2012 Claymore Challenge - Best Trick

Jul 20, 2012
by Ian Hylands
 
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The casual one-hour Best Trick jam session at the Claymore Challenge quickly turned into a non-stop banger throw down with guys pulling massive front flip variations, huge supermans, triple tailwhips, and pretty much every other know trick in the book. It was all high fives and smiles as the best guys in slopestyle fed off one another during one of the most fun hours of the week.

Yannick claimed best rick and 1000 with a back flisb double-whip

At the end of the session it was Yannick Granieri who took home the win and a cool $1,000 courtesy of Teva for his perfect flip double whip on the Red Bull Freebird. Local boys Mike Kent and Chad Deluca threw down hard, giving the crowd exactly what they came for with big ‘ol supermans and 360 flip attempts, prompting the crowd to get loud and get wild.

Best trick winner.
van Steenbergen threw down a huge front flip bar spin TWICE for 2nd place in the best place competition.
  Tom VanSteenbergen threw down a huge front flip bar spin, TWICE, for 2nd place.

  Linus Sjoholm, Brett Rheeder, Martin Soderstrom

 2 qualifier for slope style finals throwing a huge superman over the 40ft RedBull Freebird jump
  Szymon Godziek, number 2 qualifier for slopestyle finals, throwing a huge superman over the 40ft Red Bull Freebird jump

  Cam Zink

Course maintenance and mellow practice
  Riders practiced and workers got the course ready for tomorrow's final.

Finals will be live here on Pinkbike tomorrow.

BC, Washington, California (PDT - 11:00 am)
Alberta, Colorado, Utah, Montana (MDT 12:00 pm)
Ontario, New York (Eastern Time - 2:00 pm)
Brazil (3:00 pm)
UK, Portugal (19:00)
Most of Europe, France, Germany, Italy (20:00)
Canberra, Aus (4:00 am Sunday)

20 Comments

  • + 31
flag syncro (Jul 20, 2012 at 22:30)
 is Zink's bike available at Wal Mart ?
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flag lawrancesimpson (Jul 20, 2012 at 22:55)
 Nah, K-Mart I think.
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flag sask250 (Jul 21, 2012 at 1:02) (Below Threshold) show comment
 Does anybody know what they were thinking when they designed that? Looks so old school, like come on guys lets get some innovation here.
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flag jezzah (Jul 21, 2012 at 3:59)
 Its based on a Corsair SS bike, look that up. It's not quite as simple as it looks.
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flag PacaroSandwitch (Jul 21, 2012 at 5:41)
 his bike looks like my old ironhorse yakuza!
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flag HMBA106 (Jul 22, 2012 at 22:21)
 In the 13th photo, is he doing a flip-whip or a flip nac? I thought it was a flip nac, but his foot is off the pedal... Perhaps it was a crash Confused
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flag braden-schleith (Jul 20, 2012 at 21:36)
 just my opinion but i think toms front bar beats a flip double whip. still gnarly though.
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flag Jonnnny (Jul 20, 2012 at 21:38)
 agreed !
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flag chyu (Jul 20, 2012 at 23:34)
 vid pls.
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flag cdavis (Jul 21, 2012 at 6:55)
 this. how many times do you see flip double whips vs. frontflip bars?
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flag general-lee (Jul 21, 2012 at 8:22)
 It came down to the landing. Yannick stomped it straight to his pedals. As Cam McCaul said, "the best, best-trick comp I've ever seen."
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flag rypurn (Jul 20, 2012 at 23:03)
 First thing i thought of when i saw Godziek's superman was: Wait, that's not Lacondeguy. Who else can throw a superman that big??
That's a pretty beastly one, but not compared to lacondeguy Smile Sucks that hes injured
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flag CaptainKurt (Jul 20, 2012 at 23:39)
 What he's injured!?? Sh!t No. I must've missed that
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flag gavlaa (Jul 21, 2012 at 6:30)
 At least 10 PODs there... amazing shots. Bet Commencal are gutted they don't have Yannick anymore- he's only now beginning to get the recognition and success he deserves. Super stoked for him tho!
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flag evan-pelham-rider (Jul 21, 2012 at 7:23)
 tom definitely should have won with the fronty bar!
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flag lux-freerider (Jul 21, 2012 at 3:31)
 Genon's 3s are just amazing !
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flag bathman (Jul 20, 2012 at 23:51)
 Tom is an animal!
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flag dleidelmeijer Plus (Jul 21, 2012 at 0:45)
 And tom is Dutch!
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flag jaketinnelly (Jul 20, 2012 at 20:41)
 Man thats knar. Big gap.
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flag wish4dirt (Jul 20, 2012 at 20:47)
 It looks huge in person. Wish i was there to see everyone throwing down.
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