Sunday, August 19, 2007

Red Cross Dirtjump contest

red-cross,-yo!

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.

twanne-down


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.

ben-onefoot-tiregrab


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

groen-oldskool-nohander

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

groen-tailwhip


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...

daarek-backflip


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...

joris-barspin

joris-superman-seatgrab


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.

dimitri-tuck-nohander


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.

jimmy-tailwhip

jimmy-frontflip


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).

pim-frontflip


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

dude-360


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.

hannu-tucknohanded-tiregrab


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.

sven-nfcc

sven-nothing


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.

greg-backflip


greg-tailwhip


greg-SUPERman

1 comment:

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