Be-Mag takes a look at the X-Mas jam which is now running since 1996.

Photography by Sebastian Hofer
Excerpts by Mihai Bivol, Daniel Prell, Johannes Jacobi, Gabriel Hyden, Max Visser, Dirk Oelmann, Philipp Preuss, Kåre Lindberg, Dominik Wagner, Pawel Wieleba, Adrien Anne & Mark Stamer

Joey Eagan – Bio 540°
»It was my first time at X-Mas Jam, the contest was great and Hamburg is such a crazy town for the night time!«
Joey Eagan – Bio 540°
»It was my first time at X-Mas Jam, the contest was great and Hamburg is such a crazy town for the night time!«

Mihai Bivol

Philipp Preuss – Safety grab transfer
»This year’s “X-Mas Jam” (my second one) was really a big sursprise to me, because I could experience the whole event (different to 2008 when I spent most the time at the hospital) and I was so impressed how everybody was looking forward to that contest. Especially living in Hamburg, on site, for 3 months now, showed me how people were expecting the craziness, like Germans normally only do right before the Winterclash. I can’t compare it to X-Mas Jams back in the day, but the atmosphere was great, the skating level was on top and everybody had a good day. I think that are reasons why loads of people will visit Hamburg City next year again!«

Philipp Preuss

Mark Stamer – 720° transfer over kicker

»For those who arrived a day before the comp and skated the park on Friday night it was obvious that some crazy skating would be going down the next day. The Grindhouse- and Ignition-team as well as other German riders, skaters from France, Austria and the Netherlands were representing to the fullest. High expectations for Saturday arose. Throughout the day of the competition, matters seemed to evolve by themselves: the crowd was cheering well, bailed tricks weren’t repeated a hundred times till they’re done and the riders really kicked it off heavily right from the beginning. In particular, the tricks that were thrown down in the Cash-For-Trick-Competition alone recovered the damages of everyones journey in the freezing cold to make it to Hamburg that day.

This years contest turned out great. Its ambience was chilled, but still a lot of action went down.«

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