BMX IN UKRAINE: DIGPICJAM 2024

Nov 19, 2024

Written by Bart de Jong

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@zsmisha, 16 years old, from Poltava, Ukraine, did a dirt jam in his hometown and together with the guys they had a great time.

Here is the description written by Misha about the video:

DigPicJam 2024! The name of the competition has a deep meaning, and to understand it, you need to dive into the history of Dirt Parks in Ukraine. The current situation in Ukraine does not allow riders to travel the world, so riders are forced to use any opportunity to somehow escape from all the problems they have, at least for one day. One of the ways to do so is for riders to go to cool bike parties.

With one week left before the event, the forecast showed rain on October 12, 2024. So some of the boys began to worry and wrote "guys, what's going on, there won't be a jam?" and we tell them "it's a two-day event, even if it's raining or snowing, the event will happen!"

And now we arrive at the airport, and see a huge crowd of people, including those who wrote "what if it rains?" who came to us, and we also realized that the boys did not come for the prize places, but rather for the "cool party"!

During the organization of the competition, the main goal was to achieve a cool, friendly atmosphere, in the most ordinary forest, but with historical dirt jumps in the city of Poltava, Ukraine. There were quite a few incidents during the organization, but in the end we managed everything, and on the day of the competition we saw an incredible number of happy people, who were ready to do their strongest tricks.

Thanks to everyone, who came out! To those, who got a big car from the garage and came, to those who came from another city in this big car, to those who just saw the poster about this event and decided to come and support the boys! The atmosphere at the jam so friendly because of these people. Thanks to such cool people, the jam went so well!

Despite the bad weather conditions, the boys were happy and some even said "this is the best competition I've ever been to". It was because of these words that we decided to do DigPicJam, and we succeeded!