Brian Kachinsky was seen doing barspin to nose-wheelies on a quarter pipe on the street course but did not have the chance to bring it to the mini ramp contest. He ate shit badly and rang his bell pretty hard. Okay, to show you have bad it was, Brian did not get back on his bike to finish his run. You know it’s bad then because he’s a tough mofo.Achim Kujawski took a break from the orga office and rode the comp. So did 38 year old Christoph Huber. Hannu and Sig Cools have ridden better mini comps. According to Pill, “Hannu didn’t do shit” and Sig had to be taken off the trails to come ride miniramp. He normally flows really well but not this time.
Anthony Pill admitted that he sucked which was fair as he didn’t find his name in the top 10. He was disappointed in his riding and down for the rest of the weekend. He did tell a security guard to "Fuuuuuck offfffffff!!" while he was pissing on the fence which scored good points by fellows Craig Stevens and Marlboro Pete.
Mike Miller has got so much style which gave him the cover of the new Zwanzig magazine that came out this weekend. With the Pro Rebel Jam finals being judged in three categories: Style, Creativity and Hard tricks, Mike would have scored well in the finals in the style category but it wasn’t meant to be. 18 years old Mike ended up in 9th place in qualifying which had the regular points system.The qualifying, for those who care, was scored like a normal contest. Only the final would see the Rebel Jam system. A bunch of Australians showed up in Berlin which was good to see. Next to Euro regular Clint Millar we saw Brandon Jones on the mini ramp who just fires off the second he drops in. K
ye Forte wasn’t on the list but decided to give the miniramp spine a go and did very well doing flairs, 360-s, opposite airs and simply had the non stop flow and style. We ended up giving him a score which didn’t come out too bad for him. Serge Geyer, Mark Koenig and Bommel are all pretty tech riders and pulled some stuff, but bailed some tricks too. Mitch Yates = Style.
Colin MacKay sure has some bike riding skills. It’s cool if you can go to a contest and can enter everything there. Colin was going to do that in Berlin by riding dirt, street and mini. The trick that got people’s hands together was his superman over the spine. Very nice.
Juan Ruiz does sweet superman tailwhips and team mate Phil Aller knows how to have fun. His smith stall on the sub to 270-in was bonkers. Arthur Dietrich had a short break from partying and made it count with back to back tricks. T-1’s Danny Hickerson impressed with amazing shit and everybody knows he can whip it. Barry Kohne did us all proud and ripped it up. Instead of coffee, Barry had so much Red Bull in the morning because he went so high too! Nice one!!
This gets us to Ryan Guettler. If you’ve ever seen him ride you know he’s back to back with tricks on both walls and in the middle (spine). It wasn’t really that he brought the most revolutionary tricks to Berlin for the qualifying run in pro mini, but he easily did most up to date tricks, boom, boom, all over the ramp. At that moment he didn’t know he had actually won pro mini at the Rebel Jam but as the weather decided, he did.
BdJ
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Pro Mini Qualifier (which turned out to be the final scores)
1. Guettler Ryan 23 Australia 2. Hennon Ben 20 UK
3. Fernadez Daniel Penafied 17
4. Forte Kye 24 UK
5. Millar Clint 32 Australia
6. Mackay Colin 27 Australia
7. Mager Björn 21 Germany
8. Peytavit Jean-Boptirte
9. Miller Mike 18 UK
10. Geier Sergey 21 Germany
11. Barbero Alessandro 23 Italy
12. Hickerson Danny 21 USA
13. Yeates Mitch 21 UK
14. Cools Hannu 25 Belgium
15. Jones Brendon 23 Australia
16. König Mark 26 Germany
17. Kirch Felix 17 Germany
18. Pill Anthony 28 UK
19. Stevens Craig 23 UK
20. Da Silva Seca Pedro Miguel 21 Portugal
21. Köhne Barry 22 Netherlands 22. Carpena Juan Ruiz 24
23. Kopp Benny 28 Germany
24. Arthur Dietrich 20 France
25. Garcia Ismael Mendozo
26. Aller Phil 22 UK
27. Banko Damien 27 Australia
28. Holzinger Daniel 28 Germany
29. Serra Daniel 24 Portugal
30. Bensley Clint 23 Australia
31. Marselle Pete 25 UK
32. Kujawski Achim 34 Germany
33. Gregory Andrew 27 Australia
34. Huber Christoph 38 Germany
35. Sandfort Roland 29 Germany
36. Cools Sig 21 Belgium
37. Payne Tom 19 Australia
38. Kachinsky Brian 24 USA
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