flow contest

Ride the Flow

Bestrick contest, May 27-28 2004

highlights from the event:

* there was a huge turnout of girl riders, something like 17 of them. Corey Coffey won by flowing around pretty well and performing a backflip and a no hander. Nina impressed everybody with a tailtap to barspin. Sam Lyons did well in qualifying, but was tired in the finals and was taking it on downside footplants and other manuevers, she did do some cool rollback tricks though.

*Dan Sieg broke his arm pretty bad doing some sort of gap to downside smith. He fell to the ground and got right up and his arm was hanging all weird.

*Jason "Dorito" Perz recovered from a mild heart attack in time to go big at the event, he was the first pro rider and his first trick was a huge bunnyhop tailwhip gap

*the nights at the hotel were crazy, Corey Coffee started a big argument after throwing a box of beer bottles over a balcony and it hit some kids in the head, they were not happy with her. Our group got thrown out of our room because the people below us claimed we had been throwing rocks at their door.

*the Local Exposure Tour video was premiered and was actually pretty good, it featured locals from the Flow, the Chengas, and the Incline Club and a bunch of talking by some pros that went on the trip to all the parks, Quinn Semling was chosen as favorite local rider or something like that and will be going on the next tour

*Morgan Wade showed up right before the contest started and barely practiced but still destroyed everything including a light fixture on the ceiling. That kid can tailwhip down a little wedge better than just about anybody can tailwhip on anything

*Steve McCann proved that going fast and flowing around and not doing a single lip trick can win the big dollars anyday, he did do a nice 720 lookback though.

* Mark P. ruled the subrail with 360 tailtap to icepick over and back, and icepick to pedal feeble to 270 over the tall slanted subbox wallride thing

pro qualifiers
final pro placings were:
1. Steve Mccann
2. Morgan Wade
3. Alistair Whitton
4. Shanton Wilson
5. Brian Kachinsky
6. Dave Dilleward
7. Allan Cooke
8. Mike (Hollywood) Brancato
9. Dan Sieg
10. Quinn Semling

pictures: (hold mouse over them to see a description)

Kimix is like the mother hen of girl bmxers, here she carries all the prizes for the girls that weren't around when placings were announced the event was being filmed for some cable shows, here one of the girls is being interviewed by Kimix Anthony Cico in the midst of jumping the big wedge to wedge gap to land on the grind box this fellow was here representing the Streiby brothers Allistar sprocket stalling the subrail Brian Kachinsky, manual to icepick grind down the rail Morgan Wade aired so high that he destroyed one of the lights Morgan airing high, trying to hit the light again somebody tailwhip 360ing Quinn tailwhipping off the grind box and over the grind rail Ty Stuyvesant with a new sort of backside footplant dilly Hollywood suicide no-hander over the spine
Hollywood barspin to tailtapping the spine while Sam S.tries to get the photo for MBAT Kurt Hartmann toothpicking Anita taking it Allistar Whitton 360ing the big wedge to wedge gap

video clips from the event:

Ty Stuyvesant, wallride to 360 skid dilly	Anthony Cico tailwhipping the huge wedge to wedge gap ( he pulled it perfect in the finals)	Morgan Wade with a huge superman tailwhip	Dan Sieg, 180 tailwhip over the spine (his chain snaps as he lands)
Ty Stuyvesant, curved wallride to 360 skid dilly	Morgan Wade, backflip tailwhip	Dan Seig, 360whip the 1st box, doublewhip the 2nd	Hollywood, big wallride to barspin to late fastplant

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