contest report

What are you doing in the winter when it's cold and the next indoor park is five ore six hours drive, when you don't have any work to do at your bike and no girlfriend... I decided to organise a contest! My favourite place near my home and where I often go to ride is Naturns and the guys there are also friendly, I just had to build a spine and a wall and the contest place was ready! Because in Italy isn't any pro rider, I asked Sergio Layos if he would like to come over from Spain to show us what's possible on a bike!
Everything was going right but three weeks before the contest Sergio broke a finger and so i decided to move the contest to 13.03.04, what was finally better because there was snow in Naturns on the previous date! Qualifications started at 15pm because of late hungry pro riders from Roma! 20 riders, two runs of two minutes for everyone and then final with the best fifteen, 4 riders together for a six minutes run!
The 10th place went to Alex Stefanec from Wörgl ( Austria ), he showed a 540 tiretab on the bank and a bunnyhop on the curb to high 180° down! With some clean fufanus and some high airs from quarter to bank Leonardo Pedoni from Cesenatico placed 9th! "Molton" (Damiano Rossa) from Belluno placed 8th with a manual to the quarter to 360° fakie and a feeble 180° out! The 7th place went to Paulo Castegnaro from Vicenza who was riding with his dirt style, he pulled a 360 table over the jump box and some good lip tricks on the spine like 3.6 tap tail to ice pick!
Fabio "Destroy" Limonta from Bergamo with his full face Helmet, was going high on the quarter and after many crashes he also pulled the wall-ride.. Toni Wastel from Wörgl ( Austria ) pulled a clean 360° over the spine and over the jump box also and stretched a beautiful Superman, 5th place for him!
And now we are coming to the highlight of the day, the last and best four riders from the day, Alessandro Barbero from Cuneo (Italy), SteVan Lantschner from Bozen (Italy), David Lombard from Montpellier (France) and Sergio Layos from Madrid (Spain): I started the run with a 360°, lookdown and a tailwhip over the spine and some high airs on the quarter, Barbero went for a clean 360 x-up, then truck over the spine and a perfect quarter tailwhip air, Lombard pulled some high 360° and lookdown over the spine, a wallride to table and a fufanu on the sub rail of the big quarter.
Sergio impressed everyone with his style, his high airs and his big tricks, he showed high & stylish 360° table, 360°lookdown, brakeless nosepick 360° all over the spine, a very high tail whip air on the quarter then the same but down side and as height!!! The time was over but the riders coudn't stop riding, Barbero slams two times trying a alley oop tail whip from quarter to bank, that he pulled perfect in the quali, Sergio pulled a perfect opposite wall ride to downside tail whip out (The wall was around 2,50 m large!) and i did at the second attempt a tail whip transfer from the spine to the small pyramide on the side!
At the after contest party in the disco pub "Baila" was the conquer honour: 1st place went to Sergio Layos, the 2nd to me, the 3th to David Lombard and the 4th to Alessandro Barbero! All of us received a koolt rocks cup and we all started to drink cocktails. I want to thank at all the friends what helped me to organise and at all the sponsors, Sub Skateshop, Fakieshop and Movement and especially at Oakley. Maybe we'll see us next year if I'm also without a girlfriend during the winter 2005, which I really don't hope.

Lantschner SteVan