FULL BROADCAST: BMX Street finals – SIMPLE SESSION 2019

hello and welcome to tarla in Estonia it is the center point between northern eastern and western Europe for hundreds of years this city has been a meeting point where people come to trade and exchange ideas on art and science and in the 21st century that means skateboarding and BMX in the depths of winter Tallinn hosts the biggest skateboarding and BMX contests on the calendar this is simple session 2019 we are about to undergo two huge contests the first of which is BMX Street then it's BMX park and joining me to make sense of all of the action is one of the most stylish men ever to throw his leg over a BMX mr. Chris toil thank you so much ed I am super excited to be back here with you tallinn estonia simple session 2019 it's gonna be a good day man we're kicking off with BMX street always a huge notch on the calendar because it was only introduced two years ago the only man ever to have won it Garrett Reynolds isn't here this year we are gonna have a new simple session champion well that's right and Garrett Reynolds is the most influential street rider in the last decade so his presence is definitely missed here at simple sessions that I can't help but to feel a little bit excited to know that we're gonna see a new face on the top of that podium here and BMX Street and there is a massive it's a very very diverse field isn't it oh yeah absolutely we got riders from all over the world all different backgrounds they're coming here descending upon the SACU arena to be here as a part of this this street contest it's gonna be really fun we got an eclectic bunch it's gonna be an awesome contest okay join us right after this we're gonna be back with BMX treat fun as that is followed by BMX park finals see you in a second [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the SACU arena is building into atmosphere it's almost at capacity the riders are being introduced out on the floor there and they're starting to make some noise because they know what is coming up over the course of the next three hours we are kicking off with BMX treat them and go straight into BMX park Chris let's start with BMX Street we cut down nearly 60 riders to just 12 yesterday in qualifies and the top three were nothing short of breathtaking oh yeah the contest certainly did not disappoint we had courage Adams coming out showing you that precision showing you the balance showing you the tricks that he's got he's a real big threat to that top spot in second place we had failing Felix praying and burn he came in with a lot of creativity he had so many unique lines on the course check this out 180 onto the wedge 180 tail up off check out the way he uses the rails 180 hard way off that double peg check this out double peg 450 out clean as you like you were talking about that early is so difficult yeah and then of course our first-place qualifier Matt ray Matt just made everything look so easy so simple check this out truck driver up that bar catch bar 360 to fakie and look at him he just looks so casual check this out 360 tail up to fakie at the end of his run it's so hard to do that type of stuff when you're tired like that okay there was some very impressive riding a Matt rate did end up on top but he's the man with the target on his back when the final start tuning yep stick now over our cool side reporter is with Matt right now advantage in the competition because the pressure is definitely on me but it gives me the advantage to see what people do kind of decide like how hard I should go or what I should do so that's good so why do you know strategy for the Brawn now you're gonna stick to the same one you had Molly's are you gonna change it up a little bit I think kind of the same stuff maybe add a few tricks change a few things but we'll have to see you never know because I could mess something up and then have to do so we'll see what happens well we've been rooting for you and yeah good luck in the vinylright looking very very relaxed yeah absolutely and in addition to that those top three guys you gotta watch out for the rest of our field watch out for a guy like Luis Mills a guy that actually beat Garrett Reynolds in a professional competition just earlier this year and of course we gotta watch out for someone like Brock Rayford as well he's nursing a sore knee he just got off knee surgery but he's here and he's hungry and he's ready to rip now and keep in mind like I said Luis mills and Brock both have what it takes to pull out a big win maybe even an upset here well we saw it in qualifiers the schools are so so close there is the opportunity for anyone to jump from the back of the pack right up to the top spot one man who can definitely do that is the New York upstate New York rider Mark Burnett we're gonna take a look now at Luis Mills just take a look at some of the highlights from qualifiers from him okay we're gonna go and see mark Burnett's highlights I apologize so these are the highlights for mark to run in 2018 simple session then you got the summer session 2018 where he came back again this kid loves the Estonia but then a couple of video parts with Jerry Babel the Czech rider he's been doing a little bit of an exchange program with Eastern Europe husband yet he spent some time out in New York with those guys traveling around with the shadow team and you know you and you're gonna see some of that that better and experience that's rubbed off on URI here in the street final today okay we're gonna go over now I did catch up with my Burnett earlier in the week and this is what I found out hey I'm micronet I'm from upstate New York I'm 20 years old and I'm here at simple station what's your favorite element of Symphony session what keeps bringing you back here I mean probably just the camaraderie because there's a few places in the world where you can kind of get everybody together and feel like you're free still that's probably the most conducive environment for growth and for friendly competition having that street element splitting it up if that changed the competition for you yes and I quite like it actually because it does give us Street guys if you will a platform not only to showcase what we can do but also be judged accordingly on it do you not get that feeling though from simple session especially that the crowd are pretty well educated yeah they do a really good job I can't stress enough like here more than pretty much anywhere else like you will get cheers for doing a full cab over a rail or something which baffling me that they even have the beginning gist of an inkling at what's going on it's actually pretty cool yeah it's such a melting pot here do you take a lot away from writing simple session in terms of style and ideas for tricks BMX is what I love right so I pretty much spend all of my days studying everything everything in the world whether it's art music other bike riders skateboarders anything that you can draw influence from and craft a style that is not only your own but one that you're proud of [Music] coming back to simple session how is the course change what your favorite parts of it anything that's a little bit weird a little bit obscure those are the things that I find you're in right it's something that you can you don't just do the trick on the obstacle is the trick but yeah anything that's just not really meant to be ridden that's just a street riders mentality right you just want to ride things that nobody really wants you to ride and you're gonna do it anyway [Music] well he's talking about the cause there and we're gonna get to that very quickly but once you've seen the riders the next thing to talk about is always the comp format now it's changed slightly from last service yeah this year it's two runs best one run counts these guys have one minute on the course for each run and it's judged on a points scale from 0 to 100 pretty simple but these guys are aiming just for that one solid run - to make it true puts a lot of pressure on them I mean qualifiers ran the same way but there isn't that same jam format or the loser program that you get if you have three runs under the best to count this is this is do or die from the off yeah I mean like you said this is do or die you gotta get that one good score and you have two chances to make it happen I know a lot of these guys are really excited about that cuz three runs was getting them a little bit too tired and they really couldn't focus on what they wanted to do so I think we are in store for a really great contest here all these guys need is that one run they need one minute of fury well we always talk about the star of the show here and yeah it does turn out to be the winner on a lot of occasions but as it builds up we're always looking at the course that is what everyone looks forward to and we send out Felix prang Hamburg and Daniel Dez to take a closer look at it hi and their time here with Felix last name coming back and we're here at simple station we're going to explain you guys a few of the obstacles on this year's course personally that's my favorite symbol Satan course so far you can get creative at so many parts and you already like it right behind us it's one of my