NOTJ eMagazin 2015

S H E N Z H E NFREESTYLE MX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

#7/2015

DANY TORRES BACK ON THE TOUR

HANNES HIGH VOLTAGE

DAVID & LIBOR WITHOUT BAGS

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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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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.

SHENZHEN

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HIGHLIGHTS SHENZHEN

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Breaking the long summer

drought, NIGHT of the JUMPs

returns with the very best of Free-

style Motocross competition to the

Chinese economic metropolis of

Shenzhen.

The whole event was in dan-

ger when the building crew was

informed that the container with

all judging equipment, bikes,

ramps etc. are blocked by chinese

customs due to organic materials

located in the container. Within 48

hours and the help of local gover-

ment the container was release

and construction starts.

With 10 of the world’s best riders

starting qualification in the Shenz-

hen Sports Centre, one of the

most exciting riders to return to

the World Championship com-

petitions was Dany Torres. With

an impressive run of unique flip

combos, the Spaniard flew into the

finals. However pre-event problems

outside of anyone’s control plagued

some of the brightest stars, with

Libor Podmol having his luggage go

missing, to Adelberg’s hard crash

during training.

However, it appeared even the

current World Championship leader,

David Rinaldo, had even worse pro-

blems. With his bags missing also

from the airlines for at least an extra

day, Rinaldo missed practise and

eventually had to borrow his team

mate Podmol’s riding gear and bike

parts from other riders to even be

able to ride the competition and

eventually qualify. Rounding out

CUSTOMS BLOCKS THE BIKES FOR 72 HOURS DUE TO DIRT

Operations manager Frank Enders negotiating with chinese customs.

TRACK BUILDING

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DANY TORRES WITH MECHA-NIC 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 competiti-

on, Dany Torres showed some extra style and

turned down his way to his victory in the Life-

Proof Best Whip Contest in front of Massimo

Bianconcini and the other 4 starters. After the

intermission, it was Italy’s Massimo Biancon-

cini who would exact revenge on Spain in the

Maxxis Highest Air competition, narrowly bea-

ting 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.

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 podi-

um. Dany Torres stepped up with an Oxecu-

tioner 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 ran-

kings, 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

Championship title fight.

HANNES JOINS THE HIGH VOL-TAGE CLUB

DANY TORRES

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One of the biggest improvements we have

seen in NIGHT of the JUMPs roster was

from the German rider Hannes Ackermann

who stood on the podium for the very first

time in his World Championship career.

After an incredible qualification round,

Hannes put together a supersized run of

One-hand seat grab Flips, 360 Nac’s and

his new Volt, which although was a little

sketchy, he held onto it and showed that

he’s writing a new chapter in his career as

he took 3rd place.

The man with the biggest disadvantages

leading into the event and current World

Championship leader, David Rinaldo be-

gan with a Volt, and very soon after then

stuck a California Roll on an unfamiliar

bike, and then finished with a huge Double

Grab backflip in the Double Up. And while

he looked like the sure winner, things

would quickly change again when Libor

Podmol stepped up, full of confidence and

stomped his own Volt and side-saddle

take-off California Roll, but with a cleaner

run and more flow.

The Championship leaderboard has

been shaken up with Libor’s victory and

Melero’s absence from the podium. Ri-

naldo is still looking strong, however after

the first night of competition in Shenzhen,

a second night to go and a handful of

rounds left in the 2015 season, the race

to the end appears to have opened some

new contenders for the title.

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

17OVERALL RANKINGS / CLICK HERE

RESULTS SHENZHEN / China Round 9

RESULTS NIGHT OF THE JUMPS - FINAL1. 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 QUALIFYING1. 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 CONTEST1. Dany Torres ESP

2. Massimo Bianconcini ITA

MAXXIS HIGHEST AIR1. Massimo Bianconcini ITA 9.00 m

2. Jose Miralles ESP 8.50 m

FREESTYLE MX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

HIGHLIGHTS DAY !

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Saturday produced an incredible

end to the 10th round of NIGHT

of the JUMPs FIM Freestyle

MX World Championships. Like

the previous day, the 10 World

Cup opponents from five nations

faced off again in the Shenzhen

Sports Centre, but with an air

of confidence going into the se-

cond day of competition.

Unlike the first day of competi-

tion, most riders changed their

Freestyle runs in the hope of

picking up a place in the final 6

showdown. Brice Izzo took ad-

vantage of his new Barhop to

SuperFlip combination to make

it through to the final, while the

newly crowned NIGHT of the

JUMPs European Champion

Petr Pilat arrived with a comple-

tely new qualifying run to stamp

his authority on the top 6. Libor

Podmol, Maikel Melero, David

Rinaldo and Rob Adelberg roun-

ded out the final in similar fa-

shion to the first night in Shenz-

hen.

One of the riders missing the

top 6 was the previous night’s

surprise 3rd place finalist,

Germany’s Hannes Ackermann,

who had a Volt the day before,

but with a bent clutch lever and

missing second gear he wouldn’t

make it to the final. Worse still,

another of the finalists from the

previous day was Dany Torres.

The Spaniard failed on his Cliff-

hanger Flip to Lazyboy Flips in

the double-double line and only

finished in 10th position. How-

ever Torres held his head high

by taking out the LifeProof Best

Whip competition for the second

day in a row.

The Maxxis Highest Air was like

a blue print repeat from the pre-

vious day. Massimo Biancon-

cini beat Jose Miralles again at

the 9.00 metre height when he

breezed over on his first attempt

and Jose requiring two attempts

to get to the next height of 9.50

metres. After both failed at 9.50

metres, Massimo won on the

countback of completed att-

empts.

BRICE WITH NEW RUN STRAIGHT TO THE FINAL

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LIBOR WINNING QUALIFICATION BUT DNF IN FINAL

MASSIMO CHECKING JOSES LINE <<<

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The final 6 started with Rob Adel-

berg, who was frustrated with the

outcome of yesterday’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 ex-

tra push, it was enough for Rob to

improve his position by 3 places to

third place and reaching the podi-

um. 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 accom-

plishing only a Heelclicker to save

an otherwise dead sailor. Brice Izzo

was also unable to capitalise on his

Top 6 final and couldn’t improve his

position.

After a setback on Friday in 4th po-

sition, the reigning World Champion,

PETR PILAT CHAN-GED 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 Dou-

ble 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.

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 be-

fore 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 se-

cond night and now leads with 12 points

with 172 points in total. Followed by the

reigning FIM World Champion Maikel Me-

lero with 160 points and Rob Adelberg in

3rd position in the overall standings.

It won’t be until the 7th of November be-

fore the next World Championship points

will be awarded, when the FMX riders will

meet again in Caraguatatuba (Sao Pau-

lo), Brazil to push for the final run at the

overall World Championship title. <<

Tomorrow will be better - Libor shows his broken subframe.

Hannes bend his clutch lever during the landing of this Volt

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

23OVERALL RANKINGS / CLICK HERE

RESULTS SHENZHEN / China Round 9

RESULTS NIGHT OF THE JUMPS - FINAL1. 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 QUALIFYING1. 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 CONTEST1. Dany Torres ESP

2. Maikel Melero ESP

MAXXIS HIGHEST AIR1. Massimo Bianconcini ITA 9.00 m

2. Jose Miralles ESP 9,00 m

3. Luc Ackermann GER 8,50 m

FREESTYLE MX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

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

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FREESTYLE MX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

FMX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPRANKING 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 52 Points

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

ROUND 11 CARAGUATATUBA / BRAZIL

ROUND 12 GDANSK / POLAND

ROUND 13 SOFIA / BULGARIA

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