Here’s another quick clip from the Vans Kill The Line contest. This time around we’ve got Deluxe‘s Max Bimar pleasing the crowd. You can find more photos from the Kill the Line contest over on the Pretty Shady website.
Chris Doyle at Vans Kill The Line
I’m sure footage from the Vans Kill The Line contest will start surfacing soon enough, but until then, here’s a clip showing you just why Chris Doyle won the contest.
Chris Doyle Wins 2012 Vans Kill The Line
I had a good feeling when I saw that Chris Doyle was finally going to be making it to a Vans Kill The Line finally!
“02.9.2012 – Peynier, France. US trails legend Chris Doyle ist the winner of VANS Kill the Line
2012. In the counting two out of three perfectly dialed runs he showed what he is famous for:
Classically smooth tricks in the signature Doyle style, among them 360 turndowns and inverts.
The Californian Michael „Hucker“ Clark placed second with his carefree attitude, consistant runs
and big tricks done both ways – being the only rider flipping the stepdown. Last years winner TJ
Ellis (USA) got third pulling loads of flip trick variations especially in the middle of the set. Simon
Moratz from Germany took home the „UNIT Best Trick“ and 1.000 Euro prize money.
More than 6.000 spectators witnessed 16 finalists out of 55 riders competing on the line in the
pine woods with nine jumps. For the fourth consecutive year some of the worlds best dirt riders
came to the legendary Peynier Trails in the South of France and went for an overall prize money of
7.000 Euros – among them the worlds BMX dirt eilte like Anthony Napolitan (USA), Rob Darden
(USA), Kye Forte (UK), Paul Langlands (NZ), Dave Dillewaard (AUS) and many more.
The probably most relaxed dirt contest of the season with almost perfect weather conditions was
judged by Dave „Hank“ Cleworth (UK), Paul Rak (CAN), Patrick Haebig (AUT) and Fabien Conry
1. Chris Doyle (USA)
2. Mike „Hucker“ Clark (USA)
3. TJ Ellis (USA)
4. JB Peytavit (France)
5. Simon Moratz (Germany)
6. Rob Darden (USA)
7. Anthony Napolitan (USA)
8. Alejandro Caro (Columbia)
9. Justin Fouque (France)
10. Paul Langlands (New Zealand)
11. Dave Dillewaard (Australia)
12. Markus Hampl (Germany)
13. Desmond Tessemaker (Netherlands)
14. Andreu Lacondeguy (Spain)
15. Kye Forte (UK)
16. Jeremy Le Pennedu (France)” – Vans
Photogallery: Vans Kill The Line
Vans LXVI Invitational Highlights
Vans dropped this awesome edit featuring highlights from the LXVI Invitational that went down last week. Definitely check this out if you got a minute.
Vans Kill The Line – Trophies
It looks like Sylvain over at Shape Bicycles was put in charge of creating the trophies for the Vans Kill The Line contest going down in Peynier, France September 1st and 2nd. Here’s a video showing you the design process and the machining involved in creating these rad looking trophies. I’d want to take one of those home with me.
Vans LXVI Invitational Highlights
Vans LXVI Invitaitonal Video Highlights – More BMX Videos
“Pat Casey, Ryan Guettler, Daniel Sandoval, Todd Meyn, TJ Ellis, Austin Coleman, James Foster, and more throw down their best moves at the Vans LXVI Invitational. Has Virginia Beach ever seen so much shredding? Credit: Justin Kosman”
Here’s a little highlight reel of what went down this weekend at the Vans LXVI Invitational! Above is the video and below you can find a full press release with more info about what went down. This looks like it was a hell of a good time!
“Virginia Beach, VA (August 25, 2012) – Eighteen-year-old Daniel Sandoval claimed first place and $5,000 Saturday at the inaugural LXVI BMX Invitational presented by Vans at the 50th ECSC Beach Festival in Virginia Beach. In the last of his three runs, Sandoval combined a bar to whip, a huge late front flip and 360 bar to bar for the highest score of the day. In all, three Californians took the podium as runner up Pat Casey and third place TJ Ellis took home $3,750 and $3,000, respectively.
Final Top Three
Name (Hometown) Score Purse
1. Daniel Sandoval (Corona, CA) 93.58 $5,000
2. Pat Casey (Placentia, CA) 93.17 $3,750
3. TJ Ellis (Riverside, CA) 90.75 $3,000
We continue to send positive thoughts to Brett Banasiewicz. Banasiewicz was injured on Thursday during practice and transported to an area hospital for treatment. We have received encouraging news from his family and direct well wishers to the Banasiewicz family skatepark’s (The Kitchen, South Bend, IN) Facebook page for updates: Facebook.com/TheKitchenSkatepark
The 50th anniversary of the Coastal Edge East Coast Surfing Championships, wraps up Sunday with skate, BMX and motocross demos alongside the oldest surf contest in North America and the second longest continuously-run surf contest in the world.
For more information on the Vans LXVI BMX Invitational, please visit www.vans.com/ecsc. Use hashtag #ecsc to post photos on the website and keep track of live updates during the festival.
The Vans LXVI BMX Invitational is made possible by the support of Vans and Coastal Edge and hydrated by vitaminwater.
Learn more about LXVI and where to purchase at LXVI.VANS.COM.
To learn more about Vans BMX and our team, visit www.vans.com/bmx.”
Vans LXVI BMX Invitational Photogallery
Vans LXVI BMX Invitational – Virginia Beach, VA — More BMX Photos
Vital posted up all these photos that Justin Kosman shot during the Vans LXVI BMX Invitational that’s going down this weekend in Virigina Beach, Virgina. I’d expect a bunch of footage from the weekend to start surfacing real soon.
