OS de Cavaillon c’est la course et le freestyle. Pouvoir se permettre d’offrir de vraies races à et un show freestyle de qualité c’est le pied total ! Toute la

mâtiné du Samedi les pilotes allaient s’affronter sur leurs vieux sam des années 80 à 90. Tous arboraient fièrement la plaque Yop Hurricane recréer pour l’événement.

En cruiser c’est le vainqueur 20» de l’édition 2013 Nicolas Mongenot qui s’imposa devant Philippe Thivolles et Laurent Vendittélli. Grosse course pour Olivier Camacho 6eme ainsi que pour Guy Max bougé, le sexagénaire finaliste reprenait son Pro winner juste pour l’occasion.

8 équipages au départ des sides. Les pilotes et leurs singes se livrèrent de vrais duels digne des autres catégories ! En finale, c’est la paire Llaurens/Vanaquer qui foudroya ses adversaires en enroulant la grosse double de 5 mètres, les seuls barjos qui sautèrent

Une piscine comme en 1984, just for fun

la piscine ! L’équipage le plus glamour du week-end, Dom et Aaricia, affrontaient en démo Magalie Pottier juchée sur un side pour la première fois de sa vie. Énorme et rarissime moment de BMX !

Cette année encore il y’avait 2 courses de «Young old school». Préférez, les fils ou filles des pilotes qui utilisent également des vieux clous. Baptiste Mannini virevolta sur le Byz Yamaha remonté par mon frangin et s’imposa tranquillement. Chez les plus Jeunes c’est Mathis Lucas qui monta sur la 1ere marche du podium. Trop marrant de voir ma fille pédaler sur une antiquité, un Sunn mini...

La catégorie la plus attendue fut bien sur celle des 20». Valérie Huber était la seule fille inscrite cette année et ne manqua pas de mérite pendant les manches qualifs avec les garçons.Pour la finale les pilotes tirèrent au sort leurs places comme à l’époque de

l’AFB. Holeshot de Yannick Thivoles qui mena la course avant une faute d’enroulé sur la grosse double qui le mit out. Mickaél Clerté tout en style s’envola alors vers la victoire laissant la 3ème place à son pote Fabrice Véttorétti qui tomba carrément de son Bmx Zéronine dans un virage. Quand au pilote local Phillipe Gros il pris sa revanche sur 2013 en terminent second malgré un départ catastrophique. Bonne pioche pour Olivier Clérici qui contrairement à moi eu les watts pour atteindre la finale. Du bon gros baston à l’ancienne comme on l’aime !

Direction le podium avec de nombreux lots offerts par nos sponsors que je remercie au passage. Élection des 2 plus beaux bikes par Amadeus à l’applaudimètre et hop, on était déjà sur l’aire de free ! Gérard Garcia et son équipe de Starlight avaient installé leurs modules. Laurent Vendittélli commentait le show avec talent. Habile mélange de Christophe Corrège , Hutch for ever !

Finale des sides, Paul Vanaquer et Cédric Llorens font le show !

pépé

tricks old school et new school, une nouvelle fois Gérard et son équipe nous démontraient leur grand professionnalise. Didier Debouze envoya des back flip tout en haut pendant que Jérome Vormbrock fut hallucinant de précisions au sol. Pépé et Vincent Garreau enchaînérent du lourd et Patrice Karoubi (pilote Blix/Vélo 2000 des années 80) se fit plaisir avec quelques aérials sympas . Bravo Gérard, toi aussi tu as su garder le style et la classe sur ton Eighty Four !

La old school était pliée en début d’après midi nous laissant du temps libre pour aller mater les courses des jeunes et des élites. Valérie Huber troqua son vieux Peugeot avec le Chase de Magalie Pottier et Denis Casamata en fit autant avec Sylvain André. Drôle de mélange ou les uns et les autres échangeait leurs impressions au micro d’Amadeus.

Puis enfin arriva la 3ème mi temps, détente, bières et déconnade... En fond on distinguait la voix enchanteresse d’Amadeus qui nous berçait. Quelques photos de fin de soirée avec Jean Philippe Lale et notre championne Cécile Hernandez Cervellon. J’ai même eu le temps de faire un tour de side avec madame Vico qui hurlait comme une sirène de police ! Ce furent les derniers meilleurs moments de ce week-end, avant que chacun reparte au quatre coins de la France.

