Sandoval and Guettler Go HAM at Maddog Contest

Dan Sandoval and Ryan Guettler and Scotty Cranmer made it out to Maddog's contest this weekend in snowy Indiana and came away with some great finishes.  As you can imagine, there were lots of whips, flips and 720s being held at Maddog's skatepark, so they all had their work cut out for them.  Between the snowball fights and pizza, Sandoval won the whole shebang and Guettler held down third place on the podium.  Everyone who could clear the massive box jump was loving it, but that step down just looks scary. For all the wild action check out the video.

Heart and Soul Daniel Sandoval

It's pretty cool to see someone go film some bangers instead of waiting for the next big contest. Looks like Daniel isn't taking it easy in the contest off season. The 3 bar whip to bar must be a first?! Great collection of what Daniel is capable of right here.

Ben Hennon Wins Best Line at Red Bull Skylines

Our boy Ben Hennon just won Best Line at the Red Bull Skylines event in Paris with a wild whip out of the Sosh tranny. The venue alone is worth checking out in this video from JCP. Gary Young, Daniel Sandoval, Pat Casey, Kevin Kalkoff, Ben Hennon, Baz Keep, Rob Darden and Mark Webb were all throwing down for Vans BMX.

RedBull Skylines, Paris France!

Vans park shredders Gary Young, Daniel Sandoval, Pat Casey, Kevin Kalkoff, Ben Hennon, Baz Keep and Mark Webb have arrived in Paris for the RedBull Skylines event going on this Friday November 2nd!

Tickets are sold out so expect the place to get wild!  Check out the 3d teaser below.

 

Dew Tour SF preview

The boys have arrived in San Francisco, California for the second and final Dew Tour stop for the year.

Back in August, stop 1 in Maryland included Park and Vert, this stop in San Francisco has Street Plaza, Street-Style and Dirt. Street-Style is something new and exciting. It's a section of road with different obstacles that the rider can hit from a starting point to the finish, and Street is set up in a more plaza style atmosphere.

Look for Vans riders in Dirt including Cory Nastazio, Scotty Cranmer, Rob Darden, Andy Buckworth, Pat Casey, TJ Ellis, Gary Young, Kyle Baldock, Daniel Sandoval, Ryan Guettler, Cam White and Luke Parslow.

Street Plaza Ty Morrow, Bruno Hoffman, Dakota Roche, Josh Harrington, Sean Sexton and Dan Lacey.

TV coverage in the USA is as follows...
Dirt 10/20/12 Saturday NBCSN 11PM EST
Street-Style 10/21/12 Sunday NBC 2pm EST LIVE
Street 10/21/12 Sunday NBCSN 11pm EST

For more info on Dew Tour go HERE and follow @vansjerry and @vansbmx66 on twitter and instagram for live news.

RebelJam Highlights Video

The world’s top BMX riders gathered in Tossa de Mar, Spain this weekend, 5-7 October, to ride the Street, Flatland, Park and Dirt features of the incredible Europark set up during the 6th Annual Vans Rebel Jam. Video by Alex Baret

RebelJam 2012 results!

RebelJam 2012 is over, thanks to all the watched the great coverage online and if you were lucky enough to attend I'm sure you had the best weekend ever. Start saving and get to RebelJam 2013!

For more results, head HERE to the official RebelJam site. They're replaying the coverage from the event in case you missed it. 

PARK Hard Trick Award 1. Andy Buckworth 2. Daniel Sandoval 3. Ben Hennon
PARK Creative Award 1. Gary Young 2. Ben Hennon 3. Maxime Charveron
PARK Style Award 1. Kevin Kalkoff 2. Bas Keep 3. Daniel Sandoval

FLAT Style Award 1.Matthias Dandois 2. Jesse Puente 3. Kevin Nikulski
   
STREET 1. Dan Lacey 2. Bruno Hoffmann 3. Diogo Santos 4. Ed Zunda 5. Dakota Roche

DIRT Hard Trick Award 1. Daniel Sandoval 2. Rob Darden 3. David Godziek
DIRT Style Award 1. Daniel Sandoval 2. Dan Foley 3. Kevin Kalkoff

RebelJam has started!

Practice has started in Spain, live coverage online beginning on Saturday 6am EST HERE and Sunday same time. (12 noon in Spain)

Park, Dirt, Flat and Street disciplines with Vans Pros Dakota Roche, Gary Young, Daniel Sandoval, Dan Foley, Rob Darden, Andy Buckworth and the Euro Vans crew including Matthias Dandois, Bruno Hoffmann, Matt Priest, Dan Lacey, Ben Hennon and Mark Webb.

Keep up with @vansrebeljam on twitter and instagram for live updates.

Final results from the LXVI Invitational

18 year old Californian Daniel Sandoval took out the win today in Virginia Beach, Virginia at ECSC.