favorite obstacles it's like a step up and latches on the both sides so you can like grind up it or do something up it or go down or the park guys like we're using it to go up we get speed to do the transfer back there or coming back so it's gotta be very interesting to see what people can do up and down so behind me we have the Box shown is a very standard feature in both courses but a simple session at its own twist and put a little hole in the middle so it makes the jump look crazy when you're in the air that's the a frame rail it's pretty good for all kind of trying tricks or like rail hubs the upper bangs like shorter so you can go over the rail do like 360 write-ups and stuff I think I might skip the rail on my run but it's actually a super fun obstacle to watch these three riders use because he gives you so many options so we have the visa Estonia feature which is the spine that eight or ten foot quarter and the little banks this feature is connecting most of the whole part so I'm very excited to watch people ride at this week simple session has that magic where they are able to plane those obstacles with a lot of other crazy stuff and that's what makes simple session unique that is what Nate Wetzel works his entire year on perfecting is making sure that this course has all of those little idiosyncrasies that the puzzle if you like that you have to unlock Nathan Wessels never disappoints this course is built for creativity originality and built for the big tricks that we've come to expect from simple session ok you look at this course I've watched you looking at it as soon as you get here and you see you're like oh maybe that line of work I could suggest that Tim what's really speaking to you from this course at the moment well me personally I like to visit Estonia spine and quarter pipe option I like the lines into and out of it it's really interesting to see how each rider interprets that area of the course I think that is gonna be a really important part of the course in the judges eyes as well ok that's what Chris toriel thinks if you want to join in the conversation you can using the hashtag simple session any questions any advice at any point is you've got send them all in we'll do our best to answer them during the broadcast we'll be watching all of the channels right now we're going to take a short break when we come back we'll have BMX Street finals 12 men 2 runs see then [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so there is that behemoth of a course absolutely vast and we've seen some interesting corners of it used it in these Street qualifiers now it's time for finals and was going to kick off with one of Russia's finest mag Supra Nia out of krasnoye asked now living in Moscow it's been a simple session regular for years in a corner of the right cornerstone of the Russian BMX scene as well he's developed his riding in some of I'd say some of the least known cities on earth for BMX the likes of Vladivostok and some of the corners I think novice abyss can never cuz nyet skin in the depths of Siberia have seen his tires on occasion those are two places that I've never heard of until just now thanks a lot at for that geography education so twelve riders thanks to print is gonna kick it off and as you said this format means that he's got to he's got to throw down he's got to find some consistency on this first run so the adds the freedom to build I'm really put something special together in his second run it is never easy being the first guy to drop in at a contest pretty much every score that happens after this is based on his score so really he's got a throwdown super hard this has to be a good run for max but you know what max is so consistent with some very difficult tricks check that out that's 180 hardway barspin and he's keeping it going showing you the tail up in just reburning it around great way to start a run tail up on the wedge it's like I said he's really consistent we saw him in Latvia he was one of our finalists there as well showing you the Flair showing yinz got the park tricks as well as the street tricks there's that truck driver how does that measure up I mean all the judges still looking for part tricks in a street comp well not necessarily but it can't hurt right but essentially it's burning time but it like you say it proves a little bit of flow and it keeps the speed moving well yeah he's got to turn around anyway so hey why not do a flare check that out hardway 180 bars keeps it going backwards bar spent on that Red Bull quarter 180 bars down gyro cap pulls it back around has not touched the ground once with his feet and again it's a consistent finalist here it's simple ception this is not the first time we're seeing that I tell you what we are seeing that Ron is almost a carbon copy in some senses of grace and Fletcher's run in the state finals earlier where he threw down first run was an incredibly high score and immediately became the benchmark you said he needed a big score I needed to be try to open this and he's done exactly that yeah check out that hard way 180 bars pulling away from that reel keeps it going backwards and then check this out revert tailwhip right back into the wedge keeps it going showing you the Flair on the quarter pipe again and he had to turn around so why not do a flair yeah why not Taylor Taylor up over the wedge I mean it was a great run he's going a little bit slow it's not as like exciting and as showy but you know he has another run he'll come back and lay another one down for us well Sabrina made finals in 2017 ended up in 6th made finals last year and ended up in ninth I think that's a pretty solid run and it's far too early to say where he's going to end up but he hasn't done himself any harm with one minute of very very high quality riding they're also a finalist at the simple summer session in Latvia so you can see he's got the consistency it's always good to be in the finals that's what you really want to do when you come to a contest like this your main objective is just to make the finals first and then you send it when you get to the finals the great and the good of BMX straight lined up behind max to preen are there no our party young up there in the brown cap head judge discussing this with all of the other judges making sure they're all on board he's thinking of what he's saying breach dark didn't make finals very very disappointing I don't really clean run it just it wasn't technical enough was it yeah you know I think he might have been using the ramps a little bit too much he his run looked more like a part run in a lot of ways in a street run but that is almost as predictable as they get seventy five point four it's uh that's pretty much your standard you've landed a run let's put you slap bang in between 50 and 100 that's the middle of the road right there and you know what I think the judges really liked that you get a clean consistent run to start things off and now you can kind of build on that on what he did on what max did okay there's our start list Matt brave will get to go last next rider in is going to be Lewis Mills Club the young Australian is the prodigy of Garrett Reynolds the man who has won this contest for the last two years he hasn't turned up this year wearing his prodigy take his crown well Lewis Mills certainly could do that he got a silver medal of the Australian X Games justice this past year so he knows what it takes and keep in mind Garrett Reynolds got third at that contest so he's beat Garrett Reynolds in a fair competition before so Lewis Mills has the skills he has he has the consistency he has the style he looks good on his fighting the judges really like us take this bit we're all I mean you met Chris you could be around I appreciate that thank you Justin's furry actually writes him as one of the most talented up-and-comers I just put the curse of the commentator on it but Louise Mills has proved himself and then some in 2018 yeah we saw that bar spin the crank I'm grinding just did he's bobbled a few things already so when you miss a beat you lose the rhythm it's hard to get back into the flow of things once you miss one or two things it's hard to pick up the pieces and really get back going again so he kind of knows that this runs gonna be a wash he's just kind of coasting around letting the Pikeville high and pretty uncharacteristic of Lewis Mills actually cuz he's very consistent okay so run one is a scratch for Lewis Mills and the beauty of that he puts himself in the pressure cooker to get that big second run score now nice trip Renea getting left hanging there badly by Louis moves what a thing for our cameras to catch Oh max I feel for you he was trying to go far spin into the double peg accidentally landed feeble and then he had to drop down so you miss your first trick and it's hard just to get going again that part's been to crank homicide lovely lovely stylee it's always the danger I find with BMX treat when you've got what someone with that much style that they're making stuff look too easy yes sometimes they call that the Joey Garcia syndrome does Joey Garcia from back in the day would always just make everything look so easy he was never getting really this