BERGFEST 2017

Last weekend it was time for another BERGFEST at the legendary Monster Bowl at the Bergfidel Skatepark in Münster. The Bergfest started out as a small local contest in 2009 and has grown into the best and funnest park contest in Germany and this year was no exeption. With rippers from all over Germany a rad session was inevitable.
1st place went to Tim “Eumel” Rebensdorf, he went full speed with a rad combination of tricks and style using the whole park including the gnarly deepend that was avoided by some. Big airs, front blunts, speedy grinds and way more in his bag of tricks.

 
Eumel fs blast
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Lennie Jansen shredded into 2nd place with a ton of style and tricks like high indy divebombs and a bs 360 varial tailgrab to disaster, what? Yeah, I hope somebody captured it on film. He was set back a bit by a crazy slam in the deepend that send him straight to the flat bottom and few would have survided without a major injury but luckily he did.
 
Lennie with a huge dive bomb indy
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Local shredder Tom Schulze took a well deserved 3rd place pro with a good mix of lip tricks and airs.
 
Tom making hard tricks look easy, lien air.
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Kevin Wenzke seemed he could have needed some new wheels and bearings for some more speed,
but none the less this guy is one of the best. Eggplants and backside bonelesses in the deepend!!
 
Kevin with a lien to tail.
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The AM´s where not far behind the pros. Mathis Wenner skated into first place with local knowlage of the park and put it to good use with fs hurricanes, Millerflips and he was one of the few who used the spine in his runs. 2nd place went to Carlo Brummel from Güterloh home of Claus Grabke. Carlo mixed good style with a deep bag of tricks like front bluns, sweepers, speedy smith grinds and then some.
 
Carlo with a perfectly executed front blunt
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The girls and junior divison were also ripping. Eva Stöter showed how to carve through the whole park with ease and speed and a big smile on her face showing everybody what it´s all about: having a good time on your board and not worry about any results, she did take home 3rd place and a big bag of product from the sponsors.
2nd palce went to Catherine Marquis, she came all the way from Stuttgart and had a bit of bad luck with a slam in the deep end that took her out of the contest, but before that mishap she showed some solid frontside 50/50s on the steep facewall, backside grinds, sweepers, lien to tails and more stuff.
Ingrid Enciu from Tübingen took 1st place with good lines, grinds, bs bonless ones to tail and then some.
 
Catherine Marquis, frontside 50/50
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Eumel – 1st place
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Little guys with tons of stuff, too much to carry? Almost.
Jakob Kern, Solingen – Wayrta Koszarek, Münster – Andres Andrischock Jimenez, Münster
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Mathis Wenner, Münster – Chrisor Pelz, Berlin

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John Hunt and the winners: Ingrid Enciu, Tübingen – Catherine Marquis, Stuttgart – Eva Stöter, Münster
 
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After the skate sessions and awards ceremony the bands took over the stage and were rocking the crowd from the first cord. Ill and Insanity Alert made a lot of good noise that kept the crowd dancing and the beer showers flowing.
 
Ill
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Ill
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Insanity Allert
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Insanity Allert
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Insanity Allert
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Crowd
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These two made it possible, Markus and Johan!!!
Making skateboarding great again at the BERG since 2009!
Thanks guys!!! And thanks to John Hunt for announcing all day long, tough job.
And a big thanks and shout out goes to all the sponsors and supporters:
Koloss, Protec, Hoax, Telum, Pavel, Warsteiner, Muckefuck, Confusion Mag, Bailgun Mag,
Blood Mask, Merchcowboys
 
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The Bergfest 2017 Results

A Division

Tim Rebensdorf, Stuttgart
Lenni Janssen, Düsseldorf
Tom Schulze, Münster
Kevin Wenzke, Herne

B Division

Mathis Wenner, Münster
Carlo Brummel, Gütersloh
Chrisor Pelz, Berlin
Marius Ochtendung, Koblenz

Youth Division

Jakob Kern, Solingen
Wayrta Koszarek, Münster
Andres Andrischock Jimenez, Münster

Girls Division

Ingrid Enciu, Tübingen
Catherine Marquis, Stuttgart
Eva Stöter, Münster
Jana Malzkorn, Dortmund

Bergfest 2016

Bergfest 2016

This years Bergfest was a small one, just a relexed session with friends
on a nice and sunny Sunday just before Winter is kicking in the not too distant future.
Some people were wondering why there wasn´t a fully scale Bergfest, well if you´ve ever organized an event the answer is easy,
it´s a whole lotta work and sometimes there needs to be a little break to make future plans.
So stay tuned for next year and enjoy the photos from last weekend.

