Great turnout for the first MPLS Mini Jam at the Hopkins Overpass! We had beginner & expert classes for all of the mini comps. We are super pumped on everyone who came to support our local BMX scene! Even long time locals Tony Mortenson & Todd Johnson made an appearance!

Beginner Class – Micro 3′ Ramp w/ 2′ Sub Box

Best Air Trick- Cruz with a 360 to Fakie
Best Fakie Trick- Bubba Tufty with an Abubica to fakie to 180 to fakie to 360 out
Best Sub Trick- BJ Tomczik with a 180 back stall tailwhip to barspin
Best Lip Trick- Dallas Light with a 180 turndown to disaster
Best Run- Chaz with sub box tricks to fakie, lip tricks and a 540

Expert Class – Mini 5′ Ramp w/ Double Coping Spine & 4′ Sub Box

Best Air Trick- Pirate with an under handed 540
Best Fakie Trick- Justin Dewitt with a sub box wall ride to 180 to fakie
Best Spine Trick- Dylan with a 180 toboggan to fakie
Best Sub Trick- AJ with a barspin to abubica
Best Lip Trick- Colton with a no handed vader jam
Best Run- Arik Elstran dialed with no step downs, sub box ice footjam tooth etc, can vaders, canadian footjams, etc etc etc killed it.

Costumes
Monsters.. Jay Schlie & Kenny Short
Pirate.. Pirate
Baby Bowe.. Tiger !!

Doubles!!
Jay Schlie & Kenny Short
Arik Elstran & Pirate
Dallas Light & Bubba Tufty

We had LOTS of prizes for everyone!! Rims, grips/bar ends, seats/posts, sprockets, headsets, bars, stems, shoes, shirts, socks, gift cards, posters and STICKERS !!

Special thanks to Dustin Grice for organizing this event, and to all of the sponsors Shadow Conspiracy, Stolen Bikes, Sun Ringle, Duffs Shoes, Profile Racing, Deco BMX, QBMX, Vein, BMX Grub, Twin Cities Fantasy Factory, Pink Link, and even Dairy Queen where we all went to celebrate afterwards! Photos by Justin Williams, Jared Timmreck, Alex Balken, Shannon Glenn and Deljon Willis. More coverage at http://www.rootbeerlife.com/2011/10/mini-ramp-jam/

Red Bull girls even joined us !!

Vert shredders !!!

No wonder Del never rides, look how scared he is !!

Phil Book Benefit Jam

Sunday November 28th 6-9pm

3rd Lair Skatepark
850 Florida Ave S
Golden Valley, MN 55416

$10 Cover
$2 Raffle Tickets for New Products
100% Donated to Phil’s Hospital Bills
(Phil slammed hard riding in a show at the MN State Fair this year)

Prizes for:
-Highest 180 Drop
-Wildest NacNac
-Longest Combo
-Longest Surfer
-Longest Hang 5
-Longest Complaint
-Hottest Girlfriend
-Best Costume

Sponsors:
-3rd Lair http://3rdlairbmx.com
-BMX Grub http://bmxgrub.com
-Deco BMX http://decobmx.com
-Demolition Parts http://demolitionparts.com
-Duffs Shoes http://duffs.com
-Kenda Tires http://kendausa.com
-Lotek http://lotekbrand.com
-Profile Racing http://profileracing.com
-QBP http://qbp.com
-Shadow Conspiracy http://theshadowconspiracy.com
-Stolen BMX http://stolenbmx.com
-Sun Ringle http://sun-ringle.com
-Volume Bikes http://volumebikes.com

Thanks to Kurt! Check it out: http://digbmx.com/photo-ops/repo-3rd-lair-jam/

3rd Lair’s 2nd Annual BMX Jam!

Sunday January 31st
Intermediate & Expert
Best trick, best crash, foot down
Registration & Practice at noon
Jam at 3pm
$25 entry, $5 off if you pre-register before the 31st, additional $5 off for members

Special thanks to our sponsors! Kink, Animal, Props, Shitluck, BMX Grub, Alienation, Eastern Bikes, Fremont, Fly, United, Sunday!, Eriks, Stolen, Lotek

Thanks to BJ Tomczik and all of the sponsors – the 1st annual BMX Contest at the 3rd Lair was a huge success! We had just over 30 riders enter the event and there was a tom of spectators on hand to witness the mayhem!  Check out some pics from the competition held on Sunday, February 8, 2009…

Intermediate Final Results
	First Name	Last Name	HomeTown	State	Age	Score
1	Dereck	Strong	Edina	MN	17	84.33333
2	Travis	Peterson	East Bethel	MN	13	75.5
3	Lucien	Santiago	Sabin	ND	17	71.66667
4	Chass	Utne	Isanti	MN	18	71.33333
5	Dominic	Nelson	Harris	MN	17	70.33333
	Expert Final Results
	First Name	Last Name	HomeTown	State	Age	Score
1	Reed	Stark	Maplewood	MN	20	91.83333
2	Josh	Dewitti				89.33333
3	Dustin	Greiss	Minneapolis	MN	23	89
4	Pirate		St Paul	MN	21	83.16667
5	AJ	Haines				82
6	Mark	Schlegel	Uptown	MN	23	79.33333

Intermediate Qual. Results
	First Name	Last Name	HomeTown	State	Age	Score
1	Dereck	Strong	Edina	MN	17	84.83333333
2	Dominic	Nelson	Harris	MN	17	77.66666667
3	Travis	Peterson	East Bethel	MN	13	76.66666667
4	Chass	Utne	Isanti	MN	18	76
5	Lucien	Santiago	Sabin	ND	17	75.16666667
6	Issac	Maldonado	West St Paul	MN	17	62.5
7	Adam	Bjoraker	Maplewood	MN	14	62
8	Justin	Berg	Fargo	ND	19	60.5
9	Matthew	Hamada	Eden Prairie	MN	17	60.33333333
10	Nate	Barrett	Maplewood	MN	14	58
11	Aaron	Stirwatt	Pine City	MN	18	53
11	Jared	Call	Eden Prairie	MN	18	53
13	Kevin	Moldenhauer	Eden Prairie	MN	16	49.66666667
	Expert Qual. Results
	First Name	Last Name	HomeTown	State	Age	Score
1	Reed	Stark	Maplewood	MN	20	96.16666667
2	Dustin	Greiss	Minneapolis	MN	23	88.5
3	Josh	Dewitti				87.5
4	AJ	Haines				84.16666667
5	Mark	Schlegel	Uptown	MN	23	82.83333333
6	Pirate		St Paul	MN	21	82
7	Taylor	Trygstad	Bloomington	MN	22	77.33333333
7	Grant	Castelluzzo	Milwaukee	WI	21	77.33333333
9	Tim	Johnson	New Hope	MN	23	75.33333333
10	Jonah	Lidberg	Anoka	MN	28	75.16666667
11	Jim	Rieustur	Zimmerman	MN	33	73.66666667
12	Robert	Mcgraw	White Bear Lake	MN	23	72.5
13	Wyatt	Krael	Rochester	MN	21	71
14	Mike	Gille	Isanti	MN	22	69.83333333
15	BJ	Tomczik	Minneapolis	MN	22	69.33333333
16	Thomas	Boyd	Richfield	MN	20	65.66666667
17	Richard	Barrett	Maplewood	MN	19	64.83333333
18	Cody	Curry	Mondavi	WI	23	64.33333333
18	Brandon	Morecomb	Coon Rapids	MN	23	64.33333333

All Contestants