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Le Grande Rampe d' BMX
BMX Vert Finals
By Mike Vincent
When I think of Paris, I think of the LG Action Sports World Tour. Today BMX Vert finals happened within a few hundred meters from the Eiffel Tower. Simon Tabron, Tom Haugen, Zach Shaw. If you weren't in Paris today to witness the competition, I'll tell you what happened...
10th place-- Tom Stober-- Tom has been recovering from an injury, but now he seems pretty healthy. With no-handers, lookbacks, stretched supermans, tailwhips, and big flairs it’s safe to say that Tom is back in the saddle.
9th place-- Koji Kraft-- Koji had to ride in Park finals, but he had a little energy left over. It’s difficult to mention all the tricks this kid does, because he usually does three or four tricks in each air.
8th place-- Benni Kopp-- Benni showed Paris some big tricks back-to-back. Lookbacks, barspin to x-ups, tailwhips, 540s, and a double barspin.
7th place-- Matt Fairbairn-- Matt goes high, and the wind didn’t help too much. He fought the wind and still managed some good moves. Suicide no-handers, x-up to barspin to x-up, alley-oop 540s, and a truck driver 540.
6th place-- Jason Branham-- Jason is young and fairly new to the LG tour. I don’t know what he thought of Paris, but he impressed all the spectators. No-handers, no-footers, barspins, 540s and flairs.
5th place-- Mike Mancuso-- I’m not sure if he knows about it, but Mike has a nickname on this tour. His nickname is “Man-Coupon”, because he’s pretty thrifty. Mike’s been to Paris before, but I’m not sure if the locals have seen him ride until today. No-handers, tailwhips, flairs and a huge no-handed flair.
4th place-- Tom Haugen-- Tom also had to ride Park and I’m sure he was pretty tired. That didn’t stop him from showing Paris his Vert skills, though. Lots of x-up and barspin tricks, suicide no-handers, tailwhips, toothpick to barspins and a double tailwhip.
3rd-- Jay Eggleston-- Luckily for Jay, the wind died down a little. Jay goes really high and does big tricks on every wall. No handers, lookbacks, turndowns, tailwhips, 540s and a turndown 540.
2nd place-- Zach Shaw-- Zach is used to doing shows and demos. So that’s what Paris got—a good show. Stylish inverts, turndowns, flairs, 540s and an x-up flair.
1st place-- Simon Tabron-- Simon seems to win a lot of these LG events. Maybe that’s why he rides for LG. He let me borrow his LG mobile camera-phone so I could take some pictures of his run. A huge 900, no handed alley-oop 540, flairs, turndown 540, and several other stylish moves. Another well deserved win for Simon.
