Date: january 23-24, 1993.
Place: Thrasherland Skatepark, Glendale, Arizona
Organisation: Hoffman crew.
Mini ramp, dirt and halfpipe only because there wasn't enough asphalt to hold a flatland and a street contest.
Mike Daily, BMX Plus! may 1993: Saturday was the Mini festivities. The Stunt Boy class was full of surprises. S&M freestyle dominatrix Dave Clymer started things off with a bang when he went for a double peg stall on the high wooden rail and slammed hard enough to personally discontinue his first qualifying run. After he collected himself a bit, he came back out for more. Before he did the first mini ramp to mini-mini canyon transfer of the day, fully tabletopped, Clymer quipped through his mouthguard, "Man, I just gotta wake up." (That was another of Matt's jokes -that Bicycle Stunts contests are started only after the S&M guys have shown up, as they are chronically late.) Clymer went for the rail stall several times on both ramps and came quite close. Other shenanigans included a 720 flyout, a perfect 540 off the extension and a 900 attempt. He snagged fourth. Keith Treanor opened a Pandora's Box of inhumanly possible back-to-back tricks. Examples include feeble grind bar spinners, airs to nosepick, 360 Canadian nosepicks, fufanu to nosepick and more. Keith got first, followed by a lip trick- smacking Eben Krackau and deck-working Kevin Gutierrez, both big Texans. Sidenotes on Gutierrez: He is a master of finessing tricks to perfection even when completely off balance and he spent the weekend sleeping outdoors, keeping the scorpions company.
Stunt Men (Pro) was another story, entirely. Every rider had a few shockers up his sleeve. Bob Kohl insisted on going for Hugo Gonzales signature fence springs and back flip flyouts, one of which was a no-hander. Old King Kohl received sixth. Stephan Prantl of GT rode with great style, inserting tricks like tabletops to abubaca to tabletops back in and bar-spinning variations for fifth. Dave Mirra was next in line, producing flips, fancy grinds and airs to match, to fourth. The craziest mini ramp trick Dennis McCoy did was manualing for speed and going for a sprocket cruncher on the wooden railing. He kept his runs consistent by doing the flip thing and hard lip tricks (particularly his 900 tail tap/manual spinners). Third was his, all $160 of it. Matt Hoffman double-pegged the rail with ease, tailwhipped the canyon to the mini-mini spine and flipped out. But it wasn't enough to knock Jay Miron out of pole position. Jay took liberties with free rolling nose wheelies the length of the decks (both ways), assorted lip tricks including a boomerang air that he landed in smith stop (accidental?) and the obligatory flips. He was paid $320 and no cents for his efforts.
Dave Clymer
SOON TO BE MINI RESULTS 1.Michael Castillo 2.Greg Axford 3.Chris Treas 4.Aaron Kruger 5.Darci Saccucci 6.Danny Williams 7.Michael Skinner 8.Michael Allbutt
STUNTBOYS MINI RESULTS 1.Keith Treanor 2.Eben Krackau 3.Kevin Gutierrez 4.Dave Clymer 5.Ian Morris 6.Steve Ornales 7.Bart de Jong 8.Leigh Ramsdell
STUNTMEN MINI RESULTS 1.Jay Miron $320 2.Matt Hoffman $240 3.Dennis McCoy $160 4.Dave Mirra $80 5.Stephan Prantl 6.Bob kohl 7.James Shepherd 8.Bill Nitschke
Mat Hoffman
Bob Kohl super clean no-handed loop
Stuntmen dirt results: 1.Bob Kohl $250 2.Matt Hoffman $165 3.Dennis McCoy $85 4.Chad Herrington 5.Stephan Prantl
Stuntboys dirt results: 1.Clayton Brown 2.Troy Brookshire 3.Keith Teanor 4.Nick Mencuri 5.Steve Swope 6.Jody Donnelly 7.Bart de Jong 8.Chuck D
Soon to be dirt results: 1.Chris Quintero 2.Mike Ocoboc 3.Steve Barber 4.Troy Steinert 5.Hal Brindley
Nine gentlemen comprised the Stunt Men category, three of whom were first-timers: Jim Burgess, Dave Brumlow and Todd Seligman. They filled slots seven through nine and put in fine rides. Jon Byers, riding a custom "Fatty" frame, proved himself still able to bust out and took sixth. Bob Kohl. That's really all that needs to be said, is it not? Fifth place money, no-handed back flip, mansized 540s with bar spinners thrown in for the fun of it, spot-on nosepicks... and all with the skinniest pegs you ever did see. Dave Mirra picked up ninety smackers for some of the highest aerials of the contest, hang-it-all-out variations, psycho flips, grinds like his amazing framestand icepickers and alleyoop icepicks and lip tricks galore. Fourth. The opposite of a mongoose is probably a chicken, which is what DMC most definitely did not ride anything like. Bar spinner 540s, a big ol' 900 attempt, specialty deck tricks, dude. Dennis McCoy may have completely destroyed a prototype pair of Goose forks in the process, but his performance was top notch and well worthy of his $180 prize money. Double tailwhip airs. A headless twist of a 900. The death-defying flair (back flip twist). You guessed it. Event organizer and promoter Matt 'The Condor" Hoffman got cuckoo enough for second place after the smoke cleared. Or maybe it was just carcinogenic Arizonian dust. If "doubling" at a freestyle event is possible, Jay Miron did it. Numero uno. He had trick difficulty, smoothness, back-to-back flow, and even Laurentian crowd appeal rolled into one. A true champion. What does this guy eat for breakfast?
Jay Miron.
John Parker drano.
SOON TO BE VERT RESULTS 1.Andrew Langdon 2.Danny Williams 3.John Bethers 4.Troy Steineckert 5.Nick Chessnoe 6.Dan Myers 7.Junior Torres
STUNTBOYS VERT RESULTS 1.John Parker 2.Gary Laurent 3.Leigh Ramsdell 4.Pat Dehme 5.Jay Eggleston 6.Kevin Guther 7.Steve Swope 8.Jim Walker
STUNTMEN VERT RESULTS 1.Jay Miron $360 2.Matt Hoffman $270 3.Dennis McCoy $180 4.Dave Mirra $90 5.Bob Kohl 6.Jon Byers 7.Jim Burgess 8.Dave Brumlow 9.Todd Seligman