We started the day off by taking a trip to the famous Sydney Opera house at Sydney Harbour after that we met up with our new friend Cameron picked us up and brought us over to the indoor skatepark called Warehouse 11! Everyone was excited to ride their BMX bikes on these awesome ramps and we met up with Australian BMX pro and also an Australian Silver medalist Snowboarder!
My 2017: Brandon Loupos
Hometown: Engadine, Australia
Sponsors: Rockstar Energy, Hyper Bikes, Snafu Bmx, Vans Shoes, Precision Athletica & Bmx Mafia Shop.
Do you remember the first BMX event you went to this year and how did it go?
Brandon Loupos: Yes, it was the first stop of the Toyota Bmx Triple Challenge in Anaheim, CA. Went pretty good, Qualified 1st on the first day, then second in the semis and finished 4th in finals but I had fun! Can’t wait to do it all again in a couple of weeks!
My 2017: Logan Martin
Hometown: Gold Coast, Australia
Sponsors: Rockstar Energy, Hyper Bmx, Snafu Bmx, Worm App, Kali Protectives!
Do you remember the first BMX event you went to this year and how did it go?
Logan Martin: The first event of 2017 was a dirt event in California which I ended up in 6th place.
How many weekends/days were you away from home and at a BMX jam/contest or on tour?
Name: Jakeb Dugdell
Age: 18
Hometown: NANANGO, Australia
Hook-ups/Sponsors: none currently
The favorite list:
-Spot to ride: The village park
-BMX video: Kyle and Logan Training for Olympics 2
ESPN and Australia’s Seven West Media Reach Agreement to Collaborate on X Games Sydney in October 2018
ESPN, the leading action sports content provider and creator of the X Games, in collaboration with Seven West Media, Australia’s number one audience company, will bring X Games Sydney to Australia next year, October 19-21, 2018. X Games Sydney will feature Skateboard, BMX and Moto X competitions at Sydney Olympic Park. For the first time in the event’s more than 20 year history, an X Games event will take place in Australia, home to some of the world’s best action sports athletes. Australian athletes hold 138 medals, 45 of which are gold from X Games summer and winter events.
Seven West Media will air the competitions in Australia, while in the U.S. ESPN’s coverage will be
Australia's BMX Freestylers set to contest the inaugural UCI Urban World Championships in China in November, their first stop on their journey towards the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In June 2017, the IOC announced that BMX Freestyle Park would be added to the Programme of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
BMX Freestyle Park is an exhilarating discipline of cycling which takes place in parks full of ramps with big transitions and large obstacles. Competitors are judged (scored between 0-100pts over two one-minute runs) on tricks performed throughout the course, with points awarded based on difficulty, originality, style and execution.
Australia boasts two of the world's best, both considered to be serious medal contenders in Tokyo 2020. Logan Martin, the 2016 UCI World Cup Series champion who sits fourth in 2017 after winning Stop 1 in the Series, and Brandon Loupos who is second overall in 2017 after taking out Stop 2.
In their first jump towards Tokyo, riders will contest the 2017 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships this November 8-12 in Chengdu, China. The Championships will see the world’s best will battle for the iconic rainbow jersey and the title of UCI World Champion in BMX Freestyle Park.
Some of the Australia riders who will participate in Chengdu 8 - 12 November are:
Elite Men:
1. Matthew Juster
2. Kai Sakakibara
3. Joshua Callan
4. Joshua Mclean
5. Michael Bias
6. Andrew Hughes
7. Bradley Game
VANS BMX Pro Cup Australia. Final results:
1st - Sergio Layos
2nd - Dennis Enarson
3rd - Larry Edgar
4th - Corey Walsh
5th - Kevin Peraza
6th - Gary Young (tie)
6th - Ryan Nyquist (tie)
8th - Jason Watts
Go to Australia they said, it’s always warm and sunny they said... Warm indeed, riders were on fire for the qualification but rain stopped the event before the end. Even if we don’t know all the qualifiers, Alex Hiam, local from Australia, thanks to his temporary 3rd place is sure to make it to the final. We took advantage of this time off to ask him a couple of questions about this very first edition of the Vans BMX pro cup.
So tell me Alex, you are Australian, one of the guests of the first international BMX event in Australia, and no matter what, you are qualified for the final. How does it feel?
Alex Hiam: Unbelievable. I used to fly to attend this kind of event. Plus I’m riding with other riders I used to watch, like Sergio Layos, Ryan Nyquist…
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.