Koloss in pink, Markus Koch with a classic stand up grind.
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OMSA rider Tony was ripping some smith grinds.
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Local shredder Tom, perfect front feeble through the corner.
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Sunny Sunday
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Volcom Bergfest #6 – 2014

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On the 25th anniversary of the construction of Berg Fidel skatepark, a 13 year old deconstructed our preconception of how to skate. The Volcom Bergfest 2014 was jam-packed with action, entertainment (ie. Bands such as Svffer), and best of all: high quality skateboarding.
First place went to Tyler Edtmayer, best illustrated during his finals introduction run. This run would have made any seasoned pro totally psyched. He bailed in his first trick, got back up and proceeded to skate at least a full minute in which he landed nearly every trick he ever learned.
Second place went to Kevin Wenzke with giant fs airs and padless eggplants in the deepend. He is so fun to watch skate. Third place and honorable mention goes to Johannes Haist. In qualifiers, he skated his best, EVER, and landed in one run airs of every sort, -padless, btw- inverts, and crailslide-reverts in the deepend.
Special thanks goes out to Volcom, Koloss Skateboards, Rebel Rockers Garage, RIP, Stan, and all of the sponsors.

Photos: Gerd Rieger Text: Lenore Sparks

Kevin Wenzke – head high frontside air into 2nd place.
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Tyler Edmayer – backside boneless. He also did 540´s high backside airs and had the longest runs with a ton of tricks to shred into 1st place.
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Johannes Haist – 3rd place – lein to tail
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The judges: Wolf, Wolfganster ,Toni, Janne, Lenore
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Tim Bjisterveld was hurt but had a good time anyway.
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Tim Turudija – huge frontside air
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Friedrich was skating on edge at all times – lipslide
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The Dirty Fences were rocking the stage to end a rad day of skating.
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Winners Junior: Christian Müller – Timo Krone – Tim Turudija
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Winners A Group: Kevin Wenzke – Tyler Edmyer – Johannes Haist
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See you next year.
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Bergfest 2012 – Jürgen Horrwarth wins

Jürgen Horrwarth shreds into first place pro at the Bergfest 2012 in Münster with tons of speed and style Jürgen shredded the Monster Bowl to pieces.

If you couldn´t make it to Münster or missed the live stream you can still watch the webcast over here

Last years winner Ben Hatchell took second place with a combination of difficult liptricks and high airs. Third place went to 13 year old Ivan Federics from Italy – look out for this yound gun in the future!

Renton Millar placed fourth with some nice ollies, head high frontside airs in the deep end and smashing madonnas to the coping.
Ben Schroeder supported the judge team with his years of experience.
More in the next Bailgun issue really soon. Stay tuned.

Jürgen Horrwarth grinds the corner in front of the massive crowd at the Bergfest

Renton Millar – trademark fs ollie

Ben Hatchell pops out of a front blunt

Pavel Deathrace winner Christian Krause lien to tail

The Adolescents rocked the stage to top of a great weekend at the Berg

Bergfest 2012 is coming up – 21.07.2012!!!

The Bergfest 2012 is coming up really soon: 20-21.07.2012!!!
Don´t miss some of the top pros from Europe and the US and some noisy Bands.
More news and info here: bergfidel.com

Check this cool review of last years Bergfest

Robin Mentrup speedy lipslide in the Monster Bowl – Berg Fidel Skatepark

June Wallpapers

As we missed the May Wallpaper last month we´ll have two wallpapers for June.

The 1st June wallpaper features Hugo Wallduff with a
nose grind in Göteborg, Sweden. Photo: torschmied.com
Just click on the image to see the large version and save it on your desktop.
We´ll update the Wallpapers section with images from the Bailgun calendar every month.
Also check out some of the older Wallpapers here.


The 2nd June wallpaper features Börn Klotz with a
lipslide over the channle of the old Monster Bowl in Münster. Photo: gerdrieger.com
Just click on the image to see the large version and save it on your desktop.
We´ll update the Wallpapers section with images from the Bailgun calendar every month.
Also check out some of the older Wallpapers here.