Un grand MERCI à nos sponsors, le club de Cavaillon et tous les bénévoles qui m’ont donné un coup de main ainsi que Franck, Seb, Mike, Christine, Katy, Greg, Cyrille et Gérard.

Mickael Clerté et Fabrice Véttorétti des amis et un style de vie autour d’une passion depuis 30 ans

Ambiance Bercy avec pub Yop et moquette verte

Magalie Pottier, la plus old school des élites françaises !

Andrew Lettieri toothpick grind at Harvard university

137 - photo - usa

Brandon Squire

“d-money� chillin in the park

mike the dude

Mike Curtis - Glassboro, NJ 2012

Andrew Lettieri pegs to gap into the street

I’m 19 years old, born and raised in New Jersey. I first got into cameras when I was 12 or 13, my dad was into photography so I definitely caught it from him haha. It’s been a constant passion of mine since then. I started riding BMX when I was 14 and the camera came with it. I started shooting primarily BMX photos and didn’t really ride much until I was 15 or 16. I put photography on the back burner for a little while around that time and just rode every day. I picked up a DSLR when I was 16 and started shooting constantly again, and now here I am.

I currently have four cameras. I have a Nikon d3100 with the 18-55 kit lens, 55-200, 35mm f/1.8, and 8mm fish. I also have a Nikon n70 35mm camera and a Minolta Srt210 35mm camera. For video I use my DSLR but if I’m filming something in standard definition I use a Panasonic GS320. I also own a Panasonic gf2 for second angles on HD videos.

I’d say my style with photography is a kind of raw. I rarely shoot strobes or spend a lot of time setting up. I like to capture the essence of the spot as well as the trick. Like I want to capture the feeling of being there.

Jeff Bustard kickflip gap into the lower parking lot

Jeff With Glasses crooked grind in Camden, NJ

My best memory would have to be my first real trip when I went to Boston, MA with John Dominick and Andrew Lettieri. We met with Petey Henkel from off the team and just got wild for a weekend. I jumped off a cliff that weekend to close it out which is probably the scariest shit I’ve ever done.

My dream would definitely be to become a paid photographer for a BMX mag. I’ve always been a fan of the greats like Jeff Z and Dolecki and would love to follow in their footsteps.

I’d like to thank my parents, my girlfriend, all my friends who keep me sane, BMX bikes for being the best shit ever, and art BMX mag for this opportunity. Also thanks to anyone who said I won’t do anything with BMX, look at me now !

Ralphy Rodrigues wallride to gap to the street

Jared Johnson wallride over the mulch into the ramp

Andrew Lettieri pegs to drop

144 - event - france par patrick guimez - photos christian vanhanja

lords of dirt

tobi Merz flipping over the Monster riders area

Pros from all around the world made it once again to SĂŠrignan in South of France, for the third time, to celebrate the 8th edition of the International dirt contest. A brand new course more technical welcomed the PRO and Amateur riders. On Friday the riders and the large crowd enjoyed the sunny afternoon with the Max Rider (mini bike) best trick and we could see that the size of bike is not a problem for them!! Saturday was just amazing with the PRO qualifications followed straight by the Masters Of Dirt best tricks. music & ride since 2007 at lords of dirt

Julian from serignan front flip over the last set

MPC stef official lords of dirt DJ pumping the crowd

foam party was unreal !!

leandro moreira knows how to click a turndown with style

leandro superman no hand

Everybody was amazed about the riding level and insane new combos as this flip toboggan to no-hander to turndown by our friend Desmond Tessemaker who took 3Rd place; just behind Michael Meisel with a huge front flip tail whip, 2Nd; and Adolf Silva, the young spanish freak who took the best trick victory with a perfect double flip.

The night continued with concerts and DJ set by MPC STEF who literally rocked the place as always.

Finals on Sunday went wild one more time even with the common french wind putting some of the riders into troubles.

Brazilian and Monster energy killer, Leandro Moreira took the 3Rd spot with insane runs and a signature flow that all of us love! German, new trick machine, Michael Meisel took 2Nd place as best tricks the night before and showed to the scene that we’ll have to count on him for the following events.

The victory came to the french «Truc de fou» rider JB Peytavit, who impressed everybody with perfect runs and not a single mistake making him the Lords of Dirt 2014 champion.

