NIGHT of the JUMPs #7/2015

NOTJ eMagazin 2015

#7/2015

DAVID & LIBOR WITHOUT BAGS

DANY TORRES

BACK ON THE TOUR

VIDEO LINKS

HANNES

HIGH VOLTAGE

S H E N Z H E N FREESTYLE MX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

CONTENT PAGE 6-7

SHENZHEN

PAGE 8-14

ROUND 9 / FRIDAY

PAGE 17

RESULTS ROUND 9

PAGE 18-22

ROUND 10 / SATURDAY

PAGE 23

RESULTS ROUND 10

PAGE 24-25

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RANKING

PAGE 26-27 FINAL SHOT PAGE 28

OUTLOOK

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DANY TORRES IN FLIGHT MODE @ SZX

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SHENZHEN

SITUATED NORTH OF HONG KONG THE AREA SHENZHEN BECAME CHINA’S MOST SUCCESSFUL SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE. ITS RISE STARTED IN LATE 1979, BEFORE WHICH IT WAS ONLY A MARKET TOWN CALLED SHAM CHUN HUI. SHENZHEN METROPOLITAN AREA HAS A POPULATION OF OVER 18 MILLION. AT PRESENT, THE AVERAGE AGE IN SHENZHEN IS LESS THAN 30 YEARS. PERFECT CONDITIONS FOR A RESTART AFTER A LONG SUMMER BREAK.

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HIGHLIGHTS SHENZHEN

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Breaking the long summer

the World Championship com-

drought, NIGHT of the JUMPs

petitions was Dany Torres. With

returns with the very best of Free-

an impressive run of unique flip

style Motocross competition to the

combos, the Spaniard flew into the

Chinese economic metropolis of

finals. However pre-event problems

Shenzhen.

outside of anyone’s control plagued some of the brightest stars, with

The whole event was in dan-

Libor Podmol having his luggage go

ger when the building crew was

missing, to Adelberg’s hard crash

informed that the container with

during training.

TRACK BUILDING

all judging equipment, bikes, ramps etc. are blocked by chinese

However, it appeared even the

customs due to organic materials

current World Championship leader,

located in the container. Within 48

David Rinaldo, had even worse pro-

hours and the help of local gover-

blems. With his bags missing also

ment the container was release

from the airlines for at least an extra

and construction starts.

day, Rinaldo missed practise and eventually had to borrow his team

With 10 of the world’s best riders

mate Podmol’s riding gear and bike

starting qualification in the Shenz-

parts from other riders to even be

hen Sports Centre, one of the

able to ride the competition and

most exciting riders to return to

eventually qualify. Rounding out

CUSTOMS BLOCKS THE BIKES FOR 72 HOURS DUE TO DIRT

Operations manager Frank Enders negotiating with chinese customs.

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DANY TORRES WITH MECHANIC PROBLEMS

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ROB ADELBERG VICTIM OF JUDGING ?

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the top 6 final was the German rider, Hannes Ackermann, who stomped his first ever Volt body varial to dirt in qualifying in 3rd position.

Motivated by the preliminary round competition, Dany Torres showed some extra style and turned down his way to his victory in the LifeProof Best Whip Contest in front of Massimo Bianconcini and the other 4 starters. After the intermission, it was Italy’s Massimo Bianconcini who would exact revenge on Spain in the Maxxis Highest Air competition, narrowly beating Jose Miralles, even as both riders missed the bar at 9.5 metres. Bianconcini took the win from one less failed attempts at the 9.0 metre height.

HANNES JOINS THE HIGH VOLTAGE CLUB

The final six riders would light up the sky over the 15 million inhabitants of Shenzhen as they intensified their charge for the top of the podium. Dany Torres stepped up with an Oxecutioner to Double Grab backflip combination in his Double Up, however even after an almost flawless run, was relegated to 6th position.

Adelberg’s thunder from down under was also not enough to get close to the podium, even after an impeccable run and finishing with a California Roll to No-hander lander combo.

Coming into Shenzhen and sitting in second place in the overall World Championship rankings, Maikel Melero has won 4 from the past 8 events, but even with his experience and huge tricks he wasn’t able to make it to the podium. With some uncharacteristic errors and in 4th place, he showed a few chinks in his armour, when he had seemed almost untouchable at the start of the season and now puts a small damper on his second World

DANY TORRES

Championship title fight.