those scores that you wanted everyone's like hey you got to make it look like you're actually trying so I always thought that was funny whenever I see someone that makes things look too easy I'm like oh that's the Joey Garcia syndrome okay we can go down now - too late who's with Lois Mills so you know the other writers have been calling you the current legend but you're like the new generation Reuter what do you take on them I don't know I'm just trying to try to make it happen over here not really asking for the titles but yeah are you gonna give it your all in a no second run oh definitely the first one was a bit disappointing didn't really do anything all its plan to do but hopefully the second run works out so good luck on the second run thank you okay so Lois Mills no surprises there all the pressure on the second one you can see Bruno Hoffman Mark Burnett feeling sprang hamburg a.k Alex Kennedy and Brock Rayford it all lined up along there miss mills making his way back up onto the platform now it's the turn of Jerry play ball guy who spent most of this summer just gone 2018 in New York and it seems to have paid off in his writing yeah absolutely I talked to him when we were in Latvia for the simple summer session and he was just glowing and he was buzzing about his trip to New York he was telling me how fun it was and what they got to ride and everything so it's really it's really great to have to be back at the simple session watch the bars see if you can count how many times he does his bar spins cuz he loves to throw the bars that was an opposite bar catch bar and you can usually tell by their body language whether it's opposite or regular there's a double bar spin drop and that was his regular direction double peg up opposite tail up and then a regular tail showing that he can do it both directions is using the boss Bend like a multiplier on the temple machine isn't it he's just cranking up those points and you just saw him do the hard 360 out of that flat rail when I say he's pulling hard way he's pulling his bike and body away from the rail the quote-unquote easy way would be go into the rail level clean for the first 45 says he's riding so clean I'm just gonna yeah I'm gonna stop claiming anything for anyone there one eighty tail above the wedge easy as you like well did that the slam right there so I don't think that's gonna hurt him too much he did have one step off but I think that's gonna be a really good score Sonic's gold but it's another excuse for the judges we know that we're gonna see some really big really clean runs so the judges have gotta leave themselves some space yeah you're absolutely right there's that bar catch bar that's opposite and check this out up double peg opposite tailor check this out hard way 360 remember he's pulling away from that rail out of that double peg it's a danger that if the peg slips at oilerie posed too hard then he loses his pump yeah it's very easy to lose your pop on a hard way through sixty like that and a lot of times your back wheel will catch the rail as you're trying to pull away from it and he's removed the chain from around his neck just there okay Akeem Cujo asked a German technician in the middle of the judges paint their surgery blah blah little seat adjustment while the scores come in at 66 point - well I'm so thankful that I'm not a judge because I would have judged that a little bit differently but the judges do you see how many points are deducting when you step off like that okay next Damon Ali's candidate from Croydon Alex this seamless piece easy to keep your speed and you just set you up perfect for everything so Ally's candidate 29 years old one of the smoothest styles in the game aka a K he's just known by his initials super into his health does a lot of meditation yoga uses supplements extracts organic food yeah he's got a very healthy lifestyle and for Alex Kennedy creativity is the name of the game originality creativity he's got some tricks in all of street riding right now showing me that double peg now check out the toboggan landing Smith down the ledge loves a good toboggan double peg up and over two-speed gapping a double peg on the spine Shoney's got the part skills to which it's kind of rare for a guy like Alex getting to be seen on riding a spine supporter Pisces usually just as a total street dog 360 X up over our dig volcano up on the catwalk took that out feeble downside ice pick from the fastplant really cool original lines like I said for him creativity is the name of the game but it's a rarity even to saving competition or effect I easily is not a big cop dog so to see him come out here but it's riding under the watchful eye of the judges is a real treat yeah this certainly is not his first simple széchenyi he loves coming to these things he loves putting on for the simple session crowd and really showing the creativity that we're talking about there's that toboggan to Smith there's that big gap up to the spine double peg grind I'm not sure how the judges are gonna judge that but that was a solid run I mean me that he didn't really bobble too much and I really loved what he did up that catwalk it was a feeble downside fastplant to icepick showing you the 180 toboggan out of that catwalk and then this hard way 180 out of the double peg it was a it was a clean run for Alex Kennedy once again okay we see what the judges make her at the moment the top score Derby is seventy five point four and Alex Kennedy moves in with the 76 so judged just above max ship Rena of Russia there we go Justin's great broking the Parks and Recreation moustache that no mistakin who's in charge of this course justin spree comes from a BMX family his father rides BMX I've actually had many sessions with his father maybe more so than I've had with Justin but justin is a jack-of-all-trades he can ride trails he can ride parks and of course as we're about the scene he can ride Street going up crooked 180 far out he's another that makes things look really easy never really looks like he's trying too hard there's that 180 crooks 180 out bar spin when I say crooks I mean he's grumpy it's a crooked grind he's one peg is on one side of the rail the other peg is on the other side man hardway 180 crooked grind down the rail found the opposite way them from what he did it before likes the backwards grinds designation about 1/8 even feeble and he's doing things on both sides of the bike you're gonna hear me talk about opposite and regular a lot that means when I say he's doing opposites usually on the other side of his bike or he's spinning the other direction he's in so goofy foot too though in terms of spinning isn't he I believe he is which makes my job even all that much more difficult yeah you really gotta keep it on in oh it's the first time I've seen one double peg or all the way through the a-frame really clean run for the kid from Murrieta California tops Preet no doubt we'll be watching and I imagine it'll be filled with pride watching them oh yeah of course it looked like you wanted a little bit more out of that a frame grind check it out the crooked grind up 180 bars out there's that 180 crooked grind bringing it back around with the bar spin I kept feeling as well in comparison to Alex Kennedy max Chopra Nia he had a really high work rate just in terms like the technicality was right up there it was clean but he also I think he put more tricks in there was more bounce to the end yeah I mean you gotta utilize that full minute I mean you got to use every second that you can so yeah it's all about getting as many tricks as you can in that is a fantastic moustache though 80 2.44 Justin's great first place to the California [Applause] so the pressure is now on five riders gone seven still to drop in the BMX street final next guy in is the wunderkind from in France Anthony Perrin both something the same back in 2012 with a couple of really impressive flat round edits but he's been pushing straight harder and harder at lay he's a really really great street writer I know that he gets a little bit nervous in competition so we'll see if he can shake those nerves and really put together a solid run showing you the 180 up nice and easy 180 yeah when you talk about comp knives I love think if you can get that first trick out of the way then you can set him down instantly oh yeah absolutely so he's got a couple tricks under his belt already so he's up and running and you'll watch the way his confidence build big 360 over that sub and into the wedge first guy we've seen do that line so far so they keep from terrorized just outside Leone in France showing you two big rides going on both sides of the bike yet again [Music] eight last year so we made final to get a super it's the problem I think it's especially with something like flatland when you come from that side of the spore and actually we've seen it in all of the street guys perfection is the only thing that's acceptable especially in a competition format that's gonna be this strict I mean you gotta stomp your run you gotta you've got to be consistent you have to land those tricks and unfortunately he bobbled a few times I don't think that's gonna take top honours but it's still it's a that's a