100 contests in one weekend. They do that in France. BMX is part of it and the event gets two half pages of coverage. Nike sponsors a few ROOKIE pages in Soul. This time it's Alex Bourguignon who answers some rookie questions. Soul still covers racing and we think that's good. The European rounds take care of 9 pages of SOUL. Do & Geier take care of the next 9 pages before the mag goes into Roadtrip style with Twenty, La Mesa Ventour and Sunex. Flatland? Sure, it's a French mag and a French mag without Flatland is like French fries without mayonaise. Fabien Francois is not afraid to huck shit. But over the years he has adjusted his style and now he goes big and lands his stuff more often than not. Manu Sanz took the photos of the 7-page interview. Issue 50 comes with a DVD too.
Issue 51 will be out on 5 October 2007. Until then, enjoy the celebration issue.
The 2007 August-September issue of Soul BMX Experience is their 50th issue. Congrats to the Soul staff to start with. The cover has a Summer feeling to it. John Garcia is looking back on 50 issues of Soul in a colourful way. There's a BIO on Anthony Abbadie on page 12 and one on Libellule on page 14. Pierre Blondel gets a full page doing a 50/50 down a handrail backward without pegs. He answers some questions too. Recently we talked about a contest we visited in Abbeville, France. Ralf Maier brought back some memories of a trip to France that took 3 hours longer (each way) than I'd planned. This caused Paul's Army Dodge pick up truck to run out of liquid gas and it turned into a lot of stress. Ralf won some pants in miniramp and traded it with my trophy in the same class. I had plenty of those plastic cups already and thought it was a good trade. Anyway, Abbeville hosted the 10th contest and we weren't there but SOUL was.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.