Over the weekend the BMX Masters took place in Germany. European Mirraco flow riders Jean Marie Baertsch from Switzerland and Alessandro Barbero from Italy drove over to Cologne to ride together with hundreds of participants in front of thousands of people.

The BMX Masters is a big contest and the vert contest got riders like Mat Hoffman and Simon Tabron on the ramp. Riding with these two legends is reason enough for some riders to get on the deck and join the session. Daniel Dhers actually did so too and finished fourth. Jean-Marie sessioned the ramp and had fun. Simon won, Matt Fairbairn (Australia) finished 2nd and Mat Hoffman got third.

In street it’s hard enough to make finals these days. Alessandro qualified in fourth place which secured a spot in the top 12 final round. Four groups of three riders had a good session and the riders didn’t hold back. Alessandro flipped the spine and did a 360 double whip over it. He did a barspin to tire tap on a sub box and went crazy over the funbox with flip whips and his recently learned windshield wiper. Ale got third behind Ben Wallace and Daniel Dhers who did a crazy looking 720 over the box, inverted flairs, 360-double whips and a truckdriver to late tailwhip. The level has gone crazy. It’s hard to keep up.

Next Euro contest: Rebel Jam, Berlin, Germany.

Click the image below to see some highlights of the event including Alessandro’s tailwhip to tailwhip back: