Project Ivo: Week 2

I know, it's wednesday, and I should have done this on monday, but I had exams on tuesday and such and such, so wednesday it is ;-)

Here's this weeks wallpaper. The picture was shot in july '06, on the DirtE19 trails.

Project Ivo: week 1

A very close friend of mine suffered a terrible accident in Greece, some 81 days ago. He's still in the hospital right now, and still faces long revalidation.

A few months ago, he was at my place, browsing through my photo's looking for nice ones that he could print or put on his pc. Months later I still haven't done anything with those pictures.

So this is the time, I thought. In the next weeks, I'll try to post one picture every week, in wallpaper format, just for you my friend! To keep spirits high.

Here's number one:

Red Cross Dirtjump contest

I've been slacking, the last two months. I still have a lot of photography lying around, but at least I've finally managed to upload the pictures of the Red Cross happening, a dirtjump/vert contest annex festival in Hechtel, Belgium. I'm not gonna talk too much about it, it was just awesome, and if they'll do it all over next year, you better make sure you get there!

On to the pictures. This is just dirt. Vert pictures are coming in the next few days.


This guy didn't even make it till qualification. Twanne went down fridaynight, and had to be brought to the hospital with a fractured skull. No worries, he's healing well.




this is Ben. Ben is one of the nicest kids you'll meet. Kind of quiet, but don't let that fool you ;-)
He's been killing those jumps all weekend, but this is the only halfdecent picture I managed to take. Sorry mate.




Don't know who this is, I think the man who goes by the internetalias of "groen". pretty damn impressive MTB riding.



He was also the only mountainbiker doing (and landing!) a tailwhip that weekend:




Daarek, with a flawless backflip. He was less lucky a week ago, on our demo on Wilrijk Jaarmarkt, where he broke his wrist doing a backflip. Get well soon, dude...




Joris, just like Ben from the Stabroek Crew, another young talent. Sporting some weird hairdo that weekend, luckily his riding isn't as haggard as his hair...






This one is Dimitri, from Holland near the Helmond trails. He was doing some huuge airs over the first double, pretty sure he'd have won the high air contest, if there had been any.




Those were the "amateurs", as in not sponsored riders that is...
On to the pro's:


This is Jimmy, doing some of his usual tailwhips. well... usual... he does them so clean, and on and off everything, that you kind of come to expect it. Great rider, also check the Vert pictures.






talking about frontflips, here's Pim with a sweet one. He was actually the first one to do it. But then again, ever since he learned them he just keeps doing them everywhere he goes. Like on the Fat Jam (pics coming).




don't know the name of this guy, or much about him. Sweet three's though.




Here's one most of you probably know: Hannu. He's been around for a few years already, been featured in quite a few vids, so I'll leave it at that.




Still hanging in there? I know there's a lot of photo's, but we're almost there!


The last two riders are almost inseperable. Both through and through trailsriders, wich you can clearly tell by their style.
The first one is Sven. Mostly know for the huge no foot cans and variations he does.
A true trails addict. Symptoms include, but aren't restricted to having to be dragged off the trails at the end of the day.






And last, but definately not least, the man who eventually placed first in pro dirt: Greg. Great style, a true trails rider, which shows in his tricks.
I'm gonna shut up now, and let you enjoy the last pictures.

Red Cross: sneak- peek

I don't know if I'm allowed to, but here are some first shots of the Red Cross dirtcomp dirts.
They're just about perfect, good sized, easy to trick.

So I'm seeing all of you there on saturday!

more info on the redcross site.