good first run for Anthony parent wife interesting tip we'll get an idea now of how much a fall or not fall but a bad I think it's true here he just drops the foot on the second one of these laughter knows a tooth hanger down the a-frame it's about two young look at our triggers there's Brian Kachinsky right there one of the gnarliest street riders in the game still doing it so the crowd just warming up slowly you can see themselves on the jumbotron giving you a little wave nervous wait for Antony power so what we care judges are definitely done it means the scores game punched in 71 at point four so 4th place that the foot costume definitely absolutely and we can see how strict the judges are being right now as well okay let's take a look at the standings after our first six riders just in sprit eighty two point four Alex Kennedy very clean run just behind then we had that benchmark run from Max Chopra Nia Lois Mills really disappointing run from him and all the pressure is on for the second run next rider in is the German who came in second last year Bruno Hoffmann [Music] and you're always mean see a lot of friends from all over the world let's just thank you good come together and good city and the cool country it really pushes you because you know that qualifying is almost harder than finals because everyone is just going for it so I would say the qualifying is like almost the hardest part so Bruna Hoffman always known for his power his ability to blend style and flow with the technical tricks for these capable of it's so awesome to see Bruno out here still doing it and I say still doing it just because I've known him since he was a little kid I met him in Berlin Germany so long ago and he was only like 13 14 years old at the time but he's like the COO the cleanest most consistent guy with the rollbacks and you're gonna notice I'm doing a lot of things on both sides of the bike remember what I said opposite sides of the bike opposite spins he's the master of doing stuff on both sides of the bike and landing fakie as well showing you that 180 crooked grind that out he went regular pegs over the rail to his opposite pegs and he's the first time he really touched that rail so far full jam 360 on up it's got a clean run gone it was one of those guys to where the more tricks he pulls the more comfortable he gets so it kind of builds his run gets better and better better and this is the kind of run you want to see him having because it frees him up for that second run oh yeah absolutely if you get a good first run you're so relaxed on that second run you can play around a little bit maybe take a little bit more chances good run from Bruno Hoffman and it doesn't look like these guys are moving very fast it doesn't look like they're trying very hard but trust me this is exhausting well it's then not using the ramps to generate the height anywhere like you're yanking this bike around you've got to place it yeah and it's not all about strength there's a lot of form and technique that goes into getting that bike off the ground check this out crooked grind going hard way 180 out and it's amazing to me that the judges know what's regular they know what's opposite and they're able to put that into their scores Darryl now was up there the walking encyclopedia of BMX information today he's walking around in Flair's Ana and call it a lemon pie or a lemon cheesecake ruffled shirt looks fantastic next in Brock Rayford 24 year old so so powerful one of those riders is an absolute joy to watch [Music] she's got a smile on his face well Brock was one of the guys that I've been talking about whole weekend I'm super excited that he's here he's coming off of a knee surgery had ACL and meniscus surgery he's been rehabbing that knee he's been trying to get it strong and he said this was his motivation to be able to get back and ride this contest he's been on our podium before in the past and I'm sure you'd love to be up there again today I've seen that that he pulled that trick out last year it's one of those ones that you get on breathe by every time you watch a simple session edit and you just saw him do a huge gap up and over that sub right there into the wedge it look like you wanted a little bit more maybe a barspin or a tailwhip and he's got one of the best hardway 360s out of rails that I've ever seen Brock Rayford and Dan Lacey have that trick on lock and he's trying to go back up into the ramp show you that up double tire across the spine look like you wanted to bar in out of that and it is literally tires with because if you get outside that tire width you're on the coping so it's gonna start getting really slippery right and we just saw all that pop that that brought as this we win front flats in the round check that out double peg 1 over hardway 360p boots off to that qualifying but it did it after the buzzer qualifying so I think get her to score a little bit well I was pretty close hair as well as interesting to see if we managed to squeeze it in this time brought Raiford collate his hair and potentially a very big score there's that tooth overhaul back to that regular side they're showing hitting the ramp showing you that barspin truck driver flyout that's front flat double pay grind pulling out hardway 180 I love this right here double peg pulling back over the rail hardway 360 out he's the only guy you're gonna see doing that today okay put your reputation on the line Chris is that the top Scott I would put that as the top yes it's a good thing I'm not a judge because as we see the score coming in seventy eight point six puts him in third place but you know what if he cleans up that run if he gets everything that he wanted to do originally if he throws the bars where he wanted to if he throws the tail where he wanted to he could really take top honors the kid from upstate New York who's talked about the most hydrating in his water he's talked a lot about running on his own the fact that he's grown up the perfect distance from anything good so no one really wants to come into him so he has to travel three four hours to New York to Boston to Philly wherever he's headed to ride into distance so well if you follow mark on Instagram like I do you'll see that sometimes I mean he's just riding in a tennis court he has a few Genki ramp setups and he's just doing the most impressive things you've ever seen so yeah he doesn't have the best stuff to ride around where he lives but yes he travels and he kind of makes his own fun around his hometown when he can nice pickup coming up early in the run gonna try and recover but as you and I've seen already we know how how much those Falls can affect the score and I know I talked to mark just prior to the contest we actually had lunch together and he was he was telling me that he really wants to do well and he's more nervous than he usually is for this contest it's no stranger to simple session he always comes he always was a good time it's not our first time seeing him in the final we saw down in Latvia as well and it looks like the nerves are just getting to him a little bit but he had such a clean qualifying run as well really unfortunate not something off the bike there as well or he lost his wristband out perhaps barspin into that double peg run on the spine oh and he's out of here what stuck it as well shunning the autographs shown you the Smith over the rail well that would have been hard on the wrists I reckon because it's a solid drop it's a good six seven feet down to the floor that you can't actually see it as a compression at the bottom of that Ramblers lifted so you have the RAM platform but then it's another two foot when you drop off the back now definitely would have hurt my wrist would hurt your wrist but marks a young guy I'm sure didn't feel it okay let's take a look through these nose two bars over that shown you the toe Jim shown you the ramp tricks he can ride a little bit of everything I like this way bonks that back tire and sends that 360 over that obstacle then this bar spin into into a double pick run there goes that wristband no VI paid tonight sorry mark there's that Smith pulling out over out of the simple session course showing you the originality showing you the creativity there well that you talked about this a lot the idea of finding yourself on the part of the course that no one else has been is good news yeah if you have an original line if you have something that not everyone else is doing that really counts a lot in the judges eyes okay where we saw Alex Kennedy put a bit of a foot down mate 76 it didn't hurt him too badly same for Anthony Perrin he was down on 71 point four so we saw that early foot down the interesting to see when Mark Burnett fits in seventy four point eight it's good enough for six to Lee is down with Mark Burnett now that keeps on giving did you plug that no the or on no you just went with it oh yeah I planned it and I didn't want to fall on anybody so I had to make sure there's someone coordinating it so I kind of had to let the secret out of the bag a little early but so what are you gonna do a second run a knee all that big surprises we can wait for I don't know you'll see but hopefully I just didn't do everything