Date: 6 au 14 avril 2002 .Le 6 et 7 avril: week-end amateur et les 12, 13 et 14 avril: week-end pro avec 18000 euros de prize money.
Organisation: Huricane et pour le bmx: Olivier Morineau (responsable du contest de Pessac et chapotant toute l'organisation bmx du Nokia Fise), Uriel Krakover (conception de modules, dont ceux de Pessac), Romuald 'Bibi' Noirot (création et conception des bosses de dirt) et Lionel Cardoso (co-organisateur et speaker).
Cette année le contest c'est déroulé en 2 week-end. Le premier reservé aux amateurs et le second aux pros avec les 3 meilleurs finalistes amateurs. Le premier week-end, destiné aux amateurs, n'a pas rassemblé beaucoup de participants car les jeunes préféraient venir le deuxième pour voir les vrais tueurs, ce qui semble assez normal.
Props 45 footage from the FISE.
The dirt jump area moved away from the beach a bit to avoid the wind. Two moderate sets on the left and 3 sets on the right.
Romuald bibi Noirot 360 tailwhip.
Ryan Nyquist makes everything look so easy: Flip barspin, switch handed 360, truckdriver, 1-hand toboggan 360, nothing, no-footed cancan nothing, double suicide barspin, rocket barspin, one-handed x-up 360, 720, ...
Alex Dropsy had the best looking turndown 360-s of the field. All brakeless and with unlimited style (including a Hawaii shirt).
BlackJack goes big when he has to and when he feels like it. Candybar 360's, tailwhip x-up, and superman jumps.
Adidas rider Stephane Renaud has talent. The former BMX racer is on top of his game when it comes down to dirt jumping. Pedal to pedal tailwhips, flips with variations, 360-s, supermans, combo tricks, ...
FINALE PRO DIRT 1-Ryan Nyquist 2-Stéphane Renaud 3-Gael Sibeth 4-Romuald bibi Noirot 5-Cyril blackjack Dangeul 6-Matt Beyers 7-Elian Tornior 8-Alex Dropsy 9-Stephane Cayet 10-Laurent Nesme 11-Louan Lucas 12-Laurent Kompaore 13-Cyril Colas
Bibi 360 tailwhip on the cover of Soul video magazine #19.
BlackJack x-up tailwhip
There were so many spectators that you had to show up three hours early to get a seat. 50 entries Runs were done with 4 people on the course at the same time
Ruben Alcantara wallride to 540 out.
Dave Osato double-tailwhip-nosepick on the spine, manual-to-tailwhip (of course), tailwhip-to-sprocket; and it was all effortless. He almost pulled a 360-tailwhip-tailtap over the sub as well.
Jay Miron 360 tailwhip sur le spine, gros transfer to nosewheelie.
John Heaton flip to manual to pedal grind
Romuald bibi Noirot did one of the best tricks of the contest which was a busdriver to abubaca to busdriver to fakie. But that was pulled in prelims.
Benni Korthaus from Munich flipped the spine, footplanted a bank to wall and was just flowing all over the course.
Ryan Nyquist des bus partout, flair en transfer, 720 spine, a super-long rocket wallride, back flip bus et tentative de 360 flip au-dessus de la passerelle.
Sandy Carson is full of style, and he can make a basic trick into something crazy, from a downside-footplant X-up on the wall or wall-tap-to-fakie.
FINALE PRO STREET 1-Jay Miron 2-Ryan Nyquist 3-Dave Osato 4-John Heaton 5-Ruben Alcantara 6-Sergio Leyos 7-Pascal Guerard 8-Bibi Noirot 9-Benni Korthaus 10-Ben Manual 11-Rob Brown 12-Sandy Carson
Ryan Nyquist 720 au dessus de la passerelle ou Tailtap sur le quarter au fond ?
Mike Steingraber: nouveaux links en opposite. Mike, sur son beau proto Dragonfly "Solo" s'amusait avec des jeux de miroir: Stabble Duck Caboose à droite et à gauche enchaînés avec un inside caboose, opposite hang five to back packer to hang five de l'autre côté qui se finit en stabble duck circle K et pour finir, un bon vieux rollaid (rolling decade). Mike remporte les qualifs mais c'est avec le chèque de la 3éme place qu'il repart.
