Elcock’s Rise

Manchester rider, Mark Jamieson goes upside down.

LG Action Sports Championships BMX Amateur Street Recap
By Chris Mitchell

(October 21, 2005) The ramps built, the lights wired, and the cameras finally in place, the LG Action Sports World Championships kicked off the weekend with a sick amateur BMX street contest.

The course is enormous, with a six-foot high, fourteen-foot long jump box, a bowled spine and sub boxes on top of sub boxes. Still, the riders of England and those who traveled to get here dropped in on the biggest obstacles and took no time at all to master the lines.

Riders like 11 year-old Jake Norfolk of Timperley, England represented the future of UK BMX, flowing through the course with smooth style. Andy Reed of St. Helens, England threw a no-foot, one-hander over the box and a whip on the quarterpipe. Lorenzo Reed of Leeds pulled one of the sickest tricks of the day: a high speed transfer from quarterpipe to quarterpipe over a 15- foot wide flat bank.

Jong Bum Park of Incheon, Korea made a long trip worthwhile. His packed run included a huge X-up and a wall tap off the 10-foot sub box, and put him in 5th place. Manchester local Mark Jamieson did a flip over the box, but fell short of the podium when he crashed on a wall tap.

Cameron Hardy. Hi-Ya!

Levi Gallagher killed it in his first run, which included a 270 whip transfer and a 360 over the spine, but disaster struck on his second run. He looped out on a tail whip attempt, landed on his back and didn’t get up. Medics carried him from the course on a stretcher.

London-based Cameron Hardy was awarded the silver medal for his stylish first run, which featured a lofty transition-to-transition transfer, a fufanu on the sub box, a nose bump 180 over the spine and a downside whip transfer at the buzzer.

And the gold went to 17 year-old Ryan Elcock of South Hampton, England. His winning run featured a tail whip to disaster, double peg stalls on both hitching posts and tricks on just about every obstacle.

Ryan Elcock whips the quarter.		Ryan Elcock with a bar spin over the spine.