April 2004 - Mini FAT JAM Day 1 - Miniramp, Aarle-Rixtel, Netherlands

Apr 06, 2004

Written by Bart de Jong

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With covering street riding and flatland at the 25 years of BMX event in Eindhoven earlier this month, the Mini-FAT-JAM (little brother of..) had miniramp riding and dirt jumping in mind. On Saturday the PA was installed at the rather new miniramp at the Bosscheweg in Aarle-Rixtel. With a bunch of banners, flags and EZ-Up tents set up, it actually looked quite good. The weather cooperated with sunshine all day long and that was exactly what we needed to open the BMX outdoor season. From 13:30 - 17:30 the ramp was used non-stop. Highlights on the mini were brought by Ricardo Moes, Dennis Keunen and Daniel. Let's start off with Daniel. The name had been circulating on the Dutch scene as "The New Barry". We don't have many talent in Holland so "another Barry Kohne" is always welcome. Daniel has the flow and pulled the first fufanu on the fence and made it look so easy. He also pulled tailwhips, high airs and tech liptricks on his pegless bike.

Ricardo is the Dutch pedal spin king and did plenty of them in Aarle-Rixtel. He spun the pedals transferring from the low section (5ft) to the higher section (6ft) to manual and spun some great 540-s for the hell of it. Dennis Keunen is back on the bike after being in plaster for the last 5 weeks. Needless to say he was a bit rusty but that only lasted for 15 minutes as Dennis was blasting big airs again. His tables are getting better and better. They're now in the 5 feet range too. Dennis' no-footed one-handers can't get any more stretched and his footplants are upside down. Good to have you back Little D! The Farm skaters from Gimmert brought their tractors down to the ramp, laid down some hay bails, opened up some Bavaria's and joined the session. Lots of young riders climbed on the decks as well or checked out the flatland skills of Matthijs who was putting on a little demo for them in the corner. The mini-FAT-JAM won't go down in history as the biggest event, but everyone who showed up joined the session and rode more than on a regular Saturday afternoon. It's always fun to ride together and with the sun and some good tunes present it turned out to be a good one. Bart