clean and figure it out so there's one Prince and I want to give like a really big shout out to you and that's your mum do you want to say something to mom I know she's watching of course I'm gonna tell her to hold on because I know she's nervous right now try to keep it keep it under wraps keep it under control because I know she's probably screaming at the television thank you so much I'm gonna give all my fingers crossed for you in the next time oh that was nice isn't it was Tooley blushing a little bit there I think so just a little bit okay next right up courage Adams and it doesn't seem to matter in terms of results he likes people like there's something about him that really inspires people he's the person that everyone wants to talk about so courage recently put up and edit for his shoe sponsor vans that took the BMX world by storm it was unbelievable well his big challenge here is always well for all the street riders is consistency qualified with his second run and you said it was uncharacteristic dropping dropping his first run usually he is the cleanest rider out there yeah in ladies and gentleman to watch the balance look at this bar in out of the nose wheelie he's got so much precise balance it's it's he's got the most balance and BMX right now I'm just gonna say besides any of that any Flatlanders out there just watch the way he doesn't think he's got it's got so much control over that by that evil hard way 360 is into our pole section scrubbing off a little bit of speed there then dunk right it's just gonna shopping about him down to strike Frank on the grind up to bar 180 on using the crank bar fresher he's not running a free poster like so many of these other guys think and that's the risk that you take when you're trying those knows where the combinations like that I mean the back end can go down so easy or you can go over the bars he really takes a lot of chances but I've seen it might got three times in practice it looked almost robotic look at that bar to manual to 360 in our poll section the only guy doing that how do you generate the rotation of just the back wheel that's incredible well I don't know cuz he did he does so many tricks that are like exclusive to courage atoms I mean I just love the way he starts his run nose wheelie across the visit Estonia quarter pipe their bars spin in what a way to start things off let the judges know that you mean business here's that crank arm grind up bar spin out and I love this using just the crank arm pressure no free coaster on that bike Springs ready oh this is it where does the rotation come from that's all power that's all form technique and strength from Kerr Jones sir born in Nigeria raised in Pamplona lives in Madrid coach Adams one of the most well respected and arguably best street riders in the world [Music] 79.1 I mean we sit again that was a great run 'but we're seeing how strict the judges are being on getting that perfect run okay next Radha in is Felix Brennan burg curry qualified in third place the German has been riding simple session for longer than most still looking for a win here felix is the guy he could come out and really upset the feel here with a big win in 1st position since it's been a dedicated street event was eight and I always feel like he's he's worth a little bit more than that well you're absolutely right I mean this guy was the Norra cup reader's choice for 2018 so the secret's out everyone knows he's a great great bike we're showing that truck driver down the Euro gap look at the speed that he said he's going a little bit faster than just about everyone else we've seen so far showing you that to thing there's that double peg the hard way 360 launching the beanie 540 bar has been on a wedge okay cardfight through the run and he's really started to turn it up now yeah it's got a great run going being really consistent doing a lot of difficult tricks so often you see the 1:8 isn't someone have drift away from the transition but he actually met that right at the very top [Applause] [Music] okay this one hold my 71 Tampa he keeps it clean don't put down for Felix prying a bug on his first run pretty special right and you can hear Darryl now talking in the arena that was a full pull from Felix trying a breath you don't think it was that look that wasn't scaled back anywhere for first run he wanted to set a benchmark score that's the run that he probably wanted out of either one of his two runs but now that he's got that one in the bank what more can we look forward to for the second run it's only gonna get better from here we can really start to see him play yeah 180 on going backwards 180 taalib off that the front wheel meeting the transition right at the very top oh yeah picture-perfect okay so Felix Brandenburg is waiting on what most people expect to be a very good score and it is it enough for first place 88.2 filling Spangenberg it moves into the lead with just two riders left to drop at the simple session 19 BMX Street finals a couple of shoutouts from the crowd there no REM Nakamura honor is in part makes that that good but right now the course belongs to Matt ray coming out of Massachusetts doing it for New England this is one of those guys it never looks like he's trying he does the hardest stuff with the comest demeanor first came this simple session as a 16 year old did pretty well not as as well as he would have liked but look at he's up on the high perch there and I love the way he comes into his run the way he drops and you had check him out right here there's that 270 far in to start in his run already a different line than what we've seen so far anybody else I love the way he does that opposite downside whip on that wedge because he continues going up bars been to turn down on the catwalk quarter pipe their bar catch bar 180 over the volcano into a flare on virtually just a wedge and 180 on 180 bars out trick of coming think I'm fast in this room he makes it look so easy Bar catch bar 360 coming in fakie he's going to the Smith grind as well 360 template took bacon he makes it all look so easy to hanger Wow desperate to go through the replays on this because why you say there are tricks in this insanely technical tricks that look like he's got them on Rails there's not a doubt in your mind that he's gonna make them no it's as if him and the bike are just one and they're just working together in perfect harmony I mean that was a full pull he used every second of that run to his advantage use the course in a different way than we're used to seeing check that up to 70 bar spin and tail up over the hump right there alright I love how he does these down side opposite tails watch the way he continues to go up there whereas a lot of guys are still following bar catch bar 180 brings it right around shows you the Flair on the wedge we're used to seeing that trick on the quarter pipe this is the one I was watching double pal spin 360 coming in fakie and it's so it's so risky to go fakie in the middle of a run like that 360 tail up to fakie landing backwards I mean at the end of your run to where a super tired and again makes it all look so easy okay so I'm waiting on the score for Matt ray last rider to drop in the first runs and I think this is gonna be a big one eighty eight point two to beat Felix frankenburger has the top spot the moment at eighty three point eight so it's good enough for second from that rate but he's got to improve on that if he wants to chase down Brandenburger end up around them too so let's take a look at those overall standings pickett sprang a burger in first Matt ray five points behind and second just in spree poised in third position still could attack very very potent leap from third place down the bottom there Alex Kennedy and Luis Mills I mean right down the bottom there eat all of those riders could push up but Louis Mills especially you'd expect to see him really pouncing up the standings yeah you know he's gonna come back strong with a second round score okay gonna take a quick break when we come back we'll have second runs [Music] [Music] [Music] welcome back to simple session at 19 that we're here for BMX Street we're gonna get going to BMX park in a little while but we've got second runs still to come in BMX Street and that will decide our winner at the moment we've got Felix prang a bug out in front on 88.2 and a surprise school there for me especially Chris in a eighty three point eight for Matt ray I thought that school was gonna be a push praying bug maybe a little bit more well my only explanation to that is Felix pregnant dig a lot more natural style street tricks where as we saw Matt ray doing a lot of ramp tricks so I think the judges might be just being a little bit strict on that like stick to the streets up stick to the ledges the wedges the rails and not necessarily the quarter pipes don't give in to the temptation of transition exactly okay you can see all the boys lining up for second runs there one of them is courage Adams at the end there we can take a look from his perspective with this GoPro run through the course yeah I'm simple fishin's with other 19 guys there's a story Walt and this is the GoPro course preview [Music] Kocher show us that