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I only caught a bit of the park finals on TV yesterday, but Kyle Baldock, who didn’t even make it into the Tour last year, laid it down and took home the win. Above you can find his run that gave him the first place spot. Expect more footage to be popping up later today.
1st. Kyle Baldock
2nd. Dennis Enarson
3rd. Ryan Nyquist
Dew Tour Ocean City Highlights – More BMX Videos
“Amazing park riding from the qualifier and semi-final rounds of the Ocean City Dew Tour. Riders include Kyle Baldock, Scotty Cranmer, Ryan Nyquist, Harry Main, Dennis Enarson, Chad Kerley, Ben Wallace, Zack Warden, and more. Credit: Vital BMX“
Ryan Nyquist takes you through the course setup for this weekends Dew Tour stop in Ocean City, Maryland. Ryan designed the park so you know it’s got plenty of lines and big stuff to get wild on. Take a look.
Well, it’s that time of the year again. The contests are starting to hit, riders travel schedules are getting nuts and I’d imagine a lot of ridiculous stuff is going to go down. Dew Tour sent over an email with this 3D rendering of the park design for Ocean City, Maryland on July 21st-24th. It sounds like this year they let Ryan Nyquist design the course so there is plenty of transfer lines and big boy ramps for things to get nuts on. You can expect to see all the big names like Drew Bezanson, Maddog, Pat Casey, Scotty Cranmer, Daniel Dhers, Brandon Dosch, Dennis Enarson, Ryan Guettler, Craig Mast, Nyquist, Garrett Reynolds, Jeremiah Smith, Morgan Wade, Mark Webb and Gary Young on the course as usual. One name I was surprised to see on the list was Dave Mirra. It sounds like he’s sitting out of anything BMX related for X Games this year, but expect him to still be riding his bike at the Dew Tour. That’s a good sign.
About two weeks ago I got an email from a company called SOYJOY asking if I would be into coming up with a few questions for TJ Lavin. They asked if I could ask about a few different things he was involved with these days like his show on MTV and a video contest he’s involved with. I also had a few questions in mind like him commentating for a new MMA show that word has been floating around about and taking over the course design for the Dew Tour. Above is the quick video interview they put together with him with just a couple of the questions I sent through. The first few don’t touch on BMX but he did answer the MMA and Dew Tour questions which works for me. Below you can find some info on the video contest. A chance to win $2,000 and a free trip to New York? Sounds good to me.
“Go to SOYJOY’s Facebook and enter the Show Us Your Real Life Adventure Contest by July 25. Submit your short video for the chance to be one of three winners to earn a real-life adventure: an all-expenses-paid weekend in New York City with a buddy and entry to the Great Urban Race – the most intense urban scavenger hunt you’ll ever participate in. And, of the three winners, the team that finishes strongest in the Great Urban Race will get a $2000 cash prize! – SOYJOY
Photo: Kurt Hohberger
The crew over at the Dew Tour shot over a press release a minute ago with some good news. They’ve got TJ Lavin in as a contributor for course design for 2011. This means TJ will be filling Fuzzy Halls spot, who had taken a team manager roll with Red Bull last year, to handle all of the stops dirt courses. It will be interesting to see what comes from it. Maybe, just maybe, the fine folks over at the X-Games corporation (lol) will take note and pull their heads out of their asses and bring dirt back.
It also sounds like they are going to step on X-Games “cement park” features as well this year.
“Taking a new approach to skateboarding for the 2011 season, street courses will include concrete elements and be designed in conjunction with well known skate construction companies including California Skateparks. In addition, the Tour will feature skate bowl contests.
“I am looking forward to skating new and improved Dew Tour courses,” said Mountain Dew skate athlete Paul Rodriguez. “I think it’s great they’ve decided to change up the contest, and it should definitely help to showcase everyone’s talent.”
Sadly, I’m going out on a limb and saying pegs won’t be allowed at yet another cement park! haha
“Raising the stakes this year, the prize purse has increased per event along with the year-end bonuses.”
But that’s a perk… not for me, but I’m sure Garrett Reynolds is psyched.
Take the jump to read the whole release and 2011 schedule!
So, the weekend came and went pretty quick. My 4 day trip to Chicago was filled with tornados, monsoons, BMX, parties, laughs, and in general good times. I really don’t get too overly blown away by contests since it’s a lot of the same tricks and expected runs from the guys, but it’s a real good excuse to go see everyone and just get some chill time from life and do something different. Here’s about 100 photos from the Dew Tour Nike 6.0 BMX Open… Enjoy!
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Sorry for the slack on getting some fresh stuff up. I’ve got about 10 interviews out that I’m waiting on so hopefully some of thats starts rolling back in the next few days. But otherwise in the mean time, I’m just chilling until the Dew Tour in Chicago July 23-24th. I spotted this flyer floating around and figured I’d post it up since I’ll be making my way down with Jon Wells and whoever else ends up on the party bus. If you get the chance to make it there, you won’t be disappointed. So much partying went down last year and it shouldn’t be any different this year. I got the rest of the flyer and a trailer for the contest after the jump for you to take a peek at.
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