Simpel Session 10 Booklet by Sahtel Magazine

Rulatajate tutvustused

6-7 VEEBRUAR SAKU SUURHALL TALLINN

Rulatajate tutvustused

Simpel Session 10

Rulatajate tutvustused Intro

Valmistu aasta suurimaks rula- ja rattapeoks – Simpel Session tähistab 6. – 7. veebruaril oma 10. sünnipäeva! Simpel Session on aastatega kasvanud kohalikust võistlusest üheks maailma tuntuimaks ja lemmikumaks ekstreemspordiürituseks, meelitades igal aastal kohale järjest suuremal hulgal välisvõistlejaid ja kuulsamaid sõitjaid ning jõudes sadade tuhandete vaatajateni üle maailma. Simpel Session 10 on elamusterohke nädalavahetus täis enneolematut vaatemängu ligi kahesajalt tippratturilt ja rulatajalt igast ilma otsast. Nende seas saab Simpel Sessioni uhiuuel ning massiivsel võistlusväljakul kaasa elada rula- ja BMX-i absoluutsete tippude, aga ka Eesti parimate meeletule sõidule. Nagu ikka, saadab võistlust sütitav meeleolu ning vaba atmosfäär, mis õhtuti sujuvalt metsikuks peoprogrammiks üle läheb. Ära maha maga Simpel Sessioni 10. juubelifestivali ja koge unustamatut nädalalõppu maailma BMXi- ja rulaparemiku seltsis! — Prepare for the best BMX and skateboarding event this year on 6 – 7th of February 2010, as Simpel Session is celebrating its 10 Year Anniversary! Having started out as just a local hangout, Simpel Session has worked its way up to become one of the biggest and best contests in the World of BMX bikes and skateboarding. And not only because of the massive media coverage or hefty prize purse, but more for its ability of attracting the biggest names in the business, a brand new course which never fails to impress, laid-back vibe and the feeling of a giant never ending BMX and skateboarding party. Over the years, Simpel Session has hosted most of the top BMX and skateboard athletes of the world. Each time the line-up tops the previous and this year some of the biggest names and most unbelievable riding is about to happen, firing up the biggest BMX and skateboarding party of the year. Expect some very insane action that has to be seen to be believed from 180 top athletes from all over the world. The unforgettable contest will be followed by unstoppable after parties which make up one neverto-be-forgotten festival experience. Don’t miss the Simpel Sessions 10 Year Anniversary celebration – it’s going to be the best Simpel Session to date!

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10 MEELDE JÄÄVAMAT HETKE SIMPEL SESSIONI AJALOOS 10 MOST MEMO RABLE MOMENTS THROUGH SIMPEL SESSION HISTORY VABAS JÄRJEKORRAS / IN NO Particular order Photos: Andrei Jakovlev, Andy Zeiss, Joosep Martinson, Lauri Kulpsoo, Tanel Tepper, Timo Toots, Mia Haggi. 4.

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CATFISH { BMX announcer since 2007 } • Josh Harrington in the high air contest. • Chase Hawk killing the entire park course. • Every single Simpel Session run Garrett Reynolds has ridden. • The late night burrito truck near Old Town. • The crazy bitches from California. • The amazing BMX fans in Estonia. • Gary Young, period. • All of the insane afterparties. Best in the WORLD! • The wonderful women of ESTONIA! • Watching Andres Lainevool getting better every year. I love watching him ride!

BART DE JONG { BMX head judge since 2004 } • Matt Beringer’s backflip from the kicker ramp. • Chase Hawk’s alley oop 270. • Aze’s transfer into the vert ramp. • Martin Jochensen’s backflip (with his head on his rear tire going straight up). • The Old Town (all years). • The nightlife (all years). • The organization (all years). • Lima’s 360-s over the box. • The course designs. • The sold out venue. 5.

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HARRI PUUPPONEN { Participated in skate jam since 2002 } Good: • Making new friends is always a cool thing and skateboarding unites. I think the best thing is that we have made new friends from eastern countries. • Meeting old friends from around the world. • Crazy parties. • Seeing the Baltic skate scenes growing. • Having a really good weekend with friends. • Being able to skate very different kind of obstacles. Bad: • People missing from the contest – empty runs. • Hotel “sessions” and hassle with the police – not good. • Every winter Session has been too cold, looks like we are getting it again... • Too much drinking and partying. • I think the craziest party night was in Tartu after the contest. I think we tried to use all our money in the bar but we failed pretty miserably.

