Do It for Dave (Dave Mirra Memorial Jam) / UK Vert Series Round 1. Text by Chris Job. Pics by Steve Guthrie
Do It for Dave (Dave Mirra Memorial Jam) / UK Vert Series Round 1. February 10 th 2019, Skaterham, Surrey UK.
Sponsors; Total BMX, BSD, 4 down, Seventies, Grind BMX shop, Custom Riders, fabric tools, TheLab clothing, Volt BMX. After a year’s break, the UK Vert series brushed the dust off its collected clipboards, microphones and USB stick of classic metal songs, and encouraged the vert riders of the UK to pull on their full face helmets. For 2019 the Vert series is running in synch with other events to give you dudes twice the fun for one weekend away.
Mike Mullen had hired Skaterham for the third annual Dave Mirra Memorial Jam, and what way to pay
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Up next on the program was Vert. It was good to see how many people had signed up for it. In the Open class as well as in the Invitational group. Park riders that gave it a shot. A girl that gave it a very reasonable go airing both ways showing that Vert is not dead, there are just not a lot of Vert comps happening these days. With Nass, Benny Kopp’s Bielefeld jam and the X-Games, this year the U-Pipe riders don’t have a lot of choice.
But when they get together, the action is good. The Final on Sunday also brought a decent crowd to the big ramp that is normally based at Southsea Skatepark. A vert contest actually fits well over at a British comp. It takes some balls to send it above coping and Ash Finlay as well as Kaine Mitchell sent their flairs to the moon. Oakley Way got a good flow going on the ramp and finished 7th. Jon Kearns has such a good flow going both directions where you don’t even know what his regular side or getting air is. Add a few feet to his aerials and he’s up there with the best of them. A pleasure to watch indeed.
Paul Meacher, Alex Landeros, Zach Newman and Vince Byron were the true vert dawgs at Nass this year with Paul going the highest of them all. Alex Landeros brought no-handed flairs for the Brits to enjoy and wall all over the ramp as was crowd favourite Zach Newman with his original riding style. Australian Vince Byron had to dig into his bag of tricks to get the top spot and the combination of height, riding both ways and his tricks got him first place after almost missing out on qualifying.
Riders: Koji Kraft, Jay Eggleston, Eduardo Terreros, John Parker, Dennis Mccoy, Kevin Robinson, Jamie Bestwick and more.
IT WAS AN AMAZING 2017. THANKS FO EVERYONE THAT WAS PART OF IT. WE LOOKING FORWARD TO AN EVEN BETTER 2018!
Jamie Bestwick, Vince Byron, Douglas Leite de Oliveira & Jorge Jovel - BMX Vert Demo. By Woodward Camp
Jamie Bestwick, Douglas Leite de Oliveira,Vince Byron, and Jorge Jovel were kind enough to throw a vert demo here at the Cloud Nine Vert Ramp. These guys are no joke when talking about catching some air. Check out the session with the heavy hitters of Woodward as they put on a vert demo for the PA Camp.
This Saturday May 20th a Vert qualifier will be held at @clairemontskatepark in San Diego for @xgames in Minneapolis. Mat Hoffman is going to do a live facebook webcast from my Saturday, May 20th.
BMX Vert Round One
• 11:00am – 12:00pm
The start order will be:
Heat 1
1 Mike "Hucker" Clark
2 Jorge Jovel
3 Colton Satterfield
4 Koji Kraft
5 Zack Warden
6. Vince Byron
7 Mykel Larrin
Vert Photoshoot with Zachary Newman and Douglass Leite de Oliveira Woodward Camp
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