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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IGS Hamburg night session

The IGS skatepark in Hamburg is one of a very few parks in Germany with lights and with the days getting shorter quickly that is a very nice feature. After a session at the Fruchtallee bowl Wolfganster and I headed over to the IGS for second session and we ran into two legends from Hamburg Jan Waage and Robert Wolff, hadn´t seen those guys for like 20 years!
Everybody was stoked and we had a great session and a few brews after.

Jan Waage – ollie
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Robert Wolff – front rock
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After session stoke – Robert and Jan.
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Weekend Report: Leipzig, Selb, and Blackriver

Mack gave me my very first fingerboard on my birthday a few days ago, so naturally I had to use it. Where do the top fingerboarders from around the world flock? No, not the glistening, sandy beaches of Tahiti; but rather misty, rural Schwartzenbach, Bavaria. So that is where “Fingy” (my fingerboard’s name), Gerd from Bailgun, and I marshaled. First we checked out the Leipzig park in Conne Island, an occupied party-land with a Minus Ramps park. I basically got mo-murdered on warm ups, so we packed the rig, and rallied to Selb for the opening of the new wavepark. Built in 11 weeks, this new creation from +Blackriver Ramps+ was formed by a handful of volunteers and cost roughly €30K. Now kids and adults alike can cruise around a flowing, fast, flawless park near the Czech border. We hung out for the opening, partied like hell, skated in the morning and then cruised to Martin’s backyard pool in Schwartzenbach. MVP of the weekend definitely goes to Herwig König for his bottomless trick back and energy to skate all day and night. Runner up MVP goes to the Schinkenbier (smoked beer, tastes like bacon…. email me for details) for being there when no other beer was. Honorable mention goes to the DOUBLE COPING on the Selb vert ramp. Why have just one coping? Giant thanks to Martin and his lovely family for everything, you guys are truly the best. Also big thanks to the Nuremberg crew, Kaktus and the Selb crew, and to Chicken, for being cute.

Text: Lenore Sparks
Photos: Gerd Rieger and Lenore Sparks

Herwig König testing the new Selb park with a dump truck on the bank
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The Mayor of Selb with the crew who instigated and built the park with a lot of other helping hands.

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More supporters of the project

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Local ripper with a tailslide transfer.

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Some nice tile work.

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Herwig smith grinding the corner

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The session/party lasted well into the night

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More fun!

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More work from the Foculo team

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Herwig back D on the extension.

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Leipzig Spotcheck

Overview

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Lenore frontside grinds the “pizza oven”

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Schwarzenbach

Martin Ehrenberger carve grinding his backyard bowl

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Lenore: “Herwig, skate better!”
Herwig: “Lenore, Film better!”

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And then this happend: Herwig, backside kickflip to back-D to smith stall.

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Herwig was on fire – front blunt

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NBD coffin grind by Mike Prößler with Herwig and Johannes Jahrreis
joining in on the fun.

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Lenore enjoying an after session monty grind

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Thanks to Martin for the FUN session at his bowl.
Martin, Chicken with new friend Mike Prößler and Noah on the swing.

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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