Lords of Dirt crew would like to thank all the people behind the event making it possible, another success for the international event which will take another dimension in 2015 with 3 stops in different countries!!

giving some fresh to the large crowd

simon moratz flip superman

mini bmx race was epic, georgie from MOD getting blocked pass by gianni

dawid godziek killing it once again with a suicide double truck driver

150 - photo - france

doud Bonjour je m’appelle Doud j’ai 34 ans et je suis photographe depuis 9 ans.

Aussi loin que je me souvienne, j’ai toujours étais attiré par l’image et par les sports extrêmes.

Comme tous les enfants de ma génération (enfin je pense), je collectionnais les revues de sport en tous genres, ski, snowboard BMX Sk8, moto… Curieusement le football ne m’intéressais pas, et ne m’intéresse toujours pas. Niveau sport, je suis issue du milieu montagnard et donc plus du ski et du snowboard.

Pour le BMX ma petite expérience est plus quant j’étais gosse ou avec les potes de mon quartier de soues à coté de Tarbes on faisait de la race (plus communément appelé bicross à l’époque).

Le Bask Tarbes

Fabien Hoppy Trail

les gitans

Benny Duf

Marcouille Billère

Bien-sur, faute d’argent, nous avions des vélos E. Leclerc pendant que les autres roulaient en Sunn. Putain de vélo… on cassait un truc tous les mercredis. Régulièrement on s’incrustait aux entrainements de Gérard Soucase (champion du monde de l’époque). Ce n’est que bien plus tard que je me suis mis à la photo.

A mon arrivé à Toulouse, loin de mon environnement je me suis senti enfermé… Le seul truc que j’ai trouvé pour me changer l’esprit c’est la photo. Mon beau père m’a donné un vieux appareil argentique et c’est là que tout a commencé… J’ai fais en premier des photos de friches et de squats abandonnés.

Fabien Hoppy Trail

Marcouille

Très vite je me suis acheté un boitier numérique et de fil en aiguilles très vite j’ai suivi mes potes qui roulaient à Ramonville à Hoppy trail, ce qui me value une clavicule pendant un soirée bien arrosé… Par contre ça aussi donné lieu à quelques parues.

Malgré ce boitier numérique je suis toujours resté à l’argentique et bosse encore aujourd’hui avec. Même dans la photo d’action on peut me voir régulièrement avec mes vieux appareil moyen format des années 70. Durant tous les hivers qui ont suivis je me suis consacré à la photo de ski et de snowboard. C’est depuis que je suis devenue photographe d’action.

Certains vous diront que pour faire de la photo d’un sport il faut le pratiquer. Certes c’est plus simple mais moi je pense que pour faire de la photo d’action il faut aimer le sport. Avoir un certain gout de l’esthétique connaitre les figures et le moment où il faut les shooter vient avec le temps.

Aujourd’hui ma vie a changé. Je suis l’heureux papa d’un super bébé de 4 mois et ma vie est plus posée avec ma chérie et ce petit ange.

Cependant je continue de shooter en marge de mon travail dés que j’ai un moment de libre.

La photo coùte cher et il faut rentabiliser le matériel pour ca le numérique est vraiment une aubaine, il permet de travailler a moindre frais. Quand je fais de la photo pour moi en voyage ou autre l’argentique revient en force, je n’ai pas la même approche de la photos avec ces appareils, je pense que j’en suis amoureux… Enfin collectionneur…

J’espère que ces quelques photos vous plairont et qu’elles vous donneront envie d’en faire si ce n’est pas déjà le cas. Dans la photo c’est comme dans le sport, on peut se faire plaisir à tous niveaux. Mais comme dans le sport, il faut persévérer.

le bask black flip

Marcouille

Siempre es interesante que cuenten con deportes urbanos en eventos de deportes tradicionales. Más interesante aun si el evento consiste en recorrer algunos de los sitios más bonitos de España. Eso es lo que nos propuso La Vuelta a España a un grupo de 6 riders de diferentes disciplinas: Álvaro Fernández, Carlos Marin, Sergi Massot, Karim Mohatar, Cristian Rodriguez y un servidor, Alberto Moya.

El trabajo en sí era sencillo: Todos los días, al final de cada etapa, se montaban Stans de publicidad de los principales patrocinadores de la vuelta. Sobre las 4 de la tarde el FunBox tenía que estar montado y a las 7 empezaba el show. Una vez terminado el show, a recoger y marcharse en furgoneta a la siguiente ciudad.

Pero obviamente lo menos interesante del tour eran los shows. Lo apasionante del viaje ha sido ir conociendo a la pequeña familia, que al final del viaje, habíamos montado. Todo esto mientras disfrutabas de los diferentes paisajes y entornos que pasaban a nuestro lado.

