Check this full cap video of the 2022 Down Underground contest, congratulations to all the winners. Always good to see the scene still going down under! Thanks Shaun Jarvis for the news!
Beginner Class
1st: Paul Grzinic
2nd: Scott Hone
3rd: Tom Palonek
4th: Nilsson Popplewell
Expert Class
1st: Shaun Jarvis
2nd: Yuki
3rd: David Rooney
Open Class
1st: Gonzalez Bellanti
2nd: Paul Chamberlain
3rd: Heru Anwari
4th: Phillip Frueh
When you have an hour and half to kill, watch this!!! This is so good, Shaun Jarvis, Paul Chamberlain and Joe Cicman and James McGraw discuss the results in each class from the Down UnderGround contest. I’ll leave this stickied at the top of the site as it deserves to be seen!!
2020 DownUnderGround , the Australian BMX flatland championships number 12 was a video only contest, open to all riders around the world. With the current global situation with Covid -19 travel restrictions are in place around the world and earlier this year within Australia. This made organizing a national contest problematic. We could not set a date as we never knew if or when travel restrictions would ease up in Australia and or if riders would even want to travel interstate with the current conditions. As DownUnderGround has had a video round as part of the contest for many years it was a easy decision to make 2020 a video only contest. To make the video even more special we had our contest judges live announce over the video after they had judged the video contest and the riders were placed in the video according to their contest placement. Thanks to Shaun Jarvis, Paul Chamberlain and Joe Cicman and James McGraw.
The format of the contest was easy, riders submit their video as if they were riding at a contest. No edits or multiple clips, one continual run, no less than 1 minute and no more than 2 minutes. Each rider’s video was judged by three judges using the DownUnderGround contest format. Each judge scores each category out of 20 points;
Difficulty – How difficult and complex the tricks are.
Consistency – How consistent the rider is in pulling the tricks within the contest run.(feet down, foot dab, smoothness of run)
Variety – This is left up to the judge’s discretion on what their own interpretation of variety is. This can take into account range of techniques (spinning, turbining, rolling, scuffing, stationary, pumping…) variety and range of tricks, types of tricks, combinations of tricks, front and rear wheel usage, backwards and forwards.
The best possible score from one judge per video run is 60 points. The three judges points are added together to determine the winner and place getters.
Due to the nature of the contest we knew we would get many international riders entering than Australian riders. This just made the contest so much more rad. The level of riding around the world is amazing. Some many great riders being able to showcase their riding and their riding spot. Nothing but pure radness in the video.
Thank you to DownUnderGround supporters – Freestyle Now and Colony BMX
The Freestyle Now crew (Shaun Jarvis, Dez Maarsen, and Paul Chamberlain right at the end) were recently at the annual Flatark contest in Kobe, Japan. Here’s a little behind the scenes, with some practise footage from Shaun, Dez and some Kobe locals.