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RISTO KALMRE { Co-founder & organizer since 2000 }

Riding: • Chase Hawk pulling massive 270 alley-oop and blasting all over the course. • Josh Harrington and Bas Keep airing the big Red Bull quarter in high air contest. Madness! (look page 21) • Josh Harrington pulling huge tailwhip gap transfer. Shut the contest down. • Ty Morrow and Garrett Reynolds pulling the longest 180 to fakie. • Ben Manuel pulling 270 transfer from quarter to vert ramp. • Gary Young flowing the course, all three years. So good! • Salabanzi and Ramondetta! • Andres Lainevool qualifying 8th (!) & making the cut to the finals. • Ian Schwartz and Corey Nastazio entering park/street contest. • Legend Joe Rich coming over and riding the contest.

Non-riding: • Robin Fenlon and Banners driving from England to Tallinn with their Mini Cooper, in January. Respect! • Our after–afterparty in legendary Lasnamäe sauna Klondaik with Critikal, Kris and Flipperi. And our personal butler with mustaches and bow-tie. • Afterparties in Tartu in Club XS and Atlantis. Good times! • Dean Hearne and some other English geezers getting shot at in Old Town (supposedly). After that they met Meat Loaf in Nimeta bar (supposedly). • Packed tight phone booth interviews at Von Krahl afterparty. • A redneck rapper and ex-skater Jereme Rogers somehow making it to Simpel Session after missing three flights. • Adam Dyet throwing up in the middle of the skatepark just in the right time when ETV cameras arrived. Gnarly. • All good sunny times in Tartu contest! Having Martti Kuoppa and Viki Gomez over. • Ali Boulala, Haslam, Kenny Reed, Mike V and other skate legends at Session! • Big screen interview clips with boozy and jet–lagged Chase Hawk (sorry Chase!). 7.

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KIRILL KOROBKOV { Skating the event in 2005 and 2007, judge since 2008 }

• Peter Ramodetta’s final run at Simpel Session in 2008. Peter was progressing with his every run since qualification. He did his best at the most important final run, that was probably the best skateboarding run in the history of Simpel Session. There was no bails and super hard tricks like kickflip over the gap to fs 50-50 down the rail and crooked grind pop over on bump to high flat bar. Everyone who saw it was super amazed. • In 2009 Adam Dyet was on of the main guests at the contest. He was killing it at the practice but the night before his run Adam probably overpartied. In the middle of his short session he puked on the course and

after that he kept skating. Adam is the man. • Ross McGouran from the UK keeps coming to Simpel Session again and again. Every time he is one of the best skaters in the skatepark and at the same time one of the most hardcore party guys at night clubs. In 2008 he easily made the cut to semifinals but didn’t show up at the course the next day. He entered the arena around 30 seconds before his run was announced. Ross looked really hungover, it seemed like he was hardly standing on his feet. There was no warm-up, no stretching, nothing. He took off his jacket (didn’t have time to take off his gloves, hoody or beanie) 8.

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and went straight to shredding. In the next 90 seconds he missed only one trick. That’s why we love Ross. • It was one of pre-parties after Friday practice. It was a normal club night with Simpel Session guests and regular people. One Russian speaking redneck was trying to show the whole club how cool he was. At some moment he announced that he is so good in karate, that he would touch the lamp on the ceiling with his shoe. He started jumping on the floor to get ready but realized that lamp was too high. Somebody advised him to use a sofa. He agreed. In next several seconds he tried his mission, stepped on the sofa, jumped but instead of touching the lamp he almost backflipped and fell back on the floor in scorpion style. That looked super stupid and pointless. • On one of the back staircases a skater who came to watch the contest started smoking a funny cigarette. Security came to kick him out. When the guy saw security coming he imminently decided to annihilate all evidences of his illegal activity. He couldn’t think of anything else but eating the smoking joint. He got kicked out anyway but this probably helped him not to go to the police. • BMX guys going to new levels of craziness every year. For some reason trashing the hotel is one of their favorite amusements. Breaking up furniture in rooms and messing up sheets and blankets are pretty classical things everywhere but one morning in 2008 when we left our room we saw a big and deep hole in the 9.

wall. Those guys got no brakes. • Usually Simpel Session guests live in Reval hotels. These hotels got little saunas that fit 3-5 people. Last time we were walking by one of these saunas, we heard it was super noisy in there. So we decided to check out what was going on inside. Instead of a little group of people there were around 20-30 teenagers somehow fitting to that little space. • Everybody likes partying in Tallinn. One night during SS09 we got back to the hotel around 5 am. We had to wait a while for an elevator to come downstairs. When doors opened we saw a completely wasted grown up man peeing on the floor. He didn’t even notice us. • Bus to the venue leaves from the hotel at about 9 am. Most of skaters come back to their rooms from night clubs and bars between 3 am and 6 am. It’s fun to see how fucked up everyone looks like in the bus early in the morning after just a couple hours of sleep. • Last time Jereme Rogers came all the way from the United States to skate in Simpel Session. The evening after the contest we went to visit him in his room with our Russian crew. He was completely covered with blanket, only his head and hands were sticking out. Jereme was super busy behind his laptop and with his cell phone. He was trying to talk to several different girls in different countries through sms, instant messenger and social networks. At the same time Jereme was trying to work on his rap projects.

