The 2009 Rockstar Energy Drink BMX Games presented by Strictly BMX rolled out its first day of action at Central Pier, Docklands and it was a big one! Opening the three day event were the Junior and Expert riders going through their paces at the Haro Bikes Street/Park qualifiers. A few nasty crashes early on didn’t deter the young up and coming BMX stars from putting on some gutsy displays of extreme freestyle BMX at its most dynamic. Teen sensation Alex Hiam from Brisbane WOW’ed the crowd with a spectacle of BMX Aerials and freestyle manoeuvres, worthy of most riders well beyond his 13 years. Fresh from his first heat in the qualifiers, Alex was relaxed and looking forward to his second year at the BMX Games - “I was feeling pretty confident and just having fun. All the guys were riding really good and I’m heaps excited about the next couple of days!”
Sunday welcomes the second day of competition and a full day
We just ran a flatland contest, which was very nice, the level was amazing. The winner was Leo Claro, who got second at the Brasil X Games in 2002. He rode perfect he took a session pegless, almost impossible to believe. Second was Bruno Zebu with a new style of tricks, very very flow, the third was Gilson de Souza, almost integrated his body with the bike, so the contest was a kind of selection for the contest we're gonna run in February, during the carnival, we got 30 riders among the place and 20 participated. We got here in Brazil a flatlander called Sergio Ricardo Balu who is a wonderful rider, with the most updated tricks although he got only the sixth place, and Lisias who won the last flatland contest got the seventh. The 3 Judges were Hiroshi he just came from Japan, the master rider Claylson Claybon and the head judge Andre Ramon who knows everything about flatland.
Results:
No words other than these to go with this article. A road trip I went on a long time ago which I did not want to sit on my iMac forever. Riding was all done in a place called Richards Bay, South Africa and was done by Rico Rebeiro, Buddy Chellan, AT, Colin Loudon, Stuart Loudon and Greg Illingworth.Lloyd Ramsay
Simpel Session, Europe's biggest winter BMX and skate event ended on Sunday evening. This year's skate street was won by 14-year-old Axel Cruysberghs, who is the youngest winner in Simpel Session's history. BMX street was won by last year's winner Garrett Reynolds. Second year in a row Garrett Reynolds rocked at BMX-street. "I got lucky, I didn't know all my tricks would succeed," said Reynolds. He also added that he loved the competition, the skate park and audience and promised to be back next year. "As long as I'm not dead, I'll be here," he added laughing.
Everybody who did not make it to Tallinn this year had the possibility to take part in the competition by watching it online. Mpora.tv streamed a high-quality Live Webcast from Simpel Session and more than 148 thousand people watched it online worldwide.
The 2009 Simpel Session was a good one. The riders that turned up made a good show, the crowd was on fire and the City of Tallinn parties all night long. The 09 course had loads of flatbanks and rails which gave the riders something to work with, at least if you were into these type of obstacles. We have collected some photos of the finalists and will use the captions to explain more. You probably saw everything on the net already but if you missed that, 
Results BMX contest in Marina Mall in Kuwait city: 1 Mansour Mohammed
2 Ali Amir Deree
3 Yousef Al-Yagout
4 Khaled Al-Khalaf
5 Yousef Yagoub Yousef
Simpel Session BMX Street Results 1 Garrett Reynolds 19 USA Toms River, NJ 371
2 Gary Young 25 USA San Diego, CA 358
3 Dennis Enarson 17 USA San Diego, CA 355
4 Rob Darden 27 USA Greenville, NC 346
5 Ben Hennon 22 UK Crook 345
6 Bruno Hoffman 15 GER Siegen 342
7 Björn Mager 23 GER Berlin 333
In the end 81 riders entered the competition in Tallinn. Last minute drop outs were Edwin Delarosa (fell alseep in the hotel), Mike Miller (hurt) and Nigel Sylvester (missed his flight). The riders who did make it on the list all had a reason to be riding the Simpel Session. Only 20 riders moved on to the finals and we've got some photos right here of riders who did not make it into that elite group. Lots of killer riders did not makethe finlas but a lot of good riders did. Check it live. 
Right after practice at the Simpel Session Vans called their riders and some friends for a little get together in the Hell Hunt which is located in Tallin's beautiful Old Town. After a few of the local Saku's things started to take off. The gathering was used to catch up with everyone and some couldn't help but take it on the business side and actually discussed the shoes! Coach was representing the "Westside" and it didn't take long before he had a following. Some more sign language lessons need to follow though because not everyone had that down yet. Or maybe it was the Saku beer that didn't 
Simpel Session’s first day in Tallinn, Estonia is over. We are happy to annouce you the BMX-riders who will ride at tomorrow’s finals. The best BMX-rider today was last year’s Simpel Session winner Garrett Reynolds, but in addition to him Rob Darden, Mark Webb, Dennis Enarson and Gary Young also made it to the top 5. Ben Hennon, Maxime Charveron, Bruno Hoffman, Andres Lainevool, Morgan Wade, Sergio Layos, Kiattichai Wanitsakun, Ty Morrow, Paul Ryan, Björn Mager, Michael Beran, Stefan Lantschner, Brian Kachinsky, Tony Malouf and Isaac Lesser are also riding at the finals tomorrow evening at Simpel Session. BMX-finals start tomorrow at 5.30pm at Saku Suurhall. Red Bull BMX Best Trick competiton takes place before the finals at 5pm. Contest Schedule on Sunday, January 18:
16:00 – 17:00 BMX warmup
17:00 – 17:30 Red Bull BMX best trick
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