I was actually invited to travel over to Russia for the XSA Invitational contest at the Olympic park in Sochi. But since I was on holiday just last week I couldn’t make the event. Pretty gutted to say the least… My main man over in Russia; Kirill Sugarev tells me that it was seriously one of the best contest parks he had ever attended. The level of riding was crazy as well.

Personally, I’ve met a few Russians in my time and one thing I realised straight away is, these guys do not MESS ABOUT. It’s usually no nonsense & straight to business in whatever these guys are involved in. This contest is exactly like that, from the off you’ll notice all sorts of crazy ‘computer game tricks’ getting banged out left right and centre on this brilliant course. Anyway I’ll shut up now and let the video do the talking. Still can’t help but wish I was there…

Contest Results:

1. Alex Nikulin
2. Ola Selsjord
3. Kostya Andreev