The riders had adrenaline kicks and the fans in Berlin were stoked to the fullest. The Street Session 2008 left its marks. Roundabout 6.500 people came to the Velodrom in Berlin to watch the best skateboarders and BMXers compete in great battles and to rock at the only gig The Offspring did in Europe. X Games giants Daniel Dhers (Venezuela) and Rob Darden (USA) showed their best during the BMX street finals. The crowd went crazy and the judges had a hard time doing their job. Among a long list of hard tricks, Rob Darden did a 720 turn down. The audience clapped like crazy and Darden won BMX street. The BMX vert finals had the contest’s most spectacular duel: British Simon Tabron vs Chad Kagy (USA). This encounter and constellation was the same at the Street Session 2007. Tabron won that one. This time it was Kagy showing the highest flair of the day and a flatspin 540 tailwhip. Tabron fought back with the biggest 540 of the day, but broke his finger just before the end of his super clean run. Tabron had to call it a day and Kagy crowned his victory run with a flatspin 540 double tailwhip and took the trophy home.
The Xbox 360 Contest awarded the most creative 360 degree jump. BMX-wise it was German vice champion Björn Mager who convinced the judges with his 360 no hander. In between the final rounds, Swedish double pack Sugarplum Fairy and their skatepunk compatriots No Fun At All gave the audience hell. And then came the showdown: The Offspring, punkrock’s greatest band of all times entered the arena. It was as great as on a festival, the rocking crowd stage dived, did pogo, sung along to ‘Self Esteem’ and celebrated the return of their heroes after an on-stage absence of 5 years. Both band and audience rocked the Velodrom.
While the Velodrom is being cleaned up, the organizers have already been starting to work on the next extreme sports series in 2009. The T-Mobile Extreme P
laygrounds will proceed and organise events like the Dirt Session with BMX Dirt Jump and Mountainbike Slopestyle in Duisburg (19th April) and the Summer Session with Wakeboard Cable and BMX Miniramp in Hamburg (29th/30th August). Berlin showed that there’s no way there won’t be a Street Session 2009. The plannings have already begun. It’s clear which credo to obey while planning the events for 2009: always keep it action sporty! 
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