recoil [Music] there was that nose manual that we were looking for and the courage was looking for on his first run unfortunately we're not gonna see Cory Walsh in the fight the park finals later on I didn't quite make the cut but max Dupree and are ready to cut it kick us off for our second run in BMX Street here and he was the score by which everyone else was measured at seventy five point four and it's not going to take an awful lot for him to jump up five points of him go straight in to the top four so thanks ship Rena can can definitely do some moves here saying that he's very very consistent I feel like if he goes a little bit faster maybe tries a little bit harder he could really break into that top five spot yeah there's an 18 there waiting to get out he just needs to light it up a bit yeah absolutely Oh check him out he's already changed up the run a little bit he know he's got it he's got a decent score and he can definitely improve on that and I think he's going for right now fakie 540 out of out of the link out of the rail he did the hard way 180 bar spin out of checking out a truck driver out of our catwalk just eyeing up rail here goes up there's that double hang slips the pedals on the tail whip and you almost get the feeling especially with the tail whip like that he's mines on the next trick already yes and like I keep saying I mean it's very uncharacteristic of him to like miss a tail up like that cuz he's usually so consistent usually does not mess up you know why this tire he's been a long weekend lots of partying going on with the simple session through here I mean that's these guys go hard every single day and every single night okay so my ship Rena crystals verdict is that maybe stammen has got the better arm in their long week at simple session has taken its toll the Russian certainly had the ability just good that was beautiful that was a great length the hard way 180 bars out of the double peg kept it going backwards then 540 into the quarter truck driver in off the catwalk and why do so many of these street writers run moustaches do you think I think it's an aesthetic okay it's definitely I think in turn circles the moustache is the mark of an artiste all right well I was wrong in assuming that max had a mustache on his face because it certainly looked like it there for a second so I apologize max yeah I think Max and Mark Burnett who you can see both of them there are might fall into the as yet able to grow a mustache can't agree they're both pretty baby-faced it's another man he's not rocking a mustache yet Louis Mills a lot of pressure on this lad now and it's over before it begins for what Justin sprinkled the brightest young thing in BMX street at the moment one of the most talented riders out there but it's often the case when you get a big result like that silver at X Games in Sydney all of them all of the publicity all the attention those results bring can often weigh pretty heavily on young shoulders in it it takes a bit time to get comfortable with that and find your feet against Lewis would have turned up boots big crowd big stadium or a new event and yeah you seem getting the hook from boyhood or one of his friends back in Australia and that is it's strange to see him mess up like that because in qualifying he was doing the bar in to the double peg and then hardway 180 bar out just every time and he made it look like clockwork like it was nothing but you know this won't be his last simple session he'll be back next year and I'm sure the years to come but uh he he might even it might be with this impression effect that you're talking about as well he's learned his lesson this year maybe slow down a little bit on Friday and then a little bit more on Saturday night Jerry barber from the Czech Republic dropping in now he's got a 300 horsepower BMW 3 Series that he loves more than life itself it's almost as much as pmake saying he's got about the same amount of power watching as right there oh yeah he's a big kid I mean you see his arms see his forearms I mean he's he's a tough-looking guy it's an intimidating looking guy when I saw him in Lafayette Wow who's that guy but he's actually as nice as can be and he's a really great bike rider as you can already see did you say he's got arms like legs a lot of pop a lot of power loves to do some bar spins so you can throw a bar spin into or out of just about anything currently in 11th on the 66 point toad steps off a little bit they're going for that bar to crank arm got the chain all fixed up back around his neck one day detail over a tiny wedge see what he's got coming to the ends of and it was run there's that ice to Hardaway 180 out at the end of his run beautiful from Jerry blob all the one foot down we've seen it I think it I think you can move up the sixty six point toe is definitely going to be improved upon yeah I mean and I keep saying it that we're seeing how strict the judges are being on perfection speaking of perfection that up Braille two opposite 180 out there's the hard way 360 out of the double tag 180 tail bovver a small wedge so yeah you know in Latvia he was I think he was riding at his best maybe you know being outdoor and the sunshine was helping him a lot but I mean it's awesome to have him here at simple session here in Estonia third place at summer session its first time now 73 there you go 10th place for Jerry blabble second room school he's not going to move anywhere and there is the chance for Anthony parent to move up right now that we're going to Alex Kennedy 8 K get from Croydon yeah I would certainly say that Alex is more of a video type of rider as opposed to be a contest rider but he can still hit as we can see we see him in the finals here check him out toboggan to Smith down that ledge he loves doing them going over to and you know when I talk about the video parts a lot of these guys really focus more on the video part side of things more so than the contest because there's not as many contests that go around for street riders so they really have to focus on getting those good videos out for the people to see and Alex Kennedy has certainly released so many great videos for all of us to enjoy I love that transfer up yeah it's really fun to see a guy like Alex riding ramps I mean that we're so used to seeing him right street but it's really cool to know that he can still do all those ramp tricks as well he was going down side Smith across that quarter pipe and he actually pulled it in our best trick competition so I've seen him do it but I mean it's such a gamble it's such a big drop but we know these people love doing it just maybe not in this contest or on okay he loves to ride and clap it's gonna have to put this run down to experience as well currently in seventh the thing about Alex Kennedy is he always looks unique his bike always looks unique he always looks a little bit different than the rest of the field and he's always brings something a little bit different to the table but unfortunately for Alex had that little slip-up there he's gonna settle for that first run score which was the 76 keeping him in seventh place yeah it's an interesting frame combination isn't it I'd call that magenta and gold with the rims oh yeah and that's one of his more mellow setups that I've seen him right there usually a little bit more loud okay Justin's freight ready to go and you've gotta say I mean the rims on this bike that's one of my favorite colors that kind of mint or Jade but right now the massage is out shining the rims well we saw his first run scoring is still in third place right now so he could have a little bit of fun with this run and maybe try some things that he's really wanted to try all weekend it's gonna be interesting to see how he approaches this run but look it'll stoic he is he never looks like he's under pressure never looks like he's trying too hard there's that crooked four 180 bar out 180 bar spin out I mean he's so clean and consistent with those crooked grind specially going backwards and forwards and he's got such a good bar span that he rarely ever misses those bars once it's frozen [Music] without a part in this video a few years ago riding a lot of trails which is you know such a contrast from riding Street but just so everyone knows he can ride a little bit of everything he's a really talented bike rider he could probably hang in our first competition as well pretty hot that unfortunate for Justin he has such a good run going but he was going for that bars been two opposite mice pick you see him being helped off the chorus by her paramedics he's on his feet he's walking and he's probably just really tired you know missed that ice pick just a little bit trying to grab onto the handlebars and then I was at the end of his run I'm I'll be interested to see how much that actually counts against him there's that crooked grind up 180 bars out so clean and consistent with that trick at all times and there's a version on the flat rail as well I just I think it's funny how he always looks so stoic it never looks like these under any kind of pressure under any kind of stress just goes out there and does his thing there's a 180 opposite feeble pulling it back over backwards