Phil Dolan roule sans frein et du coup, pas énormément de nouveaux tricks, nose wheelie switch feet to juggler, dump truck to rope a roni sur la pédale to pedalling, nose wheelie les 2 pieds sur les pédales sur une bonne distance.
Viki Gomez remporte la finale pro avec un run de folie, seul un pied au sol est venu interrompre cette routine composée de cross-footed hichiker ou half packer enchaînés en body varial et bar whip à fond les manettes.
Franck Lucas, high speed spinning turbine wheel chair to 360 bar whip to spinning hitchiker to inside side squeak sur le cadre, ...
Bar whip cliffhanger presque rentré pour Armin Batoumeni.
Nose wheelie switch feet to juggler to no foot steam roller to hitchiker, kick flip hitchiker rentré aux qualifs et en finale pour Christophe Dassié.
Backward hang five to half packer ou switch feet karl kruser to cross-footed half packer pour Alexis Desolneux qui roule maintenant à l'Essence.
Le portugais Sergio Goncalves joue la carte de l'originalité avec des tricks comme hitchiker avec la main ou le genoux sur le pegs avant, pareil en half packer ou steam roller.
Martti Kuoppa innove une fois de plus avec ses créations aussi dures qu'impressionnantes. Cross-footed hang five to crack packer to whiplash to hang five to kick flip to half packer, cross footed switchiker to body varial to half packer to hang five to kick flip to half packer to multiple kick flip circle K, et ça, c'est que le début de l'enchaînement!
PROS FLAT 1.Viki Gomez 2.Martti Kuoppa 3.Mike Steingraber 4.Franck Lucas 5.Phil Dolan 6.Alex Jumelin 7.Jimmy Petitet 8.Sergio Goncalvez 9.Armin Batoumeni 10.Christophe Dassié
EXPERTS FLAT 1.Grubinger Sebastian 2.Noyer Thomas 3.Alajbegovic Alex 4.David Delos Rios 5.Remy Dunoyer
Michael Steingraber.
www.bmxonline report: The place had somewhat of a holy touch, because the ramp was highly illuminated and there were about 300 people sitting in front of it as if they were praying. The relaxed atmosphere was even better when Lionel Cardoso announced that the competition was going to be held in a jam format. "Do whatever you want, we have enough time. We don't care!" It was good to see that younger riders had entered the comp.
The French opened, with Romaric Fath pulling no-footed can-cans, double-barspins, and a tailwhip.
Achim Kujawski from Germany did high airs, alley-oops, lookdowns, a barspin-to-X-up, and pulled a tailwhip on his second try.
Renewed old-school styles were dropped by Alex Reinke: 540s, one-footed inverts, and high Griz-Airs.
Next came some British politeness in the form of Zach Shaw; he flows everything. Super-stylish carved alley-oops, six-foot airs to body jars, 540s, and a mind-bending flair, in the sense that he bailed out and his head barely missed the coping. He came back and pulled one later as perfect as can be.
The last jam group was amazing: Stephan Geisler, Eduardo Terreros and Simon Tabron.
Geisler actually rides more flatland than vert, but somehow manages to do can-can lookbacks, top-side no-footed can-cans, decades, and crazy superman-seatgrabs. A superman-tailwhip knocked him out, but he got back up and kept on riding-with a broken hand the size of a basketball!
Everyone is always in a state of fear when they see Eduardo Terreros drop-in, go huge, and then come only centimeters away from deadly hang-ups. Eduardo went ridiculously high, with all kinds of tricks like lookdowns, no-handers, supermans, no-footed-can-cans, and double-barspins. Then came the flair, and a hard-ass crash-to-knockout. The riders were chilled, though, as Eduard seems to do this quite frequently. After five minutes of re-gaining consciousness, he pulled another flair clean.
Simon Tabron made everybody aware of when he dropped in; not only through his riding, but also his bike, which had Skyway Tuff Wheels. Everybody knows Simon has the 900 in his pocket, the question was if the wheels were going to take it. According to eyewitnesses, they did not. But still, Simon deserved to win, with tricks like beautifully stretched can-cans, alley-oop-540s, no-hand-540s, and the second highest airs in town (right behind Eduardo).
FINALE PRO VERT 1.Simon Tabron 2.Edouardo Terreros 3.Zach Shaw 4.Stephan Geisler 5.Alex Reinke 6.Achim Kujawski 7.Romaric Fath 8.Stephane Meneau 9.Nicolas Jurcovich