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Tanel Tepper { Rulakohtunik 2002–03; skeidiorgunn 2004. a. alates }

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• Bastien Salabanzi. Ehk kõige andekam rulataja, kes Sessionil käinud on. • 2004. aasta Sessioni reklaami pildis tamine XL stuudios. Pingud olid olemas ja puha. ↓ → • 2005. lisandus wild-card’ina skeidi nimekirja Karel Kulbin. Kõva sõna. • Tartu Sessionite järelpeod. Veel paremad kui Tallinna omad. • 2006. aastal käisid meil Rob ja Charlie Inglismaalt, kes kartsid võistelda ja vaatasid päev otsa hotellis telekat. • Hendrik Grossi 360 flip 50-50 hubbasse. • Domina hotelli saunapidu Kenny Reedi ja sõpradega. Kenny peab puhtusest väga lugu. • Kitarrivirtuoos Ali Boulala. Samuti nii mõnegi muu asja virtuoos. Tõeline karakter. • Club von Überblingen. Oot miks meil seal rohkem pidusid pole olnud? • Suurhalli kuiv õhk ja ehitajate magamata näod üks päev enne Sessionit. Tähendab, et kohe läheb madistamiseks.

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SEBASTIAN KEEP { Riding Simpel Session in 2004, 2007 and 2009 } • • • • • • • • • •

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Sean Sexton’s insane hang 5 crash! Chase Hawk cruising! Screaming at Hennon to go nuts... Watching a drunken Robin Fenlon telling Dave Mirra he loved him. Dan Lacey having fun at a contest. Ty Morrow 540 down the step down. Kym Grosser smashing it! Catfish on the microphone! The parties! Seeing Euro friends!

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JANAR ILVES { Rulataja Sessionil 2000–05, kohtunik 2006. a. alates } • 2000. aastal Tartus toimus esimene Session (Pepsi Street Challenge) sügisel ja põhimõtteliselt obstaakli vabal platsil. Ilm oli siiski ilus. • Tüüpilised vaheldumisi vihm ja päike Tartu suvistel Sessionitel. Platsi kuivatamine harjadega. • Timo Kuulusa õhulennud Tartus. • Jussi Korhonen Tartu verdis. • Peter Ramondetta 2008. aasta Sessioni väga professionaalne rulatamine. • Ei saa öelda, et Catfishi kommenteerimine kõrvust mööda oleks läinud. Tal on uskumatu häälemasin. • Nate Wesseli viimase kahe Sessioni pargidisainid on mõnusad olnud. • BMX-i finaalid on alati pöörased. • Profid, kes tänu Sessionile eestis • on käinud – Haslam, Kenny Reed, Ali Boulala, Peter Ramondetta, Mike Vallely, Jereme Rogers jt. • Mike Vallely 2005. aasta Sessioni

parima triki võit sellel obstaaklil, kus parima triki võistlus ei toimunudki. Sooritus oli igatahes hull julge. ↑ • Kindlasti 2004. aasta Lõuendi ja 2005. aasta Dzässiklubi lühifilmide premjeerid Kinomajas. • See oli naljakas, kuidas Jereme Rogers teekonnal Ameerikast Eestisse vähemalt kolmest lennukist maha jäi. 12.

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DJ Critikal aka Bert On Beats { Sessioni resident DJ 2000. aastast alates } • Esimesed evendid Tartus: muru, muld, Tartu Võttegrupp, halb mikserpult ja vinüüli sulatav päike. Tekib kohe vajadus mingi suvisema Simpel Sessioni järele. Kusagil Aegna saarel ehk? • Club XS (R.I.P.) ja selle idikast omanik. • Kõige rajumad pre-party’d! Alati! • Legendaarsed viimasepäeva “ei taha lõpetada” afterparty’d, Krahlis ja Riffis! Super positiivne publik! Alati! • Keegi lätlane, kes Krahlis vastu DJ lauda tagus, nii et vinüülid hüppasid. Püüdsin ta tähelepanu äratada ca. 3 korda, et ahv ära rapsi. Sellepeale aga trummeldamine aina võimenes. Võtsin mängijalt plaadi ja panin talle lapiti üle piilumise, sorri djüüd. • Paul Oja sett Überblingenis, kui ta mängis kogu Guns’n’Roses-i albumi otsast lõpuni. Iga lugu 30sek. • Samal peol mingi idikas MC, kes karjus vahetpidamata “everybody say, fuck the diii Jeeeeey”! • Klondaik ja kälid saunas + vuntsi ja kikilipsuga adminn. • Kalmred. • Tuleb veel meelde? Hmm, pole lihtne kõike meenutada, kui pead 10 aastat järjest kõikidel Sessioni aftekatel mängima. Tänud kõigile!

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SS 2004 äftekas!