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One of the biggest improvements we have

Grab backflip in the Double Up. And while

seen in NIGHT of the JUMPs roster was

he looked like the sure winner, things

from the German rider Hannes Ackermann

would quickly change again when Libor

who stood on the podium for the very first

Podmol stepped up, full of confidence and

time in his World Championship career.

stomped his own Volt and side-saddle

After an incredible qualification round,

take-off California Roll, but with a cleaner

Hannes put together a supersized run of

run and more flow.

One-hand seat grab Flips, 360 Nac’s and his new Volt, which although was a little

The Championship leaderboard has

sketchy, he held onto it and showed that

been shaken up with Libor’s victory and

he’s writing a new chapter in his career as

Melero’s absence from the podium. Ri-

he took 3rd place.

naldo is still looking strong, however after the first night of competition in Shenzhen,

The man with the biggest disadvantages

a second night to go and a handful of

leading into the event and current World

rounds left in the 2015 season, the race

Championship leader, David Rinaldo be-

to the end appears to have opened some

gan with a Volt, and very soon after then

new contenders for the title.

stuck a California Roll on an unfamiliar bike, and then finished with a huge Double

SUPEREXTENSION BY MAIKEL MELERO

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R´DAV LOST HIS BAGS BUT NOT HIS B.....

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WITH A VICTORY ON FRIDAY LIBOR KEEPS TOUCH TO THE TOP

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FREESTYLE MX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

RESULTS SHENZHEN / China Round 9 RESULTS NIGHT OF THE JUMPS - FINAL 1. Libor Podmol

CZE

406 Points

2. David Rinaldo

FRA

402 Points

3. Hannes Ackermann GER

386 Points

4. Maikel Melero

ESP

383 Points

5. Rob Adelberg

AUS 380 Points

6. Dany Torres

ESP

376 Points

RESULTS QUALIFYING 1. Libor Podmol

CZE

360 Points

2. Maikel Melero

ESP

354 Points

3. Hannes Ackermann GER

350 Points

4. David Rinaldo

FRA

341 Points

5. Dany Torres

ESP

338 Points

6. Rob Adelberg

AUS 334 Points

7. Brice Izzo

FRA

327 Points

8. Petr Pilat

CZE

327 Points

9. Jose Miralles

ESP

279 Points

10. Luc Ackermann

GER

276 Points

LIFEPROOF BEST WHIP CONTEST 1. Dany Torres ESP 2. Massimo Bianconcini

ITA

MAXXIS HIGHEST AIR

HIGHLIGHTS DAY !

1. Massimo Bianconcini

ITA

9.00 m

2. Jose Miralles

ESP

8.50 m

OVERALL RANKINGS / CLICK HERE 17

Saturday produced an incredible

JUMPs

European

Champion

hanger Flip to Lazyboy Flips in

end to the 10th round of NIGHT

Petr Pilat arrived with a comple-

the double-double line and only

of the JUMPs FIM Freestyle

tely new qualifying run to stamp

finished in 10th position. How-

MX World Championships. Like

his authority on the top 6. Libor

ever Torres held his head high

the previous day, the 10 World

Podmol, Maikel Melero, David

by taking out the LifeProof Best

Cup opponents from five nations

Rinaldo and Rob Adelberg roun-

Whip competition for the second

faced off again in the Shenzhen

ded out the final in similar fa-

day in a row.

Sports Centre, but with an air

shion to the first night in Shenz-

of confidence going into the se-

hen.

The Maxxis Highest Air was like

cond day of competition.

a blue print repeat from the preOne of the riders missing the

vious day.

Unlike the first day of competi-

top 6 was the previous night’s

cini beat Jose Miralles again at

tion, most riders changed their

surprise

finalist,

the 9.00 metre height when he

Freestyle runs in the hope of

Germany’s Hannes Ackermann,

breezed over on his first attempt

picking up a place in the final 6

who had a Volt the day before,

and Jose requiring two attempts

showdown. Brice Izzo took ad-

but with a bent clutch lever and

to get to the next height of 9.50

vantage of his new Barhop to

missing second gear he wouldn’t

metres. After both failed at 9.50

SuperFlip combination to make

make it to the final. Worse still,

metres, Massimo won on the

it through to the final, while the

another of the finalists from the

countback of completed att-

newly crowned NIGHT of the

previous day was Dany Torres.

empts.

