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Freecaster.tv will be streaming a high-quality Live Webcast from Simpel Session in Tallinn, Estonia on January 26th and 27th. Now in it's 8th year Simpel Session has been building a reputation for creating a truly supportive and encouraging vibe, making it an exciting destination for skateboarders and BMX riders alike all over the globe. The course design, by Nate Wessel is dialed for Skate and BMX

Mikie is organizing a BMX competition at Mount Hawke skatepark in Cornwall (about 10miles South of Newquay) for easter sunday 23rd March 2008.The park is fully indoors and has recently undergone a refit (see photos) and is one of the best layouts for a long time. It includes a vert ramp, 6 foot high spined mini ramp, 2 other mini ramps back to back, 2 hips, some flatbanks and grind boxes and a jump box.

SINZ is proud to announce the arrival of the Pro Lite Stem Series. The Pro Lite Stems are available in 4 different sizes - a mini 1” version with a 40mm and 45mm reach and a Pro 1 1/8th version, with a 50mm and 55mm reach. The SINZ Pro Lite stem use a very sophisticated process- hollow forging to make it as lite as possible while not sacrificing the strength needed. The stems have a 5 degree rise, so if needed, you can flip the stem over to have a true inverted stem. The stems have a beautiful SINZ Signature Black Shadow finish with the 3D Sinz Logo embossed in the stem cap.  

On The Low is a trailer that was sent to us by  Sytse at Dutch Flatland.  In fact, he referred us to the clean  preview on the net . The video is scheduled to come out in March 2008. 

This FAT Friday (#4) is coming to you from Tallinn, Estonia. We have arrived here for the Simpel Session contest. Pim van den Bos, Paul and I took a train to Amsterdam to catch our flight. In the waiting zone we met up with Morgan Wade and Will Stroud and in the hotel lobby the chaos had already started. I'll try to sum up some news for you in short:
-Paul's Boutique did some business at the bar and is now the Benelux distributor for Team Blowin' It.
-Scotty Cranmer made it and he wasn't sleeping. Practice is in an

Happy New Year everybody----- from Stephen in Baltimore----- and all of the Murray Family. 2008 has got to be a year of successful physical therapy, resulting in regaining some use full physical movements of some limbs. Everything is now set up to achieve results and here we are in Baltimore at the start of some very special treatments in The International Spinal Cord Injury Center of The Kennedy Krieger Institute. This is run by the world renowned neurologist Dr. John McDonald, who has spent a great many years researching spinal cord injuries and who spent 3 years helping Superman actor Christopher Reeves regain some functions.

He is a guy who truly believes that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE and is dialed in to Stephen big time. The pair of them are totally dedicated to regaining movement , so as long as Stephen can keep himself well medically, I am sure that they will succeed. Stephen spent Christmas and New Year at their new [to them] home in Riverside with his wife Melissa, sons Seth 5 and Mason 2 , but after 4 weeks in a home environment, Stephen and Melissa flew to the East coast of America to begin a 6 week program with Dr. John McDonald in Baltimore. Unfortunately , the long flight and everything that it entailed ,resulted in Stephen having the most chronic neck pain ,and after 4 days was admitted to E.R. with Pneumonia and a bladder infection. 

Soulbmx.tv is online. A little behind schedule, but whatever. To use the full potential of the portal SoulBMX asks you to set up a user account - done in 10 sec. After that, confirm the link you´ll get via email - old story. After that you can: 

2008 is probably going to bring is back to Prague for the IBMXFF world championships. We're all looking forward to hear the announcer say Niiiiiiiiicccccccccceeeeee ONNNEEEE!!! I'm sure he'll say Nice One when he opens up the following pin-up shot. 21+

We have a few Contest planned to be held during the Jam, like best Ledge – Lines are welcome - , long jump contest and a game and if enough kids will show up there although will be a Miniramp Contest. The Aftershowparty will be hold in the freshly rebuild Café right at the Skaters Palace. So the BMXer will be the first ones to Party there. The main Reason for the Jam is to see everybody again and 

When we posted the article about BMX in The Netherlands from 1956, we expected the forums to go nuts. Not that we hang out at these places much but showing a photo of Dutch kids riding bikes with numberplates on a dirt track in 1956 certainly was a good catch. We received two (American) reactions on the post, one from JT, the other from TGI Byron Friday. Both were stoked on it. We have now decided to make an ad of it showing that Joe Kid on his Stingray has got nothing against Ton van Heugen on his Gazelle.