forwards you get a little bit everything okay so the medics thankfully very very quick to their feet now I'm sitting around eating cream buns they're Justin's very clerk you know it doesn't even look like he's hobbling at the moment so Oh little grimace they're currently in third place and he will not medical sixty six point eight just in second run so next rider in from France Antony Perrin very calm very technical and very French that means suave and sophisticated Chris absolutely that is not a disk by any means I always enjoy having a conversation with Anthony he's really easygoing guy very easy to chat with very humble to Tony about 180 bar spin up ready start already there Anthony parent he's the guy that can really be a threat for that top three if you can just keep it together what you mentioned earlier that he gets real competition nerves and it's difficult to believe when you see someone with this riding ability that they're gonna get nervous but it is a factor for him well we just saw that huge 360 over the sub box into the ice pick up the rail 180 out halfway through Smiley's got a great run going to the tooth hangar to 180 out on the flat rail I mean so far this is so much better than his first run he hasn't messed up a single bit yet just has to keep it together keep the hard tricks flowing little nose wheeling on that round rail and I don't know if he's just gonna settle for some easier tricks at this point or what because he knows that he has such a good run going he's definitely trying to link those two ryos line the end with the bars been iced with the one that was after the buzzer had already gone off so I wonder if that's gonna count against them I don't think it is but you see the smile on his face he knows that he put in a full pole that was a really good run for Anthony parent very very strong one slight dip there was it was a point there I thinking around 45 50 seconds when he pulled out a couple of pop boilers in a row walk by his standards would be relatively basic tricks right but like you said if he got through the whole run really really clean currently sat in 11 so he's moving up no matter what yeah I would definitely say that's an improvement upon his first run score if he wants top three he's got to go to eighty two point four he wants the top spot he's gotta be eighty eight point toe don't think we're heading quite that high but top three maybe no 77 at point three so good enough for seventh and that gives you an idea just how tightly packed everyone is in those middle spots between 80 and 74 so six points that is what separates 4th and 10th next in Bruno Hoffman's second place here into possession 2018 well man like I said before about Bruno he loves to land fake he's very consistent with landing backwards and keeping his run going I'm showing the opposite icepick down the ledge over toothpick really good friends with Dan Lacey who I know is watching right now those guys have put out so many heavy edits together and always traveling together you always hear him in the background of each other's Clips I'm trying to go for that predator grind just have to just messes it up a little bit he's off his his rhythm a little bit right now let's see if he can make up for it you haven't touched the ground with his feet yet so maybe he can make up for that there's that crooked grind to 180 that's an opposite 180 out of that and as far as easy as he makes it look that judges know that that's an opposite 184 the judges are very in tune with what's going on linking those two rail of box there's that opposite ice looks like he wanted a little something out of it and that's gonna be time for Bruno Hoffman I don't think that was a better run than his first run but still I mean always awesome to see Bruno out here and again I mean he's still so young but he he seems like he's been around for such a long time just because when you get started at 14 15 years old you start making the name for yourself even at the age of 23 24 25 it already seems like you're the elder statesman of the crew he's been around for a day he's 25 and he's been around for a decade that's the reality right right and it'll probably be around for another decade much definitely yeah you tell you wanted a little bit more out of that opposite icepick but you know always great to see Bruno out here always loves coming to simple session loves the nightlife always has a good time so fourth place at the moment no shortage of great riders waiting just below him though to see if they can unseat him you 76.4 for that second run not enough to better that 18 point toe so now we move back down to the course where Brock Rayford is waiting for us Brock refor just trying to get some people out of the way because he's got some big plans for this run he is really excited to be here he's like I told you before he's rehabbing that knee he's been trying to get it strong again he recently put out a really heavy video part in the ride headlights video so even though he's been out with knee surgery he still has content that's been coming out all over the web and in a full-length video part as well okay gently cranking up the quarter to get speed 180 bars into the Euro pulls out right back around there's that tooth / tooth again that's like a Barack original right there he's the only guy doing that check him out barspin over the sub I love it this is the run that he wanted in that first run he's on course and he's making things happen no baubles yet [Music] there's that double peg up hardway 360 out like I said that's the best part way 360 you're gonna see in this entire contest ooh [Music] coming in double tire on the spine bar spin in using the park course in a street way this is a great run so far for Brock Rayford there's that strength pulling up onto that rail from flat he's got about five seconds left here he's got to get this last trick in and he wants it to count there's a double peg pull it over Hardaway 360 over the rail that's a full pull for Brock Rayford right there and there's that 360 nose bonk over our dig volcano and that's how you do a street run that's the run that Brock wanted it looked as if eat almost unplug distress once he landed that final trick he went straight into the volcano completely relaxed and really enjoyed himself big big heavy run from Brock Rayford let's go through kicked off with this look beautiful little combo through the Euro gap I love the bar over the sub into the wedge showing you the truck driver fly out and it was like each trick he started building upon more and mornings getting more and more comfortable that certainly the run that he wanted when he got to Estonia I love that it's like having a little bit of Danny MacAskill in the middle of the course the transfer up his neck onto that spine yeah and look at the smile just the relief like he got the run that he wanted okay waiting for his score Rockford currently sat in sick on a seventy eight point six where he goes with this one I'm putting him in the top three for now and we'll see what the judges think top three he needs eighty two point four he's got eighty two point to brutally close till he's down there with him now congratulations such a powerful run I mean we're talking me Paul you're telling me you're gonna turn up and they tend to do a little bit and you definitely did can you tell me how you got about I feel great about my runs I came here and got done what I needed to do like I came off an injury so I'm just out here trying to do my best for myself and for my family and we're better way than the whole two solid runs you did great thank you so much thank you okay Brooke Rayford philosophical about that could have gone a little bit higher maybe next in it we've got Mark and Burnett this is third time here at simple session stop screaming at the TV Mark's mum he can't hear you that's from Digg BMX and hash tag simple session if anyone else has got anything to add to the conversation please check it up on social media we will find it Thank You dick BMX well I got to give a shout out to sue Burnett who's been very supportive of Mark and his career pulling hard way into that Smith he's flowing now I like what we're seeing here head there's that nose to bar only one doing that line feeble hardway 360 out this is the run that Marquand sucked into that that was stole and I say doing a farce pin the tail tap doesn't look like it's super hard but he's using all balanced on that he can't use any crank arm pressure because he's running a free coaster and he can't use any brakes because well like everyone else in the street competition he's break loose mahp and that one of those writers that we've seen grow year-on-year here it simple session and this is no exception taking a page out of brock refrence book with that line right there gapping up onto the spine bar spin out oh here we go again went over double peg this time i can't tell if he stepped off it or not but i don't think the judges can tell you there yeah if we haven't seen him that haven't seen it so silly when you come around the other side mark just be like yes claim it all carriage Adams taking a row around the course he's gonna go and get ready for his room but Mark Burnett it's gonna sit