3rd

place

The Spaniard failed on his Cliff-

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BRICE WITH NEW RUN STRAIGHT TO THE FINAL

Massimo Biancon-

LIBOR WINNING QUALIFICATION BUT DNF IN FINAL

MASSIMO CHECKING JOSES LINE <<<

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The final 6 started with Rob Adelberg, who was frustrated with the outcome of yesterdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final. Today Rob had extra motivation to produce the cleanest run he could, and after extending every trick as perfectly as possible including the California Roll to finish the Double Up. With his extra push, it was enough for Rob to improve his position by 3 places to third place and reaching the podium. Petr Pilat opened with a solid run, however the Double-Double line would claim a victim in Pilat, when he hesitated on landing a side-saddle flip, and then putting extra pressure on the next jump when he made an uncharacteristic mistake of accomplishing only a Heelclicker to save an otherwise dead sailor. Brice Izzo was also unable to capitalise on his Top 6 final and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t improve his position.

After a setback on Friday in 4th position, the reigning World Champion,

PETR PILAT CHANGED HIS RUN AND WENT TO FINALS ON SATURDAY

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Maikel Melero was able to battle his way back to close to the top spot with his Double Grab Flip and ‘Melero Roll’ to make 2nd place. But it wasn’t enough to fend off his main challenger to his title, David Rinaldo. After his luggage finally arrived in the afternoon, David was able to throw down a much better run than last night when he was borrowing parts and gear from a handful of his fellow competitors.

With the California Roll, Volt and Double Hart Attack flip, Rinaldo secured his spot on the hot seat by only a few points.

Hannes bend his clutch lever during the landing of this Volt With only one rider left who could crash the party, Libor Podmol was set to turn Shenzhen on fire after his previous night’s win. But as quickly as the hype was built for Podmol, the wheels fell off the wagon and he could only complete one trick before retiring due to mechanical problems.

On his first jump of the run, as he stood upon his seat for the Surfer take-off to Tsunami Flip, his subframe cracked and wrecked any chance of repeating his win.

David Rinaldo took the victory on the second night and now leads with 12 points with 172 points in total. Followed by the reigning FIM World Champion Maikel Melero with 160 points and Rob Adelberg in 3rd position in the overall standings.

It won’t be until the 7th of November before the next World Championship points will be awarded, when the FMX riders will meet again in Caraguatatuba (Sao Paulo), Brazil to push for the final run at the overall World Championship title. <<

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WITH HIS OWN ARMOR DAVID SEEMS TO BE THE MAN TO BEAT

FREESTYLE MX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

RESULTS SHENZHEN / China Round 9 RESULTS NIGHT OF THE JUMPS - FINAL 1. David Rinaldo

FRA

408 Points

2. Maikel Melero

ESP

399 Points

3. Rob Adelberg

AUS 396 Points

4. Brice Izzo

FRA

377 Points

5. Petr Pilat

CZE

354 Points

6. Libor Podmol

CZE

20 Points

RESULTS QUALIFYING 1. Libor Podmol

CZE

364 Points

2. Maikel Melero

ESP

361 Points

3. David Rinaldo

FRA

349 Points

4. Petr Pilat

CZE

344 Points

5. Brice Izzo

FRA

342 Points

6. Rob Adelberg

AUS 341 Points

7. Hannes Ackermann GER

318 Points

8. Luc Ackermann

GER

303 Points

9. Jose Miralles

ESP

302 Points

10. Dany Torres

ESP

299 Points

LIFEPROOF BEST WHIP CONTEST 1. Dany Torres ESP 2. Maikel Melero

ESP

MAXXIS HIGHEST AIR 1. Massimo Bianconcini

ITA

9.00 m

2. Jose Miralles

ESP

9,00 m

3. Luc Ackermann

GER 8,50 m

OVERALL RANKINGS / CLICK HERE 23

MAIKEL MELERO WORLD CHAMP 2014 AND RUNNER UP AFTER 10 ROUNDS IN 2015 24

FREESTYLE MX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

FMX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RANKING AFTER CHINA 1. David Rinaldo

FRA

172 Points

2. Maikel Melero

ESP

160 Points

3. Rob Adelberg

AUS 148 Points

4. Libor Podmol

CZE

138 Points

5. Remi Bizouard

FRA

90 Points

6. Jose Miralles

ESP

85 Points

7. Hannes Ackermann GER

82 Points

8. Brice Izzo

FRA 75 Points

9. James Carter

USA

10. Luc Ackermann

GER 47 Points

11. Petr Pilat

CZE

32 Points

12. Dany Torres

ESP

30 Points

13. Filip Podmol

CZE

23 Points

14. Taka Higashino

JAP

16 Points

15. Davide Rossi

ITA

14 Points

16. Kai Haase

GER

12 Points

52 Points

ROUND 11

CARAGUATATUBA / BRAZIL

ROUND 12

GDANSK / POLAND

ROUND 13

SOFIA / BULGARIA

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