REPO: 3RD LAIR JAM

There’s not a lot of options when it comes to riding during the winter months in Minnesota. When everyone can get together and ride it’s usually a real good time, though. A few weeks prior to the contest Aaron, the kid who organized the contest, hit me up to see what I thought about a contest going down at 3rd Lair. I figured it would be a good idea just because the park I usually hold a contest at during the winter closed up shop in the fall, and that only left two or three options for places to have it. Fast forward a few weeks and there were sponsors for the event, a flyer and a date. Fast forward to that sunday and all the people who could make it were rolling into the park. The sponsors were real generous and there was a ton of product to hand out.
The contest got under way at 3 p.m on the dot with the beginner/intermediate class. To be honest, I spent the majority of that time with Reed Stark shinning random people and the kids riding with our laser pointers. There was some pretty solid riding from the kids and it went smooth. Little Josh is a kid who rides from where I am from that has been shredding for about a year. With some experienced coaching from myself, and a few others he landed himself the top spot. I didn’t catch the names of the others who got top spots.
After the kids rode, the expert/pro class kicked off. With names like Dustin Griess, AJ Haines, Jared Hudalla, Pirate BMX (Nick Krausher sp?) and Evan Moyle riding it was bound to be a good show. I pulled the camera out and started shooting what I could without doing too many laps running around the park trying to keep up. If any of those names ring a bell, then you wouldn’t be surprised to know there were some bangers thrown as you can see from the pictures.
I believe Jared took the top spot for that which was a good thing. Jared ended up snapping his frame and that was first place. Perfect.
Moving on, there was a open jam for anyone who wanted a go at the giant step up/euro for best trick. That’s where I got most of the photos for this since it was pretty easy to keep up. Plenty of bangers went down like Dustin Griess’ front flip, AJ Haines’ back flip turndown and basically anything that came out of Jared’s bag.
Follow that up with a quick game of foot down and you have a smooth running contest.

Overall, the contest wasn’t the biggest but it was still fun. I’m pretty sure everyone walked away with a prize even if you were just a spectator. Plenty of fun riding before, during and after the contest went down. I even had the chance to film a few clips with Midwest web video famed Erik Elstran that will be popping up in the next few hours or so… I’d like to say thanks to everyone who showed up to ride and chill, Aaron for organizing everything, the sponsors, 3rd Lair and Minnesota in general.

I posted some scrap photos from this on BMXunion as well if you wanted to see more!

Edit: Here are those clips of Erik I mentioned above…

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Words, photos and video by Kurt Hohberger