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20.03.11 | Tom Pages wins Costa Rica X-Knights


  Great news from Costa Rica. Tom Pages wins the X-Knights Contest in front of Danny Torres and Maikel Melero. Pages showed great extented tricks and the Volt - but no flps. It's great to see that a non-flipper wins a contest...



20.03.11 | Smoothness issue #15 online now – dedicated to Japan


  We dedicate this issue to the Japanese people. We pray for you! Want to help? You can donote for Japan through the REDCROSS. The issue #15 contains Sequences of the Kings of Xtreme, NOTJ, an Australian Special and a X-Fighters Quicky. Thanks to Jason Halayko, Gerd Rose, Marcel Petke and Matt Hutchinson for providing us their great sequences.
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15.03.11 | Story | Masters of Dirt in Vienna


 

The Vienna Stadthalle was shaken by a 3 hour barrage of non-stop aerial madness this past weekend. Two sold out audiences witnessed the most intense, action packed and thrilling MoD show to date. The ambitious plan ahead of the event set some high expectations - with more ramps and airtime jammed into an indoor arena than ever before. The pressure was on everyone to deliver the goods and rock the house...



10.03.11 | Videos | Mark Monea Lands First Ever 360 Front Flip!


 

The 27 years old Mark Monea from Australia made another evolution of the frontflip. He calls it the 360° Frontflip. Mark worked on this trick for a long time. First he started with a bicycle, minibike and then he switched to a CRF250 fourstroke Honda to get it dialed in the foam pit...



07.03.11 | Press Release | Sheehan wins Unit Farm Jam


 

Western Australia’s Freestyle Motocross star Josh Sheehan has celebrated his 25th birthday in style, by taking out the win at the Unit Farm Jam competition held in the foothills of scenic Otapiri Gorge in the south of the Southern Island of New Zealand, and also securing the ‘Best Trick’ with his 360 degree rotation in Freestyle Moto....



07.03.11 | Press Release | Luc Ackermann on the new art’bike!


 

At the tender age of 13 he’s arguably the shooting star of the German freestyle motocross scene and already has a world record under his belt: in October 2010 at the NIGHT of the JUMPs in Cologne Luc Ackermann, from Niederdorla in Thuringia, became the youngest ever person to achieve a back-flip on a motorbike - a spectacular reverse cartwheel by rider and bike, executed high up in the air and at full speed...



07.03.11 | Story | Miralles & Podmol won the Night of the Jumps in Berlin


 

The 11,000 spectators at o2 World cheered on the contestants during the 2nd and 3rd round of the 2011 FIM Freestyle MX World Championship in Berlin. In a thrilling finale of the NIGHT of the JUMPs, Jose Miralles (ESP) won the 1st and Libor Podmol the 2nd of the German Grands Prix...



03.03.11 | Press Release | Charles Pages is on the way to come back


 

Charles looks like he's seriously waking up these days. Although his ergo-therapist is tearing his hair out with his 8th degree answers, and the physios, at the famous Capbreton CERS (physical reeducation center reserved to high level athletes), are having a hard time dealing with his surplus energy and mad stunts, even if his balance is not quite yet what he'd want it to be, and he dives into the pool...



02.03.11 | Press Relaese | The Moto-Gate


 

The Moto-Gate is a product created by Lance Coury, for those in the need of keeping their equipment secure. Moto-Gate differs from other truck bed extenders and load restrainers currently on the market, having tie downs on the four corners of a durable nylon net to help it conform to materials being transported in truck beds, vans, cars and SUVs...



01.03.11 | Story | Masters of Dirt in Graz


 

Arnold Schwarzenegger's hometown, hosted the first stop of the 2011 Masters of Dirt tour this past weekend. Despite icy sub-freezing temperatures both nights, MoD's riders, dancers and crew managed to dig deep - delivering a performance that topped anything they had produced to date. Both shows were to sold-out audiences...



01.03.11 | Press Relaese | FMX Awards 2010


 

For the 5th time Berlinièros Sports Agency proclaims for the FMX Awards to honor the world's best Freestyle Motocross riders. Annually it awards FMX sportspeople who have been outstanding during the previous year. For 2010 the categories "Best Brazilian FMX Rider" and "Best FMX Rider of the Decade" has been added...



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