Empezamos por el sur de España en Jerez de la Frontera, donde bautizamos nuestro grupo como La Vuelta Extrema (con hashtag incluido). Fuimos recorriendo Andalucía en nuestra furgoneta. Pasando por lugares tan impresionantes como Ronda, Córdoba... Poco a poco fuimos hacía el norte, pasando por Zaragoza, Pamplona...

Aquí una mañana nos desviamos del camino para ir a Irrisarri Land: un parque de aventuras cerca de la frontera con Francia en el que había unos saltos de dirt dignos de mención. En uno de los saltos había una plataforma en la que se podía hacer flat

así que estuvimos jugando un poco y grabando unos clips.

Nuestro viaje continuaba por el norte de España y nuestra primera baja fue Karim Mohatar (Bmx) ya que se fracturó un dedo al terminar nuestro show en Santander.

Continuó el viaje con nosotros pero no pudo montar más.

Aunque los problemas acababan de comenzar. De camino a La Coruña, una de las planchas de madera de las rampas se calló en mitad de la carretera haciendo que pinchásemos el remolque. Por si fuera poco, tuvimos que cambiar las ruedas con herramientas de bicicleta. Las ruedas de repuesto no servían. Así que condujimos a 2 ruedas los más de 100 km que nos quedaban por recorrer. Llegamos a las 4 de la mañana y nos fuimos de fiesta para ahogar las penas en alcohol.

En La Coruña visitamos La Torre de Hércules. Suerte que no había más turistas y pudimos hacer unas cuantas fotos de flatland sobre una plataforma. El cielo estaba espectacular y aprovechamos bien el tiempo antes del show.

El tour llegaba a su fin en Santiago de Compostela tras 3 semanas increíbles. Estar en un mundo a parte, fuera de la rutina, viajando cada día con verdaderos amigos hacen del LaVueltaExtrema una experiencia única.

Queríamos agradecer a todos los que hicieron de este un viaje excepcional: Los compañeros de LaVuelta, nuestras amigas de Burgos, los colegas de Irrisarri Land, a nuestra speaker Neus y al público de Galicia. No os olvidaremos!

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by Alberto Moya

La Vuelta Espa単a Tour

Alberto Moya, La Coru単a

It’s always interesting when people include urban sports in traditional sports events.

It’s even more interesting if the event consists of exploring the most beautiful places in Spain. That’s what La Vuelta a España asked to a group of 6 riders from different disciplines: Álvaro Fernández, Carlos Marin, Sergi Massot, Karim Mohatar, Cristian Rodríguez, and myself, Alberto Moya.

The job itself was simple: Every day, at the end of each stage, stands advertising the main sponsors of the race were mounted. Around 4 pm, the funbox had to be assembled and the show began at 7. Once the show ended, we had to pick everything up and leave by van to the next town.

Alvaro Fernandez, San Fernando

Obviously, the least interesting part of the tour was the shows. The exciting part of the trip was to get to know this small family of riders, which by the end of the trip was a pretty solid one. All this while we were enjoying the different landscapes and environments that Spain has to offer.

We started in the south of Spain, in Jerez de la Frontera, where we baptized our group as “La Vuelta Extrema” (with hashtag included). We were traveling in our van through Andalucía, going through stunning places like Ronda, Córdoba ... Little by little we went to the north, passing through Zaragoza, Pamplona...

Looking Up On the way to Ronda

Alberto, Irrisarri Land

Carlos Marin & Alvaro Fernández, Irrisarri Land

One morning we turned off the road to go to Irrisarri Land: an adventure park near the French border where there were some noteworthy dirt jumps. In one of the jumps there was a platform where we could ride flatland, so we were playing around and filming some clips.

Our journey continued through northern Spain, and our first setback was Karim Mohatar (BMX), who fractured a finger at the end of our show in Santander. He went on the trip with us but could not ride anymore.

However, the problems had just begun. On the way to La Coruña, one of the boards from the ramps fell in the middle of the road causing a flat tire to the trailer. As if that were not enough, we had to change the wheel using bicycle tools. The spare wheels were useless, so we drove with only 2 wheels for over 100 miles we had left to go. We arrived at 4 am and went partying to drown our sorrows in alcohol.

In La Coruña we visited The Tower of Hercules. Luckily there weren’t more tourists, so we could shot a few pictures of flatland on a platform. The sky was spectacular and we took advantage of the time before the show.

