Nineteen-year-old BMX Park competitor Mike Spinner won the 2007 PlayStation Trick of the Year after fans voted that his 1080, three complete rotations, at the Vans Invitational was the best trick of the 2007 season. Spinner, of Miami, Fla., was the first athlete to ever successfully land the trick in a BMX Park competition.

“It feels amazing and this is something that I have worked so hard for,” said Spinner, who will receive $10,000 for winning the award. “I did it at one of the best and most important events of the year because I also won the event. It’s just been crazy to have all this happening in my rookie year on the Dew Tour.”

Mike Spinner and Dave Mirra qualified for the finals of the Park discipline at the Dew Tour finals in Orlando. Dave made it in on the 11th spot where Spinner did very well by finishing 2nd behind Mirraco boarded Daniel Dhers. Finals are about to start so make sure you tune in.

Dew Tour Orlando Park PRELIM results.
1st Dhers, Daniel 93.67
2nd Spinner, Mike 92.67
3rd Nyquist, Ryan 92
4th Cranmer, Scotty 90.83
5th Harrington, Josh 89.33
6th McCann, Steven 89.17
7th Canina, Diogo 88.67
8th Darden, Rob 88.17
9th Cooke, Allan 88.17
10th Enarson, Dennis 88
11th Mirra, Dave 87.83
12th Tooker, Marcus 87.67

Things didn’t go exactly Ryan Guettler’s way in the finals at the final stop of the 2007 Dew Tour. Guettler qualified on the number one spot after pulling the first ever 1080 jump on dirt as one of his moves. The Aussie ended up on 7th place on Saturday after missing a few of his hard moves.

AST Dew Tour-PlayStation Pro Results Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007 Amway Arena, Orlando, Fla.

BMX Dirt Final Results
1. Luke Parslow, Australia, 88.17.
2. Dennis Enarson, La Mesa, Calif., 88.09.
3. Anthony Napolitan, Youngstown, Ohio, 87.83.
4. Chris Doyle, Pittsburgh, Penn., 87.67.
5. Ryan Nyquist, Greenville, N.C., 87.09.
6. Cameron White, Australia, 86.59.
7. Ryan Guettler, Australia, 86.00.
8. Diogo Canina, Brazil, 85.42.
9. TJ Ellis, Moreno Valley, Calif., 84.92.
10. Joey Marks, Ft. Wayne, Ind., 84.17.

The Dirt field is so deep at the Dew AST in Orlando that it’s hard to make the finals. Pressure is on at these contests and sticking your tricks is what counts. Still, when you go on “save mode”, you’re not going to make it because the next guy might just bump you out of the top 12. Ryan Guettler is on top of things. He has been rolling the dice and it worked out in prelims scoring more than three solid points over second place finisher Dennis Enarson. Finals are on Saturday so let’s see who of the 12 riders can claim it in Orlando.

Dirt Prelims results Dew Tour Orlando:
1st Guettler, Ryan 95.67
2nd Enarson, Dennis 92.33
3rd White, Cameron 91.5
4th Marks, Joey 90.33
5th Napolitan, Anthony 90
6th Nyquist, Ryan 89.5
7th Doyle, Chris 89
8th Cooke, Allan 88
9th Parslow, Luke 87.83
10th Ellis, TJ 87.5
11th Nastazio, Cory 87.33
12th Canina, Diogo 87.33

Pic: Dew AST

There is a new BMX magazine in town: Session. The premiere issue came just off the press and features Dave Mirra on the cover riding at his private warehouse in Greenville. Team rider Ryan Guettler shot the photo and also has a full page photo taken at the Rebel jam in Berlin.

The mag is coming out six times a year. Those who are interested can contact:

Session BMX Mag

PO Box 7205

Arizona, USA 85281

Ph. 619 807 5957

A win gets you 100 points in the Dew Tour. With one round to go there are two riders who could possibly take it away from last year’s Park winner Daniel Dhers. Mike Spinner is sitting in second with Ryan Nyquist in third. Dave Mirra is sitting in 6th place but the way he has been riding lately he can still move up a few spots. Mirraco’s Ryan Guettler definitely has a possibility to move up in the ranks if he rides just as well as he did in Salt Lake City where he pulled double flips, fronties, no-footed cancan flairs and 1080-s. Mike Laird is in 21st with 59 points but there are some more riders aboard a Mirraco frame in the Park class (in bold). This weekend’s Park contest is one that cannot be missed.

Current Dew Tour Park standings after four rounds: 