He mixed a bunch of tech moves including bar to whip, late front flips and 360 bar to bar on the last set to beat out Vans team mates Pat Casey and TJ Ellis, also from California.

This is Daniels first big win on the Pro circuit and I'm sure there will be a few more, the kid is on fire!

Look for a video of all the action from todays event, coming soon.

There is still one more day to go, with a Vert Demo planned 1-2pm Sunday. Dennis McCoy, Coco Zurita and Simon Tabron will be the entertainers!

LXVI INVITATIONAL AT ECSC

It all begins today in Virginia Beach, Virginia. For the first time, the LXVI Invitational Box Jump contest is going down at ECSC. Vans BMX stars Scotty Cranmer, TJ Ellis (pictured), Cory Nastazio, Ryan Guettler, Kyle Baldock and more will compete today at 12 -2 in a qualifying round.

Saturday 12-1 is the final round. Riders are competing for a portion of the $25,000 purse.

There's also Vert Demos going on all weekend with Simon Tabron, Coco Zurita and DMC Dennis McCoy.

The event is free to get into, and you can also keep up with us on @vansbmx66 on Instagram and twitter.

Dew Tour park finals

Six riders made the main in Maryland and they all stepped it up from the preliminary rounds.
The last rider to go was Scotty Cranmer, he had to drop in knowing Brett Banasiewicz, Ryan Nyquist and Kyle Baldock had already posted scores in the 90's. Scotty rose to the occasion beginning his run with a flip double whip over the sub rail, something he hadn't done yet in the competition.

Scotty gave his all and ended up in 3rd place. Kyle Baldock is riding really tech and everything he does he does it seemingly with ease. 360 whip to whip back and upside down 900's every try.

Vans young gun Daniel Sandoval made the main and finished in 5th with moves like a giant triple whip on the drop down hip.

A great performance all round for the Vans crew at the first stop of Dew Tour for 2012. Stop 2 is in October in San Fransisco, check HERE for more info.

Cranmer qualifys first for Dew Final.

Scotty Cranmer has been looking forward to this day for some time. He had to sit through a tough qualifying round yesterday, as a reward for being the 2011 Dew Tour champion.

Today he got to ride park semi final and he got it done first run of three. He was flowing and tricking all over the course to the sounds of Bruce Springsteen and the result was a 92.63!

Scotty qualified first for Sunday's park final along with Aussie, Kyle Baldock and young gun, Daniel Sandoval.

Other Vans pro's in the semi final were Andy Buckworth 7th, Gary Young 8th, and Pat Casey 10th.

Watch the final Sunday on NBC 2pm - 4ET or follow the Vans team @vansbmx66

26 become 11, Dew Tour park prelims

Today in Ocean City, Maryland twenty six riders dropped in for three, forty five second runs. Best run counts and now we have eleven riders for tomorrows semi final. Scotty Cranmer watched today as a bonus for his 2011 season. He will compete tomorrow.

Pat Casey had a flat rear tire just a couple minutes before his name was to be called for run 0ne, with a pit crew on hand, the tire was ready to go and he literally picked up his bike, dropped in and qualified 2nd! Unreal!

Kyle Baldock messed up his first two runs, leaving all the pressure in the world for run three. Kyle pulled it though and qualified in 6th.

Saturdays semi final looks like this. Top 6 will go to Sundays final.

Scotty Cranmer (VANS)
Brett Banasiewicz
Pat Casey (VANS)
Drew Bezanson
Harry Main
Daniel Sandoval (VANS)
Kyle Baldock (VANS)
Ryan Nyquist
Gary Young (VANS)
Garrett Reynolds
Chad Kerley
Andy Buckworth (VANS)

The semis kicks off at 5:30pm ET and televised on NBC Sports at 11pm ET.

Follow us on @VansBMX66 (Instagram and twitter)

For more info click HERE for the Dew Tour site

Dew Tour Stop 1 Begins Thursday

The Vans BMX team has arrived in Ocean City, Maryland for stop one of The Dew Tour.

Competition begins on Thursday, August 16 with BMX Vert. Simon Tabron, Coco Zurita and Dennis McCoy will take on the Half Pipe and try to make the six man final for Friday.

The Park discipline runs from Thursday through Sunday, with 2011 the Dew Tour Park Champion Scotty Cranmer advancing to Saturdays semi final as a reward for his 2011 season.

Look for other Vans pros in the Park preliminary rounds trying to move into the finals including Kyle Baldock, Pat Casey, Ryan Guettler, Andy Buckworth, Diogo Canina, Rob Darden, Ben Hennon, Josh Harrington, Chase Hawk, Daniel Sandoval, Mark Webb, Gary Young.

This stop also includes Mini Mega Ramp and Flatland. Vans Europe and French Flatland Pro, Matthias Dandois will be in Ocean City!