The tour came to an end in Santiago de Compostela after 3 amazing weeks. Being in a world apart, off the beaten path, traveling each day with true friends make the LaVueltaExtrema a unique experience.

We’d like to thank everyone who made this a fantastic trip: partners of La Vuelta, our friends from Burgos, our colleagues from Irrisarri Land, our Mc Neus, and our crowd from Galicia. We won’t forget you!

Karim Mohatar, Jerez De La Frontera

Hugo Czarnecki

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shoot marseille

Jason Phelan

Didier Debouze

Kyle Baldock

Logan Martin

Cyril Lapoirie

Mickael Zimbardo

Justin Fouque

Arnaud Palmade

Romain Maurel

Tanguy Labertrande

Maxime Orsini

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shoot paris

matthias dandois

michel dos santos

matthias dandois

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kill the line

31st of August 2014 – Peynier, France. Dawid Godziek from Poland is the winner of VANS Kill the Line 2014. He convinced the judges with an amazing variety of hard tricks like a double barspin backflip, a triple truckdriver or a corked 720 combined with a super smooth style and perfect landings. The Brazilian Leandro Moreira placed second with a triple whip, superman nothing variations and his unique powerful style. Gentlemen rider and BMX legend Chris Doyle became third with his unbeatable 360 variations. The format was three runs with the best one counting. The «Riders Choice Award» went to wizard of AUS Corey Bohan.

Winner of the «Best Train Competition» was again „Team Ridazz“ with T.J. Ellis (US), Leandro Moreira (BRA), Mike Saavedra (US), Daniel Juchatz (GER), Paul Langlands (NZ), Alex Landeros (US) and Jon Riddle (NZ). The German Daniel Juchatz was the lucky winner of the wildcard and made it to the finals.

More than 8.000 spectators witnessed 16 finalists out of 60 riders competing on the «Les Kills» line in the pine woods with nine jumps. Some of the worlds best dirt riders came to the legendary Peynier Trails in the South of France and went for an overall prize money of 7000 Euros.

Definitely a highlight of the weekend was Ryan Nyquist (US) trying to pull a tree sixty nose bump to bars (literally) and eventually pulling it.

The most relaxed trail contest of the season with perfect weather conditions, is organised by the BMX Peynier association – namely the BMX legends Alex Dropsy, Berenger Guilb Cordier, Bibi, Nicolas Beou Bertier and Cedric Pouky Carrez and an entire village of volunteers. It was judged by head judge Dave «Hank“ Cleworth (UK), Axel Jurgens (ARG) and Patrick Haebig (AUT).

Thanks heaps to VANS Europe, Sosh, GoPro, FUSE Protection, Roure Automobiles and to all volunteers, riders and helpers making this event possible.

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by Caroline roos - Photo Florian Klamert

pop up skatepark After years without an indoor spot, Munich’s riders finally got themselves a place to hide from the rain, the FURTHER skatepark at the Backstage Club. For the first time since the last indoor park closed in 2009, riders have been offered an indoor POP UP Park at the legendary Backstage Club Music Venue for two weeks in August where they could ride the FURTHER street park no matter the weather or light conditions outside.

Even though only planned to stay for a short period, the success of the park has now encouraged the city to rethink the infrastructure in Munich – after all the third biggest city in the country and one of the very few without an indoor spot!

A massive indoor park has been in the works all along with opening scheduled for earliest 2016/17 but as it has been apparent from the POP UP park, an indoor spot is needed now! FURTHER and Backstage are both determined to offer the park at least till the opening of the bigger venue so stay tuned on www.facebook.com/backstageskatepark for updates on further developments.

Although the park is not officially open at the moment, there is always a possibility to film in there, here a little insight which was done for Epic TV with Thomas Calcagno, enjoy!

www.epictv.com/media/podcast/ten-boss-tricks-from-thomas-calcagno-|-10-trick-tuesday-ep-4/600230?header_b=1&b=1

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red light jam La Red Light Jam fut pour moi la révélation de l’année !!

Depuis quelques temps Redge me conviait sur son événement et finalement, j’ai enfin pu vivre ça de l’intérieur. Tout d’abord un lieu incroyable au beau milieu de la forêt et une terre rouge vif faisant ressortir le champ de bosses comme jamais. Ajoutez à cela, une programmation musicale de dingue ainsi qu’une minirampe refaite dans la nuit à cause de quelques idiots, sans oublier les bonnes buvettes qui vont bien et une ambiance dont seuls eux ont le secret !!

Il me faudrait écrire un livre afin de vous raconter tout ce qu’il s’est passé tant en riding qu’en anecdotes mais la seule chose que je retiendrai, c’est que si vous devez vous rendre sur une jam l’an prochain, alors ne réfléchissez même pas!!!

Petite dédicace à Capi le pilote de buggy qui aura fait faire un test de souplesse au bras d’Osman mais qui s’est avéré négatif hahaha.

Un grand respect à Redge et toute son équipe pour la réalisation d’un tel évent ou la bonne humeur et l’esprit festif sont omniprésent même après l’événement.

Pas besoin de parler de riding, les photos parleront d’elles mêmes, on se voit là bas l’an prochain ! « ya du monde dans ce putain de manège ? »

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orange juice jam

Back in June WeAreOrangejuice organised a big streetjam in Amsterdam like they do every year. With over 100 riders showing up and a lot of good street riders adding to the action it turned out to be a great day!

The spots were really different from each other consisting from ledges & rails to banks to the oldest skatepark in Amsterdam to a huge quarterpipe where people where doing streetflips. With such diverse spots everyone could ride something and turned out to be a real good day!

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By Luis Elías Benavides

back to baco

The guys at BACO, the four mysterious letters that have influenced many generations of riders for over two decades, just released a blu-ray box set that contains all 10 Baco videos, the Push it to 11 documentary, and hours of bonus features. This is absolutely a must-have for every rider on the planet because it reflects what BMX is all about. I caught up with Chris Rye, one of the dudes behind it, to ask him a few questions about this project. Sit back and enjoy!

What pushed you to start documenting pretty much everything you did?

I think we were all just fascinated by video cameras, and more importantly, loved capturing our riding for ourselves and others to see. Mind you at the time in the early 90s when we got started with Baco, very few people had video cams at all, nothing like today where even a phone can film decent video parts. And even fewer people then had the ability to edit footage into actual videos. We were very naive on the whole video-making process ourselves at first, but just figured it out through trial and error because we were so determined and passionate about it. There were no computers at all to edit with. You had to edit by going deck to deck analog style, which was very tedious and time consuming.

We had vid cams around us at all times and also filmed other stuff besides just riding.

Just dorking around, goofy stuff we did as kids and later as young adults. As time went on, our antics got more and more crazy and ridiculous. A lot of people say we were the “jackasses» before Jackass haha. Chad and Hilson eventually made it onto the nationally televised «Jerry Springer Show» by pretending to be gay to pick up chics at clubs, which was pretty much as ridiculous as it gets in terms of antics.

Who was involved in the BACO saga?

The original founding members of Baco were Chad DeGroot, Mark Hilson, Mark Fluette and myself. Then around Baco 3, Dave Freimuth became part of the crew when we all moved in and lived together. As the years passed, others became sort of like friend-level crew members, dudes like Kuhrt Emmerich, Jeremy Verhulst, Jimmer Rienstra, Kurt Schmidt, Rick Moliterno, Brian Vowell, Leif Valin, Jason Enns, Mike Escamilla, Dave Osato, Ruben Alcantara, Joe Rich, Luc-e, Andrew Faris, Jay Miron, Tony Mortenson and newer gen dudes like Brian Kachinsky, Kevin Porter and Ben Hucke. I’m definitely missing people from the list, there are too many to name.

Who were your early influences in terms of video making/editing?

Mark Eaton and the Plywood Hoods probably more than anyone, just because of the fact they made videos, were primarily flatlanders like ourselves, and also liked to toy around with ramps and street like we did. Then of course there were guys like Ells Bells who made it ok to be weird and Eddie Roman who made us want to step our game in terms of video quality and always having the newest cams.

Is there a story behind the making of those videos that really stands out?

Nothing really more than all the videos, even up to the new “Push It to 11” documentary, were collaborative projects where we tried to involve different ideas and opinions of the core Baco members to some extent. We always tried to keep it true in that regard. We did shit ourselves and in our own way, with really minimal outside influences. Wisconsin-style shit. I was more less the primary editor on most of the videos, but it seems like there was always one or more of the guys either sitting next to me or communicating via other forms to help shape the way the videos were put together, contributing new awesome footage, opinions on what music to use or what have you. It was all of us together that made Baco what it was, no question about it.

