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The AST, the umbrella brand and organization of the world’s most prestigious action sports events, begins its first international event on April 18-20 with the AST China Invitational in Beijing’s Daxing New Media District. The top professional action sports athletes from around the world-including Skateboard Vert athlete Andy Macdonald, BMX Vert Dew Cup champion Jamie Bestwick, and Skateboard Park competitor Rodolfo Ramos-will be competing at the inaugural AST China Invitational. Skateboard Vert Finals and Best Trick competition will be held on Saturday, April 12; Skateboard Park Prelims and Finals will be held on Sunday, April 13; and a fan-friendly BMX Vert exhibition will take place on both days.

The point’s leaders in the skateboard vert/ park and BMX vert disciplines were invited to the AST China Invitational based on their ranking at the end of the 2007 AST Dew Tour season.

Damn, these things keep coming up before I know it. I'm not ready for this one but I'll give it a go anyway. You see, the whole week was busy and I haven't even started on the first quarter bookkeeping yet that needs to be finished sooner rather than later. Oh well, that's the way it goes, you give some and you get some. Last weekend already seems like a long time ago. On Friday we checked out the MX GP scene on our way to the opening of The 900 BMX and bicycle shop. Peter Geys opened up his shop and it looks great.

Oyé oyé, gentlemen, SOUL is celebrating its 10 year anniversary on the 21st of June in PARIS. We’ll "organise" a spontaneous street jam in the Bercy neighbordhood to make crazy Best and Worst tricks on the many nice spots of the place. See the poster to have the list of idiots ideas we had. There will be stuff and money to win and mostly a lot of fun to have, maybe a fine from the police too but we’ll send all the tickets to Catfish. At night we’ll do live concerts in the street as the whole city will be doing the "party of music" meaning everyone can sing and play music in the street.

Yo dirt monster! We've got 2 X 2 tickets for the Extreme Playground Dirt Session to give away. Instead of giving them to the first two people to send us an e-mail, we're going to make a little contest out of it. Here's the question: Who won the first T-Mobile Extreme Playground contest in 2007 in Herten, Germany?
a) Ryan Nyquist
b) No one
c) Tobias Wicke
d) Ben Hennon

KHE Bikes is giving out some info about a future product of KHEbikes: At the moment they are testing a new kind of BB-cup which features the „patent pending” AFFIX® bush system and the proven quality of igus® bush bearings.

These bush bearings, named iglidur® are principally used in the industry, primarily on permanently running applications at high temperatures. Each of them sustain more than 3 tons.

After three amazing years in Whistler, Canada, Elevation 4 is moving to the Parque Metropolitano in Guadalajara, Mexico on May 10-11, 2008. Red Bull Elevation skyrocketed onto the BMX scene in 2005. It revolutionized dirt-jumping by delivering the most progressive course ever built. For the first time, the world’s best riders we’re able to show off all that they had on an awe-inspiring course designed by BMX icon Jay Miron. It was an unbelievable sight to see. 

ESPN has decided to continue its 13-year tradition of vert competitions at this year's X Games. Over the past month ESPN has engaged in many conversations with the X Games BMX and Skateboard vert athletes in an attempt to transition the Vert discipline into one featuring a skatepark course design. While many athletes were initially receptive to the idea, the majority of them have indicated to ESPN that they would prefer to compete on a halfpipe. ESPN will also continue its plans to hold SuperPark as a new discipline for skateboarding and BMX at the X Games while working with the athletes to better define exactly how the SuperPark course will be designed. 

"The X Games has always had a commitment to the athletes and our consistent communication with them has allowed us to collectively grow this event to where it is today," said Chris Stiepock, General Manager, X Games. "In this particular case the communication took many turns but a consensus by the athletes has emerged that

It´s pak´d - Eastpak is stoked to announce the 08/09 bmx rider line up! Yet again riders with a focus and sense for a certain lifestyle and character are the main essence to represent the image of the Eastpak brand.

TM Andy Zeiss: "I am super stoked on our team - It´s hard to say team because it´s more of a family anyway. Some of the riders have been with us for a while now and I am very happy even to add some more fresh names with that certain attitude - That´s what Eastpak is about and looks out for. All of the guys are super individual and have a unique view on bmx – but all of them connect to each other perfectly. And of course needless to say that they are kick ass riders too, hahaha.” “Even the names you might miss from this year on are not “off” the team – we are still connected and they still remain in the family”