For more information on the Dew Tour and this first stop for 2012, check HERE

Keep up with the Vans BMX crew live on Instagram and twitter. @vansBMX66

Sandoval at FISE

This past weekend seventeen year old Daniel Sandoval traveled to Montpelier in the South of France for FISE, a contest now into its sixteenth year.

FISE has MTB, Wake Boarding, and Skate Boarding events and for BMX they have Flatland, Dirt, Park, Mini Ramp and a Mega Ramp style jump.

This year for the first time FISE was live on Eurosport TV. The organizers told the network that there's no clock or buzzer for the runs and if the rider wants to take 10 tries at a trick he can! No problem! This is a format that would not fly at X Games.

Sandoval finished the weekend with a 3rd in Mini, and 4th in Park.

Here's a quick Q & A on the up and coming star.

Vans: First trip to FISE right? DS: Yeah first FISE, it was great, there was a lot of energy from the crowd!

Vans: With thousands of people screaming for you at FISE why do you have to run headphones haha? DS: I wear my headphone because it keeps me calm an relaxed.

Vans: What are you listening to? DS: I listen to Hip Hop of Dubstep.

Vans: X Games is coming up and you got invited, congrats on that! What are thoughts on X? DS: I am honored to be in it I can't wait to ride the course.

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Pat Casey wins X FEST U.K

Pat Casey is over in the U.K at the moment and he racked up a another Pro win on the weekend.

X Fest almost got rained out, it was freezing cold and Dirt didn't go down as planned. Nasty and TJ Ellis were sitting around all weekend!

Here's the Park contest that VitalBMX featured. Look for Sandoval and Darden with some clips!

The boys are staying over seas for either Empire of Dirt in the UK of FISE in France coming up in a week.

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Simple Session 12 wrap up

Tallin, Estonia has become host for one of the biggest park contest's of the year. Simple Session 12 wrapped up this past weekend with 111 entrant's competing and after nine hour's of Prelim's Saturday the top 24 moved onto Sundays final.

Vans had eight riders make the final's and unfortunately a couple of injuries along the way. Josh Harrington was having a great weekend up until final trick's where he tried to over ice a back rail off a really tall wedge. Josh and his long leg's just couldn't run out of the fall and he buckled his knee. Josh will get it looked at when he returns home today.

Gary Young qualified in 5th position and looked for a podium spot in the finals with creative lines, switch 3's and fast pace. Gary went for a huge 270 transfer and his bike smashed his head into the ground and left Gary old cold on the cement floor. Gary walked from the course and went for further treatment at the local Hospital, but was cleared to fly home today.

Pat Casey and Daniel Sandoval, the two rookies on the Vans team, finished 5th and 4th respectively. Both these kid's have a few new trick's every contest it's exciting to see. Pat revealed a flip barspin to tailwhip, and a front flip flair. Daniel is a fire cracker to watch, you know he's going to send something outrageous. At this event he debuted a front flip barspin.

A tough final for the legend's on the Vans team, but a solid one for the rookies.

If you ever want to go to a contest Simple Session has to be on your list, it's the rider's from all over the world, the late night parties the quality ramps with a mix of street incorporated keeps everybody happy. See you in 2013!

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Simple Session Practice has begun

The Vans team has arrived in Estonia!. Harrington, Young, Sandoval, Casey and Darden are at practice right now.

Competition begins Saturday. There's a live feed online if you want to check it out.

It's going to be a good one!

Simple Session 12 this weekend

Well it's a little later than usual, but it's happening for the twelfth year, Simple Session in Tallin, Estonia!

This year we have sent VANS rider's Gary Young, Josh Harrington, Daniel Sandoval, Rob Darden and Pat Casey.

The event kicks off on the weekend, good luck to the crew heading over!

Vans BMX Am 3 Contest Recap

One word sums up both Vans BMX Am contests this year......INSANE! Orlando ran their contest on Saturday, April 3rd and The Block ran their contest on Saturday, April 10th. With guest judges Cory Nastazio, Ryan Guettler, Chase Hawk and many other Vans pros, the kids brought out their A game. The mezzanines were full and the music cranked. Check out the results and photos below...stay tuned for a video from The Block.


















Saturday, April 3rd

Vans Skatepark

Orlando, FL



Sponsored Division

1st - Ricky Rogers

2nd - Trey Jones

3rd - David Mahoney



16+ Division

1st - John Wolski

2nd - Ian Holm

3rd - Chris Crouch



6 - 15 Division

1st - Sam Ostrowski

2nd - Lars Pepaske

3rd - Freddie Smith



Saturday, April 10th

Vans Skatepark

The Block Orange, CA



Sponsored Division

1st - Daniel Sandoval

2nd - Michael Rodriguez

3rd - Ismael Pulidr



16+ Division

1st - Juan Guerrero

2nd - Andrew Castaneck

3rd - Jonathan Kikana



6 - 15 Division

1st - Thomas Kendrink

2nd -Diego Enriquez

3rd - Nick How