tight and wait for the scores that was a very very impressive run it was a great run Mark Burnett that's the run that he wanted showing you the technique getting on top of that flat rail right there the front ledge pulling off Hardaway 360 bunkin the back tire he's the only one we see doing that bumping that back tire 360 over the ledge it was not watching a different rider in the way he approached the course wasn't it was relaxed and so whatever he did in between those two runs worked yeah absolutely say hi to mom at home like I said Sue's always been so supportive of mark in his career she's always very fun to talk to it all the events so at this stage I think Sue's getting more shoutouts than mark like a nervous wait for all the Burnett's ones here and the ones back in upstate New York I think it's Lingle and isn't it hometown when I first met mark it was in Albany New York and I just assumed that that's where he was from but I don't know the exact name of his his hometown but uh yeah it's definitely an upstate New York guy okay anyone up for Mark Burnett on that log jam just below the podium spots is getting tighter and tighter Bruna Hoffman on 80.2 Burnett on 81 brought Rayford on 82 to Justin's pre on 82 for next in we're with courage Adams let's take a look at what he's capable of when it comes to nose manuals [Music] well yeah look at the balance look at the control he's the only guy you would see doing something like this in our in our final anyways I mean check him out he's using his crank arm pressure to go backward so a lot of guys have the free coaster now he's using all crank arm pressure oh my gosh bar spins into a nose jam with no brakes all balance all strength all power and then we saw that who saw him do that in his run bar spin to manual to 360 okay carriage Adams ready for a very precious minute of his life now courage is really the last guy that can crack into that top three right now currently in seventh and look what we have going here this started with a bar spin to tail tap and he's been on the back wheel ever since check him out he's about to go backwards down the slope oh and it's like he resets it from there that that entire combo is gone now is he gonna go back to the to the start and try it again go on at this point you're just doing it for the fans here the judges have to judge him accordingly they check him out but it's pretty crazy when you're doing like a thirty second trick you use it you you're rolling the dice half of your run on one trick if it goes wrong they like you say there's no rebate there's no coming back from that not in a contrast format when you have to be so consistent you can't have any kind of bobbles and unfortunate for him he had to come off the back but he's still going for it for the crowd here in tallinn estonia at the SACU arena just showing you all that I'm out the longer he goes the louder the crowd gets it's looking good and there we have it oh I'm not sipping even the judges are building up there and that's the loudest we've heard the crowd get all day I'm some good reason that was absolutely phenomenal right right well we know that cheat on that last one it's a 20-second trick so you get three drinks and if he really worked so we know that he's not gonna have the best score because of that but hey sometimes you just you don't worry about your score anymore you do it for the crowd you do it for the people at home that are watching that want to see what courage Adams is capable of okay so that only leaves two riders right now we've got Felix Brandenburg who's currently occupying the top spot will not get the luxury of a victory lap because the man who's going to drop after him is currently in second Matt ray they're separated by five points so Felix has got a good buffer interesting to see what's core carriage Adams can get for just one run forty eight point eight for one tray so if you've done three tricks okay for a little quiz at home how many face piercings miss Felix Brighton bird half duo accounting is on face I believe so I don't know your is on on your face they're on your head on mine the correct answer ed is four okay but that's not what is important right now he is our current leader starting off the 180 tail up into the wedge shape I love this right here double peg 450 into the wedge and you said he's making that look pretty easy but the pulley needs on that to make it work yeah absolutely he makes it look so easy oh my gosh that's an opposite double peg up an opposite hard way 360 out about really impressive oh my gosh 540 over the a frame rail and he he runs into a photographer there I wonder if the judges are gonna take mercy on him for that I mean because that really wasn't his fault and he almost takes out one of our cameramen as well just doing damage to the media right now I don't know I reckon he's going on for an angle he knows what looks good yeah okay he's got the luxury of being able to call that it doesn't need to push at this stage he is four point six points ahead of Matt ray at the moment which means he can sit tight it's gonna be a nervous wait though with someone as talented as Matt ray ready to drop now and it's gonna be interesting to see how Matt ray changes things up he's gonna do the same run because he knows that he he can do no worse than second place is that 450 off yeah I love it right there double peg of 450 he's the only guy really using that like a bank to serve that's all opposite right there that's opposite pegs up opposite hardway 360 out that's a tongue twister right there for sure okay so Felix Brandenburg kid from Ralph Blackie 70k out of Cologne 80 point nine and that 80 point that would have been good enough for sixth place had that been it but he will take his first run score of 88 two point two and that is the number that this man now has to be last person to drop in beer make Street finals Matt ray been out for two years back now in a final and battling out he's guaranteed a podium spot he's guaranteed second place but can he up that now he saw an eighty three point eight from him first run score well he's certainly capable it looks like he's starting off his run in the same way that he has been all weekend shown you the 270 barspin and I think if he adds a few more Street elements to this run it's really gonna help him now it'd really be a threat to that top spot as you can see right now he's been sticking tomorrow though the park aspects of the course but a guy I mean he's so consistent against ease back on the part course where as we saw Felix praying a Bergen in Felix's first run he was like haul rails all ledges all wedges all right well he had to step off we know how much that can hurt the rider now 180 on 180 bar out we're gonna need a best trick here to salvage this run something truly breathtaking no longer about consistency if you really want this man then you've got to throw down now yeah he's sticking to the same run he's sticking to what he knows sometimes it's hard to switch it up I mean he's been doing this all weekend so all that was well more of a part room there as well 360 bar spent to turn down coming in fakie you know I don't think that's gonna be enough to unseal it now we've seen it throughout the contest any kind of boat it has to be clean that is exactly what we saw from Phoenix prang a boat on his first run truly truly breathtaking Matt ray giving in his best shot on his second and final room it's interesting looking at how exhausted these guys are now and we talked about earlier on that third run that used to be in there and you can't imagine it now the intensity of these runs ray one minute long runs it doesn't sound like much but trust me that's exhaust but again I mean just so impressive you know I bet Matt could really hang in a part contest as well as you see how well he can ride ramps and you know in he's from the Northeast United States so he's riding a lot of indoor ramps all winter long so he might not have the luxury of riding so many Street setups but still I mean second places is still very impressive for Matt ray okay he's on selfie duties now second at place from the man from the Northeast doesn't look too frustrated by it let's take a look at the overall standings though Felix prang Hamburg the German of their 88.2 taking his first ever simple session Street final win is the only person apart from Garrett Reynolds to have one of those Matt ray in second Justin's breat in third Mark Burnett down there in fifth that's not that's a very respectable position so and Mark continues his ascent up the rankings year-on-year courage Adams bit of a surprise potentially down in seventh and then Alex Kennedy would like to have seen him a bit further up it just never lined up for him same for Lewis Mills we're gonna be back and right after this break we're gonna pull these Street finals apart and we're gonna look at how BMX park is lining up we'll see you there

Channel: simplesession

Views: 9,385

Keywords: BMX, Simple Session, Simple Session 19, BMX Street, Tallinn, Estonia, awesome, action, action sports, RAD, extreme sports, Street, Saku Suurhall, event

Id: LTW60jNCzmk

Length: 89min 3sec (5343 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 28 2019