1st Dhers, Daniel 100 100 63 55 0 318

2nd Spinner, Mike 75 33 100 49 0 257

3rd Nyquist, Ryan 49 75 49 63 0 236

4th Cranmer, Scotty 15 27 55 100 0 197

5th Enarson, Dennis 63 36 27 46 0 172

6th Mirra, Dave 38 49 75 8 0 170

7th Cooke, Allan 46 43 36 40 0 165

8th Reynolds, Garrett 27 63 38 27 0 155

9th Harrington, Josh 25 55 33 30 0 143

10th McCann, Steven 36 40 40 23 0 139

11th Canina, Diogo 2 30 46 33 0 111

12th Kiraly, Kevin 19 38 7 38 0 102

13th Darden, Rob 43 9 23 21 0 96

14th Whitton, Alistair 0 17 25 43 0 85

15th Dillewaard, Dave 11 23 10 36 0 80

16th Guettler, Ryan 3 1 0 75 0 79

17th Mackay, Colin 17 15 30 15 0 77

18th Wade, Morgan 1 46 17 6 0 70

19th Young, Gary 55 11 0 0 0 66

20th Mast, Craig 33 10 11 7 0 61

21st Laird, Mike 40 1 1 17 0 59

22nd Wallace, Ben 0 13 43 0 0 56

23rd Tooker, Marcus 7 4 19 25 0 55

24th Coleman, Austin 23 5 21 0 0 49

25th Warden, Zack 30 6 8 3 0 47

26th Foster, James 8 21 13 5 0 47

27th Sieg, Dan 13 3 9 13 0 38

28th Gerber, Zachary 0 7 15 11 0 33

29th McCoy, Dennis 9 19 3 1 0 32

30th Wirch, Scott 0 25 4 2 0 31

31st Kagy, Chad 21 8 0 0 0 29

32nd Hunt, Brian 10 1 5 9 0 25

33rd Perry, Joshua 0 2 0 19 0 21

34th Semling, Quinn 4 0 2 10 0 16

35th Marks, Joey 6 0 6 4 0 16

36th Fanberg, Jeremy 5 0 1 0 0 6

37th Cleveland, Michael 1 1 1 0 0 3

38th Smith, Jeremiah 1 0 0 1 0 2

39th Kachinsky, Brian 1 0 0 1 0 2

40th Bezanson, Drew 0 1 0 0 0 1

41st Hennon, Ben 1 0 0 0 0 1

Yo. How’s it going everyone? I just got back from one of the coolest things ever I’ve experienced in my ventures. I went up to Tim o’Neal’s rally school in New Hampshire and got the lowdown on how to go fast through the woods in a Subaru wrx. I met up with three dudes (which happened to race professional baja and off road trucks) in the hotel at breakfast where they informed me that we had to meet the instuctor at the Hampton Inn (which I didn’t know at the time) and follow him back to the compound which is like 600 acres in the mtns. Well, so we get started up with a little classroom briefings on safety and all that good stuff. So next, the fun is about to start. We head out to the skid pad, jump in some front wheel drive vw’s and learn some of the most important fundamentals on controlling the car the fastest through whatever god puts in front of you. I’ll tell ya what, I really never thought there was that much to it, but I was wrong. Let’s just say it’s all about left foot braking and the gas pedal. In a rear wheel drive you use the gas pedal to control the car, in a front wheel drive car you use the brake to control the car. Interesting huh.

Well, it gets even more fun when they pulled out the all-wheel drive cars for a new technique in the art of rally. The all-wheel drive car is the monster of rally and is very popular for the fastest drivers in the USA like Ken Block and Travis Pastrana. So here’s the deal, to control an all-wheel drive it’s a little bit of both of the skills we learned between the front and rear wheel drive cars. Very fun and can be a lot faster if you know what you’re doing. So, we practiced slaloms until we got them dialed and then moved onto different types of braking methods. Braking is very important for cornering in rally and so if not good with the brakes then hopefully you’re good at missing trees in the woods.

So, here comes the best part. Ken Block showed up on the last day with two of his Subrau wrx’s he rallys with and I got to drive one. First, Ken took me out and I was blown away on the speed and control he had to keep the car under control. Not to mention the confidence and commitment. Ken and Tim both took the time to explain what was important to keep the car on the road. Just for the record, I didn’t wreck it.

Thanks to all the drivers from team o’Neal that showed me the right way from the beginning. The cars are way more elaborate than I ever thought and they are fast. The driving experience was insane and I got hooked on rally.

Thanks to Subaru, Tim o’Neal, Ken Block, all the instructors that drive at team o’Neal rally school, and all the students that made the class a ton a fun.

Peace.

Dm

It’s that time of year again! The season for giving; fans giving their two cents that is. Beginning noon (Eastern Time) on Friday October 12, the polls will open for fans to vote for the PlayStation® Trick of the Year. At each stop on the 2007 AST Dew Tour, a handful of athletes are nominated for the PlayStation® Trick of the Week. Narrowed down to four tricks, the PlayStation® Trick of the Year is awarded to one Trick of the Week winner, based on viewers votes from 12:00pm (ET) Friday October 12 until 12:00pm (ET) Sunday October 21.

Fans, it’s time to let the athletes know what the best trick of the 2007 AST Dew Tour season is. One athlete will walk away from Orlando $10,000 richer.

Athletes up for the Award are:

Mirraco rider Mike Spinner – 1080 at the Vans Invitational

Zack Warden - Whip-to-Whip Back at the Panasonic Open

Francisco Zurita - Triple Tailwhip at the Right Guard Open

Cameron White - Barspin Tailwhip Backflip at the Toyota Challenge

The winner will be announced during the AST Dew Tour NBC broadcast on Sunday, October 21.

Click HERE to check out all four videos, size up the pros and vote for the overall sickest trick (Mike Spinner!). Spin to win!
Oh yeah, Mike Spinner has a BIKE CHECK out on the RIDEBMX website. He also answers some of their questions. Check it out by going HERE.