There is notably some sort of evolution from BACO Vision to BACO 10, but always keeping the “we do what the fuck we want” mentality. Do you think today’s videos lack all that craziness?

In a way, yes. When we were putting out the Baco videos, and even the new documentary, there were very, very few times when we questioned “what will people thing about this?” And we certainly never changed our course because of it. We pretty much made the videos exactly how we wanted and did not back down in lieu of how it might be perceived or interpreted. We liked to mess with people and how they might view us, just keep people guessing really. Today a lot of people are really uptight about how they come across, which is sort of a bummer because at times people hold back from who they really are.

As much as I love the internet, I do feel like it forever changed BMX in a way I cannot exactly put a finger on. All I know is today there seems to be less wonder and personal discovery. Everything is clearly laid out and there’s really not much left to speculate or figure out on your own. In the 90s before the internet, there was a certain excitement in figuring something out either on your own terms, seeing someone do

it in person or in an underground video like the Baco or Dorkin vids. That feeling is more or less lost today because everything is in your face and there is such an influx of it, which waters everything down to a mediocre level. Don’t get me wrong, there is still awesome stuff coming out, but it has to be really extraordinary to stand out or become noticed for more than 2 minutes on a blog post amongst 25+ others every day.

What do you think is the biggest impact that BACO had on its viewers?

Aside from all the newest progressive riding shown in the videos from guys like Chad, Dave and others, it was the do it yourself “fuck it” attitude that inspired people to trudge their own paths through life, even beyond BMX. To try and have fun no matter what. You’re only young once, and alive once in certain situations, so go out there as an individual and do your own damn thing without a shit care in the world of what anyone else thinks. Stick it to the man, defy mass culture and what everyone else is doing. It’s your life, live it to the fullest without taking orders from anyone.

How would you describe the reaction of the general public toward this new blu-ray BACO box set?

Really, really good by everyone who’s actually seen it. We’ve had a bunch of premieres all over the country, and around the world for that matter, and everyone that we’ve heard from has loved the new doc. http://bacodesigns.com/reviews It’s been a tough thing to get out there though, no question. For one, Baco has always has been a big indie project done by a handful of guys who were passionate about what they did above all else. We don’t have any corporate sponsors or outside money coming in at all. There are no Red Bulls or Monsters of the world giving us funding of any kind, which is actually the way we like it. But today that makes it hard to compete and get noticed, especially when some of the “BMX media” that wants advertising money to even give what you’re doing a mention. Secondly, it’s a large box set compilation covering 25+ years with 11 hours of content. It’s on Blu-ray format only so we could include everything on a single disc in a clean package. It contains the new Push It to 11 documentary, which took a year to produce. Baco as a whole is pretty unconventional in BMX these days.

To do all this makes it expensive above and beyond a traditional DVD release, and there’s only a small market for such things. Basically you either have to be a Baco fan, appreciate the history, or want to see the documentary to actually drop the cash to buy the box set. This has been a bit tough to deal with actually, because to manufacture the box sets you have to run a certain quantity to get the price down to a reasonable amount. But then that creates a situation where you have to be able to sell that amount to make it worth spending a full year working on it without doing any other job or having any other income stream. Ultimately we’re just glad we were able to get all the videos together and tell our story through the new documentary, which we truly did work hard on to make it the best it could be. Shit will live on now, which is cool in a certain regard compared to if we hadn’t put out the project and had just let Baco sort of fade off into the dustbin of history.

We entered the documentary in the pretty prestigious Wisconsin Film Festival, so we’ll see how that goes. It would be cool if we won an award or something from a nonBMX related entity based solely on the filmmaking and storytelling strengths of the movie, but it’s pretty difficult for indie films to break in these days so we’ll see come February when they announce the chosen films.

What are you doing these days? Are you still riding bikes?

I ride when I can, flatland mostly in the driveway just playing around trying to learn some new stuff here and there. Doing the Baco project sort of reclaimed a lot of the friendships we all had, which in some cases had been neglected due to different factors like having families and just being busy with what life brings. I am a dad now, as is Chad, Dave and Fluter, and I stay home with my son (2.5 years old) during the days, which takes a lot patience and time. Still trying to keep shit real and fit BMX projects in when I can.

Is there anything you’d like to add?

Just thanks for the opportunity to answer some good questions and unload some thoughts. Thank you !

Get the Baco box set and new commemorative t-shirts: http://bacodesigns.com

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