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The Mellowpark is one amazing place and the perfect location for the Rebel Jam. Andy Zeiss and Mike Emde worked together with the Mellowpark crew to pull off their first Rebel Jam. After doing a strong promotion campaign of print advertising, setting up a killer website, printing plenty of leaflets, making buttons, and spreading the word at numerous events, one would expect a huge turn out in both the riders field and spectators. Although there were enough quality riders and enough spectators, the Mellow park wasn't as packed as you would think afer such a strong promotion. This makes you think what needs to be done to get the people there. Are there too many contests that people simply pick their closest event to go to? With the World's in Prague, the Snickers Bowl in Donington, the LG comp in Munich, the BMX Masters in Cologne and the LG contest in Paris going on in June prior to the Rebel Jam, you might think that it was a bit contest overflow for some. But when do you have the chance to see riders like Ryan Guettler, Van Homan, Ruben Alcantara, Dave Osato, Sergio Layos, Dustin Guenther, Clint Millar, Kye Forte, Axel Juergens, Hannuh Cools and more ride together in a relaxed atmosphere?

Rebel Jam Dirt The normal dirt set-up usually consists of a few big sets with a big roll in. Not at the Rebel Jam. The permanent trails offered more than one line from the steep wooden starting hill. The rain on Friday made it sketchy if the dirt event could be run, but already on Saturday night people were flowing through the sections after the sun came out and the clay trails had dried up. The event was moved to Sunday regardless with amateur and pro qualifying and finals. Most amateurs chose the right line which started with a hip to the left and was followed by at least 7 doubles. Transfer lines were possible but most ams stayed on the straight line to the back. In pro this was a different story, especially when Hans Friedrich got to work. The Mellow Park employee had the lines down and went from the middle line all the way to the right and back through alleys that were barely visible. Hans won the creative award by multiple points and was stoked.

Miniramp contest Rebel Jam Berlin, Germany. Before the contest took place at the MellowPark, the kink got taken out of the ramp. This helped with the riding both in amateur and pro class. The ams had an important contest ahead of them with a free trip to the USA up for grabs including a week stay at Woodward Camp. This is every rider's dream that entered the mini contest and althought the contest happened on Saturday, the results weren't announced until Sunday afternoon. I bet non of the riders slept well on Saturday.

Ultimate global action sports and music festival return to Perth For the second consecutive year, Western Australia will play host to the ultimate international action sports and music festival, Gravity Games H20, presented by Vodafone, to be staged in Perth from October 6 to 9, 2005 A dynamic field of more than 110 elite action sport athletes from across the globe will compete for up to AUD $170,000 in prize money across three medal events of Wakeboarding, Kiteboarding and for the first time, freestyle Thundercats. Non-medal events will include Freestyle Moto X, BMX, Skate and In-line Vert Ramp exhibitions.

The LG Action Sports World tour is hitting Barcelona and Rimini this month. If you feel like you deserve to enter the street contest in Spain or Italy, make sure you sign up soon. The event in Barcelona will take place on the weekend of 23-24 July and the stop in Italy will be the weekend after that on 30-31 July. Hit the LG Action Sports World Tour banner on the right or go directly to their website by hitting [url=http://lgactionsports.com]this link[/url]. Sign up forms can be found on the website. The improved street course will be set up near the beach at both stops. Sounds like an opportunity for a good holiday.

DIG Magazine # 047. It's Kye Forte's 3rd cover in one month, how stoked is he? Leave it to the DIG boys to come up with something different on the first page. A manual on the cover, who would have ever thought? The mag is full of stuff. We leave the contents to Ed Docherty's # 047 info image but we can tell it's a stacked issue. In fact, we still haven't finished reading everything yet. We'll stop typing here and start reading. Get your copy through: DIG BMX Magazine Studio 153 355 Byres Road Glasgow G12 8QZ Scotland, UK

-Paulie Lange is back to racing after breaking some ribs a few weeks ago, 2nd and a 3rd in Desoto, TX last weekend. Next up for Paulie is the ABA Worlds in Ontario, CA then leaving straight for France for the "real" UCI Worlds in France. Paulie is a AA Pro racer but like to ride the streets, today's pic is of Paulie hitting the streets of Sacramento with a crazy curved wall ride. Photo is by Matt Faulk, Matt is a BMX racer on Felt's flow team but has a broken wrist and has taken up shooting photos while he heals. -Scotty Cranmer is headed to the 2nd stop of the Dew Action Sports Tour this weekend in Denver. The TV schedule for this coming weekend is: NBC, Saturday, July 9th from 4:30 - 6 PM ET FREESTYLE MOTOCROSS FINALS and BMX PARK FINALS

The Story from the Biker In Black himself: "Yo dudes I got messed up about 9 dayz ago on tha Huck jam, I fell on tha vert & my handlebar stabbed me in tha leg, result was internal stiches of 19 or so plus 19 staples on tha outside. Life sucks cause I had 2 miss tha Gravity Games & tha Denver stop, 2nd of tha Dew action Sports Series. I should b ridin' next week, I have been still filmin' 4 FUEL TV on tha Huck Jam & hostin', hold ur head up."

The news that Ron Bonner sold UGP was hard to believe. Ron Bonner IS UGP and has been since he was 16 years old. Why sell now? Is he still going to be involved? Who are the new owners? What about the Roots jam? What's happening with the team? All questions that needed answers. Ron Bonner explains. Was it a difficult decission to sell UGP and why? The crazy thing is that I have been doing UGP since I was 16 years old everything that I have done for the past 18 years has been with UGP. I learned a ton about life with UGP. So yea it was the biggest decision I have ever made and not an easy one! But at some point in life change is good and I was ready for a change. This decision opens up more time for me to explore other creative outlets that I might not of had time to try. Are the new guys into BMX? They love BMX. The new CEO (Ric Coven) used to ride and was a really good street rider back in the day.

Chris McArdle over at HotWheels International in the UK sent us a photo of the Mongoose replica that is coming out at the end of this year. Only 500 asre made and the UK has ordered 150 of them. Andy Ruffell fans will be stoked to be able to ride the same bike as he did in the very early '80-s when he killed it on the BMX track. Contact [url=http://www.hot-wheels.co.uk] HotWheels Int.[/url] if you want to reserve one of the bikes.