Pro Park

This is the pinnacle of competitive freestyle BMX. The very best riders doing the gnarliest of tricks on the biggest of ramps. The rider list alone is enough to blow your hair back. It’s the best of the best, featuring the likes of Logan Martin, Mark Webb, Alex Coleborn, Kevin Peraza and Daniel Sandoval. Over the course of two days these guys battled it out through qualifying and narrowed the playing field from the initial eighty four riders down to twenty for the finals competition.

It’s difficult to put into words the action that the park course saw over the weekend, you had to see it to believe it. But take our word for it, do believe the hype, it was big, it was scary and all those who rode it deserve medals in my opinion. Full Results HERE.

1. Logan Martin
2. Mark Webb
   
3.  Alex Coleborn

Pro Dirt

Again, the dirt had been stepped up a level to what we’ve seen in the past, but they made a good judgment call on the build, by doing the opposite to the park, and not making anything too big.  Although The Worlds historically have had some huge courses, it has also historically been plagued by bad weather, and this year was no exception. Although for the most part it stayed dry, the wind was kicking up a storm anytime dirt was scheduled to run, and if the jumps had of been any bigger, I doubt the comp would’ve happened, so it was a good call making them manageable in the threat of tricky conditions.

Pro Vert

It was good to see Vert return once again to NASS and perfect that this year it was for the world championships and  I have to say, it frightened the life out of me the whole weekend. The ramp stood 14 feet tall, it’s an absolute monster, and even at that height it was windy, treacherous conditions for an MC (LOL). Now take into consideration that the likes of Douglas Olivieria (one of the highlights for me) was airing a good 10feet above that, the conditions up there must have been crazy, and they were millimetre perfect on every run front and back wheels kissing the coping on exit and entry. It was more than impressive, it was down right mind blowing. Popular with the kids or not, Vert should be respected and should always have a place in every BMXers life, if only to watch in ore, these men are giants and they are riding giants. It was good to see Simon Tabron returning and huge respect to Declan Brooks, other than flatland he hit every discipline possible on a BMX at NASS and bossed it throughout, he’s one of the UK’s best in my opinion.
Full Results HERE.

1. Vince Byron
2. Simon Tabron
3. Douglas Oliveria

Pro Flatland

It quite simply wouldn’t have been The Worlds without having Flatland there, and it really added to the atmosphere of the weekend. The finals brought all sorts of people together to watch what is basically a form of magic as far as I’m concerned. From Hoffman and DMC to Webbie and party goers recovering from the night before, people sat down in the sun with a beer in hand and watched in amazement. I would say flatland is probably at its most diverse at the moment, with a lot of different styles of riding happening and many riders taking their flatland riding to the streets, the obvious being Matthias Dandois, and this weekend worked out pretty well for him, he scooped the win and picked up his medal from Dennis McCoy, Dennis won the flatland when The Worlds was last in the UK, all the way back in 1988.

Girls Comp

Another reason NASS was great this year was the inclusion on the Girls Comp. The female contingent of BMX has been rapidly expanding in recent years but because it’s so small in comparison to the male scene, they struggle to get time in these larger staged events. But NASS and The Worlds decided to give them a slot, and it was awesome. Izzy Burrell took the win confirming she’s as good as we said in the First Look a few weeks ago.

1. Izzy Burrell
2. Gillian Walker
3. Val Ward
4. Emma Finnegan
5. Georgia Wheaty
6. Sasha Pardoe
7. Moz Chudley

Ride Specials

Ride UK got involved with NASS by taking a few pros around the site for a Rebel Street session out the view of security and also an Access All Areas pass with Jordan Aleppo, where he got side of stage for the Stormzy set and hung out with Big Narstie, the results were hilarious, you’ll be able to see them soon at Ride UK. We also challenged a few riders to dip into our ‘Bag of Tricks’ to see if they could complete the challenge for £50 most were successful and bagged the riders a bit of beer money, again, we’ll feature some of these soon on the site.

JAYDOG Fakie Champion

Finally of course, we have the legendary Jaydog. Although not able to defend his title against Catfish this year, he did have a couple of contenders, who of course failed miserably against the mighty Jaydog. Well done Jaydog, you’re still everyones champion.

Overall, NASS was even better than we expected, and we had high expectations. It was a weekend of legends, both old and new.

The course lived up to the hype and the riders adapted amazingly well to the scale of it. They managed to cater for all disciplines of freestyle BMX and on both professional and amateur levels, and a long list of the best pros made the journey. The weather behaved itself, the music was awesome, and nothing seemed to be compromised. I’ll stand by my opinions again, I think NASS does a good job of catering for an amazing competition in tricky conditions and in uncertain times for our industry. I for one will be back again next year, I advise you to do the same and come and enjoy the fun. Get you early bird tickets HERE.